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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Mar 30, 2013 23:44:06 GMT -5
I still maintain that Benoit would have went the Kurt Angle route. His body would become so broken down that WWE would tell him to take some time off and start taking it easy. He would refuse and then go to TNA.
Eddie would have probably had a couple more WWE title reigns under his belt before finally hanging it up.
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Post by xCompackx on Mar 31, 2013 0:16:41 GMT -5
I still maintain that Benoit would have went the Kurt Angle route. His body would become so broken down that WWE would tell him to take some time off and start taking it easy. He would refuse and then go to TNA. Eddie would have probably had a couple more WWE title reigns under his belt before finally hanging it up. I dunno, if Benoit were still alive with that level of brain damage, I don't think anyone would want to take a chance on him. But yeah... I really think if Wellness weren't implemented, wrestling would be as seedy as it was in the 80s/early 90s. When you think about situations like MVP being diagnosed with his heart condition, would that have been spotted if they didn't check up on them? It's a really scary and sad thing that it took people dying for WWE to start doing this stuff (not saying they never did tests, but you get what I mean)
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Post by -Lithium- on Mar 31, 2013 17:17:12 GMT -5
Owen was never getting the belt during the Attitude Era. Like seriously not a chance at all, IMO. Not because he wasn't good enough, but it just wasn't going to happen with the megastars of the Attitude Era being around...
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Post by blackmegaman on Mar 31, 2013 17:22:15 GMT -5
Owen was never getting the belt during the Attitude Era. Like seriously not a chance at all, IMO. Not because he wasn't good enough, but it just wasn't going to happen with the megastars of the Attitude Era being around... I don't know ......remember there was a brief time when the world title feud was Big Show/Bossman so Owen in getting the title isn't that out of reality.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2013 17:52:09 GMT -5
I'm going to add: Mike Awesome. If he was still around and was in good standings with WWE, he would have been huge during 2003.
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Post by zeez on Mar 31, 2013 17:58:19 GMT -5
Short term for Benoit was becoming ECW Champion as he was pegged to win the title at Vengeance 2007, which he didn't attend because...yeah. And supposedly Eddie was gonna win the World Heavyweight Championship as Batista needed time off due to an injury.
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Post by Push R Truth on Mar 31, 2013 19:01:48 GMT -5
Benoit was a timebomb, even if that night didn't happen... it would have happened. If that makes any sense. He had so many things going against him that it's impossible to ignore without basically turning him into a totally different person.
If Eddie's heart didn't go, he'd be semiretired by now and Rey would have been released a couple years back.
Owen was probably the best case because his health/mental health appeared to be fine. I figured he would have quit whenever Bret was done. No World Titles, but not a jobber either.
Pillman, much like Benoit... too many things and something bad was going to happen one way or another. It's easy to ignore 1 thing, but Pillman and Benoit were trainwrecks and many different things were bringing them down.
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Post by donbot on Mar 31, 2013 20:00:26 GMT -5
Owen was never getting the belt during the Attitude Era. Like seriously not a chance at all, IMO. Not because he wasn't good enough, but it just wasn't going to happen with the megastars of the Attitude Era being around... I don't know ......remember there was a brief time when the world title feud was Big Show/Bossman so Owen in getting the title isn't that out of reality. The Big Bossman/Big Show feud wasn't about the WWF championship. The company gave Show the belt either because it was in his contract or as a way to get him to agree with the storyline he was in involving his dead father(he real dad died years earlier). Owen Hart showed no signs of being headed to the main event as he was caught up with the Blue Blazer storyline, and TBH, I don't think he wanted to be WWF champion anyway. Wrestling wasn't his first priority(he wanted to be a firefighter or teacher), and his contract was going to expire in December 1999. Why push a guy to the main event if he was going to leave anyway? The whole rumor that he was going to have "The Game" character is pure crap. Triple H's World Title push was in motion even before Owen died. The most I can see Owen do is get a brief main event push against The Rock on a minor PPV and then quietly leave into the sunset, but thats it.
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Post by What? on Mar 31, 2013 20:51:04 GMT -5
Owen was never getting the belt during the Attitude Era. Like seriously not a chance at all, IMO. Not because he wasn't good enough, but it just wasn't going to happen with the megastars of the Attitude Era being around... Exactly. I was around in 1998-99 and truth be told, he was no closer to the WWF title than Val Venis, Jeff Jarrett, or Road Dogg were. There's always been this strange belief that he was a main eventer, or was being prepared to be one. Outside of 1994 or late-1997/early-1998, he was a midcard/tag team act.
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Mar 31, 2013 21:26:31 GMT -5
From what I remember about the dirtsheets back then - my sources were crappy copy & paste sites, so bare with me - was that Owen was "building a stock portfolio for an early retirement". These reports went around shortly before he died.
I think everything depended on what happened with Bret. Owen would've been around for a little while longer, but that contract was probably coming to an end by 2000 or 2001. If Bret would've not suffered his injury, and if he made amends with Vince after WCW was purchased (and he'd have to if he wanted to be a major tv wrestler still), I'd like to think that Owen would've returned with Bret. This might depend on the status with Bulldog, though.
Even if that happened, Owen had no interest in being a lifer in wrestling. If he didn't leave in 2000/2001 when his contract was up, he probably would've been gone by 2003/2004.
How far would he go? I'm not sure. I imagine Blue Blazer wasn't a long-term plan. But how would have Owen meshed with all the new talent pouring in shortly thereafter? I could easily see Owen squaring off against Jericho, Angle (he faced him in a dark match, actually!), the Radicals, and maybe a feud with Benoit or Eddie, but after that...I dunno. WWE was really focused on building new main eventers back then, and I think Owen's ship may have sailed for them - especially since he wasn't going to stick around anyway.
A little fantasy booking:
Say Owen leaves in 2000, takes a few years off, Bret comes back post-Invasion 2003 and then reforms the Hart Foundation to try and get revenge on Vince. That causes the DX reunion to be done 3 years earlier than it did, with Vince/Shane/HHH/HBK facing Bret/Owen/Anvil/Bulldog. Bret vs Vince at SummerSlam, Bret vs HBK at Survivor Series'03, Hart Foundation implodes leading up to WMXX for one reason or another, Bret vs Owen @ WMXX, Owen retires after his 1-year contract ends.
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Post by What? on Mar 31, 2013 22:00:34 GMT -5
From what I remember about the dirtsheets back then - my sources were crappy copy & paste sites, so bare with me - was that Owen was "building a stock portfolio for an early retirement". These reports went around shortly before he died. I think everything depended on what happened with Bret. Owen would've been around for a little while longer, but that contract was probably coming to an end by 2000 or 2001. If Bret would've not suffered his injury, and if he made amends with Vince after WCW was purchased (and he'd have to if he wanted to be a major tv wrestler still), I'd like to think that Owen would've returned with Bret. This might depend on the status with Bulldog, though. Even if that happened, Owen had no interest in being a lifer in wrestling. If he didn't leave in 2000/2001 when his contract was up, he probably would've been gone by 2003/2004. How far would he go? I'm not sure. I imagine Blue Blazer wasn't a long-term plan. But how would have Owen meshed with all the new talent pouring in shortly thereafter? I could easily see Owen squaring off against Jericho, Angle (he faced him in a dark match, actually!), the Radicals, and maybe a feud with Benoit or Eddie, but after that...I dunno. WWE was really focused on building new main eventers back then, and I think Owen's ship may have sailed for them - especially since he wasn't going to stick around anyway. A little fantasy booking: Say Owen leaves in 2000, takes a few years off, Bret comes back post-Invasion 2003 and then reforms the Hart Foundation to try and get revenge on Vince. That causes the DX reunion to be done 3 years earlier than it did, with Vince/Shane/HHH/HBK facing Bret/Owen/Anvil/Bulldog. Bret vs Vince at SummerSlam, Bret vs HBK at Survivor Series'03, Hart Foundation implodes leading up to WMXX for one reason or another, Bret vs Owen @ WMXX, Owen retires after his 1-year contract ends.
Could you imagine Vince sending Brock to take out the Harts in '03? Woulda been good stuff.
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