you are VKM. You have a time machine & hindsight
 

what if anything from the past would you change, big or small. discuss

Never give Chris Benoit a job.

Book the Invasion angle right, maybe spend a little and get the big names early.

No Blue Blazer gimmick in 99.

Wouldn't do the Montreal Screw Job.

Wouldn't push Maven, Steiner, or Lashley.

Would push Ryder, Christian, and Kofi, to the moon.

Wouldn't make big scary guys faces that aren't intimidating at all, IE Henry, Albert, Brodus, etc.

I probably don't let Owen Hart pile drive Stone Cold

I was with you until the Steiner part, you need to give him a live mic and just let him cut promo after promo, even when they're not on tv he needs to have a live mic at all times.

this. so much wasted potential.

just think of how much money it could have brought in

Vince was right to do the Screwjob. It got rid of that over-rated, no drawing piece of shit, and it set off one of the greatest heels in history: Vince himself.

Going back in time, I'd say the Invasion angle as well. I enjoyed it, but so much more could have been done.

Wait, how do we know you meant Vincent Kennedy McMahon and not Voodoo Kin Mafia?

Compromise then?

He never wrestles, but gets a 20 minute allotted promo show every week like Piper's Pit or Miz Tv?

Kofi can't talk, Ryder is mid card at best and Christian pretty much fulfilled his potential. He blows as a face.

He was a legit badass heel back in 04-05 though. The problem with him is that they didn't make him a main eventer until it was too late.

Yeah, Christian with Tomko was pretty awesome. Enjoyed them immensely.

You wouldn't do the thing that gave Steve Austin the perfect heel machine to propel him and your company higher than ever?

The only thing I can think of that VKM would probably do different is pushing the Ultimate Warrior as the "heir apparent" to Hulk Hogan back in 1990.

That didn't exactly work out the way Vince envisioned. Warrior just didn't have that love and passion for wrestling.

And bringing him back in '96 was even worse.

Go back in time and make John Cena stop wearing the fucking jorts and give him a pair of decent trunks or tights because I can't fucking stand Cena's ring gear... On a serious note though I'd probably go back and implement the wellness policy sooner and actually take it more seriously. Might have saved some good, talented men's lives that way.

Oh this helped the WWF 10 fold

Some wrestlers, like X-Pac, say Bret and Vince were both in on this, that it was all a work.

IDK.

If you watch bret harts DVD it kinda seems like that would be a solution bret would come up with....but in that same movie his wife looked legit pissed.

"The Rated R Superstar" Billy Gunn
"The Cerebral Assasin" Billy Gunn
"The Legend Killer" Billy Gunn

All would've been good alternatives for Vinnie Mac if he wanted to alter something for the better.

I likely enjoyed the Invasion angle more than most, but the potential of that is just too great to re-do.... the whole Over The Edge thing would also be on that list as well.....

Well, Bret was cheating on her for years while on the road, so she was oblivious to everything that was going on back then lol.

I can't believe anyone is still entertaining this as an actual possibility.

Beniot would have been fired and offered a spot in rehab two months before he snapped.

Part of me believes it.

It's just kinda "convenient" that as all this was going down, Bret all of a sudden had decided to shoot a documentary that gained all-access to WWF's backstage scene.

IDK.

Send Stephanie to a boarding school and make sure she never comes in contact with Triple H

XFL and Owen Hart, realistically.

Time travel is real, so let's keep this real.

Just fit him with a mic and set up a different audio feed for him, or make him the social media ambassador, nothing bad could happen right?

"The One" Bob Holly

"The Next Big Thing" Funaki.

Wait, I'm doing it wrong.

On paper everybody won, in reality Bret got fucked in WCW.

Don't give Hogan almost absolute creative control as a clause in his contract.

Did a lot more bad than good after a few years in the WWF and almost the entire time he was in WCW.

Bring Macho back for a few appearances and HOF induction before he died.

Have Kane win the 2001 Royal Rumble. Austin already had two Rumble victories and didn't need another Rumble victory going into his Two-Man Power Trip / Alliance heel turn.

From 85-98 Hogan was gold so I don't know how you can say that.

walk gingerly to the ring at the end of the Rumble 2005 to restart it

Lol Vince sitting down in the ring barking orders is one of the most hilarious things to happen in wrestling.