closet_fan
Mid-Card Championship Winner
I'm kind of stealing this from the "What if the Montreal Screwjob Never Happened" thread because it seems whether it did or didn't, the WWF's outcome sounds like it wwould have been the same regardless.
In the 1998 Royal Rumble against the Undertaker, he herniated two discs, with one being crushed completely. This forced him to retire after dropping the belt to Austin at that year's Wrestlemania.
What if he never got injured? He would have been able to participate in No Way Out of Texas: In Your House. But who would his opponent have been?
Would he still have wrestled Austin at Wrestlemania, dropping the belt? Or would he have been able to persuade McMahon in letting him keep it? By that time Austin's popularity was at an all-time high, so it'd be hard seeing Vince let HBK continue to keep the belt.
Also, the night after Austin won, HHH formed a new DX on RAW, claiming "HBK dropped the ball." Personally, I loved this version of DX. This obviously would have changed because HBK would still be around.
Not to mention HBK leaving was a big part of him getting help for his drug abuse and "finding GOD."
But just for the hell of it, HBK comes out of the Rumble against Undertaker injury free.
What happens?
In the 1998 Royal Rumble against the Undertaker, he herniated two discs, with one being crushed completely. This forced him to retire after dropping the belt to Austin at that year's Wrestlemania.
What if he never got injured? He would have been able to participate in No Way Out of Texas: In Your House. But who would his opponent have been?
Would he still have wrestled Austin at Wrestlemania, dropping the belt? Or would he have been able to persuade McMahon in letting him keep it? By that time Austin's popularity was at an all-time high, so it'd be hard seeing Vince let HBK continue to keep the belt.
Also, the night after Austin won, HHH formed a new DX on RAW, claiming "HBK dropped the ball." Personally, I loved this version of DX. This obviously would have changed because HBK would still be around.
Not to mention HBK leaving was a big part of him getting help for his drug abuse and "finding GOD."
But just for the hell of it, HBK comes out of the Rumble against Undertaker injury free.
What happens?