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if WCW never went out of business would it have just evolved into what TNA was but with a higher budget?

Probably

>>18498404 (OP)
Maybe

>>18498404 (OP)
I don't know. I loved WCW but never cared for TNA personally.

Roster wise, maybe. They definitely would have used some of the big 90's stars and people like Booker and Scott Steiner. I'm sure they would have pushed various New Blood members and we definitely would have seen the cruiserweights get pushed higher up the card.

Booking wise, who knows, but the booking is always what brought down TNA. I don't think Russo gets more chances with WCW.

>>18498886
didnt wcw have a booking committee so probably guys like kevin sullivan, dusty and jarrett would stearing the ship. would be probably be better cause didnt half of wcw problems in 1999-2000 come from changing the booker every 2 weeks

they would have had a better start than TN because of the roster, but it likely would have ended up at about 2010 TNA level once goldberg and the bigger stars left for WWE after 2003. It definitely would have helped retain a bunch of the fans that left after 2001 though

>>18498404 (OP)
More or less.

>>18498404 (OP)
This is a really stupid question because if they hadn’t had such shitty booking it would be more likely that WWE would be TNA.

>>18498404 (OP)
I don't think so.
Part of what made TNA what it was was having to deal with WWE as it was. WWE owned the market while TNA had to scrap together what it could to carve out a market niche. WWE, meanwhile, had the combined assets of WWF and WCW.
WWE wouldn't have held that position had it not been able to acquire WCW. WCW would have already held the market share TNA had to work to acquire. It wouldn't have had to lean into so many risks which ended up falling flat and would have had a level of prestige TNA was never able to earn.
WWE also wouldn't have been in a position to revise history the way it did, portraying competition as incompetent while hiding the fact that it did many of the same things. A lot of where WWE stands today is due to the leverage it's had in the marketplace versus johnny-come-latelies that have to establish name recognition among casuals. That's not easy to do because even the smallest failures get pounced upon.