If WCW would have won the Monday Night Wars

[Boscoe Jenkins]

If WCW was in fact successful in putting Vince McMahon and the WWF out of business in the mid 90's, where do you guys think wrestling would be today?

[Sargon]

Set back 20 years or more probably.....Time-Warner was going to lose interest in funding the company eventually, you know? At that point, assuming WWF had gone belly-up and ECW continued hemorrhaging money, who would have been left with the financial backing to put up a 'major promotion' quality product? We've seen how 'successful' TNA has been (after, what, 10 years now?) trying to establish roots as a new wrestling promotion - which is not very. ROH probably has a better product but the funding just isn't there to make it a major player.

[fatherjerusalem]

Dead. If they had won the Monday Night Wars, they still would have done the same stupid shit they ended up doing and would have gone out of business all the same.

Quite simply, Bischoff, Russo, and all the rest were going to run WCW into the ground no matter what happened. It's just how they do.

[magictooth]

I would guess that it would stay alive until 2003-04 when ratings hit a major low and the funding stopped, and the show would have been cancelled.