Hey Scott, had a potential article of discussion for the blog. Fantasy booking for the most part is absolutely pointless I know but I often find myself doing it nonetheless, specifically with past wrestling history. I'm willing to bet you've done it yourself on occasion from time to time. I think it'd be of interest to hear your views perhaps on the 5 biggest missed oppurtunities in wrestling booking history. (automatically disqualifying events like Magnum vs Flair at Starrcade 87 etc. due to outside circumstances) Two big ones that come to my mind were Test not winning the WWF title at Survivor Series '99, it should've been him instead of Show, just made sense storyline wise. Sure he was green, but hell just give him that feelgood win and have him drop the strap a week or two later. And my belief as the one angle that absolutely should've happened, the NWO, Hogan, Hall, and Nash debuting in the WWF at Survivor Series 2001 during the WCW vs WWF elimination match towards the end and have them pay homage to BATB 96 by having them clear the ring of say everyone but Rock and Booker as the final two and have Hogan just leg drop Booker and throw Rock over him for the win. Vince would then come out for a group hug with them and just be like "HAHAHA it worked. It took years but it worked" I mean they showed up like 3 months later so why the hell not.
Your thoughts?
I was actually convinced at the time that they were gonna go with Test, but it just would have been SOOOOO stupid to put the belt on him, unless they were having him drop it back to HHH the next night on RAW or something.
As for the NWO thing, their whole signing and debut was very last-minute, desperation stuff from the WWF and in fact they had no idea it was going to be happening back in November, so that scenario would have been impossible. Plus the Alliance thing just needed to be blown off completely and doing a big screwjob finish would have been pretty terrible, I think.
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