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* Speaking of Cornette, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQOlPG0gwf4 this clip]] from his podcast he talks about how he thinks things would have worked out had Wrestling/SmokyMountainWrestling been able to hold on a little longer and still be around for the boom period started by the Wrestling/NewWorldOrder and Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin (the promotion folded in December 1995).
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* Speaking of Cornette, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQOlPG0gwf4 this clip]] from his podcast he talks about how he thinks things would have worked out had Wrestling/SmokyMountainWrestling been able to hold on a little longer and still be around for the boom period started by the Wrestling/NewWorldOrder and Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin (the promotion folded in December 1995). Shortly after he started SMW he tried to bring in Wrestling/RicFlair, who had just left WCW, to do one match a month for $10,000 in cash a pop. This was actually Music/RickRubin's idea, as he was a silent partner in SMW and a ''huge'' Flair fan. Flair seriously considered it, but elected to sign with the WWF, who wouldn't let him work for anyone else on his off days. Flair came back with a counter-offer to Cornette: join him in the WWF as his manager, "The Kentucky Colonel". Cornette declined, not wanting to work for anyone but himself at that moment and really not wanting to work for the WWF (of course he went there went SMW closed anyway, for lack of any other option), as Wrestling/VinceMcMahon was notorious for giving his managers low payoffs and nothing to really do but stand there at ringside.
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* The Xcitement Wrestling Federation was a company founded to be the PG alternative to the WWF near the end of the Invasion. The fed would have predated TNA as the new challenger to the WWE's monopoly with a mix of WWF, WCW & ECW stars including Wrestling/HulkHogan and had Wrestling/{{Sable}} as the heel CEO, Wrestling/RoddyPiper as the babyface commissioner, Wrestling/GeneOkerlund as the interviewer and commentary by Wrestling/TonySchiavone and Wrestling/JerryLawler. Networks were excited about the mix of the roster... that is until many of talents were poached by WWE, notably Lawler's return to commentary after divorcing the wife whose firing caused him to leave the first time in February 2001 and Hogan who returned for the first time since August 1993 as part of the short-lived revival of the [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder nWo]].
* In World Class Championship Wrestling, there were plans to have Gino Hernandez do a HeelFaceTurn and be managed by Sunshine. Hernandez and Sunshine would then feud with Hollywood John Tatum and his manager, Missy Hyatt. Unfortunately, Hernandez's fatal cocaine overdose in 1986 prevented that scenario for ever
* In World Class Championship Wrestling, there were plans to have Gino Hernandez do a HeelFaceTurn and be managed by Sunshine. Hernandez and Sunshine would then feud with Hollywood John Tatum and his manager, Missy Hyatt. Unfortunately, Hernandez's fatal cocaine overdose in 1986 prevented that scenario for ever
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* The Xcitement Wrestling Federation was a company founded to be the PG alternative to the WWF near the end of the Invasion. The fed would have predated TNA as the new challenger to the WWE's monopoly with a mix of WWF, WCW & ECW stars including Wrestling/HulkHogan and had Wrestling/{{Sable}} as the heel CEO, Wrestling/RoddyPiper as the babyface commissioner, Wrestling/GeneOkerlund as the interviewer and commentary by Wrestling/TonySchiavone and Wrestling/JerryLawler. Networks were excited about the mix of the roster... that is until many of their talents were poached by WWE, notably Lawler's return to commentary after divorcing the wife whose firing caused him to leave the first time in February 2001 and Hogan who returned for the first time since August 1993 as part of the short-lived revival of the [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder nWo]].
* In World Class Championship Wrestling, there were plans to have Gino Hernandez do a HeelFaceTurn and be managed by Sunshine. Hernandez and Sunshine would then feud with Hollywood John Tatum and his manager, Missy Hyatt. Unfortunately, Hernandez's fatal cocaine overdose in 1986 prevented that scenariofor everfrom ever happening.
* In World Class Championship Wrestling, there were plans to have Gino Hernandez do a HeelFaceTurn and be managed by Sunshine. Hernandez and Sunshine would then feud with Hollywood John Tatum and his manager, Missy Hyatt. Unfortunately, Hernandez's fatal cocaine overdose in 1986 prevented that scenario
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* Website/{{WrestleCrap}}'s "Rewriting the Book" is an entire section of FanFiction devoted to WhatCouldHaveBeen. With the notable difference from RealLife that, in those stories, the booking is actually quite good, though stretching of credulity considering the egos and competence of many of the people involved. Among the most notable, and likely, examples can be mentioned "What If Wrestling/BarryWindham didn't join Wrestling/TheFourHorsemen?" (a continued face run for Windham, the Horsemen inducting a returning Wrestling/EddieGilbert until the group falls apart later that year, and Gilbert forming his own heel stable based on the old UWF, including Wrestling/DrDeathSteveWilliams, Wrestling/RonSimmons and Rick Steiner), and "What If Randy Savage Had Won His Retirement Match?" (Savage's heel run continues, he recaptures the world title, only to find himself facing Wrestling/RicFlair with the roles reversed, with Flair as the good guy).
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* Website/{{WrestleCrap}}'s "Rewriting the Book" is an entire section of FanFiction devoted to WhatCouldHaveBeen. With the notable difference from RealLife that, in those stories, the booking is actually quite good, though stretching of credulity considering the egos and competence of many of the people involved. Among the most notable, notable and likely, likely examples can be mentioned are "What If Wrestling/BarryWindham didn't join Wrestling/TheFourHorsemen?" (a continued face run for Windham, the Horsemen inducting a returning Wrestling/EddieGilbert until the group falls apart later that year, and Gilbert forming his own heel stable based on the old UWF, including Wrestling/DrDeathSteveWilliams, Wrestling/RonSimmons Wrestling/RonSimmons, and Rick Steiner), and "What If Randy Savage Had Won His Retirement Match?" (Savage's heel run continues, he recaptures the world title, only to find himself facing Wrestling/RicFlair with the roles reversed, with Flair as the good guy).
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** Related, but in spite of Hogan instantly getting over with the AWA audience, Verne Gagne kept booking him in one DustyFinish title match after another. Hogan got frustrated and went back to the WWF after Vince Jr. bought the company from his father. Would Vince have been able to go national if Gagne had been willing to pull the trigger on Hogan and give him the belt? (See the WWE page for more.)
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** Related, but in spite of Hogan instantly getting over with the AWA audience, Verne Gagne kept booking him in one DustyFinish [[DiabolusExMachina Dusty Finish]] title match after another. Hogan got frustrated and went back to the WWF after Vince Jr. bought the company from his father. Would Vince have been able to go national if Gagne had been willing to pull the trigger on Hogan and give him the belt? (See the WWE page for more.)
