What if Vince McMahon lost the steroid trial and went to prison for 8 years...

[TheGreatShowtime]

There would be no Stone Cold since Jerry Jarrett would've been running the company

 

[Vice Queen]

I think you missing the point lol.

I'm not missing any point.

Vince would find a way to get his company back even from prison. He wouldn't take that shyt lying down and definitely wouldn't let a bid stop him. He'd still have folks loyal to him around this time and unless Linda did a boss move, fired all his loyalists and made it impossible for him to get the company back, he'd find a way. He'd be making those collect calls trying to scheme and shyt, but I guess you want the evil b*stard to just give up and off himself. And trust the minute he get out of prison he'd start back up again like nothing even happened because white men fall up in this country.

And Linda divorcing him wouldn't mean she's done with him. Camille and Bill Cosby tried getting divorced when he first got his charges. Chauvin and his wife announced a divorce when he got arrested. If anything, Linda would sit on those assets until he got back and probably hand them right back over when he got out. Divorce is a protection measure when a bid is incoming, you give the ex wife half and she takes care of it until you return. Vince would be fine.


Now would the Attitude Era have happened? No.
Would WCW still be in business? Possibly?
Would ECW still be a thing? Absolutely not.
The wrestling landscape would be different, but the WWF would still be a thing, just not thee thing.

 

[YakSpiller]

i'm sure he'd find himself an HBK in there too.

What the hell!

 

[Paper Boi]

What the hell!

New Japan Vince

 

[Michael's Black Son]

my first reaction was to say i dont think WWF would have survived the monday night wars without him but it was really the attitude era stars that saved wwf's ass

so WWF woulda been fine

and depending on how Shane steps up, he could have been the corporate head against Austin

would have been a spoiled rich fukkboi against the working man, not as good as vkm vs austin but it would have still been over

you’d wanna think that if Vince got locked up, Bischoff and the crew wouldn’t have eventually botched things on their side and Billionaire Ted wouldn’t gone for the kill and tried to put in a bid for WWF.

I’m sure Vince would rather the company go down in flames rather than sell to a rival but things would’ve been interesting. Even tho WCW will killing it in the Monday Night Wars you had a sense that there was no clean plan after the nWo. It’s like they didn’t know when to say when to pull the plug and it obviously got ridiculous after a while.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

i'm sure he'd find himself an HBK in there too.

 

[DANJ!]

If Vince loses all power over the company, I could see Turner buying it.

Linda McMahon isn't a moron I'm sure, but I also doubt she would make a sound decision in running the company or hiring someone to run it. Unless I'm just completely lost, she doesn't come off as dedicated to WWF/E as Vince.

If Jerry Jarrett runs it, as it was planned, if Vince got convicted, I can't imagine that results in an improvement of the product or its popularity. It would probably have ended up getting sold to the highest bidder, which in the mid-90s would have likely been Turner, and then it probably gets absorbed into WCW.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Dude would make a real life version of this movie behind the bars.

Vinnie Mac would find a way to make some money in the pen

 

[GunRanger]

If vince went to jail, there is no nWo since Hall and Nash likely dont have leverage to get guaranteed contracts and leave.


Either way it changes wrestling completely because the steroids thing would affect the whole industry.

Cornette said Bossman left WWF because he really thought vince was going to prison

 

[Elim Garak]

If vince went to jail, there is no nWo since Hall and Nash likely dont have leverage to get guaranteed contracts and leave.


Either way it changes wrestling completely because the steroids thing would affect the whole industry.

Cornette said Bossman left WWF because he really thought vince was going to prison

Didn't he become executive producer in 93 and president in 94? He probably still could have offered the contracts I bet.

 

[Elim Garak]

If Vince loses all power over the company, I could see Turner buying it.

Linda McMahon isn't a moron I'm sure, but I also doubt she would make a sound decision in running the company or hiring someone to run it. Unless I'm just completely lost, she doesn't come off as dedicated to WWF/E as Vince.

If Jerry Jarrett runs it, as it was planned, if Vince got convicted, I can't imagine that results in an improvement of the product or its popularity. It would probably have ended up getting sold to the highest bidder, which in the mid-90s would have likely been Turner, and then it probably gets absorbed into WCW.

I think she could have found someone for years she was the ceo and president I believe when they were private.

 

[Stop_It_5]

no attitude era, no stone cold, no rock


just the KKKliq running ratings into the dirt until the company was absorbed by Turner

 

[Elim Garak]

no attitude era, no stone cold, no rock


just the KKKliq running ratings into the dirt until the company was absorbed by Turner

Maybe Linda let's Shane but Ecw and Ufc if the WWE does well still lol.

 

[TheBigBopper]

Meanwhile Linda divorced him and he ends up losing control of the wwe. Do you think the business would have ended up in better shape or worse? What do you think Vince would do when he got out? Start his own promotion maybe made president of wcw?

He’d end up giving Linda shares in the divorce settlement and run wwe from jail. I kinda doubt she’d divorce him even if he had been convicted.

 

[Elim Garak]

He’d end up giving Linda shares in the divorce settlement and run wwe from jail. I kinda doubt she’d divorce him even if he had been convicted.

Of course it's a wild scenario but that's the point to make it interesting.