Jim Cornette on What If Eric Bischoff Went Against Jerry Jarrett Running WWE Instead Of Vince

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[@J.D.1.]

The key here is, without the Mr McMahon villain character, how does the Attitude Era in WWF play out? The Stone Cold character relied heavily on having Mr McMahon to feud with.

[@robintst]

Heck it's even bigger than that. Vince was always the final decision maker, if he was in prison for that 11 year sentence he was facing and the Creative is left to Jerry, just how different would the whole WWF look without him by 1997?

[@baseballno3214]

@@robintst thank you for explaining the whole point of this video

[@Speedyreedy1218]

Vince was the babyface to me and Austin was the villian.

[@wow1371]

the point is wcw blew up because of their own failure not wwe

[@johnpenguinthe3rd13]

Another factor to consider: in real life, I've heard that Steve Austin was NOT on the best terms with the Jarretts (he hated Jeff Jarrett and refused to work with him later on in WWE and I don't think he was very happy with Jerry Jarrett either due to some type of financial problem he had with him years ago). Does this mean that Steve Austin stays in ECW when he gets fired from WCW and ends up in ECW during 1995 and permanently stays there? Probably not since ECW at that time wasn't paying a huge amount of money and WWE was. If Steve Austin wants big money, he would have to go to WWE during 1996 since ECW wasn't paying enough and WCW had fired him and didn't want him back. However, with Jerry Jarrett in charge, does Jerry Jarrett give Steve Austin a proper push or does he leave him in "mid card hell" stuck in the Ring Master gimmick permanently? It's a possibility, especially when Jeff Jarrett and Steve Austin start having personal issues with each other, Jerry isn't going to push his son Jeff to the side for Steve. Steve Austin might get fed up with the Ring Master crap and he eventually finds his way back to ECW during the period when ECW stars starting getting more money (around mid 1997 or by early 1998 Steve returns to ECW). So this could turn into a situation where WWE remains stale, WCW reigns supreme as the # 1 wrestling promotion during it's NWO era, but ECW gets a very huge push by having Steve Austin in his prime. The long term end result of all of this is WWE remaining in a permanent stale 2nd place, WCW eventually implodes on itself (mainly because WCW's worse enemy was WCW. Sadly, WCW was it's own worse enemy) and ECW manages to rise into a # 1 position in some way over time and doesn't go out of business and becomes financially stable. Just something to think about.

[@Jennifer_Lewis_Beach_Living]

If Vince still ran the show while behind bars AND Jarrett adapted the best of “Southern Wrestling” to appeal to a casual audience AND Pat Patterson still had considerable creative influence in the company, then yes, the WWE would have still beaten WCW. If Jarrett ran creative in WWE like he ran Memphis, WCW would have won the war. Brian Last is right. WWE won the war because Vince was willing to change his programming, even if it was to a style that he didn’t like. I don’t know if Jerry Jarrett would have been willing to change.

[@newhere2419]

we would have seen a half hour a week of WWF Champion Jeff Jarrett

[@Harry_Ball-Sachs]

J-E, double F J-A- double R, E, double T!

[@MrMctuck]

A wild Slapnuts appears!

[@Myndir]

So basically early TNA then?

[@vanderful2397]

@@Myndir Minus the ladies, edgy wrestlers & Evil Authority.

[@ChrisWoollett]

He would been a Grand Slam champion in WWE if that had happened. The only way he become Champion of the title nowadays is if he won the MITB briefcase from Mr. Money In The Bank and successfully cashes in on the WWE/Universal Champion.

[@joshszczech7926]

Vince put up with HBK's attitude and other issues. Would Jarrett do that and if not does Shawn go to WCW with Nash and Hall...could change the entire NWO and most likely Bret Hart never leaves.

[@Jackalblade9]

Imagine the ego clashes between Shawn Michaels and Hulk Hogan in WCW.

[@prestanmarquis]

​@@Jackalblade9I think HBK would have overdosed and probably died if he went to WCW.

[@newhere2419]

Bret and Shawn both would have gone with Hall and Nash

[@newhere2419]

@@prestanmarquis why , he had plenty of chance to do that when he retired in 98 and didnt

[@gregclark3268]

Jarrett said he would have fired Shawn and HHH after the curtain call. As good as Shawn was in the ring, Vince let him get away with too much crap. If he went to WCW he would never have been on top while Hogan Flair and Sting were still there

[@mrg8581]

Jeff Jarrett would have had a longer WWF title run than Bruno Sammartino.

[@mr._muji]

Even if Vince McMahon went to jail for his sentence, he'll still find a way to control WWE either directly or indirectly.

[@tobiasfarragut292]

Run that shit over the jail phone mafia style 😅

[@CaptainTard]

I once went on chaturbate and paid a girl to cosplay as hulk hogan and had call me brother in a hulk hogan accent.

[@scottthegeneticfreaksteine393]

@@CaptainTard attaboy! That’s good shit brother.

[@paxlux5288]

@@CaptainTard She was over brother

[@mrg8581]

Exactly

[@lloydsharpe7641]

Vince got a teardrop tatoo? That's funny as hell.

[@Ai14106]

If gang leaders can run their organizations through prison, I'm sure Vince would have no problem

[@jeffakin3095]

jim just can't tell the truth-- if the aol/tw merger doesn't happen the way it does, and turner continues running things, wcw remains viable probably to this day

[@mrg8581]

Worse thing that happened to WCW was the AOL/TW merger.

[@JamesJohnson-tr1gu]

We wouldn't have gotten Austin vs McMahon, which was one of the major reasons WWE pulled ahead WCW back then...Austin vs Jerry doesn't have the same ring to it, Jerry would have lost, but barely

[@randallrigney420]

Yeah, I know he was a wrestler, but I can't see Jerry taking a stunner,

[@Spamcloud]

Linda McMahon would have operated the company, not Jerry Jarrett. Maybe Jarrett would have been in charge of creative for a while, but if he failed, he would have been replaced; it's not as if Jarrett would have been granted ownership of the company.

[@iJust_Farted.7]

Vince was facing 11 years and a $1.5 million fine. Just to clarify

[@tobiasfarragut292]

He would’ve got out right in time to tear both his quads at the Royal rumble

[@stewartmcrae8007]

They didn't have a case no jury in the world would have convicted Vince on the strength of the evidence that they had against him

[@randemness2680]

​@@stewartmcrae8007 it was a blown case from the beginning. The prosecutor was over excited to be going after mcmahon and didnt vet his witnesses or actually form a case. Had the prosecutor been half interested in the actual case instead of just being so excited to go after vince. Who know. Vince was worried about it enough

[@stewartmcrae8007]

@@randemness2680 the guy left shortly afterwards sean o shea I believe his name was or something like that absolute scumbag

[@ImFreezerBurnCompared2Cool]

I’ve said this a million times… WWE did NOT defeat WCW…. WCW defeated WCW.

[@raulo19999]

Yup. When was the beginning of the end of WCW? When Crockett sold to turner.

[@user-hm4tt9hy5f]

Here's a question for this what if scenario. Where would Stone Cold landed? IIRC, he had issues with Jerry Jarrett it's believed that one reason he refused to put of Jeff Jarrett. On the flipside, Bischoff fired Steve and told him that he'd never be a main eventer. That's one factor that would've changed if Vince weren't around

[@z2ei]

Austin's rebutted this a few times - he even had Jeff on his podcast. It was mainly over pay and nobody was making any money there.

[@maxxdahl6062]

He never had any grudge against Jerry that I know of. It was only really rumored to be one against Jeff.

[@GenGamesUniverse]

@@maxxdahl6062 It was both Jeff and Jerry he had heat with because Jerry would give him a mediocre salary whilst in Memphis and Jerry would give Jeff tons of money even though he was a glorified midcarder.

[@maxxdahl6062]

@@GenGamesUniverse I've not in my entire life heard it was ever against Jerry. And it kind of sounds like BS to me anyway, Memphis was famous for not paying much unless you were either a main eventer either and/or a main event heel working against lawler, then you would get good money. And at that time Austin wasn't even a glorified mid-carder at that point he was only a notch or two above being an enhancement talent. So either Austin had to be completely ignorant about the territory which would make him either very ignorant or the rumor is BS.

[@KC-972]

Brian sounded so disappointed when he said oh after he said in life in prison

[@shindean]

There was no way Vince could stay in jail long enough for anyone to take it from him. He made sure to get his company back, even when his own children were keeping him out!

[@JustJohnnyBlake]

Jerry said he would have pushed Razor more if he was in charge

[@1justinswift]

As a huuuuuuuuuuge fan of Razor, I would have been A-OK with that!

[@Rollermacka]

Hasn't Stone Cold talked about hating working for Jerry Jarrett when he was coming up in professional wrestling? I don't see him going to the WWF and working for Jarrett, Austin probably would have stayed in ECW.

[@ScottsCollection]

Vince would be like Hannibal Lecter. Even locked up, he can control the outside.

[@AspiringGymRat]

Jim is being a homer for Jarrett on this one. The talent (Austin, Rock, Foley, Taker, etc.) + Vince’s willingness to push towards edgier programming were the key ingredients for the Attitude Era.

[@znalniaskas]

This, Jarrett would have pushed his son and that child sniffer Lawler as main eventers...

[@Meghead420]

@@user-cr4pz5yg7y spot on

[@AspiringGymRat]

Agreed on it being horrible a lot of the time. This isn’t a dig at Jarrett I just think that if Vince isn’t there, there is no Attitude Era and WWE isn’t beating WCW with the NWO and Bischoff at the helm.

[@J.D.1.]

The Mr McMahon character was the most important on screen talent character of the Attitude Era.

[@eduardodubois4994]

Can agree to that, adapting to the situation than being adamant is why attitude Era was possible so yeah things might not have been the same.

[@anderwood6005]

If Vince wasn't running it from jail - Jerry Jarrett would have been destroyed.

[@JDotWill]

I would like to go to that alternate universe, just out of curiosity. HBK probably would’ve been the third guy in the NWO. I don’t know if Austin & Rock would’ve been pushed the same way. Mick Foley probably wouldn’t have been used the same. Glen Jacobs may have never become Kane. & if WWE did win the war, would they have still bought WCW?

[@WyattHolliday]

I have long thought it would be awesome to have seen HBK come out of the crowd to surprise superkick Sting.

[@Speedyreedy1218]

The trial was in 94. Nwo didn't exist. The Curtain Call hadn't happened. Therfore Austin doesn't take HHH'S KOTR spot.

[@matth2377]

Attitude Era had four pillars. Austin, Rock, Mr. McMahon, JR. Take away any one of those, and you have a drastically different result.

[@terrencewesterman851]

Replace anyone of those with cactus jack .. Foley was the king maker/gatekeeper. Orton, rock,HHH ,undertaker

[@leorocker180]

There hasn't been one good example of a great territory promoter becoming a great national promoter. Jerry, Game, Bill Watts all mastered booking to the conscious of there regional area but whenever they tried to expand they fell flat on their Ass.

[@vycanismajoris6871]

In an alternate universe all the talent that has been buried became megastars. Like Sean O'Haire. He became an early Batista and reigned supreme under Paul Heymans wings. I like that! I like that a lot!!

[@ADrockstar22]

Jerry wouldn't have been able to control and harness the wrestlers and their egos. Love him or hate him, Vinnie Mac has always been the right person for the job.

[@Batony]

No. Bischoff would have run circles around Jarrett. Why ask Cornette this question when you know his answer? He will not say anything bad about Jarrett. Plus, Cornette’s weakest topics are 1980s WWF and mid to late 1990s WCW. He can’t view those without personal bias.

[@tommyfraz.]

I love Corny, but you’re 100% spot on. I was a kid in the 80s, and fell in love with that era. I know it’s “cartoony,” but they were making money.

[@TheCatseyepub]

and 1970's wwwf..... clueless

[@correctresponse3281]

Jerry Jarrett would have lost the war

[@tommyfraz.]

Fun to speculate, but way too many what ifs. Vince was looking at 11 years, but that doesn’t mean he would have been sentenced to 11 years. It could have been 2 years as a slap on the wrist, especially because Vince could afford the fine upfront. JJ might have been more of a “keep the ball rolling,” logistical manager. Vince still had his people in place. Vince likely would have used his lawyer visits to run creative, and make any big decisions.

[@mattm6580]

On one channel: nWo On the other channel: 10x WWF champion Double J Jeff Jarrett I give that Monday night war about a week. More like a Monday night manslaughter.

[@vanderful2397]

How dare you! He can swing a guitar better than anybody.

[@you3ee]

Cornette will never give Bishoff the big credit he deserves in professional wrestling

[@mrg8581]

Agreed

[@MarsofAritia]

bischoff is a glorified marketer

[@ritchardo6459]

I think all the comments here re:AOL/ Time Warner not wanting wrestling are missing a massive point. By the time they came in WCW was a horrid brand tanking money. JJ running WWF at that time would’ve lead to two things: Vince Russo would not have gotten a shot in creative (and if he did, he wouldn’t have lasted) and the WWF would’ve tanked in popularity was below the point they got to. This means that the pressure on Bischoff to hot shot WCW every other week wouldn’t have been so great, more talent would’ve naturally jumped over when the WWF continued to struggle and even if Bischoff still burns out snd had to be replaced in 99, they weren’t doing it with Russo (as he would’ve had no track record) instead they’d have to turn to someone like Paul Heyman (who’s ECW might also have struggled earlier without McMahon’s chequebook). Come the merger, WCW could still have been a moneymaking brand and something AOL/TW would want to keep around. It’s a fascinating what if.

[@darthsebio1726]

If Vince goes to jail..Pat & Bruce would visit him and write the show from there...

[@jonathandenatale6878]

The Mr. McMahon character would've been even more over if he was fresh outta jail

[@hollywood21639]

Eric would have crushed him

[@Nostalgia9478]

Jerry wouldve crushed Bankrupt Bischoff

[@hollywood21639]

@@Nostalgia9478 he didn't bankrupt anyone else in history. It would have been honky tonk man vs rockabilly in a guitar on a pole match

[@MilMaska]

"If it wasn't for me. The word Ahole would have had a whole another meaning is prison Vince" - Hulk Hogan

[@danehockam-dunn8193]

If Jarrett takes over WWF in the mid-90s, then you don't get the Stone Cold character. Austin famously hates him over some money dispute from the territory days. There's no way they would have worked together. No Stone Cold makes the Monday Night Wars a completely different beast.

[@theTemplar08]

Q: would Jarret have let the kliq go/fired and would we have seen them become a version of DX versus the NWO on WCW?

[@positively_broad_st3780]

ECW factors in as well. They were pushing the envelope on edgier content. Jerry would have brought a regression in that area. On the other hand, Vince was helping to keep ECW in business, which wouldn't have happened if Vince went to prison. I'm glad Vince didn't get convicted because we got the Monday Night War and the Attitude Era out of it, but I do wish WCW would have made a rebound and remained in business. The two big companies made for a great rivalry, while ECW was a good alternative to have as well...

[@spanky9676]

ECW was a regional promotion that no one saw unless they lived in the northeast or tape traded.

[@andrewclayterman6230]

@@spanky9676 or watched on America One network.. they streamed at Midnight Saturdays if there was no station in your area.. REAL MEDIA 33.

[@bradleyminoski2020]

It was good having three promotions around at the time. The more the better. No matter how back WCW was I still looked forward Nitro then Raw as well on Mondays on top of ECWs Hardcore TV on the weekend (which was on the MSG Network that I had on satellite)

[@renafan3333]

Geez Brian has to get over Hulk Hogan or whoever it was turning down an autograph request when he was 8. He wanted Vince to go to jail for ridiculously obvious trumped up charges. Jim has even said that in the past

[@Myndir]

WCW self-terminated. It was losing tens of millions when it went under. It wasn't like the WWF needed a huge war chest to buy it or the WWF was writing huge cheques to pick off Goldberg, Bret Hart, Kevin Nash, Hulk Hogan, DDP, Sting etc. Gradually losing the drawing power of all those stars from December 1997 to March 2001 was all the work of WCW, who also managed to drive out great midcard talent like Jericho, Benoit, Saturn, Guerrero, and Malenko who could have been drawing a lot of money by 2001-2002 with the right booking. That's fundamentally different from ECW, which was killed off by the WWF and WCW doing well enough in 1998-2001 to pinch all of their talent. If ECW had kept its top stars, they could have probably muddled along for a long time, and at least managed a dignified transition into a WWE developmental area like OVW.

[@insupportofjunhado]

Don't know why anyone is surprised by this answer. Remember Jim Cornette used to hate WWF's cartoon wrestling, until he worked for WCW and got to know Jim Herd. Jim Cornette has always said Vince McMahon had never been in a fight before and had a tendency to overcorrect. That all WWF needed to do was hold on and let WCW tank, that all WWF needed was top stars drawing money and could have done with less crap in the mid card. But really, fans of the "Monday Night Wars" tended to say "Watch WCW for the mid card, watch WWF for the main events.", so I don't think this is even unique to Jim Cornette per se. I think a lot of people more so doubt Jerry Jarrett because he gave up on TNA. They know him less for his reputation of fixing territories than for halfheartedly promoting a questionable product for a few years before turning on his son, burying it, and sending Vladimir Kozlov to WWE.

[@rondoughhowell6442]

Booking WWF like Memphis, yeah right besides no one wants to see Jeff Jarrett as WWF champion

[@MJH-kr4zg]

Ultimately in the end I am not sure a change in leadership at WWF would have changed the outcome because the AOL Time Warner merger would have still happened and that company wanted nothing to do with wrestling/sports. That and the fact from its establishment until it’s end WCW was poorly run from a business perspective…

[@Jackalblade9]

I think this is a good point. As Jim likes to say, it's a marathon, not a sprint. WWE in any form could have held out long enough for WCW to burn itself out, and the AOL/Time Warner merger would have been the final nail in the coffin.

[@sc30002001]

Ted Turner was supposed to be Vice Chairman but they screwed him over.

[@vanderful2397]

WCW got taken out, because it was freefalling. If WCW would've been the biggest show in the US & WWE would be in ruins, I think then WCW would've survived the merge.

[@bradleyminoski2020]

They just wanted to get out of wrestling because the losses were massive. They were still in sports. Hell, not only they kept NASCAR (it was on TBS) but they promoted it to TNT as part of their “We Know Drama” campaign.

[@EnforcerX71]

We would have got a Jeff Jarrett WWF title reign no doubt. Plus you wouldn't have had the likes of Stone Cold, who has a long standing beef with the Jarretts. Basically WCW would have won the war.

[@JeffreyJetsKohut]

Austin vs. McMahon is the biggest reason why Jerry Jarrett wouldn't be able to compete with WCW

[@michaellueck3214]

You wouldn’t have had the greatest heel of all time MR McMahon to really ignite the run Steve Austin had.

[@J.D.1.]

Yep. Spot on.

[@rickpowers3677]

I have to disagree with Cornette on this one. Here's what I think would've happened. WWF would've lost most of their top drawing stars and would've been relegated to Jeff Jarrett being the top star and WWF champion faces challengers like Bill Dundee and Jerry Lawler and whatever old Tennessee fossil who did draw in the 70's and 80's but this was the 90's and WWF wasn't a territory rather a National to International promotion.

[@chwenhoou]

A better question. Would Jerry allow Shitstain to work in WWF for so long? Or would he have booted him out the door sooner?

[@chico1680]

Shitstain would be stuck writing for the magazine where he belonged

[@MarsofAritia]

he brought him in for tna didn't he?

[@bradleyminoski2020]

@@MarsofAritiaThat was Jeff that did that.

[@Cultofpersonality09129]

If Jerry Jarrett was so great Vince wouldn’t have put him out of business. Pat Patterson would’ve been running the show. I don’t think people realize how important and how much Pat did for Vince and WWF/E. I’m not talking about nonsense either.

[@tommyfraz.]

Do you think PP would want to captain the ship? Didn’t he prefer the relaxed nature of his role?

[@Cultofpersonality09129]

@@tommyfraz. YES! Vince was going to do the booking in jail. It was already planned out.

[@constablekennedy7705]

Eazy E would Won BRO

[@Nostalgia9478]

Bankrupt Bischoff wouldve lost bigly, BROSKI

[@scrappy93]

​@Nostalgia how was he bankrupt bischoff. Yeah wwe still would have won.

[@scrappy93]

Nope, wwe still wins. Only way wcw doesn't go away is if Turner never loses power.

[@Nostalgia9478]

@@scrappy93 Bankrupt Bischoff has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy TWICE..Hes a horrible Businessman

[@michaelrush6998]

Nobody says bro anymore bruh

[@randolphdefreese7874]

I call bs on this(love you Corny)but Jerry Jarrett was in charge there would not have been a attitude era.

[@darthsiddious7469]

Chicken Salad on a pole match Mania main event

[@daa589]

Brought to you by Hellman's

[@FatMenace]

Turner didn't want WCW. Period. That's why it didn't matter who ran WWF. WWF was winning because of that, didn't matter if Vince was there or not.

[@zemm9003]

Between Eric and Jerry Jarrett my money is definitely on Eric and I would take out a loan to bet even more money on Eric.

[@williamflowers9435]

At the very least, Jarrett would have used the Steiner Brothers a lot better… they probably don’t get left off WMX

[@chrischar9428]

Brian: bischoff vs Jarrett Cornhole: 10 second answer PLUS 20 minutes on the history of Memphis AGAIN

[@zackdavis9539]

I love Cornette, I know he plays a character even in his podcast- but it’s stuff like this that gives credence to those that say the business passed him by. Jerry Jarrett booked cartoon bs in Memphis, yet Jim is a mark for him. Bischoff drew more in his time in TNA than Jerry did, not too mention the NWO is the biggest angle in wrestling history and Jerry never did anything 10% as big.

[@thomasm4376]

Jarrett was able to draw in his day, but nationwide in ‘94? I don’t see it. No one ever drew shit in TNA/ Impact. Jerry didn’t and Eric didn’t. But overall, yes Jim will dance around on topics he doesn’t want to be critical when talking about those he likes.

[@johnhill6412]

Jerry Jarrett vs. Bischoff? Chicken salad vs. chicken shit?

[@bigglilwayne7050]

It would be more interesting if you flip the scenario with Jerry Jarrett running WCW, rather than Bitchoff

[@GenGamesUniverse]

I think in all honesty, IF Jerry Jarrett had taken over in '93, WWF would NOT have survived and we certainly wouldn't have seen more of the "big men" champions like Taker or Diesel or Sid be shown. Jerry was more than stuck in his own ways of "I'll do it the way I WANT to and that's bring back the old "Southern wrasslin'"!" and it wouldn't have worked, because people would have either a) turned off the television or b) tuned into WCW.

[@MrMctuck]

I want to hear Jim's thoughts on Eric Bischoff tearing into Meltzer calling him a disease 😂 (Edited so I can post the link to the 83 Weeks channel) kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIGYi52ord6Yb7s

[@stewartmcrae8007]

Eric is Right Meltzer is and always has been a cancer

[@mrg8581]

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[@Flamingcloud083]

The Time Warner merger is possibly the biggest reason WWE put WCW in the ground... If WCW took off a few years earlier and was stronger/more established who knows what would have happened. So many career trajectories are changed especially Mic Foley, Steve Austin, Bret Hart, Benoit/Jerico, etc.

[@johnharwood2797]

Jim, can you tell the story and history of the The Dream Machine?

[@douglasmurphy3266]

They all would have been tasked with getting Shane up to speed. The booking during the interim would be mainly Jarrett and Corny. Under no other set of circumstances does Russo ever get control of the product.

[@quentinkaasa47]

There would have certainly been a power struggle between Bruce/Pat/Dunn and Jerry/possibly Corny.

[@dustyhaynes5688]

Bischoff almost beat Vince. Jarrett better have been on his game big time to have won the war.

[@mox19380]

on the premise that vkm is in jail and NOT controlling the company from behind bars. two things are fairly certain - jarrett would not have let Hall and presumably Nash leave - Heel McMahon doesn't happen when it does

[@justinmelendez3760]

WcW killed itself. As long as wwf had the same talent, and put them on tv, nothing changes. Wcw had no idea after the nwo, once 1997 was over so was wcw. It just took some time

[@TheMugenmunster]

Vince would have still been calling the shots from jail. Jerry would have simply been physically there making sure Vince's directives were carried out.

[@AGH69]

Jeff Jarrett would've been WWF champion and form DX with Road Dogg, Billy Gunn and Honky Tonk Man

[@chrisbowen6180]

Jerry Lawler would've been top heel if Vince went to jail for a extended period. Instead of Lawler insulting Stu and Helen Hart Stu would've gotten fireballed by Lawler

[@fredferguson7254]

Why the F*** are the bleeping out the cuss words?!?!?! That's a huge part of why Cornette is so much fun to listen to! That would be like a censored version of George Carlin doing stand up. That might cause some kinda tear in the fabric of space time and destroy the world!

[@wolfcrewe7474]

Jerry Jarrett actually was involved in 3 wrestling wars that I know of and won them all.

[@david29497]

Jarrett wouldn't have put up with Shawn Michael's crap. Probably because he wouldn't be butt ramming him like Vince was.

[@TheMugenmunster]

Had Jerry not done that, Vince would have had contingencies in place to make sure they were carried out anyway. If Jerry didn't, he would have been ousted.

[@punkmeathead3792]

Stunning Steve Austin never would’ve left WCW

[@scrappy93]

I also don't think Jerry would have been changing much from the past interviews I've heard.

[@knicksfule]

You wouldn't have the Mr. McMahon character tho

[@SpockvsEgon]

I think WCW would have survived if McMahon had gone to jail for one simple reason: Without McMahon, Russo wouldn't have ever been on the creative team. Without that credit, he could never have become WCW booker and not lost them $88 million dollars in a single year. Maybe Jamie Kellner would have canceled WCW on Turner anyway, but without Russo it might not have happened.

[@insupportofjunhado]

That's a unique take on this.

[@samuraijack0876]

Nah, WWE needed Vince.

[@chuck2498]

Jarrett could have done alright, but NO WAY would that time have blown up like it did without Stone Cold going up against the Mr. McMahon character. I do not believe Stone Cold would be as memorable if even remembered as he is today without that set of circumstances that fell in there lap. Might have still gotten The Rock in a sense, but remember that kicked off because of Stone Cold as well. Still would be interesting but not as big.

[@nkotbfreak2983]

JJ would have gotten along great with a guy like Bret hart but HBK would have been showed the door for sure, If Vince couldnt pull the strings from his prison cell and just tell JJ what to do i would go with WCW winning that war. This would mean a world with no Montreal screw job no Austin vs Mcmahon.......

[@dolandarkxgrandayy6953]

The WWF Definitely would've lost because he wasn't as brutal as Vince is.

[@adesai1976]

For all of Vince’s flaws and there are many, since he took over WWF in 83-84, how many uber-over guys have come from anywhere else. Ric Flair started in 81 and he is a legend. Anyone else? Goldberg. No one else really is a mainstream person that Vince did not make. Hall, Nash are not anything without VKM. Cornette is great but he loves pre-90s stuff too much. I love that part even more too. Just being impartial.

[@bitteroldman]

How soon does Jarret put the WWE title on Jerry Lawler?

[@raulo19999]

Maybe he pushes scott hall more and there's no nwo as we know it. Bret possibly doesn't get his large contract and if that happens there's no screwjob. Does Lawler get the belt at some point? Jerry thought the world of randy savage. Does he come back? Does Shawn get held down or fired or do his recreational activities cause a spiral? Does Jerry get HHH in 95? Does nash get let go for not drawing? Does the whole clique get fired? I think this scenario changes everything about wrestling. 95 and 96 laid the groundwork for the turnaround for all of wrestling. I think that that NWO either doesn't happen or doesn't have the significance we remember due to a change in cast. I think there could be an attitude Era if Jerry takes the role as the usurper to Vince like a "I stole your company and I'm gonna steal your wife too." I don't think the ratings will be as high because I dont think WCW's ratings would be that great. The competition drove the ratings. Oh and Owen would still be alive.

[@MarsofAritia]

wcw would've still run itself into the ground anyway. nothing much would change

[@billymitchell655]

Jerry Jarrett> Eric bischoff

[@frankiebflat5728]

Always thumbs up from me here 😂

[@marcusbennett5444]

Ayee my question!!

[@danielburger1775]

Charlie? That you?

[@marcusbennett5444]

@@danielburger1775 no it’s me Russo

[@thomass789]

​@@marcusbennett5444 Bro, come awn bro, we know this ain't Russo bro, because your typing doesn't sound anything, bro, like Russo, bro.

[@scrappy93]

Lmao at the question.

[@jtharris208]

Did Jerry book TNA from 2002 to 2005

[@insupportofjunhado]

No. Jerry never had the book in TNA. Maybe he should have, but rather than try to fix it he became disgusted with what the promotion had become, with what Jeff Jarrett allowed it to become, though Jeff and Jerry patched up after Jeff got muscled out and failed to buy it back from Panda Energy.

[@MauriceHeslep-p2k]

Jeff would have lost the war

[@scrappy93]

Man these questions. Yes wwe would have won. Wwe didn't win the war due to what they did, but what the Executives of Turner did. So no matter what, WWE would have come out on top. The only way that changes is if Ted Turner had kept control of his company. Turner in the past said that merger was bad. Lost 80% of his net worth and they started cutting his initiatives that he established to help others. The other thing that hurt Eric was while wcw still was making money they had him start Thunder, which he didn't want to start. When giving him that directive, they told him it had to come out of the wcw budget. Lastly, WCW wasn't a company, so basically, it didn't go out of business. Still laugh that Jim still thinks Eric had a blank check.

[@chrischar9428]

Ex wwf talent like hall and nash

[@ApexZer0]

Wwwe didn't kill wcw ted turner did

[@kerryc5821]

Ha. Jarret's booking stinks.

[@bigkevin579]

I used to watch Memphis wrestling as a kid and Jerry Jarrett had legit must see stories going on every week. You just had to tune into tv at 11 am every Saturday morning to see how things unfolded from the matches at Mid-South Coliseum. Him and Lawler legit had you believing these live action soap operas were real.

[@baseballno3214]

Obviously when you’re a kid you will think anything is better. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug

[@iamdb1990]

not sure if Vince is from the 90's, Young Rock or just prison and not coping well

[@lennylyons777]

Do I win a free consult from Steven p new?

[@EoghanFallon]

"LIFE!" haha