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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:01:40 No.9168107 View View Reply Original Report

What's your biggest "What if?" in wrestling?

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:02:36 No.9168118 Report

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>>9168107
What if AEW wasn't booked by a nepotism baby. We'd legitimately have better ratings than RAW

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:02:37 No.9168119 Report

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>>9168107
what if your mom had aborted you, OP

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:02:58 No.9168128 Report

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>>9168107
Kevin Nash really was raped in 1992.

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:03:46 No.9168138 Report

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>>9168107
what if Dwayne never left the biz

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:06:45 No.9168193 Report

Quoted By: >>9168230 >>9168490

"What if?" Triple H didn't groom Stephanie to earn political power inside the WWF?

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:08:54 No.9168230 Report

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>>9168193
>women taking responsibility for their own actions challenge
nigga she was like 24 years old when they met. you can't groom an adult.

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:09:55 No.9168246 Report

Quoted By: >>9169896 >>9172067 >>9173611

The night before WM 19 Stone Cold had to go to the hospital for heart problems. His match vs. The Rock should’ve been the main event, but after his health scare they changed it to Brock vs. Angle.

What if Stone Cold Steve Austin, the biggest wrestler in the business, died the night before Wrestlemania?

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:10:18 No.9168252 Report

Quoted By: >>9168434 >>9172709

What if Teddy Hart had actually debuted in WWE in 2002 instead of being released, and given a push after the Rock and Austin left?

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:10:54 No.9168269 Report

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>>9168230
Gaslighting then?, name it what you will

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:11:09 No.9168272 Report

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what if brock nailed that shooting star press perfectly?

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:13:06 No.9168303 Report

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>>9168107
What if Jim Cornette had succeeded in killing Terry Landell and wasn't in OVW to develop Cena, Orton, Batista, and Brock?

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:13:12 No.9168306 Report

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>>9168107
Triple H didn't ruin the Power Trip run and The Hardy Boyz became World Champions.

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:15:41 No.9168349 Report

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>>9168107
Bret Hart not getting kicked in the head by Goldberg and not having a stroke.

WCW not being sold to WWE.

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:17:07 No.9168371 Report

Quoted By: >>9168408 >>9172797

What if Vince Russo got a nanny to look after his kids so he and McMahon could continue making kino?

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:19:23 No.9168397 Report

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>>9168107
What would've happen if Vince actually bought Playboy in 2007?

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:20:30 No.9168408 Report

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>>9168371
Russo was a mark that wanted to roleplay McMahon and be an on screen figure and win the world title in WCW. Worked himself into a shoot

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:22:31 No.9168433 Report

Quoted By: >>9169905

What is Bret and Shawn had a great relationship and there was never was no friction between the two.

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:22:33 No.9168434 Report

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>>9168252
a better timeline

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:22:54 No.9168444 Report

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what if bat undertaker swooped in and saved owen.

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:23:45 No.9168460 Report

Quoted By: >>9168542

What if WCW had won the war and put Mcmahon out of business? Would things be better or worse?

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:24:54 No.9168477 Report

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What if Vince McMahon didn't survive his 1999 motorcycle accident.

There's no end to the questions you can ask: would they have still gone public? who would take over the company in Vince's steed? would wrestling be in a better or worse place now than it'd be otherwise?

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:24:54 No.9168478 Report

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>>9168107
What if John Cena put people over during his Super Cena run?

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:25:51 No.9168490 Report

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>>9168193
Jericho would have been a top star

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:27:31 No.9168517 Report

Quoted By: >>9169961

What if Sting got that tan?

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:27:38 No.9168519 Report

Quoted By: >>9168539

My favorites are if austin didn't get his neck broken by that shitter Owen hart or alexa not getting brain damaged from Ronda.

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:28:45 No.9168539 Report

Quoted By: >>9168615

>>9168519
Vince never wanted Austin and the second that WCW was dead he would go back to doing things his way pal, no matter what

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:28:49 No.9168540 Report

Quoted By: >>9168632

what if pillman stayed healthy and was part of the attitude era?

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:28:53 No.9168542 Report

Quoted By: >>9168616 >>9169771

>>9168460
The business would literally be dead. WCW was unsustainable.
The de-facto WWE monopoly isn't a good option, but it's likely the only one that keeps wrestling on television and gives enough hope to the shit-indies to stay in business and try (and fail) to grow.

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:32:28 No.9168592 Report

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>>9168107
what if jimmy havoc wasnt so horny :(

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:33:54 No.9168615 Report

Quoted By: >>9168631

>>9168539
And auatin would have been healthy and popular enough to go elsewhere.

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:33:59 No.9168616 Report

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>>9168542
probably true. There's no way WCW could have continued spending so much money indefinitely

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:34:59 No.9168631 Report

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>>9168615
Austin would have just retired anyways. The Hogan generation and after didn't give one fuck about giving back to the sport after they made their milly

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 21:35:01 No.9168632 Report

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>>9168540
that's a good one anon, Pillman was one of the people who launched the attitude era, but he didn't live long enough to see its peak.

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 23:07:34 No.9169771 Report

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>>9168542

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 23:10:53 No.9169800 Report

Quoted By: >>9169974

>>9168107
Hogan staying in AWA/moving to Japan full-time/breaking his leg in his first match in New York. Does Vince build around Slaughter? Steamboat? A Von Erich?

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 23:12:26 No.9169811 Report

Quoted By: >>9171848

>>9168107
What if Razor and Diesel never left WWF?

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 23:16:12 No.9169843 Report

Quoted By: >>9169961

Hogan does the right thing at Starrcade 1997.

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 23:22:52 No.9169896 Report

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>>9168246
They didnt stop a B level PPV when a fucker died in the middle of the ring, you think they wouldve stopped Mania for anything?

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 23:23:53 No.9169905 Report

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>>9168433
Feud wouldve probably sucked nuts, its why most feuds blow today because everyones sucking each other off in the locker room, nobody actually hates each other anymore, its all just a giant circlejerk cuz fuckin NOBODY draws

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 23:28:35 No.9169950 Report

Quoted By: >>9173513 >>9173518

>>9168107
what if vince tested the zipline to show owen that it was safe, like how he jumped off that rail to show pat that it's fine. realistically I don't think vince would actually die there, I think if someone told them that the boss was going on it would've been quadruple checked and whatever fault there was would've been found

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 23:29:48 No.9169961 Report

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>>9169843
See
>>9168517

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Anonymous Thu 02 Mar 2023 23:30:51 No.9169974 Report

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>>9169800
>Slaughter
too old/not charismatic enough past a regional level
>Steamboat
doesn't bend over backwards for any promoter and comes and goes as he pleases
>Von Erich
cursed bloodline of junkies

The only guy who could have broken through on a national level was probably Savage and he was still working for his dad in Memphis in the early 80s. It had to be Terry brother

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 01:27:46 No.9171482 Report

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What if Benoit had died of a heart attack instead of killing himself and his family

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 01:32:45 No.9171561 Report

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>>9168107
What if austin hadnt walked out after mania 19

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 01:33:48 No.9171575 Report

Quoted By: >>9171662 >>9173084

AEW dont exist

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 01:34:03 No.9171580 Report

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>>9168107
“What if” I stopped watching and never picked it back up again

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 01:37:27 No.9171627 Report

Quoted By: >>9173128

>>9168107
Taker vs Sting at wrestlemania

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 01:39:19 No.9171662 Report

Quoted By: >>9173253

>>9171575
/pw/ would be more dead than it is now
aew is unironically the biggest reason wwe is doing so well financially right now

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 01:39:38 No.9171669 Report

Quoted By: >>9173171

>>9168107
What if vince shoot went to jail bc of the steroid trial

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 01:52:07 No.9171848 Report

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>>9169811
Yea Hall and Nash not leaving WWF is a good one. Nash would likely continue to sink ratings in WWF and the NWO never happens. There's no curtain call which means Triple H is not punished by giving his KotR victory to Austin which means no Austin push and no AUSTIN 3:16 promo which means god only knows.

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 01:55:22 No.9171880 Report

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>>9168107
What if Phil stopped being a self mark after the Summer of Punk and him/Vince/HHH/Cena got along

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 02:09:42 No.9172067 Report

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>>9168107
What if Hana and Arisa were still around? Would picrel still be the 4 pillars of Stardom?
>>9168246
The Limp Bizkit concert is replaced with a memorial service for Austin with a proper tribute show the following night on Raw, Rock gets inserted into either Haitch vs Booker or Lesnar vs Angle, making either match a triple threat.

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 03:06:31 No.9172709 Report

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>>9168252
Teddy seems like the self destructive type who would've fucked it up for himself anyway probably even worse since he'd have even more money

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 03:14:39 No.9172797 Report

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>>9168371
Jericho beats Rock on Raw and gets inserted to big Show's spot at Survivor Series and inevitably drops the belt to Rock at Mania, since he was hellbent on pushing him to the moon

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 03:22:03 No.9172882 Report

Quoted By: >>9173517

Since i started watching in 2016 one that always sticks out to me is what if balor hadn't been injured when he won the universal title. It seemed like Vince was set to go full hog with him.

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 03:22:34 No.9172885 Report

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>>9168107
What if Tiny dies of a cocaine overdose?

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 03:29:29 No.9172948 Report

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>>9168107
What if professional wrestling was real and Glacier shoot heemed all of his opponents with an obscure form of karate becoming the undisputed world champion for decades

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 03:36:29 No.9173007 Report

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What if Tommy Dreamer did go through with his plan to murder Paul Heyman at WrestleMania 17.

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 03:45:07 No.9173084 Report

Quoted By: >>9173253

>>9171575
>SC/Jerk would have been irrelevant
>the entire /pw/ are laughing at CAWdy's jobber run
God, i want to live in that timeline

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 03:49:29 No.9173128 Report

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>>9171627
this the one

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 03:51:28 No.9173144 Report

Quoted By: >>9173278

HBK as an active wrestler throughout the austin era.

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 03:54:29 No.9173171 Report

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>>9171669
Jerry Jarrett was next in line as vince called him up for this reason

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 04:03:07 No.9173253 Report

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>>9171662
>>9173084
/pw/ wouldn't exist, we would still be /asp/

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 04:06:50 No.9173278 Report

Quoted By: >>9173304

>>9173144
Business would either be dead or wcw would still be around. Shawn would have made the jump

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 04:08:12 No.9173293 Report

Quoted By: >>9173585

>>9168107
What if WWE actually let Punk defend the title in ROH and NJPW?

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 04:09:12 No.9173304 Report

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>>9173278
he couldn't make the jump, he was under contract until 2001

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 04:11:23 No.9173322 Report

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What if wrestlers weren't huge self marks who find the need to argue with random people on twitter

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 04:14:03 No.9173339 Report

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>>9168107
What if Paul Heyman had married Stephanie?

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 04:14:38 No.9173349 Report

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>>9168107
What if Paul Heyman was in charge of TNA?

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 04:18:28 No.9173382 Report

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What if Brock Lesnar never left in 2004?
What if WCW won the war?

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 04:34:21 No.9173513 Report

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>>9169950
Your what if is boring
>Vince fucking dies
>Jarrett dynasty takes over since Steph was still too green, and no Vince to push her

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 04:35:14 No.9173517 Report

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>>9172882
He definitely would've stayed as one of the top babyfaces and merch sellers on Raw and feuded with guys like Rollins, Roman, Owens, and Jericho for the belt for the rest of the year before eventually losing to Brock somewhere in 2017, he'd eventually turn heel and side with Gallows and Anderson. Also KO never wins the Universal title.

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 04:35:34 No.9173518 Report

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>>9169950
There wasn't a "fault", they were punishing Bret.

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 04:40:33 No.9173553 Report

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What if Vince broke his head open with a coconut, survived, and made the executive decision to push Hornswoggle as the “guy” in Ruthless Aggression era over Cena?

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 04:44:37 No.9173585 Report

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>>9173293
Punk would've embarrassed himself and WWE in the process. He's such a shitter

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 04:49:04 No.9173611 Report

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>>9168246
>Brock vs. Angle.
what if Brock actually hit the SSP

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Anonymous Fri 03 Mar 2023 05:01:28 No.9173702 Report

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>>9168107
What if Hogan and Bischoff never went to TNA

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