
Originally Posted by
Fanny Batter
Anything with Bret is the biggest what if if. He was the best wrestler in the world, at the peak of his powers, coming off the most controversial wrestling match of all time. It wrote itself. Sting beats Hogan clean at Starrcade, Bret comes out with his own title and continuing his Hart Foundation gimmick where he's a heel in America. Then you build to Sting vs. Bret unification at the Bell Centre with Bret reversing the Deathlock into the Sharpshooter and winning clean as a sheet. It wasn't that difficult. Pushing Bret means you park Goldberg which will have only helped him - keep him going through 1998 and eventually actually promote his title match at the Georgia Dome for Starrcade. Bret could have defended through Halloween Havoc where he drops it to Hogan, who transitions it to Goldberg. Nice 6 month reign defending against Savage, Flair, Nash (pay off their WWE chemistry) and DDP leading to red and yellow Hogan at Havoc. There you reform the nWo that died at the previous Starrcade, leading to Goldberg going through them en route to the Georgia Dome. 1998 WCW is the greatest example of bad booking - it didn't actively suck as a product at that point, but how poorly plotted it was killed it's momentum when WWE were on fire. It just needed to be simple.