What If WWE Had Gone Out Of Business?

1. No WWE Network

The WWE Network as we know it may have never been developed.

There’s a telling moment toward the end of WWE’s documentary about Eric Bischoff when the former Executive Vice President of WCW admits that had WCW won the Monday Night War, it wouldn’t have been best for the wrestling business. In particular, he cites that without Vince McMahon’s vision and passion, the WWE Network probably never would have been.

In the modern era of streaming entertainment, it’s feasible to think WCW or other surviving leading wrestling promotions would have developed their own streaming platforms. Bischoff isn’t wrong, though, that creating a platform this polished, and particularly with this expansive of an on demand library may well never have occurred without McMahon at the helm. His aggressive approach to acquiring old tape libraries, not unlike his old approach to gobbling top talent from other promotions was key to building the Network’s library, and as a resource to creating unparalleled documentary style programming.