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HBK likely would have wanted to be teamed with Hall & Nash, making him another stooge for Holllywood Hogan. Worse yet, since he was clearly the best performer of the group Hogan would have lobbied hard to keep him on the midcard, jobbing him out to the WCW guys who routinely got buried by Hogan.

Shawn Michaels in WCW in the late 90's would not have changed anything - by 1999 WWE would have been solidly on top and Bischoff and company would have collapsed. Seriously, would Michaels ever have gotten a push to the top over Hogan - NEVER. Not even Nash when he was "in charge" of booking (was anyone really in charge when Hogan was around at that time) couldn't get over Hogan, Hulk would not allow it, regardless of what it did to business or their programming's popularity.

HBK likely would have wanted to be teamed with Hall & Nash, making him another stooge for Holllywood Hogan. Worse yet, since he was clearly the best performer of the group Hogan would have lobbied hard to keep him on the midcard, jobbing him out to the WCW guys who routinely got buried by Hogan. Since HBK was notorious back then for not putting over ppl this would have created HUGE friction within the Nash/Hogan/Bischoff power structure. Hogan had the mega million contract though so he likely wins in the end. Nash gets P@#$%, HBK probably leaves and returns to WWE.

Meanwhile, if HBK goes WCW circa 1996 Brett Hart never leaves WWE. Granted, Hart was never as entertaining as HBK and would have lost the top spot inevitably to Steve Austin all other things being equal, but instead of jobbing out to the NWO and being booked horribly at the end of his career Hart likely would have had a very nice run, an exceptional run if he could have learned to accept the fact that Austin had surpassed him.

Not sure what happens to HHH, maybe he leaves for WCW later on when his contract is up. Since he was not a main event star in 1996 if he went WCW around that time he almost certainly joins The Clique but ends up like X-Pac, great promos, great matches, few wins to show for it. He probably never reaches the heights his career is at now, all of which started by getting over with fans while associated with HBK in D-X.

I do think McMahon would have swung at least one major deal between 97-98 to steal one of the WCW guys and swingthe momentum back his way, probably Flair who he tried to get back both years but failed. Not sure if Sting would have left (however if Flair did leave Sting may have followed since they were tight and Sting was constantly second banana to anyone NWO). Imagine, Stone Cold, The Hitman, The Rock, Mick Foley, Sting, and Flair - that lineup would have ruled while WCW imploded in much the same fashion it did in real life, under the weight of Hogan's poor judgement and excessive power.

HBK to WCW would not have benefited him, not have won the war for WCW, and McMahon would still be standing tall today.

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