Alternate Reality Wrestling
Feb 20, 2021 16:01:56 GMT -5
Post by elliott on Feb 20, 2021 16:01:56 GMT -5
Reading about Steve Austin giving serious consideration to going to All Japan in 1996 and continuing in ECW got me thinking about what some other cool Alternate Realities would have been. SOme examples:
Flair lobbied to bring Tenryu in for a feud in 1988 to have a realistic looking feud to help differentiate JCP/WCW from WWE.
Vader joining AJPW in 1996 instead of 1998.
Takada jumping to AJPW in 1996 instead of Pride starting.
UWF 1.0 trying to convince Fujinami to join Fujiwara, Maeda, Takada etc and leave NJPW.
WCW wanted to sign Randy Savage, Ted Dibiase, Bret Hart, Shawn, Hennig basically all the good workers in 88-89 to make a run at WWE.
A real WCW cruiserweight division in 1992 built around Pillman, Jushin Liger and available light weight talents.
Mid 80s WWF bringing in Dump Matsumoto and letting her off the leash.
A FOley vs Terry FUnk exploding barbed wire match at a WrestleMania or whatever PPV they proposed doing it on (I think it was a Mania)
What would you have liked to have seen? I'm even happy to read about totally imagined stuff. Like one of my ultimate wrestling fantasies would have been Jimmy Hart bringing in a stable of Luchadores in 1983 to feud with Jerry Lawler. Imagine Jerry Lawler vs 1983 Sangre Chicana, Satanico, Mocho Cota and Perro Aguayo. Jerry is short enough and those guys were good enough that I think they could have pulled it off.
Another one I would have liked to have seen is Bradshaw in AJPW starting in the mid 90s. Regal & Finlay as a tag team in All Japan in the mid 90s.
Low Ki vs Rey Jr was the cruiserweight feud of the 2000s in my alternate reality.
What do you have, real or imagined, that you wish could have happened that could have theoretically happened in another universe (so not like, wouldn't it be cool to see Okada in mid 90s AJPW).
Flair lobbied to bring Tenryu in for a feud in 1988 to have a realistic looking feud to help differentiate JCP/WCW from WWE.
Vader joining AJPW in 1996 instead of 1998.
Takada jumping to AJPW in 1996 instead of Pride starting.
UWF 1.0 trying to convince Fujinami to join Fujiwara, Maeda, Takada etc and leave NJPW.
WCW wanted to sign Randy Savage, Ted Dibiase, Bret Hart, Shawn, Hennig basically all the good workers in 88-89 to make a run at WWE.
A real WCW cruiserweight division in 1992 built around Pillman, Jushin Liger and available light weight talents.
Mid 80s WWF bringing in Dump Matsumoto and letting her off the leash.
A FOley vs Terry FUnk exploding barbed wire match at a WrestleMania or whatever PPV they proposed doing it on (I think it was a Mania)
What would you have liked to have seen? I'm even happy to read about totally imagined stuff. Like one of my ultimate wrestling fantasies would have been Jimmy Hart bringing in a stable of Luchadores in 1983 to feud with Jerry Lawler. Imagine Jerry Lawler vs 1983 Sangre Chicana, Satanico, Mocho Cota and Perro Aguayo. Jerry is short enough and those guys were good enough that I think they could have pulled it off.
Another one I would have liked to have seen is Bradshaw in AJPW starting in the mid 90s. Regal & Finlay as a tag team in All Japan in the mid 90s.
Low Ki vs Rey Jr was the cruiserweight feud of the 2000s in my alternate reality.
What do you have, real or imagined, that you wish could have happened that could have theoretically happened in another universe (so not like, wouldn't it be cool to see Okada in mid 90s AJPW).