What If WWE Had Gone Out Of Business?

2. Vince McMahon Starts Another Wrestling Company

Would Vince dust himself off and try again?

At the peak of WWE’s run in the Attitude Era, Vince McMahon launched the XFL—his own professional football league drawn up to be an edgier, rougher, alternative to the NFL. The league floundered and most folks wrote it off as a mistake. It’s telling, however, that fifteen years later Vince McMahon announced he’d make another go at it by relaunching the thing.

There’s a possibility that if WWE went under, Vince McMahon would have wound up working for WCW. There’s also a very real chance, though, that like he did with football, he’d show the dogged commitment to his vision and to competition to lick his wounds and wind up trying again. Would a new McMahon wrestling company have done as well as WWE? It’s tough to say, but if anyone could pull off founding another national wrestling promotion, it would have to be McMahon.