Been making my way through the “Tales From the Territories” series and it got me thinking….how would things have played out if Vince never took over? Luckily I was fortunate enough to be a kid in the Carolinas in the 80’s so I got to experience the glory of NWA and later WCW, but there are some cool stories from all over.

Ultimately the curtain would’ve been pulled back no matter what due to a more connected world with the internet and other things so it was inevitable that those aspects of wrestling would’ve suffered regardless of whether the takeover happened or not. But at the same time there could’ve been so many angles to work between the promoters and territories with wrestlers invading other parts of the country…and the competition would’ve probably helped products all over. Plus a big part of what made it great in the glory days was that there was a lot of real aspects to it. Lots of feuds were based in reality and the characters were either magnifications of the people playing them or alter egos that allowed darker sides of that person to express through. All of that could’ve been better, at least for a while. I’d say there would be niche areas with fans being loyal to one region or another, but also some overlap between the territories that made things extremely interesting. It also would’ve helped the wrestlers because there would be more potential buyers for the talent and it may have allowed parity across the country. The the obvious aspect of having your region land a huge wrestler that they could work in to storylines and who you’d get to see perform in a wrestling environment that you prefer.


Just wondering how others see that playing out, and if it would’ve been better or worse than how things ended up unfolding.