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Book Synopsis Wrestling History Revisited: What If the NWO Never Invaded WCW? by : Stuart Carapola
Download or read book Wrestling History Revisited: What If the NWO Never Invaded WCW? written by Stuart Carapola and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the most major, industry shifting event of the 90s took place in May of 1996 when Scott Hall and Kevin Nash jumped from the WWF to WCW, presenting themselves as outsiders and invading WCW in an attempt to destroy it from the inside. Eventually, Hulk Hogan turned heel and joined the group in shocking fashion, and the three of them formed the legendary New World Order. The feud between WCW and the NWO changed the way professional wrestling was presented, and became the storyline by which WCW would come to be defined by. The interest it drew caused Monday Nitro to rocket past Monday Night Raw in the ratings, leading the long-standing competition between the WWF and WCW to become an all-out war for supremacy. But what if the NWO never happened? What if Hall & Nash never came to WCW, Hogan never turned heel, and WCW continued on as it had been? All the existing storylines in WCW when Hall and Nash showed up were completely dropped as the focus shifted to WCW vs NWO, and many of them were never resolved. This book explores what might have been if the NWO never existed, and where WCW might have gone had everything continued as it had before May 27, 1996.
Book Synopsis Wrestling History Revisited: Rewriting the Events That Shaped the Wrestling Business by : Stuart Carapola
Download or read book Wrestling History Revisited: Rewriting the Events That Shaped the Wrestling Business written by Stuart Carapola and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-18 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past thirty years of the wrestling business have been a very tumultuous time, as what was once a regional business grew into a national, and eventually global, entertainment industry. That history is loaded with pivotal moments where one slight change could have had a massive ripple effect that completely changed the landscape of wrestling as we know it today.This collecting of Wrestling History Revisited titles looks at many such pivotal moments in the history of WCW. How would things have been different if Hulk Hogan had never gone to WCW? What if the NWO invasion never happened? What would WCW storylines have looked like if they survived past March of 2001? How might they have tried to recover after the disastrous Hogan-Sting match at Starrcade 1997? What if Sid Vicious had never been fired after his hotel brawl with Arn Anderson? What if the WWF bought the remains of Jim Crockett Promotions in 1988 instead of 2001?This book explores each of these scenarios to determine what might, and very easily could, have been.
Book Synopsis Wrestling History Revisited: by : Stuart Carapola
Download or read book Wrestling History Revisited: written by Stuart Carapola and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-17 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booking a professional wrestling company is a tough job. It's not easy trying to come up with storylines that would satisfy the three main goals of making sense, making money, and making everyone involved come out looking as strong as possible. Sometimes you get lucky and you hit on something great that draws you a ton of money, and sometimes the ideas you think are absolute genius completely crash and burn the instant they land in front of a paying crowd.This book takes us back in time to some situations that worked better on paper than they did in practice, and lets us take another stab at them with the power of 20/20 hindsight vision. What if Hulk Hogan didn't go to WCW in 1994? How could ROH have been booked differently during the HDNet era? How might WCW have tried to rebuild after the badly-botched Starrcade 1997 Pay Per View?This book not only attempts to answer those questions, it also features the first edition of the Book Like WWE Challenge, where we take a group of talented stars with tons of potential, and...well, book them like WWE would! Nonsensical turns, an evil Commissioner, a glass ceiling, and more gimmick matches than you can shake a stick at are all part of the fun!This book contains the following bonus features:-The Nature Boy Comes Home: Ric Flair's 1993 Return To WCW-The 6 Biggest Failed Attempts To Create The Next Big Superstar
Book Synopsis Wrestling History Revisited: What If Hulk Hogan Never Went to WCW? by : Stuart Carapola
Download or read book Wrestling History Revisited: What If Hulk Hogan Never Went to WCW? written by Stuart Carapola and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hulk Hogan did the unthinkable and signed with WCW in 1994, it changed the face of the company forever. Some would say his signing opened the door to many of the other successes WCW would experience later on, others would say his involvement helped put a bullet in WCW's head, and there were definite merits to both sides of that argument. However you slice it, the WCW we saw at the beginning of 1994 was barely recognizable by the end of the year. Aside from Hulk Hogan elbowing Ric Flair and Sting out of the top spots, the rest of the roster changed radically during the Hulk Transition, as many of the homegrown stars who had been built up over several years were pushed down and replaced with ex-WWF stars who rode Hulk's wake into the company.But what if Hulk Hogan never came to WCW? What would have happened if Ric Flair and Sting remained WCW's franchise stars? How would the homegrown undercard roster have progressed if they weren't dumped in favor of the washed-up WWF castoffs who now wouldn't have had Hulk there to open the door for them? Let's put our fantasy booking hat on and see what WCW might have looked like if Hulk Hogan was never a part of their roster.
Book Synopsis Wrestling History Revisited: Rebuilding WWE After the WCW/ECW Invasion by : Stuart Carapola
Download or read book Wrestling History Revisited: Rebuilding WWE After the WCW/ECW Invasion written by Stuart Carapola and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The WWF did big business during the Attitude Era and, in March of 2001, found itself standing alone as the sole wrestling superpower in the wrestling business when both ECW and WCW folded within weeks of each other. What happened afterward, once there was no longer competition to risk losing audience to, was nothing short of a disaster. Steve Austin was turned heel to form an alliance with Vince McMahon, then the WCW InVasion was completely botched and the entire WCW roster buried. A second InVasion of former ECW stars was similarly botched, and then the aftermath of the feud (which was blown through in six months) saw Chris Jericho unify the two World Titles before losing them at Wrestlemania to Triple H in what really amounted to a feud between Triple H and Stephanie McMahon with Jericho as Stephanie's proxy. By Wrestlemania X-8, most fans came to the stark realization the Attitude Era was over and was never coming back. But could it have been saved? Yes, absolutely. There were a million and one chances over the years since when they could have steered things in a better direction and almost did, but ended up choosing not to and left us with the family action adventure drama we watch on Monday nights. This book takes us back in time to March of 2001 to nip this downward slide in the bud before it gets that far.
Book Synopsis Death of WCW, The by : R.D. Reynolds
Download or read book Death of WCW, The written by R.D. Reynolds and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As history repeats itself, a wrestling classic becomes even more relevant. In 1997, World Championship Wrestling was on top. It was the number-one pro wrestling company in the world, and the highest-rated show on cable television. Each week, fans tuned in to Monday Nitro, flocked to sold-out arenas, and carried home truckloads of WCW merchandise. It seemed the company could do no wrong. But by 2001, however, everything had bottomed out. The company - having lost a whopping 95% of its audience - was sold for next to nothing to Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment. WCW was laid to rest. What went wrong? This expanded and updated version of the bestselling Death of WCW takes readers through a detailed dissection of WCW's downfall, including even more commentary from the men who were there and serves as an object lesson - and dire warning - as WWE and TNA hurtle toward the 15th anniversary of WCW's demise.
Book Synopsis Wrestling History Revisited: What If the Montreal Screwjob Never Happened? by : Stuart Carapola
Download or read book Wrestling History Revisited: What If the Montreal Screwjob Never Happened? written by Stuart Carapola and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few moments in wrestling history have been as pivotal as the Montreal Screwjob. Expecting his WWF Title defense against Shawn Michaels at Survivor Series 1997 to end in a double DQ, Bret instead found himself on the receiving end of the most notorious shoot in modern wrestling history. Caught in his own Sharpshooter submission hold, the referee unexpectedly called for the bell at the behest of Vince McMahon, who was standing at ringside to make sure his champion didn't walk out the door to WCW with that title around his waist.Quite a lot changed in the WWF in the years after Bret's departure, mainly the company's transition into the Attitude Era, a style of presentation Bret was vehemently against. But what would have been different if Bret hadn't left the WWF that night? Probably quite a lot, since much of what happened during the early part of the Attitude Era was the result of the vacuum that was created when Bret left. This book takes you back in time to late 1997, and shows how different things could have been if Bret Hart stayed in the WWF and remained one of its headline stars.
Book Synopsis Wrestling History Revisited: What If WCW Survived Past March Of 2001? by : Stuart Carapola
Download or read book Wrestling History Revisited: What If WCW Survived Past March Of 2001? written by Stuart Carapola and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an amazing, decades-long history that included some of the best professional wrestling ever seen anywhere, not to mention beating Vince McMahon at his own game for two years in the 90s, WCW shut down after running the final episode of Monday Nitro in March of 2001. Sting defeated Ric Flair to win the final WCW match before Vince McMahon and Shane McMahon did a 20 minute simulcast working the purchase into existing storylines, and the final Nitro broadcast ended with a commercial for Wrestlemania X-7. WCW went out with a whimper of defeat, but what if that wasn't the end? What if WCW had continued, the WWF had never purchased the company, and instead of Jamie Kellner cancelling Nitro and Thunder, he instead decides to give it one last shot to regain its former glory? This book follows the fortunes of Booker T, Bill Goldberg, Scott Steiner, and Ric Flair as they get the one final chance they never got.
Book Synopsis Wrestling History Revisited: Rebuilding WCW After Starrcade 1997 by : Stuart Carapola
Download or read book Wrestling History Revisited: Rebuilding WCW After Starrcade 1997 written by Stuart Carapola and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starrcade 1997 was the biggest event in WCW history, featuring the long awaited Hulk Hogan-Sting main event that was supposed to be the culmination of the 18 month NWO invasion angle. Unfortunately, the whole show went to hell when, after a mess of an undercard, Hogan squashed and pinned Sting clean in the main event. They used a bogus fast count by the referee to restart the match and give Sting the win, but the damage was done, and WCW began a long downward slide that eventually resulted in the company shutting its doors and selling to WWE in 2001.This book looks at how WCW might have been salvaged in the wake of the disaster that was Starrcade 1997, and how the many, MANY mistakes they made in the year afterward could have been avoided. Then, we see how the criminally underutilized young talent that ended up leaving for WWE could have been used to not only salvage WCW, but bring it back to the top of the wrestling business!
Book Synopsis Wrestling History Revisited: What If the WWF Bought WCW In 1988? by : Stuart Carapola
Download or read book Wrestling History Revisited: What If the WWF Bought WCW In 1988? written by Stuart Carapola and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After spending enormous sums of money to buy up dying territories and expand their business in the wake of the WWF's national expansion, Jim Crockett Promotions found themselves in an insurmountable financial hole, and were forced to sell the company to Turner Broadcasting, who reshaped it into the entity we would come to know as World Championship Wrestling.But what if Turner didn't buy Jim Crockett Promotions in 1988? What if Vince McMahon decided to make a grab for the assets and buy WCW thirteen years before he actually did in 2001? This book imagines that very scenario, absorbing WCW into the WWF as it existed in November of 1988, and integrating its wrestlers into the storylines leading into Wrestlemania 5 at Trump Plaza.
Book Synopsis Wrestling History Revisited: What If WCW Didn't Fire Sid Vicious In 1993? by : Stuart Carapola
Download or read book Wrestling History Revisited: What If WCW Didn't Fire Sid Vicious In 1993? written by Stuart Carapola and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sid Vicious, long considered one of the most physically imposing big men in wrestling, was supposed to split with his partner Big Van Vader in 1993 before going on to defeat him for the WCW World Title at Starrcade 1993. That never happened because Sid nearly stabbed Arn Anderson to death with a pair of scissors in a fight at a hotel during a tour of England. Arn was badly hurt, Sid was fired immediately, and WCW went in an entirely different direction by having Ric Flair beat Vader at Starrcade instead. Sid did eventually return to WCW years later and finally won the WCW World Title in 2000, but what if that fight with Arn Anderson never happened? How would WCW have looked if 1994 began with Sid Vicious on top, and Ric Flair in the midcard where he was originally intended to be? What else might have been different if the chain reaction of changes set off by Sid's exit never happened? This book takes us back in time to see what might have come if we had gotten Sid Vicious: WCW World Champion in 1993.
Book Synopsis Wrestling History Revisited: What If WCW Bought ECW In 1997? by : Stuart Carapola
Download or read book Wrestling History Revisited: What If WCW Bought ECW In 1997? written by Stuart Carapola and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ECW had its finest moment in April of 1997 when its first PPV, Barely Legal, was broadcast live from the ECW Arena in Philadelphia. The show hit on all cylinders from a creative and athletic standpoint, and as luck would have it, they narrowly averted a major crisis when the power went out in the ECW Arena only moments after the show went off the air. It would have been a disaster for ECW if that had happened during the PPV, and probably would have spelled the end for them as a company, but luck smiled on them, and ECW lived to fight another day.But what if the power DID go out during the PPV, ECW went out of business in the spring of 1997, and WCW stepped in to acquire the company and its talent roster? This book explores what might have happened if ECW died four years before it was meant to, and how ECW's stars, titles, and existing storylines would have been integrated into the WCW landscape as it built toward its own biggest show of all time: Starrcade 1997.
Book Synopsis You Can't See Them: People John Cena Shouldn't Have Destroyed (but Did) by : Stuart Carapola
Download or read book You Can't See Them: People John Cena Shouldn't Have Destroyed (but Did) written by Stuart Carapola and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lot of things can be said about John Cena, but "he's helped other people become stars by losing at times when it would really matter" is not one of them. To the detriment of nearly everyone else on that roster since he claimed his first WWE World Title in 2005, Cena has not only beaten one would-be superstar after another, but done so in such convincing fashion that he pretty much destroyed any credibility they had coming into the match. Even on the rare occasions he does lose, he will then win the next two or three rematches, often against his conqueror and a couple of cronies, and with little to no apparent effort.Almost nobody has come out of a feud with Cena looking better, or even as good, as they did going in. This book tells the stories of the ones that really hurt, the guys who really could have meant something if they hadn't been fed to the wood chipper called John Cena. Over the course of this book, you'll get to relive every minute of the decade of frustration we spent watching John Cena tear through everyone thrown in his path, and think about what might have been. This book also contains the bonus feature "The Few, The Proud, The Men John Cena Actually Put Over Strong", as well as the following bonus titles:-The Most Crushing Losses In Wrestling History-The Fifth Professional Wrestling Book Of Lists: Worst Of The Worst Edition-Wrestling History Revisited: Rebuilding WWE After The WCW/ECW InVasion
Download or read book Wrestlecrap written by Randy Baer and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WrestleCrap: The Very Worst of Professional Wrestling examines some of the ridiculously horrible characters and storylines that pro wrestling promoters have subjected their fans to over the past twenty years. Why would any sane person think that having two grown men fight over a turkey was actually a reasonable idea' Was George Ringo, the Wrestling Beatle, really the best gimmick that a major promotional organization could come up with' And who would charge fans to watch a wrestler named the Gobbeldy Gooker emerge from an egg' In an attempt to answer such questions and figure out just what the promoters were thinking, authors Randy Baer and R.D. Reynolds go beyond what wrestling fans saw on the screen and delve into the mindset of those in the production booth. In some instances, the motivations driving the spectacle prove even more laughable than what was actually seen in the ring. Covering such entertainment catastrophes as an evil one-eyed midget and a wrestler from the mystical land of Oz, not to mention the utterly comprehensible Turkey-on-a-Pole match (a gimmick which AWA fans might recall), WrestleCrap is hysterically merciless in its evaluation of such organizations as the WCW and the WWF. This retrospective look at the wrestling world's misguided attempts to attract viewers will leave wrestling fans and critics alike in stitches.
Book Synopsis Wrestling's One Ring Circus by : Scott Keith
Download or read book Wrestling's One Ring Circus written by Scott Keith and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost twenty years, the world wrestling federation ruled under the big top of sports entertainment... Then it all came crashing down. But how did things get so bad so quickly? What really triggered the federation's self-destruction? And how did a man acknowledged as a genius in business, promotion, and entertainment, a latter-day P.T. Barnum of wrestling's greatest show on earth, become his own worst enemy? All will be revealed in this shocking, entertaining, and always witty foray into the One Ring Circus that is pro wrestling.
Book Synopsis 100 Things WWE Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die by : Bryan Alvarez
Download or read book 100 Things WWE Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die written by Bryan Alvarez and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most WWE fans tune in each year to watch WrestleMania, remember the Monday Night Wars of the 1990s, and have heard the story behind the Montreal Screwjob. But only real fans recall the name of Steve Austin's original character, can tell you how the Intercontinental championship was created, or know the best places to get an autograph of their favorite superstars. 100 Things WWE Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource guide for true members of the WWE Universe. Whether you've been keeping kayfabe since the days of Bruno Sammartino or you're a more recent supporter of AJ Styles and Becky Lynch, these are the 100 things all fans need to know and do in their lifetime. Bestselling author Bryan Alvarez has collected every essential piece of WWE knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist that will have you chanting "YES! YES! YES!"
Book Synopsis Controversy Creates Cash by : Eric Bischoff
Download or read book Controversy Creates Cash written by Eric Bischoff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under Eric Bishoff's watch as president of WCW, the company went head to head with Vince McMahon's WWE and beat them at their own game before WCW itself spectacularly imploded. But by then, Bishoff had made an indelible mark on televised wrestling, producing shows that had appeared more dangerous, more sexy, and more edgy than anything that had come before. He did this to such an extent that in 2002, McMahon seized the chance to bring in his former nemesis as General Manager of RAW; since then, true to form, Bishoff regularly surprises fans with matches that would once have been unthinkable for television. In this revelatory look at his life and career, Bishoff frankly discusses the things he did, both right and wrong, as he helped shape the sports entertainment industry into today's billion dollar business.
