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A lot of these are just fan guesses because Wrestling storylines are constantly changing and original storylines rarely are acknowledged by the creative staff, but what the hell:
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A lot of these are just fan guesses because Wrestling storylines are constantly changing and original storylines rarely are acknowledged by the creative staff, but what the hell:hell...
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* Wrestling/{{Chyna}} was briefly planned to win the WWE title at Summerslam 1999.
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* Wrestling/{{Chyna}} was briefly planned to win the WWE title at Summerslam 1999. This was cancelled because the bookers didn't believe she had adequate skill in the ring for it.
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* The "Imposter Kane" storyline. Sometime around 2006 there was a rumor going around that Wrestling/{{Kane}} was planning on retiring soon. To make up for his character, an Imposter Kane ([[spoiler:played by Drew Hankinson]]) was brought in to make a storyline in which HE was the real Kane, having been locked away while the ''real'' Kane was the Imposter. However because the angle confused the fans too much, the storyline was quickly abandoned, and Imposter Kane was soon re-tuned into becoming Festus of the Tag Tagm, ''Jesse and Festus''.
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* The "Imposter Kane" storyline. Sometime around 2006 there was a rumor going around that Wrestling/{{Kane}} was planning on retiring soon. To make up for his character, an Imposter Kane ([[spoiler:played by Drew Hankinson]]) was brought in to make a storyline in which HE was the real Kane, having been locked away while the ''real'' Kane was the Imposter. However because the angle confused the fans too much, the storyline was quickly abandoned, and Imposter Kane was soon re-tuned into becoming Festus of the Tag Tagm, ''Jesse and Festus''.Festus''.
* The TripleH, StephanieMcMahon and KurtAngle JustFriends LoveTriangle storyline around the middle of 2000 was apparently meant to end with Steph running off with Kurt, both turning Heel while H turned face. After that angle was nixed, it lead to Chris Kreski being fired/leaving his head writer role with WWF Creative, and being replaced with Steph herself, starting the period that many in the IWC believe began the decline of the company.
* The TripleH, StephanieMcMahon and KurtAngle JustFriends LoveTriangle storyline around the middle of 2000 was apparently meant to end with Steph running off with Kurt, both turning Heel while H turned face. After that angle was nixed, it lead to Chris Kreski being fired/leaving his head writer role with WWF Creative, and being replaced with Steph herself, starting the period that many in the IWC believe began the decline of the company.
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*** He used it once at {{WrestleMania}}. And botched it. A non-botched finish would've elevated the match to one of the greatest ever.
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* It is believed that Wrestling/TheUndertaker had originally approached Wrestling/RandyOrton in having him break the streak at WrestleMania 21, however Orton turned down the offer out of respect to Taker.
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* Wrestling/TheUndertaker's original match at WrestleMania 21 was going to be for him to team up with Wrestling/{{Kane}} to face Wrestling/GeneSnitsky and Heidenreich, both of whom were feuding with Kane and Undertaker (respectively) at the time. However, Undertaker opted to face Wrestling/RandyOrton instead.
** It is believed thatWrestling/TheUndertaker Undertaker had originally approached Wrestling/RandyOrton in having him break the streak at WrestleMania 21, however Orton turned down the offer out of respect to Taker.
** It is believed that
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* EC-F'n-W. A new interview revealed that ECW would have taken the WWE's place on USA after the latter left for TNN/Spike TV in the year 2000 with on Vince's blessing and Universal Music as a minority owner. However, after losing WWE, the #1 brand in wrestling to Spike, USA head Barry Diller felt that ECW would be a step down and nixed the deal.
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* EC-F'n-W. A new interview revealed that ECW would have taken the WWE's place on USA after the latter left for TNN/Spike TV in the year 2000 with on Vince's blessing and Universal Music as a minority owner. However, after losing WWE, the #1 brand in wrestling to Spike, USA head Barry Diller felt that ECW would be a step down and nixed the deal.deal.
* The "Imposter Kane" storyline. Sometime around 2006 there was a rumor going around that Wrestling/{{Kane}} was planning on retiring soon. To make up for his character, an Imposter Kane ([[spoiler:played by Drew Hankinson]]) was brought in to make a storyline in which HE was the real Kane, having been locked away while the ''real'' Kane was the Imposter. However because the angle confused the fans too much, the storyline was quickly abandoned, and Imposter Kane was soon re-tuned into becoming Festus of the Tag Tagm, ''Jesse and Festus''.
* The "Imposter Kane" storyline. Sometime around 2006 there was a rumor going around that Wrestling/{{Kane}} was planning on retiring soon. To make up for his character, an Imposter Kane ([[spoiler:played by Drew Hankinson]]) was brought in to make a storyline in which HE was the real Kane, having been locked away while the ''real'' Kane was the Imposter. However because the angle confused the fans too much, the storyline was quickly abandoned, and Imposter Kane was soon re-tuned into becoming Festus of the Tag Tagm, ''Jesse and Festus''.
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** Additionally, [[JohnCena Cena]] lobbied to push {{Edge}} in their Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match at ''Unforgiven 2006'', giving Edge the title and the feud. This was because Cena wanted to take a break, got back to Smackdown, and [[FaceHeelTurn turn heel]] to refresh his character (restarting his feuds with {{Kurt Angle}}, from opposite roles, and {{Rey Mysterio}} while possibly aligning with {{Randy Orton}} and starting his feud with {{Bastista}} years early). However, his feud with Edge ignited a phase of him {{GrowingTheBeard}}, so the idea was nixed as he ascended to megastar status. Interestingly, Cena was very disappointed with the outcome as, in stark contrast to his other title wins, he didn't celebrate and looked miserable, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall somewhat breaking kayfabe]].
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* 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.
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* WrestleCrap's 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.
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** YMMV on the PG thing. One of the main theories (and arguably the real reason) why WWE went PG was for Linda McMahon's campaign for senate. One could argue that if she never made the decision to run for senate, WWE would have never turned PG in the first place.
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** More ExecutiveMeddling than mixed up really, the one who had lobbied for it and fought tooth and nail to get it approved was hoping to get guys like Sonjay Dutt, Jack Evans, Mistico, and others. But Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis who was in charge of hiring them disliked the idea and so instead he went and hired midget wrestlers killing it.
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* EC-F'n-W. A new interview revealed that ECW would have taken the WWE's place after the latter left for TNN/Spike TV in the year 2000 with on Vince's blessing and Universal Music as a minority owner. However, after losing WWE, the #1 brand in wrestling to Spike, USA head Barry Diller felt that ECW would be a step down and nixed the deal.
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* EC-F'n-W. A new interview revealed that ECW would have taken the WWE's place on USA after the latter left for TNN/Spike TV in the year 2000 with on Vince's blessing and Universal Music as a minority owner. However, after losing WWE, the #1 brand in wrestling to Spike, USA head Barry Diller felt that ECW would be a step down and nixed the deal.
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** However, WWE already had a similar character in Wrestling/AntonioCesaro, and not wanting to have two similar characters, Cesaro was given a yodeling gimmick and his push came to a abrupt stop. This gimmick led to a feud with R-Truth that brought the latter back to his [[TheScrappy rapping gimmick]] after two years of being in EnsembleDarkhorse territory.
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** However, WWE already had a similar character in Wrestling/AntonioCesaro, and not wanting to have two similar characters, Cesaro was given a yodeling gimmick and his push came to a abrupt stop. This gimmick led to a feud with R-Truth that brought the latter back to his [[TheScrappy rapping gimmick]] after two years of being in EnsembleDarkhorse territory.territory.
* EC-F'n-W. A new interview revealed that ECW would have taken the WWE's place after the latter left for TNN/Spike TV in the year 2000 with on Vince's blessing and Universal Music as a minority owner. However, after losing WWE, the #1 brand in wrestling to Spike, USA head Barry Diller felt that ECW would be a step down and nixed the deal.
* EC-F'n-W. A new interview revealed that ECW would have taken the WWE's place after the latter left for TNN/Spike TV in the year 2000 with on Vince's blessing and Universal Music as a minority owner. However, after losing WWE, the #1 brand in wrestling to Spike, USA head Barry Diller felt that ECW would be a step down and nixed the deal.
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* Malia Hosaka was a very talented wrestling journeywoman during the days when women's wrestling was all but dead in the United States. She did sign a WWF developmental contract in the late 90s, but she never got called up from developmental. She did make one appearance with Taka Michinoku and Funaki while they were doing their "Evil / Indeed" gimmick - she shoved Funaki, stole his microphone, and said "indeed" instead of him - but very shortly after that the entire gimmick was canned because WWF had no plans to actually push Taka and Funaki, and the gimmick was making them too over to be effective jobbers. That was unfortunately the closest Malia ever came to making it in one of the big 3. And who knows how far the gimmick could have taken Taka and Funaki if it hadn't been canned?
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* Malia Hosaka was a very talented wrestling journeywoman during the days when women's wrestling was all but dead in the United States. She did sign worked a match against WCW Women's Champion Akira Hokuto on Nitro, and later signed a WWF developmental contract in the late 90s, but she never got called up from developmental. She did make made one appearance with Taka Michinoku and Funaki while they were doing their "Evil / Indeed" gimmick - she shoved Funaki, stole his microphone, and said "indeed" instead of him - but very shortly after that the entire gimmick was canned because WWF had no plans to actually push Taka and Funaki, and the gimmick was making them too over to be effective jobbers. That was unfortunately the closest Malia ever came to making it in one of the big 3. And who knows how far the gimmick could have taken Taka and Funaki if it hadn't been canned?
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*** The curse didn't stop here as far as the World Heavyweight title was concerned, as Edge would suffer his own injury about a month into what was supposed to be Kennedy's run with the world title. The Smackdown Creative team was so desperate for a {{Heel}} champion that they put the title on The Great Khali.
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*** The curse didn't stop here as far as the World Heavyweight title was concerned, as Edge would suffer his own injury about a month into what was supposed to be Kennedy's run with the world title. The Smackdown Creative team was so desperate for a {{Heel}} champion that they put the title on The the absolutely hated Great Khali.
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* What if [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] didn't get "fired" from the WWE and stayed in Wrestling/TheNexus? Well, at least that one generally worked out for the best. Otherwise, he probably would have been stuck in Wrestling/WadeBarrett's shadow, and there would have been no face push, no US title win, no Money in the Bank victory, no World Heavyweight Championship victory, no [[BigYes YES! chants]], no [[BigNo NO! chants]], no [[Wrestling/{{Kane}} Team Hell No]], no Wrestling/AJLee push, etc.
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* What if [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] didn't get "fired" from the WWE and stayed in Wrestling/TheNexus? Well, at least that one generally worked out for the best. Otherwise, he probably would have been stuck in Wrestling/WadeBarrett's shadow, and there would have been no face push, no US title win, no Money in the Bank victory, no World Heavyweight Championship victory, no [[BigYes YES! chants]], no [[BigNo NO! chants]], no 18-second loss to Wrestling/{{Sheamus}}, no [[Wrestling/{{Kane}} Team Hell No]], no Wrestling/AJLee push, etc.
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* What if [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] didn't get "fired" from the WWE and stayed in Wrestling/TheNexus? Well, at least that one generally worked out for the best. Otherwise, he probably would have been stuck in Wrestling/WadeBarrett's shadow, and there would have been no face push, no US title win, no Money in the Bank victory, no World Heavyweight Championship victory, no [[BigYes YES! chants]], no [[BigNo NO! chants]], no [[Wrestling/Kane Team Hell No]], no Wrestling/AJLee push, etc.
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* What if [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] didn't get "fired" from the WWE and stayed in Wrestling/TheNexus? Well, at least that one generally worked out for the best. Otherwise, he probably would have been stuck in Wrestling/WadeBarrett's shadow, and there would have been no face push, no US title win, no Money in the Bank victory, no World Heavyweight Championship victory, no [[BigYes YES! chants]], no [[BigNo NO! chants]], no [[Wrestling/Kane [[Wrestling/{{Kane}} Team Hell No]], no Wrestling/AJLee push, etc.
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* Wrestling/{{Christian}} was supposed to be the one behind Wrestling/JeffHardy's "accidents" in late 2008. When the news leaked to the Internet, he was switched with Wrestling/MattHardy. ECW likely would have floundered if Christian didn't carry the brand for one last year. And remember, ECW was the starting point for Wrestling/Sheamus and the solo career of Wrestling/ZackRyder.
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* Wrestling/{{Christian}} was supposed to be the one behind Wrestling/JeffHardy's "accidents" in late 2008. When the news leaked to the Internet, he was switched with Wrestling/MattHardy. ECW likely would have floundered if Christian didn't carry the brand for one last year. And remember, ECW was the starting point for Wrestling/Sheamus Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} and the solo career of Wrestling/ZackRyder.
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*** How about the events leading up to the murder-suicide? If Kevin Sullivan never filed for divorce with Nancy, she would have never married Wrestling/ChrisBenoit. And if that happened, they never would have had a son. Therefore, Chris Benoit wouldn't have been able to do a murder-suicide. Even if he still killed himself from severe brain damage, he could only have committed suicide, and neither his career nor the wrestling industry in general would have been tainted.
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* Wrestling/{{Christian}} was supposed to be the one behind Wrestling/JeffHardy's "accidents" in late 2008. When the news leaked to the Internet, he was switched with Wrestling/MattHardy.
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* Wrestling/{{Christian}} was supposed to be the one behind Wrestling/JeffHardy's "accidents" in late 2008. When the news leaked to the Internet, he was switched with Wrestling/MattHardy. ECW likely would have floundered if Christian didn't carry the brand for one last year. And remember, ECW was the starting point for Wrestling/Sheamus and the solo career of Wrestling/ZackRyder.
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* {{Wrestler/Sting}} was tapped to become the third man in the nWo, if Wrestling/HulkHogan refused to turn heel.
** The nWo itself was supposed to end at Starcade 1997. Who knows what could have happened?
** The nWo itself was supposed to end at Starcade 1997. Who knows what could have happened?
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* {{Wrestler/Sting}} was tapped to become the third man in the nWo, if Wrestling/HulkHogan refused to turn heel.
heel. The shock value of the industry's biggest icon turning heel would have been nonexistent, and the nWo wouldn't have had the same impact it actually did.
** The nWo itself was supposed to end at Starcade 1997. Who knows what could havehappened?happened? For starters, there would have been no FingerpokeOfDoom.
** The nWo itself was supposed to end at Starcade 1997. Who knows what could have
** Eddie's death also had an effect on his wife Vickie. If he never died, Vickie wouldn't have needed a job, wouldn't have been put in the Rey Mysterio vs. Chavo Guerrero feud, would have never turned on Mysterio and align with her nephew, would have never been appointed as Teddy Long's Assistant GM, wouldn't have ever been named General Manager of SmackDown after Teddy Long's heart attack, wouldn't have delivered such bad promos, wouldn't have gotten so much XPacHeat (and, since people hated hearing her speak, the heat would be the loudest at the beginning of every promo, which was usually opened with "Excuse Me!" and WWE would never have noticed how much heat those two words got, and would have never turned it into a CatchPhrase.) The careers of LayCool and DolphZiggler may not have gone very far without her support, and, wow, it changed everything.
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** However, WWE already had a similar character in Wrestling/AntonioCesaro, and not wanting to have two similar characters, Cesaro was given a yodeling gimmick and his push came to a abrupt stop. This gimmick led to a feud with R-Truth that brought the latter back to his [[TheScrappy his rapping gimmick]] after two years of being in EnsembleDarkhorse territory.
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** However, WWE already had a similar character in Wrestling/AntonioCesaro, and not wanting to have two similar characters, Cesaro was given a yodeling gimmick and his push came to a abrupt stop. This gimmick led to a feud with R-Truth that brought the latter back to his [[TheScrappy his rapping gimmick]] after two years of being in EnsembleDarkhorse territory.
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* What if [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] didn't get "fired" from the WWE and stayed in Wrestling/TheNexus? Well, at least that one generally worked out for the best.
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* What if [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] didn't get "fired" from the WWE and stayed in Wrestling/TheNexus? Well, at least that one generally worked out for the best. Otherwise, he probably would have been stuck in Wrestling/WadeBarrett's shadow, and there would have been no face push, no US title win, no Money in the Bank victory, no World Heavyweight Championship victory, no [[BigYes YES! chants]], no [[BigNo NO! chants]], no [[Wrestling/Kane Team Hell No]], no Wrestling/AJLee push, etc.
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** Other TNA names that had stints or worked dark matches in WWE include Alex Shelley, Kazarian, Eric Young, Wrestling/BobbyRoode, Wrestling/SamoaJoe and Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels.
*** Kazarian is a significant one, as hwas actually in WWE and had a winning streak, before he was either a) fired because he wouldn't cut his hair (long standing rumours) or b) quit because they refused to reform the cruiserweight division ([[WordOfGod Word of Kaz]])
*** Kazarian is a significant one, as hwas actually in WWE and had a winning streak, before he was either a) fired because he wouldn't cut his hair (long standing rumours) or b) quit because they refused to reform the cruiserweight division ([[WordOfGod Word of Kaz]])
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** Other wrestlers mostly associated with TNA names that who had stints or worked dark matches in WWE include Alex Shelley, Kazarian, Eric Young, Wrestling/BobbyRoode, Wrestling/SamoaJoe and Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels.
*** Kazarian is a significant one, ashwas he was actually in WWE and had a winning streak, before he was either a) fired because he wouldn't cut his hair (long standing rumours) or b) quit because they refused to reform the cruiserweight division ([[WordOfGod Word of Kaz]])
*** Kazarian is a significant one, as
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** There were apparently plans to have Wrestling/WadeBarrett vs. Undertaker at ''WM XXVII'' quite early on, which appears to be evidenced by the rather sudden beatdown by Wrestling/TheNexus upon Wrestling/TheUndertaker in the middle of 2010.
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** There were apparently plans to have Wrestling/WadeBarrett vs. Undertaker at ''WM XXVII'' quite early on, which appears to be evidenced by the rather sudden beatdown by Wrestling/TheNexus upon Wrestling/TheUndertaker in the middle of at Bragging Rights 2010.
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*** The ''really'' painful part? The massive loss of face Vince suffered from Madusa's action is believed to be part of why he pulled the Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob.
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*** The ''really'' painful part? The massive loss of face Vince suffered from Madusa's action (particularly, having a WWF title on WCW television), is believed to be part of why he pulled the Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob.Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob. This event, of course, also has so many "what could have been" moments as well: Bret Hart was supposed to drop the title at Survivor Series to Shawn Michaels the night before his contract expired, but refused to do so due to the pay-per-view being held in Canada. Desperate to make sure his top prize doesn't leave the company with Hart, Vince forced the referee to ring the bell and declare Michaels as the new champion. The massive amount of heat [=McMahon=] got from the event led to the development of his CorruptCorporateExecutive persona, which led to his classic feud with Steve Austin that helped launch the Attitude Era.
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* [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]], Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield or Wrestling/TripleH were all choices for revealing of the anonymous Raw GM in summer 2010.
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* [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]], Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield or Wrestling/TripleH were all choices for revealing of the anonymous Raw GM in summer 2010.2010, but because an identity could not have been decided, it was held off indefinitely until Hornswoggle was revealed as the GM.
** Also, if Edge never retired, he would have retained the title, Christian wouldn't have won it at Extreme Rules, he wouldn't have lost it to Orton immediately afterwards, their wouldn't have been an InternetBackdraft, and Christian wouldn't have turned heel.
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* Wrestling/JohnCena might have been ''fired'' if Stephanie hadn't overheard him freestyling, [[StarMakingRole leading to him]] dressing and rapping like Vanilla Ice two weeks later on the HalloweenEpisode of Smackdown.
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* Wrestling/JohnCena might have been ''fired'' if Stephanie hadn't overheard him freestyling, [[StarMakingRole leading to him]] dressing and rapping like Vanilla Ice two weeks later on the HalloweenEpisode of Smackdown. And if Cena was fired, he would have never won the US title, would have never gotten super-over with the fans, would have never been pushed to the WWE title, would have never beat JBL for the championship at WrestleMania 21, would have never took the title to RAW, would have never gotten the smarks to turn on him, and would have never had a 10 month reign that made Vince realize he could be the company's top face. And if Vince never made him the top face, he would have never realized how over he was with kids and wouldn't have turned WWE PG. Wow!
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* If Wrestling/TripleH hadn't suffered his GameBreakingInjury in 2001, he would have [[HeelFaceTurn turned face]] and restarted his feud with a heel Austin.
* The Juniors division of Smackdown was an attempt to relaunch the Cruiserweight Division (considered dark match/B-show material) until a mix up caused the WWE to pick up mostly midget wrestlers.
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* If Wrestling/TripleH hadn't suffered his GameBreakingInjury in 2001, he would have [[HeelFaceTurn turned face]] and restarted his feud with a heel Austin. \n If that happened, he might have done so well that WWF may have decided "he's much better as a face than as a heel." He may have never turned heel, get pushed to the moon on RAW, bury every face on the brand, form Evolution and allow Randy Orton and Batista to gain credibility, and the two may never have had such great careers.
* The Juniors division of Smackdown was an attempt to relaunch the Cruiserweight Division (considered dark match/B-show material) until a mix up caused the WWE to pick up mostly midget wrestlers. This may have led to WWE signing Hornswoggle, who of course has been involved of some of WWE's most embarrassing moments.
* The Juniors division of Smackdown was an attempt to relaunch the Cruiserweight Division (considered dark match/B-show material) until a mix up caused the WWE to pick up mostly midget wrestlers. This may have led to WWE signing Hornswoggle, who of course has been involved of some of WWE's most embarrassing moments.
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* If Wrestling/EvanBourne and [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth]] had not gotten suspended, the team of [[Wrestling/TheMiz Awesome]] [[Wrestling/RonKillings Truth]] would have won the Tag Team Titles following Wrestling/SurvivorSeries.
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* If Wrestling/EvanBourne and [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth]] had not gotten suspended, the team of [[Wrestling/TheMiz Awesome]] [[Wrestling/RonKillings Truth]] would have won the Tag Team Titles following Wrestling/SurvivorSeries. R-Truth's suspension, in particular, led to WWE having to break up Awesome Truth, and decided to do so by having the Miz stab R-Truth in the back. Because of this, it meant that WWE had to turn one of them face, and chose R-Truth. That was a problem, because the IWC loathed him as a face, and feared he would be given his old rapping gimmick back. R-Truth kept his Little Jimmy gimmick, but played a fan-friendly version of it before slowly evolving back to his first gimmick.
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* Wrestling/BrodusClay's Funkasaurus gimmick actually had a link between the monster heel promos and his current form. Clay would have debuted the monster heel gimmick but would turn on Laurinaitis (for stalling his debut for so long) and later debut the dancing gimmick.
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* Wrestling/BrodusClay's Funkasaurus gimmick actually had a link between the monster heel promos and his current form. Clay would have debuted (OK, returned, but the WWE pretended that he never appeared on WWE television before) the monster heel gimmick but would turn on Laurinaitis (for stalling his debut for so long) and later debut the dancing gimmick.
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* After watching a tape of Ultimo Dragon, Wrestling/PaulHeyman wanted to bring him into Wrestling/{{ECW}}. While he was unable to get Ultimo Dragon, he did look into bringing over Dragon's opponent from the tape, [[Wrestling/ChrisJericho Lion Heart]].
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* After watching a tape of Ultimo Dragon, Wrestling/PaulHeyman wanted to bring him into Wrestling/{{ECW}}. While he was unable to get Ultimo Dragon, he did look into bringing over Dragon's opponent from the tape, [[Wrestling/ChrisJericho Lion Heart]]. Of course, Lion Heart would adopt the name Chris Jericho, and his performance in ECW eventually caught the eye of WCW, who was happy to sign him when he left ECW, and when he became even more credible as a WCW star, WWF took notice as well, and when he went to WWF, he became one of its biggest stars.
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* Jack Swagger almost came back as a babyface with Sgt. Slaughter as his manager. Unfortunately with the rash of injuries happening to Hispanic heroes Wrestling/ReyMysterio and Wrestling/SinCara which necessitated turning the then-heel Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio face, WWE went in another direction bringing in Dutch Mantell as Zeb Colter and rebuilding Swagger into a Tea Party-style heel as a foil to the Mexico native.
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* Jack Swagger almost came back as a babyface with Sgt. Slaughter as his manager. Unfortunately with the rash of injuries happening to Hispanic heroes Wrestling/ReyMysterio and Wrestling/SinCara which necessitated turning the then-heel Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio face, WWE went in another direction bringing in Dutch Mantell as Zeb Colter and rebuilding Swagger into a Tea Party-style heel as a foil to the Mexico native.native.
** However, WWE already had a similar character in Wrestling/AntonioCesaro, and not wanting to have two similar characters, Cesaro was given a yodeling gimmick and his push came to a abrupt stop. This gimmick led to a feud with R-Truth that brought the latter back to his [[TheScrappy his rapping gimmick]] after two years of being in EnsembleDarkhorse territory.
** However, WWE already had a similar character in Wrestling/AntonioCesaro, and not wanting to have two similar characters, Cesaro was given a yodeling gimmick and his push came to a abrupt stop. This gimmick led to a feud with R-Truth that brought the latter back to his [[TheScrappy his rapping gimmick]] after two years of being in EnsembleDarkhorse territory.
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* The execrable Katie Vick angle was supposed to bring Scott Vick aka Sick Boy (a talented jobber-to-the-stars from Wrestling/{{Raven}}'s Flock that WCW never utilized) into WWE. When the fans thoroughly rejected the angle, Scott Vick was kept in developmental and quit wrestling in frustration several months later.
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* Jack Swagger almost came back as a babyface with Sgt. Slaughter as his manager. Unfortunately with the rash of injuries happening to Hispanic heroes Wrestling/ReyMysterio and Wrestling/SinCara which necessitated turning the then-heel Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio face, WWE went in another direction bringing in Dutch Mantell as Zeb Coulter and rebuilding Swagger into a Tea Party-style heel as a foil to the Mexico native.
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* Jack Swagger almost came back as a babyface with Sgt. Slaughter as his manager. Unfortunately with the rash of injuries happening to Hispanic heroes Wrestling/ReyMysterio and Wrestling/SinCara which necessitated turning the then-heel Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio face, WWE went in another direction bringing in Dutch Mantell as Zeb Coulter Colter and rebuilding Swagger into a Tea Party-style heel as a foil to the Mexico native.
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* Bizarrely enough, had Eddie Guerrero not passed away, we might not have [[Wrestling/DolphZiggler]] as we currently know him. Before Eddie died, his nephew Chavo was wrestling as a goofy, white-bread golfer named Kerwin White, with Ziggler as his caddy. However, when Eddie died, Chavo decided he wanted to go back to his original gimmick and have a Guerrero on the roster. Had he continued as Kerwin White, Dolph wouldn't have been sent back to developmental, became part of the Spirit Squad, or anything else. Ziggler might not even still be in WWE had it not happened.
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* Bizarrely enough, had Eddie Guerrero not passed away, we might not have [[Wrestling/DolphZiggler]] Wrestling/DolphZiggler as we currently know him. Before Eddie died, his nephew Chavo was wrestling as a goofy, white-bread golfer named Kerwin White, with Ziggler as his caddy. However, when Eddie died, Chavo decided he wanted to go back to his original gimmick and have a Guerrero on the roster. Had he continued as Kerwin White, Dolph wouldn't have been sent back to developmental, became part of the Spirit Squad, or anything else. Ziggler might not even still be in WWE had it not happened.happened.
* Jack Swagger almost came back as a babyface with Sgt. Slaughter as his manager. Unfortunately with the rash of injuries happening to Hispanic heroes Wrestling/ReyMysterio and Wrestling/SinCara which necessitated turning the then-heel Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio face, WWE went in another direction bringing in Dutch Mantell as Zeb Coulter and rebuilding Swagger into a Tea Party-style heel as a foil to the Mexico native.
* Jack Swagger almost came back as a babyface with Sgt. Slaughter as his manager. Unfortunately with the rash of injuries happening to Hispanic heroes Wrestling/ReyMysterio and Wrestling/SinCara which necessitated turning the then-heel Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio face, WWE went in another direction bringing in Dutch Mantell as Zeb Coulter and rebuilding Swagger into a Tea Party-style heel as a foil to the Mexico native.
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* When Wrestling/TheUndertaker was to defend The Streak against Wrestling/CMPunk at Wrestlemania XXIX. WWE originally wanted to do something with Punk's manager Wrestling/PaulHeyman going up against Taker's longtime manager Wrestling/PaulBearer. Sadly, [[AuthorExistenceFailure Bearer passed away on March 5, 2013]].
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* When Wrestling/TheUndertaker was to defend The Streak against Wrestling/CMPunk at Wrestlemania XXIX. WWE originally wanted to do something with Punk's manager Wrestling/PaulHeyman going up against Taker's longtime manager Wrestling/PaulBearer. Sadly, [[AuthorExistenceFailure Bearer passed away on March 5, 2013]].2013]].
* Bizarrely enough, had Eddie Guerrero not passed away, we might not have [[Wrestling/DolphZiggler]] as we currently know him. Before Eddie died, his nephew Chavo was wrestling as a goofy, white-bread golfer named Kerwin White, with Ziggler as his caddy. However, when Eddie died, Chavo decided he wanted to go back to his original gimmick and have a Guerrero on the roster. Had he continued as Kerwin White, Dolph wouldn't have been sent back to developmental, became part of the Spirit Squad, or anything else. Ziggler might not even still be in WWE had it not happened.
* Bizarrely enough, had Eddie Guerrero not passed away, we might not have [[Wrestling/DolphZiggler]] as we currently know him. Before Eddie died, his nephew Chavo was wrestling as a goofy, white-bread golfer named Kerwin White, with Ziggler as his caddy. However, when Eddie died, Chavo decided he wanted to go back to his original gimmick and have a Guerrero on the roster. Had he continued as Kerwin White, Dolph wouldn't have been sent back to developmental, became part of the Spirit Squad, or anything else. Ziggler might not even still be in WWE had it not happened.
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*** Alex Shelley recently had another brush with a WWE contract, as WWE reportedly planned to tap him to be the top face of a new Cruiserweight division to be showcased on the WWE Network. Unfortunately, the network ended up in DevelopmentHell, and thus the Cruiserweight program never came to pass.
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** It is still heavily rumored/believed that the original plan was for Undertaker to fight Wrestling/BrockLesner at ''WM XXVII'' as well as that their confrontation at UFC was to be the setup for their match.
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** Wrestling/MarkHenry was briefly considered to break Wrestling/TheUndertaker's streak.
** Wrestling/MarkHenry was briefly considered to break Wrestling/TheUndertaker's streak.
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* Wrestling/TheUndertaker is scheduled to defend The Streak against Wrestling/CMPunk at Wrestlemania XXIX. No doubt that WWE would have wanted to do at least something with Punk's manager Wrestling/PaulHeyman going up against Taker's longtime manager Wrestling/PaulBearer. Sadly, [[AuthorExistenceFailure Bearer passed away on March 5, 2013]].
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A lot of these are just fan guesses because Wrestling storylines are constantly changing and original storylines rarely are acknowledged by the creative staff, but what the hell:
* Wrestling/TheUndertaker was supposed to be an actual undertaker instead of a zombie/biker.
** Technically he was, when he was managed (briefly) by Brother Love -- then Wrestling/PaulBearer became his manager, and with him came the mysterious urn that was the source of his supernatural powers.
** Wrestling/TheUndertaker was also supposed to debut as the infamous [[Wrestling/TheGobbledyGooker Gobbledy Gooker]], as the Egg Man. However, this idea was seen as too ridiculous and was revised into the Undertaker persona on the same night the Gobbledy Gooker gimmick bombed.
** There were plans to make Wrestling/{{Sable}} a love interest of Wrestling/TheUndertaker around 1997. There was even an article in a WWF magazine that was going to lead into it. However, the Undertaker's real-life wife at the time did not approve of the storyline, so it never happened.
* Wrestling/{{Chyna}} was briefly planned to win the WWE title at Summerslam 1999.
* Mr. Kennedy was supposed to be Vince's illegitimate son. Then he got himself a Wellness Policy violation.
** Don't forget, this was a substitute angle for the "Who Killed Vince [=McMahon=]?" thing. What if THAT angle got to play out properly, instead of being pulled due to the Wrestling/ChrisBenoit situation?
*** Apparently, the night Benoit died the "murderer" was supposed to be revealed as Linda [=McMahon=], who would be arrested at that show. Some weeks later, there was supposed to be an "aired Will reading" by Mr. [=McMahon=] himself wherein he would leave the entire WWE in the hands of his "illegitimate son" Mr. Kennedy. This was meant to turn Kennedy into a massive heel and give him a mega-push to the championship. At that point, [[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon Stephanie [=McMahon=]]] and Wrestling/TripleH were going to reveal their kayfabe-second, consensual marriage - based on their [[RealLifeWritesThePlot real one]] - that would entitle TripleH to combat Mr. Kennedy for the right to own the WWE, culminating in a feud that would push all the way to the Main Event of that year's Wrestlemania. After THAT was finished, in which Wrestling/TripleH would win back control of the company from Kennedy, Vince was meant to come back and reveal that he'd faked the whole thing and setup Linda to take the fall so that way he could give everything to his "true son."
** Kennedy's career is full of these non-moments. When Wrestling/TheUndertaker suffered a GameBreakingInjury in 2007, Mr. Kennedy was going to use his Money in the Bank contract and capture the World Heavyweight title. However, Kennedy himself would have an injury of his own, so Wrestling/{{Edge}} would end up winning the contract from Kennedy in a match (after Edge attacked Kennedy on the ramp, thus not making Kennedy look weak, but doing a short match). What makes this situation really awful is that Kennedy's injury was not as serious as initially thought, as it was a giant hematoma as opposed to a torn triceps, so Kennedy ended up losing a World title run for something that didn't keep him out two months.
*** The curse didn't stop here as far as the World Heavyweight title was concerned, as Edge would suffer his own injury about a month into what was supposed to be Kennedy's run with the world title. The Smackdown Creative team was so desperate for a {{Heel}} champion that they put the title on The Great Khali.
** As for Wrestling/ChrisBenoit himself, he would have become the new focal point of ECW by winning the title at Vengeance and feuding with CMPunk, building Punk up similar to his feud with MVP.
*** Also, had Benoit's death ''not'' been part of a murder-suicide, would the WWE have milked it for what it's worth, like they did when Wrestling/EddieGuerrero died?
* WCW planned its "White Hummer" angle (a mystery person driving a white hummer drove into a limousine with Kevin Nash in it) around Wrestling/{{Sable}} being the driver. However, Sable wasn't able to get the no-compete clause in her WWF contract nullified.
* {{Wrestling/Kane}} was supposed to remask in 2008. In December 2011, he finally did, turning this into a 'what became'.
* Wrestling/{{Christian}} was supposed to be the one behind Wrestling/JeffHardy's "accidents" in late 2008. When the news leaked to the Internet, he was switched with Wrestling/MattHardy.
* The disastrous one-year WWE Championship reign of Diesel (Wrestling/KevinNash) was originally intended to end at a house show in Montreal... to Montreal native and (kayfabe) Cajun pirate, Jean-Pierre [=LaFitte=] (formerly Pierre Carl Oulette of The Quebecers). ExecutiveMeddling on behalf of Wrestling/TheKliq not only prevented this, but went out of their way to bury [=LaFitte=] on camera.
** Speaking of the Kliq, years before the MontrealScrewjob Wrestling/BretHart was invited to join. He declined the offer.
* In 1999, then-WWF booker Wrestling/VinceRusso abruptly jumped to Wrestling.{{WCW}}; this left WWF's creative staff scrambling to come up with resolutions to approaching angles, one of them being the impending wedding of [[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon Stephanie [=McMahon=]]] and Wrestling/{{Test}}. Russo later admitted that his plan was to have Test [[{{FaceHeelTurn}} turn heel]], join [[Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}} DeGeneration X]], and leave Stephanie at the altar.
* In a rare case of actually acknowledging what could have been, WWE actually released promotional pictures of Wrestling/OwenHart as WWF Champion from his aborted 1994 title run. Owen was originally supposed to beat older brother [[Wrestling/BretHart Bret]] for the title in a Lumberjack Match at a house show in July due to interference from Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, which would lead into their cage match at [=SummerSlam=] (a match which did happen, and was a [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for both men). For whatever reason, this was booked as a [[Wrestling/DustyRhodes Dusty Finish]] so the WWF [[{{AssPull}} invented]] an instant replay rule that would keep the belt on him (hey, at least it was better than the "not an official ring" excuse he used to keep the Rockers from being the tag team champions).
** Speaking of Owen, more than a few sources have stated Owen was supposed to get "The Game" gimmick instead of Wrestling/TripleH.
** Similarly: [[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon Stephanie [=McMahon=]]] has hinted in interviews that, on the day he died, Wrestling/EddieGuerrero was booked to win the World Heavyweight Championship in a Triple Threat Match involving an injured then-champion Wrestling/{{Batista}}.
*** Batista later stated in his book that Wrestling/RandyOrton was the one who was going to win the title, and most likely Stephanie's comments were sadness over Eddie never becoming a champion again like he hoped to be.
*** Chavo's comments after his departure from WWE about him and Eddie used more for building newer talent rather than being given their own pushes give some validity to Batista.
* The biggest "What Could Have Been" in wrestling history: the [=InVasion=]. After the buyout of WCW, WWE was planning to have WCW run as an entirely separate wrestling promotion (but still be a part of the WWE corporate structure; in essence, the plan was an early prototype of the Brand Extension). Unfortunately, WWE couldn't find a time slot for WCW, so instead, the [=InVasion=] angle began. This was intended to move WCW into a primetime slot, with ''Raw'' planned to become WCW's show while ''[=SmackDown=]'' would be WWE's show. However, fans solidly rejected this plan, threatened refunds for already-purchased Raw tickets, booed every "Special WCW Match" in a WWE ring, and in the end, the [=InVasion=] ended up being one giant bag of suck.
** The [=InVasion=] only existed in the first place because of another "What Could Have Been". Former WCW executive Wrestling/EricBischoff had managed to get backing from a venture capital firm (Fusient Media Ventures) to buy Wrestling/{{WCW}} out, and relaunch it apart from Time Warner's corporate umbrella. Said backing got cold feet once they got a good look at the books (at the time, plans were to cancel the Wednesday night "Thunder" show, and move Monday Nitro to TBS, halving the new company's revenue), and Bischoff was scrambling to put something else together. Then TNT (and specifically, Jamie Kellner, the Time Warner exec who was also responsible for ''WesternAnimation/PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain'') canceled ''WCW Monday Nitro'', stripping WCW of its only remaining TV outlet and single most valuable asset. This was primarily to force a sale to the WWF, who had been in talks earlier but couldn't pull the trigger due to an exclusivity deal with Viacom.
* {{Wrestler/Sting}} was tapped to become the third man in the nWo, if Wrestling/HulkHogan refused to turn heel.
** The nWo itself was supposed to end at Starcade 1997. Who knows what could have happened?
* Wrestling/MattHardy's feud with Drew [=McIntyre=] was supposed to have Matt use a Twitter campaign to rehire [=McIntyre=] so he could face him.
* What if [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] didn't get "fired" from the WWE and stayed in Wrestling/TheNexus? Well, at least that one generally worked out for the best.
* Although Wrestling/MickFoley has had numerous crowning moments in his career, his first book ''Have a Nice Day'' notes that he did end up missing on one that would have been the highlight of his Dude Love persona. In Summerslam 1997, Mankind was wrestling Wrestling/TripleH in a cage match. Mankind was supposed to go through a personality change, rip off his shirt revealing a heart tattoo on his chest and do a dive off the top of the cage as per the fantasy of Dude Love. Unfortunately Mick forgot to get the tattoo done (and the substitute, done with body paint, had been sweated off), and he was too bruised up to do a proper dive resulting in many a confused fan.
** Another for Foley: The main event for ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} XV'' was originally going to be a three-way between Austin, Rock, and Mankind. Wrestling/ShawnMichaels apparently appealed that the main event of WrestleMania should be a one-on-one match. The bookers agreed, so Foley was relegated to being the guest referee (though, ironically enough, Michaels was actually lobbying for ''Austin'' to be left out of the match, leaving Rock and Mankind fighting one-on-one).
* 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.
* When WWE wrote off their annual Survivor Series PPV in 2010, THE top candidate for its replacement was a PPV based on Wrestling/{{WCW}}'s War Games match.
* If the writers hadn't pissed off Austin with a last-minute Raw booking in the King of the Ring tournament against Wrestling/BrockLesnar that would have helped neither of them, he would have continued feuding with Wrestling/EddieGuerrero.
** Or what if Wrestlemania X8 main event was [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin Austin]] vs. [[Wrestling/HulkHogan Hogan]]?
* WWE almost signed Wrestling/NewJack. Although his tryout match with Val Venis was really short and lackluster, his promo skills impressed [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]] and he was well-liked in the locker room. Due to the inevitable {{Bowdlerization}} and Vince's concern that New Jack would seriously hurt someone, it didn't happen.
* Another almost-WWE signee would be Steve Corino. After leaving ECW for WCW, Corino was released after the WWF bought the latter. Six years later, he wrestled a couple tryout matches but was never offered a contract. He turned down a request from Wrestling/DustyRhodes since he felt he couldn't do the short five-minute matches that were standard in WWE compared to the 20+ minute bouts he had done in Japan and elsewhere.
* A third would be Wrestling/AJStyles who turned down a developmental contract to stay and support his future wife's college education.
** Other TNA names that had stints or worked dark matches in WWE include Alex Shelley, Kazarian, Eric Young, Wrestling/BobbyRoode, Wrestling/SamoaJoe and Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels.
*** Daniels in particular is the subject of several of these. He was originally set to become Vampiro's master, Syndrome, in WCW, but the storyline was scrapped. He also made appearances in ECW prior to its demise.
* Before becoming Wrestling/BrockLesnar's manager, Paul Heyman was set to become Wrestling/ChrisBenoit's.
* Mark "Marco Corleone" Jindrak was set to be the fourth member of Evolution.
* Lex Luger's AllAmericanFace push was originally supposed to go to Kona Crush. When the time came to body slam Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}} in the Stars and Stripes Challenge, the big Hawaiian hurt his back trying to lift him, and the show's MC Wrestling/RandySavage had to improvise while they flew Luger onto the ship to body slam him.
* {{Wrestler/Sting}} was approached to wrestle TheUndertaker at [[http://www2.dailystar.co.uk/inthering/view/184049/Wrestlemania-takes-hold ''Wrestlemania XXVII'']], but turned it down because he disliked [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]]'s treatment of former WCW talent.
** There was what appears to be a rather interesting side-effect to Sting turning the offer down; Wrestling/TripleH's entrance included an abbreviated version of the Music/{{Metallica}} song ''For Whom The Bell Tolls''. Considering that Sting's entrance music in WCW used to be ''Seek & Destroy'', it's thought that WWE had secured the rights to a play a Metallica track at the event in advance specifically for Sting, and decided to use a different track when he declined the offer.
** There were apparently plans to have Wrestling/WadeBarrett vs. Undertaker at ''WM XXVII'' quite early on, which appears to be evidenced by the rather sudden beatdown by Wrestling/TheNexus upon Wrestling/TheUndertaker in the middle of 2010.
* Wrestling/DwayneJohnson, better known as "The Rock", considered running for President as a Republican in the 2008 election.
* What if Magnum T.A. (who was arguably the biggest babyface in Jim Crockett Promotions at the time of his career ending car accident) not had his career cut so short? Magnum was apparently booked to win the NWA World Title from Ric Flair at the 1986 Starrcade (NWA/WCW's ''[=WrestleMania=]''). Would Sting still have gotten to where he got in the same time span with a healthy Magnum still around? Also, would Jim Crockett still had been forced to sell out to Ted Turner in the same time span despite Magnum still being a top draw?
** At the time of his accident, Magnum was feuding with Nikita Koloff. Like Magnum, Koloff's career is an example of WhatCouldHaveBeen. In 1988, he took a year off from the ring to care for his dying wife. In 1992, a neck injury would result in Nikita's premature retirement.
* In late 1993, the WWF decided to revive the previously inactive [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-wm.html Women's Championship]] by bringing in Madusa, under the new name Alundra Blayze, who would win the title in December of that year. A few months later, in 1994, the WWF brought in legendary [[Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling AJW]] wrestler Bull Nakano to face off against Blayze, and the two would engage in a heated rivalry that lasted throughout the rest of the year and produced good matches. In 1995, the WWF signed Rhonda Singh, bringing her in as vicious yet comedic heel Bertha Faye, the trailer trash girlfriend of Harvey Wippleman. Since Blayze would be out for a few months getting plastic surgery after Faye broke her nose in her debut, the plan was for Faye to feud with Bull until Blayze returned and then build the division up from there. However, Bull was found in possession of cocaine and subsequently fired, leaving Faye without a feud, and by the end of the year, frustrated with her gimmick and being told she couldn't perform her signature powerbomb as Sycho Sid was using it as his FinishingMove, Singh had left. At Survivor Series 1995, WWF brought in more women from AJW (Sakie Hasegawa, Chaparita ASARI, Kyoko Inoue, Wrestling/AjaKong, Tomoko Watanabe and Lioness Asuka) with the intention of building Aja Kong up as Blayze's next challenger, as she picked up wins over the next few weeks on Monday Night Raw and was scheduled to face Blayze for the belt at the 1996 Royal Rumble. However, Blayze did not like Kong, who was notoriously stiff, and refused to work with her, instead sitting out the last month of her contract and refusing to re-sign while she was still champion. The WWF abandoned its women's division before bringing it back three years later. It's a story full of what ifs: would the plan to build a solid division around Bull, Faye and Blayze have succeeded if Bull hadn't been fired? Would fan interest have continued if the Blayze/Kong feud had gone off as planned, and if so, would WWE keep the focus on bringing in actual women wrestlers (be it American girls, Japanese joshi or Mexican luchadoras)?
** Of course, the kicker to all of this was the fact that the day her contract with WWF expired, she showed up on WCW Monday Nitro as Madusa with the WWF Women's Championship belt...which she then proceeded to toss in the trash.
*** The ''really'' painful part? The massive loss of face Vince suffered from Madusa's action is believed to be part of why he pulled the Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob.
* Wrestling/MarkHenry was briefly considered to break Wrestling/TheUndertaker's streak.
** According to Wrestling/KurtAngle, he was considered to end Undertaker's streak at WrestleMania 22 in a match for the World Heavyweight Championship instead of at No Way Out 2006. Undertaker was willing to take the loss because he hadn't had a 5 Star WrestleMania match and the writing team was willing to do it to keep Angle looking strong as champion. If this had happened, would ReyMysterioJr have gained the World Heavyweight Championship during the Eddiesploitation angle?
*** As for the Eddiesploitation angle, would Chavo's career be different if he ''hadn't'' turned it down as their original choice?
* Wrestling/ScottHall was going to be part of WCW's Dangerous Alliance in 1992.
** He was also supposed to beat Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin in their Wrestlemania X8 match but Austin pretty much shot it down as hard as he could, not wanting to lose to the 'invading' force of the nWo. It pretty much killed the entire storyline dead.
* [[UsefulNotes/UltimateFightingChampionship The UFC]]'s Mike Goldberg was WWE's original choice to replace Wrestling/JimRoss in 2005. Goldberg declined because he would have to give up his announcing gig at Fox Sports Net.
* Smackdown was pitched as an all-divas show.
** Similarly, SpikeTV briefly considered giving Wrestling/{{TNA}} a timeslot for an all-knockouts show. This was at a time when the Wrestling/GailKim vs. [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Awesome Kong]] feud was drawing the highest quarter-hour ratings on Impact, so who knows what might have happened with a weekly program dedicated completely to the knockouts?
* Had Brian Pillman not died of a overdose, his storyline with Wrestling/{{Goldust}} would have ended with him stealing Goldust's wife, [[Characters/WWEDivas Terri Runnels]].
* [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]], Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield or Wrestling/TripleH were all choices for revealing of the anonymous Raw GM in summer 2010.
* With each passing interview, Paul Heyman makes TNA fans (and even WWE fans that just want competition) more and more wistful every time an interviewer asks him what it would be like if he did sign and book for TNA back in 2010. His goal: take the company public in two years by cutting [[Wrestling/HulkHogan everyone]] [[Wrestling/RicFlair over]] 40 save one for name value, book around the newer talent, plus outright STEAL [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] after his firing and make him an unstoppable submission machine with an eventual ''showdown with Wrestling/KurtAngle''. Every time a plan is mentioned, thousands of wrestling fans weep.
** And Heyman's original plans for the disastrous December to Dismember main event? Use UFC style vignettes to sell that match in the weeks leading up to it (they were filmed but never used, the concept was recycled for Wrestlemania 25's opening), then in the actual match itself, start it off with Wrestling/CMPunk ''choking out and eliminating'' Wrestling/TheBigShow in ''the first five minutes'' to ensure a new champion (an idea which Big Show liked and Vince hated). A lot better than the attempt to turn Bobby Lashley into the next Wrestling/{{Goldberg}}.
** Wrestling/JimRoss was also rumored to run to TNA when his contract expired in April 2010.
* Had Wrestling/{{Edge}} had not retired, one of the possibilities for Wrestlemania 27 would had been Wrestling/{{Christian}} turning on him.
** The event happened before his retirement, though. They just decided not to go with it. Although, they may have just been pulling it back for a future event…
* Wrestling/HulkHogan was trained by shoot wrestler Hiro Matsuda, and was apparently possessed of actual skill in the ring if his matches in Japan are any indication, especially one 1993 match which saw Hogan pull an Enzugiri on the Great Muta of all people. Hogan states in his first autobiography ''Hollywood Hulk Hogan'' that in the US under Vince Sr. he was told to wrestle like a generic power wrestler, and this followed him throughout his in-ring career for the rest of his days in the US, to the point that when he got to WCW, it was so ingrained into wrestling fans to assume Hogan got by only on "mediocre" wrestling skills and an assload of charisma that he never bothered to show off what he could really do this side of the Pacific. One has to wonder how things would have been different if Hogan had been able to use his in ring skills AND the charisma he was so well known for in the US. Interestingly, shortly before his return to the WWF under Vince Jr. he came within a hair's breadth of becoming NWA world champion by going to a draw with Harley Race for the belt just a month, give or take, before the first Starrcade. More questions to haunt the fans on what could have been.
** Wrestling/BrockLesnar faced a similar problem during most of his first year. Despite being an NCAA champion and a shoe-in for the Olympics (he declined so he could start his career in WWE), Brock was booked to wrestler a power/brawling style that he clearly didn't know how to work. While he showed some promise during his feud with [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]], it wasn't until Lesnar's feud with Wrestling/KurtAngle that he was finally allowed to show his technical skills.
*** Speaking of Lesnar, his original finish in developmental was a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6k1LxVogkQ shooting star press]]. It's a shame he couldn't continue to use it.
* Wrestling/JohnCena might have been ''fired'' if Stephanie hadn't overheard him freestyling, [[StarMakingRole leading to him]] dressing and rapping like Vanilla Ice two weeks later on the HalloweenEpisode of Smackdown.
* Injuries kept Hogan from entering TNA in 2004, which would have had him feuding with Wrestling/JeffJarrett for the NWA Championship at the inaugural Victory Road.
* The Rock and Edge had custom WWF/WWE Championship belts designed but they were not used. The Rock's belt, which had been the successor to Austin's Smokin's Skull belt, had the Brahma Bull logo but was reportedly lost in the mail. Edge's belt was far different than the Rated R Spinner belt but was scrapped due to time constraints. One could only imagine that Cena Spinner could have been a one off instead of [[ReplacementScrappy a seven year itch]] plus one. That is until the debut of the "Class/Super Bowl Ring" Belt in 2013.
* If Wrestling/TripleH hadn't suffered his GameBreakingInjury in 2001, he would have [[HeelFaceTurn turned face]] and restarted his feud with a heel Austin.
* The Juniors division of Smackdown was an attempt to relaunch the Cruiserweight Division (considered dark match/B-show material) until a mix up caused the WWE to pick up mostly midget wrestlers.
* Had Wrestling/BrockLesnar not left in 2004, we would had reprised his feud with Wrestling/TheUndertaker now back as the "Original Deadman".
* Shortly before his death, Wrestling/CurtHennig was considered as a possible contender for Jeff Jarrett's NWA World title.
* [[Wrestling/RandySavage "Macho Man" Randy Savage]]'s surprise appearance at TNA's first pay-per-view was going to lead to a feud with Wrestling/JeffJarrett. However, Wrestling/HulkHogan (not knowing that Savage was scheduled to appear) decided to visit backstage since he lives nearby. As soon as Savage saw Hogan, he immediately cancelled all future appearances, save for a tag-team match at the next PPV.
* If Wrestling/EvanBourne and [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth]] had not gotten suspended, the team of [[Wrestling/TheMiz Awesome]] [[Wrestling/RonKillings Truth]] would have won the Tag Team Titles following Wrestling/SurvivorSeries.
** Ironically both guys ended up winning the titles with Wrestling/KofiKingston.
* Mankind vs. the Undertaker... on ''Alcatraz Island''.
* Had the [[BreakingTheFourthWall "MSG Incident"]][[hottip:*:During Hall and Nash's last appearance in WWF before they left for WCW, they no-sold the finish of a match and celebrated together in the ring breaking kayfabe severely. Since Vince [=McMahon=] couldn't punish Hall and Nash for it and was afraid to punish HBK, who was his top draw at the time, the full punishment for the incident fell on Triple H]] not taken place in 1996, Wrestling/TripleH, ''not'' Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin, would have won the King of the Ring tournament that year. Of course, Austin's [=KotR=] victory speech was where he coined "Austin 3:16" and is looked on as a pivotal moment in his ascent to the top of the wrestling industry, meaning WWE would have DIED otherwise. HHH has yet to accept the thanks he deserves for this.
* Wrestling/WilliamRegal was receiving a major push for the WWE title in 2008. By his own admission, he got self-conscious, started using steroids, got caught, and got suspended. Nowadays, he's barely on TV.
* Wrestling/CMPunk's feud with Wrestling/KevinNash got derailed by, of all things, Plavix. Nash took the anti-artery blockage drug for hereditary reasons due to his father's early death by heart attack at 36. When it came time for Punk and Nash to have the match, the pre-match blood test detected the Plavix and the doctors refused to clear Nash to wrestle. The storyline would have revealed Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis instead of Nash as the one to put the hit out on Punk, trying to drive out COO Wrestling/TripleH and take over the company.
* Had Edge's body held up one more year, he would have ended his career at WrestleMania 28 against Wrestling/{{Christian}}.
* Mid-card wrestler Tonga Fifita (known as Haku in WWF and Meng in WCW) was asked to join the [[UsefulNotes/UltimateFightingChampionship UFC]] based on his reputation as the toughest man in wrestling. WCW supported his departure, but Tonga turned it down, believing his conditioning wasn't suited for legitimate competition.
* Wrestling/BookerT was slated to win the World Heavyweight Championship from Triple H at [=WrestleMania=] XIX, but at the time, Booker T was contemplating retirement, and the WWE was in the process of signing Wrestling/{{Goldberg}}. Or if rumors are to be believed, Triple H [[WagTheDirector lobbied to]] retain the championship.
* Wrestling/BretHart's 2006 DVD documentary, ''Bret Hart: The Best There Is, The Best There Was, The Best There Ever Will Be'', was to have been a [[TakeThat/ProfessionalWrestling Take That]] documentary called ''Screwed: The Bret Hart Story'' (named after the Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob), and would have been in line with ''The Self-Destruction of the Wrestling/UltimateWarrior'' produced a year earlier.
* The Mr. Perfect gimmick was originally planned to go to Terry Taylor. However, Wrestling/CurtHennig signed with the company at around the same time as Taylor and sported a similar look and style. It was decided the two would wrestle dark matches throughout the summer and whoever impressed the writers more would get the gimmick. Poor Taylor ended up becoming a rooster.
* [[Wrestling/TedDiBiase Ted [=DiBiase=]]] was supposed to win the WWF title at Wrestlemania IV. The problem was that Wrestling/RandySavage was supposed to win the Intercontinental Title from the Honky Tonk Man at an earlier Saturday Night's Main Event. Honky, however, refused to drop the title and threatened to quit the company and sign with the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]]. Honky was allowed to keep the title, so now Savage was upset, so Savage was given the WWF title at Wrestlemania. [=DiBiase=] was now upset, but apparently not enough since he was given the Million Dollar Belt as compensation.
* Wrestling/BrodusClay's Funkasaurus gimmick actually had a link between the monster heel promos and his current form. Clay would have debuted the monster heel gimmick but would turn on Laurinaitis (for stalling his debut for so long) and later debut the dancing gimmick.
* During her time in developmental, Shantelle Taylor (aka former TNA Knockout Taylor Wilde) wrestled in dark matches for Smackdown under the name San-Eye while wearing a mask. The story goes that she would've been called up as the masked San-Eye character eventually winning the cruiserweight title before unmasking to reveal she was actually a woman. This was dropped after only a few matches and Taylor was sent back down to developmental before eventually being released.
* Malia Hosaka was a very talented wrestling journeywoman during the days when women's wrestling was all but dead in the United States. She did sign a WWF developmental contract in the late 90s, but she never got called up from developmental. She did make one appearance with Taka Michinoku and Funaki while they were doing their "Evil / Indeed" gimmick - she shoved Funaki, stole his microphone, and said "indeed" instead of him - but very shortly after that the entire gimmick was canned because WWF had no plans to actually push Taka and Funaki, and the gimmick was making them too over to be effective jobbers. That was unfortunately the closest Malia ever came to making it in one of the big 3. And who knows how far the gimmick could have taken Taka and Funaki if it hadn't been canned?
** She did a surprise anonymous run-in during [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-wm.html WWE Women's Champion]] [[Characters/WWEDivas Ivory]]'s promo on the June 28, 1999 ''Raw.'' The {{Usenet}} [=newsgroup=] [=rec.sport.pro-wrestling=] went nuts asking who it was. WWE never did anything with Hosaka though.
* After watching a tape of Ultimo Dragon, Wrestling/PaulHeyman wanted to bring him into Wrestling/{{ECW}}. While he was unable to get Ultimo Dragon, he did look into bringing over Dragon's opponent from the tape, [[Wrestling/ChrisJericho Lion Heart]].
* After Shane Douglas turned face in Wrestling/{{ECW}} in early 1999, Paul Heyman booked an angle to have Douglas form a face version of the Triple Threat. Tommy Dreamer's acceptance of Douglas's offer of alliance was the first part of the formation. The second part would've been Jerry Lynn allying with Dreamer and Douglas. But Shane ended up having a contract dispute with Paul Heyman, and ended up leaving ECW, thus stopping the angle cold.
* MVP once proposed to WWE what would essentially would have been their version of [[Wrestling/{{TNA}} 3 Live Kru]] with Wrestling/JohnCena and [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth]].
* Elijah Burke/[=D'Angelo=] Dinero almost ended up as a Spirit Squad member.
* Wrestling/TheShield's Dean Ambrose was supposedly going to debut through a online feud with Mick Foley, which may or may not have been canned due to Ambrose bringing Foley's family into it.
** This was used as an easy out. The reason it didn't happen is that Foley couldn't be medically cleared to wrestle.
* Wrestling/TheUndertaker is scheduled to defend The Streak against Wrestling/CMPunk at Wrestlemania XXIX. No doubt that WWE would have wanted to do at least something with Punk's manager Wrestling/PaulHeyman going up against Taker's longtime manager Wrestling/PaulBearer. Sadly, [[AuthorExistenceFailure Bearer passed away on March 5, 2013]].
* Wrestling/TheUndertaker was supposed to be an actual undertaker instead of a zombie/biker.
** Technically he was, when he was managed (briefly) by Brother Love -- then Wrestling/PaulBearer became his manager, and with him came the mysterious urn that was the source of his supernatural powers.
** Wrestling/TheUndertaker was also supposed to debut as the infamous [[Wrestling/TheGobbledyGooker Gobbledy Gooker]], as the Egg Man. However, this idea was seen as too ridiculous and was revised into the Undertaker persona on the same night the Gobbledy Gooker gimmick bombed.
** There were plans to make Wrestling/{{Sable}} a love interest of Wrestling/TheUndertaker around 1997. There was even an article in a WWF magazine that was going to lead into it. However, the Undertaker's real-life wife at the time did not approve of the storyline, so it never happened.
* Wrestling/{{Chyna}} was briefly planned to win the WWE title at Summerslam 1999.
* Mr. Kennedy was supposed to be Vince's illegitimate son. Then he got himself a Wellness Policy violation.
** Don't forget, this was a substitute angle for the "Who Killed Vince [=McMahon=]?" thing. What if THAT angle got to play out properly, instead of being pulled due to the Wrestling/ChrisBenoit situation?
*** Apparently, the night Benoit died the "murderer" was supposed to be revealed as Linda [=McMahon=], who would be arrested at that show. Some weeks later, there was supposed to be an "aired Will reading" by Mr. [=McMahon=] himself wherein he would leave the entire WWE in the hands of his "illegitimate son" Mr. Kennedy. This was meant to turn Kennedy into a massive heel and give him a mega-push to the championship. At that point, [[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon Stephanie [=McMahon=]]] and Wrestling/TripleH were going to reveal their kayfabe-second, consensual marriage - based on their [[RealLifeWritesThePlot real one]] - that would entitle TripleH to combat Mr. Kennedy for the right to own the WWE, culminating in a feud that would push all the way to the Main Event of that year's Wrestlemania. After THAT was finished, in which Wrestling/TripleH would win back control of the company from Kennedy, Vince was meant to come back and reveal that he'd faked the whole thing and setup Linda to take the fall so that way he could give everything to his "true son."
** Kennedy's career is full of these non-moments. When Wrestling/TheUndertaker suffered a GameBreakingInjury in 2007, Mr. Kennedy was going to use his Money in the Bank contract and capture the World Heavyweight title. However, Kennedy himself would have an injury of his own, so Wrestling/{{Edge}} would end up winning the contract from Kennedy in a match (after Edge attacked Kennedy on the ramp, thus not making Kennedy look weak, but doing a short match). What makes this situation really awful is that Kennedy's injury was not as serious as initially thought, as it was a giant hematoma as opposed to a torn triceps, so Kennedy ended up losing a World title run for something that didn't keep him out two months.
*** The curse didn't stop here as far as the World Heavyweight title was concerned, as Edge would suffer his own injury about a month into what was supposed to be Kennedy's run with the world title. The Smackdown Creative team was so desperate for a {{Heel}} champion that they put the title on The Great Khali.
** As for Wrestling/ChrisBenoit himself, he would have become the new focal point of ECW by winning the title at Vengeance and feuding with CMPunk, building Punk up similar to his feud with MVP.
*** Also, had Benoit's death ''not'' been part of a murder-suicide, would the WWE have milked it for what it's worth, like they did when Wrestling/EddieGuerrero died?
* WCW planned its "White Hummer" angle (a mystery person driving a white hummer drove into a limousine with Kevin Nash in it) around Wrestling/{{Sable}} being the driver. However, Sable wasn't able to get the no-compete clause in her WWF contract nullified.
* {{Wrestling/Kane}} was supposed to remask in 2008. In December 2011, he finally did, turning this into a 'what became'.
* Wrestling/{{Christian}} was supposed to be the one behind Wrestling/JeffHardy's "accidents" in late 2008. When the news leaked to the Internet, he was switched with Wrestling/MattHardy.
* The disastrous one-year WWE Championship reign of Diesel (Wrestling/KevinNash) was originally intended to end at a house show in Montreal... to Montreal native and (kayfabe) Cajun pirate, Jean-Pierre [=LaFitte=] (formerly Pierre Carl Oulette of The Quebecers). ExecutiveMeddling on behalf of Wrestling/TheKliq not only prevented this, but went out of their way to bury [=LaFitte=] on camera.
** Speaking of the Kliq, years before the MontrealScrewjob Wrestling/BretHart was invited to join. He declined the offer.
* In 1999, then-WWF booker Wrestling/VinceRusso abruptly jumped to Wrestling.{{WCW}}; this left WWF's creative staff scrambling to come up with resolutions to approaching angles, one of them being the impending wedding of [[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon Stephanie [=McMahon=]]] and Wrestling/{{Test}}. Russo later admitted that his plan was to have Test [[{{FaceHeelTurn}} turn heel]], join [[Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}} DeGeneration X]], and leave Stephanie at the altar.
* In a rare case of actually acknowledging what could have been, WWE actually released promotional pictures of Wrestling/OwenHart as WWF Champion from his aborted 1994 title run. Owen was originally supposed to beat older brother [[Wrestling/BretHart Bret]] for the title in a Lumberjack Match at a house show in July due to interference from Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, which would lead into their cage match at [=SummerSlam=] (a match which did happen, and was a [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for both men). For whatever reason, this was booked as a [[Wrestling/DustyRhodes Dusty Finish]] so the WWF [[{{AssPull}} invented]] an instant replay rule that would keep the belt on him (hey, at least it was better than the "not an official ring" excuse he used to keep the Rockers from being the tag team champions).
** Speaking of Owen, more than a few sources have stated Owen was supposed to get "The Game" gimmick instead of Wrestling/TripleH.
** Similarly: [[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon Stephanie [=McMahon=]]] has hinted in interviews that, on the day he died, Wrestling/EddieGuerrero was booked to win the World Heavyweight Championship in a Triple Threat Match involving an injured then-champion Wrestling/{{Batista}}.
*** Batista later stated in his book that Wrestling/RandyOrton was the one who was going to win the title, and most likely Stephanie's comments were sadness over Eddie never becoming a champion again like he hoped to be.
*** Chavo's comments after his departure from WWE about him and Eddie used more for building newer talent rather than being given their own pushes give some validity to Batista.
* The biggest "What Could Have Been" in wrestling history: the [=InVasion=]. After the buyout of WCW, WWE was planning to have WCW run as an entirely separate wrestling promotion (but still be a part of the WWE corporate structure; in essence, the plan was an early prototype of the Brand Extension). Unfortunately, WWE couldn't find a time slot for WCW, so instead, the [=InVasion=] angle began. This was intended to move WCW into a primetime slot, with ''Raw'' planned to become WCW's show while ''[=SmackDown=]'' would be WWE's show. However, fans solidly rejected this plan, threatened refunds for already-purchased Raw tickets, booed every "Special WCW Match" in a WWE ring, and in the end, the [=InVasion=] ended up being one giant bag of suck.
** The [=InVasion=] only existed in the first place because of another "What Could Have Been". Former WCW executive Wrestling/EricBischoff had managed to get backing from a venture capital firm (Fusient Media Ventures) to buy Wrestling/{{WCW}} out, and relaunch it apart from Time Warner's corporate umbrella. Said backing got cold feet once they got a good look at the books (at the time, plans were to cancel the Wednesday night "Thunder" show, and move Monday Nitro to TBS, halving the new company's revenue), and Bischoff was scrambling to put something else together. Then TNT (and specifically, Jamie Kellner, the Time Warner exec who was also responsible for ''WesternAnimation/PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain'') canceled ''WCW Monday Nitro'', stripping WCW of its only remaining TV outlet and single most valuable asset. This was primarily to force a sale to the WWF, who had been in talks earlier but couldn't pull the trigger due to an exclusivity deal with Viacom.
* {{Wrestler/Sting}} was tapped to become the third man in the nWo, if Wrestling/HulkHogan refused to turn heel.
** The nWo itself was supposed to end at Starcade 1997. Who knows what could have happened?
* Wrestling/MattHardy's feud with Drew [=McIntyre=] was supposed to have Matt use a Twitter campaign to rehire [=McIntyre=] so he could face him.
* What if [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] didn't get "fired" from the WWE and stayed in Wrestling/TheNexus? Well, at least that one generally worked out for the best.
* Although Wrestling/MickFoley has had numerous crowning moments in his career, his first book ''Have a Nice Day'' notes that he did end up missing on one that would have been the highlight of his Dude Love persona. In Summerslam 1997, Mankind was wrestling Wrestling/TripleH in a cage match. Mankind was supposed to go through a personality change, rip off his shirt revealing a heart tattoo on his chest and do a dive off the top of the cage as per the fantasy of Dude Love. Unfortunately Mick forgot to get the tattoo done (and the substitute, done with body paint, had been sweated off), and he was too bruised up to do a proper dive resulting in many a confused fan.
** Another for Foley: The main event for ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} XV'' was originally going to be a three-way between Austin, Rock, and Mankind. Wrestling/ShawnMichaels apparently appealed that the main event of WrestleMania should be a one-on-one match. The bookers agreed, so Foley was relegated to being the guest referee (though, ironically enough, Michaels was actually lobbying for ''Austin'' to be left out of the match, leaving Rock and Mankind fighting one-on-one).
* 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.
* When WWE wrote off their annual Survivor Series PPV in 2010, THE top candidate for its replacement was a PPV based on Wrestling/{{WCW}}'s War Games match.
* If the writers hadn't pissed off Austin with a last-minute Raw booking in the King of the Ring tournament against Wrestling/BrockLesnar that would have helped neither of them, he would have continued feuding with Wrestling/EddieGuerrero.
** Or what if Wrestlemania X8 main event was [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin Austin]] vs. [[Wrestling/HulkHogan Hogan]]?
* WWE almost signed Wrestling/NewJack. Although his tryout match with Val Venis was really short and lackluster, his promo skills impressed [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]] and he was well-liked in the locker room. Due to the inevitable {{Bowdlerization}} and Vince's concern that New Jack would seriously hurt someone, it didn't happen.
* Another almost-WWE signee would be Steve Corino. After leaving ECW for WCW, Corino was released after the WWF bought the latter. Six years later, he wrestled a couple tryout matches but was never offered a contract. He turned down a request from Wrestling/DustyRhodes since he felt he couldn't do the short five-minute matches that were standard in WWE compared to the 20+ minute bouts he had done in Japan and elsewhere.
* A third would be Wrestling/AJStyles who turned down a developmental contract to stay and support his future wife's college education.
** Other TNA names that had stints or worked dark matches in WWE include Alex Shelley, Kazarian, Eric Young, Wrestling/BobbyRoode, Wrestling/SamoaJoe and Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels.
*** Daniels in particular is the subject of several of these. He was originally set to become Vampiro's master, Syndrome, in WCW, but the storyline was scrapped. He also made appearances in ECW prior to its demise.
* Before becoming Wrestling/BrockLesnar's manager, Paul Heyman was set to become Wrestling/ChrisBenoit's.
* Mark "Marco Corleone" Jindrak was set to be the fourth member of Evolution.
* Lex Luger's AllAmericanFace push was originally supposed to go to Kona Crush. When the time came to body slam Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}} in the Stars and Stripes Challenge, the big Hawaiian hurt his back trying to lift him, and the show's MC Wrestling/RandySavage had to improvise while they flew Luger onto the ship to body slam him.
* {{Wrestler/Sting}} was approached to wrestle TheUndertaker at [[http://www2.dailystar.co.uk/inthering/view/184049/Wrestlemania-takes-hold ''Wrestlemania XXVII'']], but turned it down because he disliked [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]]'s treatment of former WCW talent.
** There was what appears to be a rather interesting side-effect to Sting turning the offer down; Wrestling/TripleH's entrance included an abbreviated version of the Music/{{Metallica}} song ''For Whom The Bell Tolls''. Considering that Sting's entrance music in WCW used to be ''Seek & Destroy'', it's thought that WWE had secured the rights to a play a Metallica track at the event in advance specifically for Sting, and decided to use a different track when he declined the offer.
** There were apparently plans to have Wrestling/WadeBarrett vs. Undertaker at ''WM XXVII'' quite early on, which appears to be evidenced by the rather sudden beatdown by Wrestling/TheNexus upon Wrestling/TheUndertaker in the middle of 2010.
* Wrestling/DwayneJohnson, better known as "The Rock", considered running for President as a Republican in the 2008 election.
* What if Magnum T.A. (who was arguably the biggest babyface in Jim Crockett Promotions at the time of his career ending car accident) not had his career cut so short? Magnum was apparently booked to win the NWA World Title from Ric Flair at the 1986 Starrcade (NWA/WCW's ''[=WrestleMania=]''). Would Sting still have gotten to where he got in the same time span with a healthy Magnum still around? Also, would Jim Crockett still had been forced to sell out to Ted Turner in the same time span despite Magnum still being a top draw?
** At the time of his accident, Magnum was feuding with Nikita Koloff. Like Magnum, Koloff's career is an example of WhatCouldHaveBeen. In 1988, he took a year off from the ring to care for his dying wife. In 1992, a neck injury would result in Nikita's premature retirement.
* In late 1993, the WWF decided to revive the previously inactive [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-wm.html Women's Championship]] by bringing in Madusa, under the new name Alundra Blayze, who would win the title in December of that year. A few months later, in 1994, the WWF brought in legendary [[Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling AJW]] wrestler Bull Nakano to face off against Blayze, and the two would engage in a heated rivalry that lasted throughout the rest of the year and produced good matches. In 1995, the WWF signed Rhonda Singh, bringing her in as vicious yet comedic heel Bertha Faye, the trailer trash girlfriend of Harvey Wippleman. Since Blayze would be out for a few months getting plastic surgery after Faye broke her nose in her debut, the plan was for Faye to feud with Bull until Blayze returned and then build the division up from there. However, Bull was found in possession of cocaine and subsequently fired, leaving Faye without a feud, and by the end of the year, frustrated with her gimmick and being told she couldn't perform her signature powerbomb as Sycho Sid was using it as his FinishingMove, Singh had left. At Survivor Series 1995, WWF brought in more women from AJW (Sakie Hasegawa, Chaparita ASARI, Kyoko Inoue, Wrestling/AjaKong, Tomoko Watanabe and Lioness Asuka) with the intention of building Aja Kong up as Blayze's next challenger, as she picked up wins over the next few weeks on Monday Night Raw and was scheduled to face Blayze for the belt at the 1996 Royal Rumble. However, Blayze did not like Kong, who was notoriously stiff, and refused to work with her, instead sitting out the last month of her contract and refusing to re-sign while she was still champion. The WWF abandoned its women's division before bringing it back three years later. It's a story full of what ifs: would the plan to build a solid division around Bull, Faye and Blayze have succeeded if Bull hadn't been fired? Would fan interest have continued if the Blayze/Kong feud had gone off as planned, and if so, would WWE keep the focus on bringing in actual women wrestlers (be it American girls, Japanese joshi or Mexican luchadoras)?
** Of course, the kicker to all of this was the fact that the day her contract with WWF expired, she showed up on WCW Monday Nitro as Madusa with the WWF Women's Championship belt...which she then proceeded to toss in the trash.
*** The ''really'' painful part? The massive loss of face Vince suffered from Madusa's action is believed to be part of why he pulled the Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob.
* Wrestling/MarkHenry was briefly considered to break Wrestling/TheUndertaker's streak.
** According to Wrestling/KurtAngle, he was considered to end Undertaker's streak at WrestleMania 22 in a match for the World Heavyweight Championship instead of at No Way Out 2006. Undertaker was willing to take the loss because he hadn't had a 5 Star WrestleMania match and the writing team was willing to do it to keep Angle looking strong as champion. If this had happened, would ReyMysterioJr have gained the World Heavyweight Championship during the Eddiesploitation angle?
*** As for the Eddiesploitation angle, would Chavo's career be different if he ''hadn't'' turned it down as their original choice?
* Wrestling/ScottHall was going to be part of WCW's Dangerous Alliance in 1992.
** He was also supposed to beat Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin in their Wrestlemania X8 match but Austin pretty much shot it down as hard as he could, not wanting to lose to the 'invading' force of the nWo. It pretty much killed the entire storyline dead.
* [[UsefulNotes/UltimateFightingChampionship The UFC]]'s Mike Goldberg was WWE's original choice to replace Wrestling/JimRoss in 2005. Goldberg declined because he would have to give up his announcing gig at Fox Sports Net.
* Smackdown was pitched as an all-divas show.
** Similarly, SpikeTV briefly considered giving Wrestling/{{TNA}} a timeslot for an all-knockouts show. This was at a time when the Wrestling/GailKim vs. [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Awesome Kong]] feud was drawing the highest quarter-hour ratings on Impact, so who knows what might have happened with a weekly program dedicated completely to the knockouts?
* Had Brian Pillman not died of a overdose, his storyline with Wrestling/{{Goldust}} would have ended with him stealing Goldust's wife, [[Characters/WWEDivas Terri Runnels]].
* [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]], Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield or Wrestling/TripleH were all choices for revealing of the anonymous Raw GM in summer 2010.
* With each passing interview, Paul Heyman makes TNA fans (and even WWE fans that just want competition) more and more wistful every time an interviewer asks him what it would be like if he did sign and book for TNA back in 2010. His goal: take the company public in two years by cutting [[Wrestling/HulkHogan everyone]] [[Wrestling/RicFlair over]] 40 save one for name value, book around the newer talent, plus outright STEAL [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] after his firing and make him an unstoppable submission machine with an eventual ''showdown with Wrestling/KurtAngle''. Every time a plan is mentioned, thousands of wrestling fans weep.
** And Heyman's original plans for the disastrous December to Dismember main event? Use UFC style vignettes to sell that match in the weeks leading up to it (they were filmed but never used, the concept was recycled for Wrestlemania 25's opening), then in the actual match itself, start it off with Wrestling/CMPunk ''choking out and eliminating'' Wrestling/TheBigShow in ''the first five minutes'' to ensure a new champion (an idea which Big Show liked and Vince hated). A lot better than the attempt to turn Bobby Lashley into the next Wrestling/{{Goldberg}}.
** Wrestling/JimRoss was also rumored to run to TNA when his contract expired in April 2010.
* Had Wrestling/{{Edge}} had not retired, one of the possibilities for Wrestlemania 27 would had been Wrestling/{{Christian}} turning on him.
** The event happened before his retirement, though. They just decided not to go with it. Although, they may have just been pulling it back for a future event…
* Wrestling/HulkHogan was trained by shoot wrestler Hiro Matsuda, and was apparently possessed of actual skill in the ring if his matches in Japan are any indication, especially one 1993 match which saw Hogan pull an Enzugiri on the Great Muta of all people. Hogan states in his first autobiography ''Hollywood Hulk Hogan'' that in the US under Vince Sr. he was told to wrestle like a generic power wrestler, and this followed him throughout his in-ring career for the rest of his days in the US, to the point that when he got to WCW, it was so ingrained into wrestling fans to assume Hogan got by only on "mediocre" wrestling skills and an assload of charisma that he never bothered to show off what he could really do this side of the Pacific. One has to wonder how things would have been different if Hogan had been able to use his in ring skills AND the charisma he was so well known for in the US. Interestingly, shortly before his return to the WWF under Vince Jr. he came within a hair's breadth of becoming NWA world champion by going to a draw with Harley Race for the belt just a month, give or take, before the first Starrcade. More questions to haunt the fans on what could have been.
** Wrestling/BrockLesnar faced a similar problem during most of his first year. Despite being an NCAA champion and a shoe-in for the Olympics (he declined so he could start his career in WWE), Brock was booked to wrestler a power/brawling style that he clearly didn't know how to work. While he showed some promise during his feud with [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]], it wasn't until Lesnar's feud with Wrestling/KurtAngle that he was finally allowed to show his technical skills.
*** Speaking of Lesnar, his original finish in developmental was a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6k1LxVogkQ shooting star press]]. It's a shame he couldn't continue to use it.
* Wrestling/JohnCena might have been ''fired'' if Stephanie hadn't overheard him freestyling, [[StarMakingRole leading to him]] dressing and rapping like Vanilla Ice two weeks later on the HalloweenEpisode of Smackdown.
* Injuries kept Hogan from entering TNA in 2004, which would have had him feuding with Wrestling/JeffJarrett for the NWA Championship at the inaugural Victory Road.
* The Rock and Edge had custom WWF/WWE Championship belts designed but they were not used. The Rock's belt, which had been the successor to Austin's Smokin's Skull belt, had the Brahma Bull logo but was reportedly lost in the mail. Edge's belt was far different than the Rated R Spinner belt but was scrapped due to time constraints. One could only imagine that Cena Spinner could have been a one off instead of [[ReplacementScrappy a seven year itch]] plus one. That is until the debut of the "Class/Super Bowl Ring" Belt in 2013.
* If Wrestling/TripleH hadn't suffered his GameBreakingInjury in 2001, he would have [[HeelFaceTurn turned face]] and restarted his feud with a heel Austin.
* The Juniors division of Smackdown was an attempt to relaunch the Cruiserweight Division (considered dark match/B-show material) until a mix up caused the WWE to pick up mostly midget wrestlers.
* Had Wrestling/BrockLesnar not left in 2004, we would had reprised his feud with Wrestling/TheUndertaker now back as the "Original Deadman".
* Shortly before his death, Wrestling/CurtHennig was considered as a possible contender for Jeff Jarrett's NWA World title.
* [[Wrestling/RandySavage "Macho Man" Randy Savage]]'s surprise appearance at TNA's first pay-per-view was going to lead to a feud with Wrestling/JeffJarrett. However, Wrestling/HulkHogan (not knowing that Savage was scheduled to appear) decided to visit backstage since he lives nearby. As soon as Savage saw Hogan, he immediately cancelled all future appearances, save for a tag-team match at the next PPV.
* If Wrestling/EvanBourne and [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth]] had not gotten suspended, the team of [[Wrestling/TheMiz Awesome]] [[Wrestling/RonKillings Truth]] would have won the Tag Team Titles following Wrestling/SurvivorSeries.
** Ironically both guys ended up winning the titles with Wrestling/KofiKingston.
* Mankind vs. the Undertaker... on ''Alcatraz Island''.
* Had the [[BreakingTheFourthWall "MSG Incident"]][[hottip:*:During Hall and Nash's last appearance in WWF before they left for WCW, they no-sold the finish of a match and celebrated together in the ring breaking kayfabe severely. Since Vince [=McMahon=] couldn't punish Hall and Nash for it and was afraid to punish HBK, who was his top draw at the time, the full punishment for the incident fell on Triple H]] not taken place in 1996, Wrestling/TripleH, ''not'' Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin, would have won the King of the Ring tournament that year. Of course, Austin's [=KotR=] victory speech was where he coined "Austin 3:16" and is looked on as a pivotal moment in his ascent to the top of the wrestling industry, meaning WWE would have DIED otherwise. HHH has yet to accept the thanks he deserves for this.
* Wrestling/WilliamRegal was receiving a major push for the WWE title in 2008. By his own admission, he got self-conscious, started using steroids, got caught, and got suspended. Nowadays, he's barely on TV.
* Wrestling/CMPunk's feud with Wrestling/KevinNash got derailed by, of all things, Plavix. Nash took the anti-artery blockage drug for hereditary reasons due to his father's early death by heart attack at 36. When it came time for Punk and Nash to have the match, the pre-match blood test detected the Plavix and the doctors refused to clear Nash to wrestle. The storyline would have revealed Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis instead of Nash as the one to put the hit out on Punk, trying to drive out COO Wrestling/TripleH and take over the company.
* Had Edge's body held up one more year, he would have ended his career at WrestleMania 28 against Wrestling/{{Christian}}.
* Mid-card wrestler Tonga Fifita (known as Haku in WWF and Meng in WCW) was asked to join the [[UsefulNotes/UltimateFightingChampionship UFC]] based on his reputation as the toughest man in wrestling. WCW supported his departure, but Tonga turned it down, believing his conditioning wasn't suited for legitimate competition.
* Wrestling/BookerT was slated to win the World Heavyweight Championship from Triple H at [=WrestleMania=] XIX, but at the time, Booker T was contemplating retirement, and the WWE was in the process of signing Wrestling/{{Goldberg}}. Or if rumors are to be believed, Triple H [[WagTheDirector lobbied to]] retain the championship.
* Wrestling/BretHart's 2006 DVD documentary, ''Bret Hart: The Best There Is, The Best There Was, The Best There Ever Will Be'', was to have been a [[TakeThat/ProfessionalWrestling Take That]] documentary called ''Screwed: The Bret Hart Story'' (named after the Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob), and would have been in line with ''The Self-Destruction of the Wrestling/UltimateWarrior'' produced a year earlier.
* The Mr. Perfect gimmick was originally planned to go to Terry Taylor. However, Wrestling/CurtHennig signed with the company at around the same time as Taylor and sported a similar look and style. It was decided the two would wrestle dark matches throughout the summer and whoever impressed the writers more would get the gimmick. Poor Taylor ended up becoming a rooster.
* [[Wrestling/TedDiBiase Ted [=DiBiase=]]] was supposed to win the WWF title at Wrestlemania IV. The problem was that Wrestling/RandySavage was supposed to win the Intercontinental Title from the Honky Tonk Man at an earlier Saturday Night's Main Event. Honky, however, refused to drop the title and threatened to quit the company and sign with the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]]. Honky was allowed to keep the title, so now Savage was upset, so Savage was given the WWF title at Wrestlemania. [=DiBiase=] was now upset, but apparently not enough since he was given the Million Dollar Belt as compensation.
* Wrestling/BrodusClay's Funkasaurus gimmick actually had a link between the monster heel promos and his current form. Clay would have debuted the monster heel gimmick but would turn on Laurinaitis (for stalling his debut for so long) and later debut the dancing gimmick.
* During her time in developmental, Shantelle Taylor (aka former TNA Knockout Taylor Wilde) wrestled in dark matches for Smackdown under the name San-Eye while wearing a mask. The story goes that she would've been called up as the masked San-Eye character eventually winning the cruiserweight title before unmasking to reveal she was actually a woman. This was dropped after only a few matches and Taylor was sent back down to developmental before eventually being released.
* Malia Hosaka was a very talented wrestling journeywoman during the days when women's wrestling was all but dead in the United States. She did sign a WWF developmental contract in the late 90s, but she never got called up from developmental. She did make one appearance with Taka Michinoku and Funaki while they were doing their "Evil / Indeed" gimmick - she shoved Funaki, stole his microphone, and said "indeed" instead of him - but very shortly after that the entire gimmick was canned because WWF had no plans to actually push Taka and Funaki, and the gimmick was making them too over to be effective jobbers. That was unfortunately the closest Malia ever came to making it in one of the big 3. And who knows how far the gimmick could have taken Taka and Funaki if it hadn't been canned?
** She did a surprise anonymous run-in during [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-wm.html WWE Women's Champion]] [[Characters/WWEDivas Ivory]]'s promo on the June 28, 1999 ''Raw.'' The {{Usenet}} [=newsgroup=] [=rec.sport.pro-wrestling=] went nuts asking who it was. WWE never did anything with Hosaka though.
* After watching a tape of Ultimo Dragon, Wrestling/PaulHeyman wanted to bring him into Wrestling/{{ECW}}. While he was unable to get Ultimo Dragon, he did look into bringing over Dragon's opponent from the tape, [[Wrestling/ChrisJericho Lion Heart]].
* After Shane Douglas turned face in Wrestling/{{ECW}} in early 1999, Paul Heyman booked an angle to have Douglas form a face version of the Triple Threat. Tommy Dreamer's acceptance of Douglas's offer of alliance was the first part of the formation. The second part would've been Jerry Lynn allying with Dreamer and Douglas. But Shane ended up having a contract dispute with Paul Heyman, and ended up leaving ECW, thus stopping the angle cold.
* MVP once proposed to WWE what would essentially would have been their version of [[Wrestling/{{TNA}} 3 Live Kru]] with Wrestling/JohnCena and [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth]].
* Elijah Burke/[=D'Angelo=] Dinero almost ended up as a Spirit Squad member.
* Wrestling/TheShield's Dean Ambrose was supposedly going to debut through a online feud with Mick Foley, which may or may not have been canned due to Ambrose bringing Foley's family into it.
** This was used as an easy out. The reason it didn't happen is that Foley couldn't be medically cleared to wrestle.
* Wrestling/TheUndertaker is scheduled to defend The Streak against Wrestling/CMPunk at Wrestlemania XXIX. No doubt that WWE would have wanted to do at least something with Punk's manager Wrestling/PaulHeyman going up against Taker's longtime manager Wrestling/PaulBearer. Sadly, [[AuthorExistenceFailure Bearer passed away on March 5, 2013]].
