Kimi
Registered User
If WCW was remotely competent, no one is jumping ship and the WWF dies.I hear that shawn hickenbottom guy was "Okay" too.
Don't get it twisted, the roster was absolutely STACKED from the late 90s on up.
Austin, Rock, HHH, HBK, Taker, Kane, big show, jericho, the hardys, edge & christian, the dudleyz, x-pac was alright, shane was a maniac, then there's other guys who were good but never got a real push like test. Then they brought in benoit, guerrero, angle etc.
The WCW roster blows WWF's out of the water. It isn't even remotely close. A lot of guys you list there were non-factors in the actual outcome of the 'war', they came along after everything was already decided.
WWF didn't win the war. WCW were so incredibly badly run that they kill themselves. WWF only just survived, and since then they've done a really good job of making people think that they 'won' with their re-writing and twisting of history. The reality is that WCW was always going to die, all WWF did was hang on long enough to see WCW crash and burn.
While Rock and Austin helped WWF massively, they would have 'won' without them. By 1997 WWF were basically the winners. Nothing after that point mattered as WCW were on the path to destruction.
Not that WCW couldn't have been saved. There was plenty of time for them to turn it all around, but it never happened.