![]() ![]() ![]() He saw change coming whether anyone in wrestling really wanted it to or not and he embraced it. ![]() Vince McMahon was able to recognize this and even though some thought he was crazy, it turns out that he was right. Television was changing, music was changing, sports was changing, so wrestling had to change with it in order to survive. People were spending money for gadgets and gizmos that most of them probably had no real use for. The economy was booming, there seemed to be a good deal of optimism among people and things that were low key and old fashioned were going out of style. Besides that, the 80s was a time when things were changing, some for the better and some for the worst. The growing availability of satellite, cable TV and syndication made the territory system obsolete, so staying in your own backyard in the hopes of keeping your hardcore audience watching & preferring your show simply wasn't an option. During the 80s, wrestling companies that were owned by pure, 100% wrestling guys were going tits up with or without the WWF being there. Gorilla Monsoon was a pure, 100% wrestling guy. Turner would have loved to have added the WWF library to WCW and I think he'd have made a strong pitch for the company. I think the company would have eventually gone out of business or it would have been purchased by Ted Turner. Just hard to know if Monsoon would of had that killer instinct and business sense like Vince had. Not to mention this I'm not for sure which company did what first, I know they did most around the same time, with promos becoming a bigger deal, more about wrestlers talking than just wrestling and so on, I'm trying to say what if it had then been NWA/JCP doing the trail blazing idea with Rock n Wrestling getting celebs in wrestling, getting its top star on talk shows, getting guys like Ali in there ring first, how would wrestler had changed if WWF not done all of that first, NWA could of had a massive leg up. I think that was the moment that sent WWF into the direction its in today, had Monsoon been the boss and never done the Rock n Wrestling who knows. Where as Vince pushed to Rock n Wrestling era, and took them out of just the big markets in the north east of New York. Its a good question, with Monsoon I think he would of kept wrestling pure for as long as he could, it most likely might of been bought out by the time the 90s come around, just if you look at how WCCW & JCP were run. I'm guessing your referring back to the early 80s when Vince had taken over? ![]()
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