Wrestling What If's Vol. 2 

Here's something to think about if you do a part three. What WWE history would look like given how Vince's top major stars over the past 40 years revolve around some pretty unique circumstances. - If Gagne had put the AWA Title on Hogan... Hogan doesn't leave for WWF. Who knows if Wrestlemania is a thing without Vince having Hogan lead the way. Who does Vince make the face of WWF in the 80's without Hogan. - Austin signed a 2 year extension with WCW in 1994 through 1996. If Bischoff doesn't fire him in 1995 and he's there until his contract is up.... who knows what becomes of Austin. He never goes to ECW and cuts those promos, No King of The Ring, no Austin 3:16, no Survivor Series against Bret. Not sure when his contract would have been up in 1996 but I'm assuming he at least misses King of The Ring, which means Triple H wins King of the Ring in 1996. - If for whatever reason, Stephanie was sick or took any other mode of transportation and doesn't hear Cena rapping.... who takes the Cena role? Orton didn't have the charisma Cena had and we all know Orton is a much better heel. Batista may have worked.... crazy to think about in an alternate timeline where Vince doesn't have one of Hogan, Austin or Cena.

Flair’s Attitude Era Evolution would have been the building block of the corporation. Heel faction… Maybe Lawler in the Flair role since he’s a former respected wrestler and was heel commentary anyway? Then join Vince, become Corporate Rock and McMahon-Helmsley stories still happen

These videos could be 2 hours long and I’d watch every second I find this fascinating. Also I disagree the thing that made Mick Foley was him throwing people off to get back on that match.

I'd say Triple H is the Randy Orton, make Mark Henry the muscle/Batista role, Triple H would become entrenched as a top three guy in the era, Mark Henry develops faster and is a World Champion by 2000. For the Ric role, you could have Pat Patterson or Jerry Brisco.

Here’s a what if I haven’t seen… What If CM Punk had gotten his Wrestlamania Main Event?

I think Big E would’ve had more of a shot at being a main eventer if Roman wasn’t a factor. They both came up at the exact same time.

What if WWECW didn't lose all its main stars within a year of starting up? They lost the title run that was clearly supposed to carry the early days of the show (RVD), they lost Kurt Angle, they lost Benoit, they lost Big Show, and by the time they lost Lashley the whole thing was obviously a zombie show that had no chance to ever build up momentum beyond being a replacement for Heat and Velocity. Obviously there was bad booking and insane decisions, but if RVD kept going with the title and Kurt was still around, would they have fallen off as hard as they did or been able to endure and become an actual third brand like NXT?

What if Finn never got injured against Seth?

Roman Reigns was a Master of the Foosball Table. He could do the spinny shot and everything!

What if Boogs didn't tear his quad at Mania and was added to the Brock/Roman unification main event the next day?

If Bart Gunn had knocked out butterbean he should have taken up boxing and become a dominant legit boxer.

What if The Kliq became a storyline faction? What if Hogan vs Flair was the WrestleMania 8 main event? What if Turner Broadcasting kept WCW on TV? What if Owen Hart declined to do the harness stunt? Some of these are reposted comments from the last What If? video.

Harley Race in the Flair role 🔥🔥

Thanks again, fellas. And I appreciate Larson's little grin to me RU-vid name.

What if Lex Luger won the title at Wrestlemania 10

Loving Steve's "Bro" phase!

the Rockers acknowledged as tag champs ( I was a teenager then ) and remember the rumors before the internet were so wild.....

I started typing about Steve blackman and head cheese just as you mentioned him.

Drew would definitely have the tribal chief set up if Roman wasn’t around

Please do these again I have a good one.

"Austin would have been Austin regardless King of the Ring" yes, because that's not really the moment that made Austin the megastar he'll become. Sure, it was a cool moment and iconic promo, but it didn't translate into much at first... What really propelled Stone Cold's career in wwf was his excellent program with Bret Hart between Survival Series 96 and wrestlemania 13 (a bloodied Austin passing out to Bret' sharpshooter...that's one of wrestling most famous and legacy-defining moments). It goes without saying, however, that wwe will never admit that, as it shows Bret as instrumental in propelling their biggest star ever. Also, loved the idea of Evolution in the mid-to-late 90s. Evolution vs DX vs The Nation :D

I know there wouldn't be much of a difference age, but what if the Ric Flair in the 97 Evolution was Harley Race? Triple H was heavily by both men and I think Race had already retired by then, so what if it was him?

What if Gotch vs Hackenschmidt was actually a work instead of almost certainly being two shoot matches? Could that have completely redirected the course of wrestling or would the Gold Dust Trio have made wrestling what it is anyways?

I think if they were able to bring up on TV that Kross has basically been winning this whole time I think they would be able to do more with him. He may not be winning the matches, but everything he's been saying in his feuds eventually comes to pass. As for 90s Evolution, I think it the Batista role would have to be someone who was a bigger strong dude with a ton of potential, maybe Mark Henry? Also What if Rick Boogs was allowed to bring more of his personality to the show. Dude could easily have been a great comedy gimmick just watching his RU-vid videos

Harley Race in the Ric Flair role of 96 Evolution

stone cold 3 pack 1. Austin does stun Vince at mania ( after a brief swerve ) 2. owen adjusts never hurt his neck 3. the what chant never happens I say, if owen adjusted, number 1 isn't even considered

Kross is an anomaly who has all of the tools, but can't seem to land a cogent gimmick that works for him. What is he in the WWE? Some mean guy who attacks people because of what his wife's tarot cards say? A pre-post-apocalyptic harbinger of doom? He's not supernatural, he's not a giant bruiser, and he has no relationship or connection with anyone on the card other than Scarlett. He hits a lot of the same walls that Corbin hit when he first came up. His gimmick is "cool creepy guy" and there's just no substance to any of it. He's better as a gun for hire, because at least he can be something threatening that someone with meaning and purpose can point at an opponent like a weapon.

1996 was faction wars. Coulda been Flair, HHH, Shamrock(Batista) and maybe Piper or Perfect in the Flair role.

What if Kofi didn't anger Randy in 2010?

Harley Race in that Ric Flair position!

Paul orndorff as the “Flair”

The ric flair in attitude Era evolution can only be.... Rics mentor. The king Harley race

Gorilla Monsoon or Mr. Fuji would be the only two to for the Evolution Flair role for 1996.

For a possible what if. What if the AWA put the world heavyweight championship on Hulk Hogan in 1983 and he didn't get poached by Vince.

CODY never gets hurt for the money in the bank the year previous ; and / or, Cody wins at 'Mania

What if magnum ta never gets in the car accident?????

Ted Dibiase could have taken the Flair role in a mid 90s Evolution.

Harley Race could have been in the Ric Flair role. A true HHH wet dream.

Vince could have been the early evolution Flair

Cena would’ve been a cop. His brothers are state troopers here in MA.

I always wondered what would have happened with the Rock had Austin not needed to take time off for injuries at Survivor Series 1999 - Ausrin was out almost a full year and was the biggest star in the company, it was during that time that the Rock stepped forward as the new face of the company. Would Rock be the star he is now (even in Hollywood) if he'd had to have shared the limelight with Austin through the majority of 2000?

1: They should have put the legit bad ass wrestlers, with Cornette or another heel manager. I know Severn was with Corny for a minute, but he was just another guy in the terrible NWA Invasion. A great heel manager with that charisma, can take guys a really long way. 2: Someone in corporate would convince Bart to go fight for real. There was nothing for him after Butterbean, even if he won. It’s like they didn’t want him on roster. Curtain Call: HhH wasn’t ready yet. He would have got the push, and Vince would have cooled on him. Same with Shamrock and Billy Gunn.

13:13 Jake Roberts was there at the time. Maybe he could have been in that Flair role?

What if Jeff Hardy stayed clean and continued to outsell cena in merch in the late 2000s

the ROCK 's 1999 Rumble match gets cut short, either by Foley's wife, Vince using good judgment.... Foley says I Quit way early

idk man if roman just stood as a foosball enthusiast he'd just be hanging at local arcades and bars challenging people in foosball

Woah. Flair forming Evolution early with him and HHH would have been really interesting. Like you have of course Flair being Flair, he this is him not having to be reinvigorated after being worn down in WCW and bitched out by the nWo and Bischoff; Flair when he's still more less top level Flair, HHH in the Randy Orton role as the diamond in the rough. I'm curious who is the monster heavy of the group like Batista, maybe Test gets an earlier call up or like Steve said, have The Rock in that role. So Flair is HHH, HHH is Orton, maybe Rock or Test is Batista, and idk Tito Santana or Bob Backlund is Flair. That is such a weird variant of Evolution lol!

Could Bruno have been the Ric flair of an attitude era evolution?

Chief Jay Strongbow, Ric Flair, Triple H, Crush

Easy answer: Flair, HHH, Ahmed Johnson😂, and Jerry Lawler or PS Michael Hayes.

I think by pattern alone i think Dolph Ziggler would of been in Romans spot because he was a substitute to Roman when he wasin't araund and plus he has that hollywood look.

In the alternate universe dr death would have been shockmaster 😂😂😂

What if THE SHOCKMASTER didnt fall on his fuckin ass? Would he have SHACKED THE WORLD as Sting said.

I think Rick Rude might have been Ric Flair? It's hard to tell because Flair's always looked old.

Had Shawn Michaels faced Eddie Guerrero at WM 21 we wudda got Shawn Michaels vs Kurt Angle at WM 22

Simple... If the boys wanted to say back stage goodbye to Scott and Kevin... That would be fine. Doing it in front of the crowd etc etc that's like taking a dump on Vince's dining room table.

When was the Stone Cold/Dr. Death program going to happen? Cause Summer 98 we got Stone Cold vs Taker and Kane. Couldn't be at Mania cause The Rock and Mankind had leveled up, so he couldn't take those spots. And by the time we get to Summer 99 HHH was coming up. So like, where is their program going to happen?

What if you could take one guy from wwe during the Monday night wars (not stone cold) and book them however you want in wcw (including getting rid of the now) who would you pick and why would it help wcw win the war

What if Kane Debuted at Bad Blood 1997 ? .

What if Boogs was around in 1993, slammed Yokozuna and travelled around America on the Boogs Express? Would he have gotten a bigger pop than Bret at the rumble and main evented wrestlemania 10?

What if Punk didn’t leave WWE after Royal Rumble 2014?

Did you all see the revisit that undertaker and mankind did

What if Rey Mysterio had had a better title run in 2006

What if Vince Russo never got hired by WCW?

Foosball heheheheh

It did not have the impact wwe made it out to be other than what happened to hhh is really the only thing it affected and wwe was showing it on there show after 2000 I think most of the fans even understood what they were seeing and it pissed Jim Cornett

For volume III _ Nash & Hall 2 versus 1 with Hogan... and VETO POWER for new members with the nWo. maybe 1 new member per year ? and only people making sense for storytelling _ ie: luke Gallows, ( big guy ) as an................... enforceR _ sorry, I really miss him.

Saying John Cena would've been the Prototype?!......very clever

Could’ve had jake Roberts in the flair role. Maybe Mr. perfect joins as well

What if WWE’s WCW reboot would have actually worked in 2001? Maybe Vince could have brought in a bigger name than Buff Bagwell to face Booker T in the main event of that random RAW? How bad would WWF Monday Nitro have been without names like Goldberg or Scott Steiner being contractually available until late 2002-early 2003?

What if Ambrose/ Moxley instead takes the money with WWE when his contract ended. AEW loses the first big addition, so how do the pivot? Also does Dean ever get to a Moxley light character under Vince?

Didn’t ric flair return to wcw in 1993. Or am I misremembering ric flair in 1993 royal rumble

Elseworlds is DC and What If Is Marvel.

What if Batista never put his thumb down and stayed on Smackdown…?

Would it have to be Hogan?

kANE never made it to hell..cell. sure, he still be an aaaaattraction, but that DEBUT set him up as THE BIG RED MACHINE..... ...... Steve: I don't know, not like he would defect to WCW but ... yeah definitely might have had a different outcome!

Biggest what if for sure since hhh would’ve won Kotr and Austin 3:16 never happens

I think Kross needs to lose the hair for starters 8:28

What if Roman or Dean was the one to betray the shield and join Hunter first instead of Seth? Plus Vince liked Boogz cause he wanted to recreate the Shammy award song with him

Finn Balor never gets hurt _ Seth landed correctly, and never hurt his leg in Europe

What if Eddie Guerrero didn't die would he have retired by now?

what if chyna won wwe title

what if aew got keith lee right?

What if Brock Lesnar never returned from UFC?

What if Wrestlemania 1 failed

What if HHH never got together with Stephanie? What if Chyna won the WWF title? What if Eddie didn’t die in 2005? What if Chris Benoit never killed his family? What if HBK left for WCW and WWF kept Brett? What if Sting, Goldberg, Hogan, Ric and Nash to WWE during the invasion storyline? What if ECWE wasn’t watered down? What if Finn stayed in new Japan? What if Cody beat Roman at mania 39? What if Cody stayed at AEW and turned heel?

What if the roles were reversed in the Montreal Screwjob? Would Bret have gone through with it proving he’s a hypocrite? Do Bret & Shawn both avoid (near) career ending injuries? Was the enough life in The Harts/Canada vs Austin/US to carry them to Wrestlemania? Does the Wolf Pack become Hall, Nash, Shawn & Syxx keeping it more anti-WCW? Is there a Wolf Pack or do they just kick “selfish Hogan” (and others) out of the nWo making it a tighter, stronger group? Does HHH reach the same heights without HBK to get him started? Does HHH follow HBK to WCW? Does Owen not do the Blue Blazer stuff…

First!!! FCW RULES

What if Bret agreed to lose to HBK and the Montreal Screwjob never happened?

John c to njpw

Sorry guys but Killer Kross sucks. Like Aleister Black before him, all his cryptic talk promos are done backstage and not in front of a live crowd so they don't end up building any connection with the audience. Bray Wyatt did them both from the back and in the ring which is why way more people got behind him. Until Kross starts doing that, he's already hit his ceiling and it's not going to get any better.

The 1st question is Jim Cornettes wet dream

What If The Rock joined WCW in 1996. Credit goes to Dave Knows Wrestling for this one, he did a video on how WCW could have won the Monday Night Wars and said if Dwayne Johnson joined WCW as a member of the NWO, they might have had a chance at beating the WWF, do you agree? What If Ronda Rousey joined Impact Wrestling in 2018 instead of WWE? Obviously she would have been Knockouts Women's Champion and Shayna Baszler would have most likely gotten a bigger push throughout her career, but after Ronda Rousey drops the title, if she chose to return to Impact it like she did WWE in 2022, then what? Also in 2018-2019 Tessa Blanchard was on the rise, what would happen to her if Ronda Rousey had gotten that push instead? What If Cody Rhodes stayed in AEW? In his last promo before leaving for WWE he referenced doing the things CM Punk said he was going to do when he left WWE in 2011. If Cody Rhodes stayed and CM Punk still joined AEW, could he have stopped the brawl after the All Out media scrum? Could he have convinced The Elite & CM Punk to get along? What If Tessa Blanchard joined WWE in 2014 instead of the indies? She most likely would have been a bigger star and had multiple matches with the 4 Horsewomen but what would her career include? Would she be a grand slam champion? Would she have been called up during the Women's Revolution? How long would she be in WWE? What If Batista stayed in WWE from 2010-2014? I can imagine Batista, Randy Orton, and John Cena being the top stars but with only two world titles, what is the third man going to do if he's not in the title picture?

Dude, Flair wouldve got over, look at Mae Young & the other one lol, Triple H wouldve still got over, probably not marrying Steph tho,

The answer as to who fills the Ric flair roll in the old evolution would be Bobby the brain

Bart Gunn had 0% chance in that match, so that’s not really a “what if” of wrestling history.

Keith lee is definitely not a main eventer...like jey uso.

The 90s evolution could have been Flair still as Flair, the nee HHH is HBK, the new Batsista is HHH, and Orton would be The Rock

- The problem w/ Keith Lee is if he still gets COVID, and still has the obvious after effects, then he's still likely in the same position or worse than he currently is in AEW. Throw in the fact the Look is even more important there, and you'd have lots of RU-vid thumbails about how Keith Lee would be so much better off in AEW, not knowing this universe. - McMahon had already told Flair he was going to be downscaled, which is why McMahon agreed to allow him to go back over to WCW. - People don't get that Roman is one of the main, if not the main reason The Shield got the push they did. A Hero/Rollins/Mox Shield isn't squashed, but they're a lot closer to a New Nexus than people want to really think about. Honestly, without Roman, it's more mixed at the top, but as we've seen consistently in American pro wrestling, a company without a Main Character can't really become ubersuccessful.

New evolution would have been Trips, The Rock,Ric flair Classy Freddy Blassie if he was alive I don't know