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Post by Sir Woodrow on Sept 20, 2014 17:11:52 GMT -5
One thing I think of when people talk about what if Hogan stayed with the AWA is sure, Hulk would have been popular, but what if Vince still had everyone else like Piper, Savage, Andre etc?
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Post by SAJ Forth on Sept 20, 2014 21:31:27 GMT -5
More pressure Would have been dead far earlier. Sadly, very true.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Sept 20, 2014 21:52:22 GMT -5
One thing I think of when people talk about what if Hogan stayed with the AWA is sure, Hulk would have been popular, but what if Vince still had everyone else like Piper, Savage, Andre etc? Yeah, you make a good point, but Hogan was still fresh from Rocky 3, he still had that popularity, and allegedly, Greg Gagne said that they were gonna do a deal with a network (I don't remember which one, maybe cbs it was on the AWA legacy DVD) but the deal felt through when Hogan left to the WWF. If that was the case and AWA aired on a network, Hogan being still popular and with that exposure? It would'be been serious competition to Vince. Only one way the AWA would'be been able to go toe to toe with the WWF, apart from having Hogan, have Verne retire, and hand it over to Greg, at the time he was in his late 30's he was younger than Vince, he knew pop culture better and what the people wanted. I think he would've allowed Hulk to keep half of his merch money and put him over Bockwinkle. One could make the case that Hulk was bigger than all those guys combined in regards to drawing money.
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Post by Ryushinku on Sept 23, 2014 5:33:14 GMT -5
Hogan would've definitely seen the AWA survive and thrive a lot longer, although I do have question marks about Verne being able to market him near as well as Vince actually did. I think Hogan would've been huge, but not as huge, and I guess that might've given Vince a chance to go with someone else...that also wouldn't have been as huge as WWF Hogan, since everything clicked there, but could've still worked out big for the WWF. And I'd still feel at some point there would be enough cash waved at Hogan by Vince that he would've jumped.
Perhaps the AWA would've ended up in the kind of position WCW ended up with?
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Post by Joe Neglia on Sept 24, 2014 0:28:33 GMT -5
Between Verne being as out-of-touch then as he was when he closed shop in '91, and his attempts to strongarm side-money from Hogan, Verne wouldn't have been able to market him any more than he already was. Vince was seeing dolls and music videos from day one. He set out to create a superhero. Verne couldn't have turned Hogan into that.
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