Mostly from WWE but a few from WCW. Give me your thoughts/booking ideas.
1.Austin did not get injured at Summerslam 97
Would he have been world champion sooner? Would he have lasted beyond 2002 and be even more popular than the Rock. Perhaps even top face for as long as Hogan. I remember he was scheduled to face Bret Hart in England during the USA vs Canada feud. That would have been interested to see if the crowd actually cheered Austin instead of Hart. Instead on that PPV Hart faced Undertaker and was given a mixed reaction.
2.Bret Hart stays with WWE in 1997.
The USA vs Canada feud seemed to finish nicely (though also controversially) at Survivor Series 1997. Would it have dragged on had Hart stayed? Would he have faced Austin at WM 14? Would he have remained heel and joined Vince? Would Vince have even turned heel if it was not for the screw job?
3.Owen Hart does not die
A sensitive one I know. Would he have became champion like Benoit was destined to become?
4.Triple H was not injured in 2001
Some suggest he may have turned face anyway and feuded with Austin
and WCw
1.The "fingerpoke of doom" did not happen
I think Wolfpac would have turned heel anyway with NWO Hollywood going face
2.Hogan agrees to put Bret Hart over
Unlikely but if he did then it should have happened when Hogan returned as a face.
1. Austin would probably be retired anyways by late 2000s or still be wrestling had not for that neck injury. But with the PG crap, no way he was going to make it. I don't like the DX version of 2006-2010 either due to being PG and not to mention it was watered down for kids. They also even had kids and during the Attitude Era, they don't have that. DX was mostly teenaged frat boys who caused a lot of trouble in the WWF/E and defined authority but not as much as Austin. BTW, Undertaker was booked to defend his WWF/E title against Bret Hart and Austin didn't have a neck injury at that point until the Summmerslam PPV event.
2. It's no secret that Bret Hart didn't like the direction that the WWF/E was going at that time because Bret already experienced all the stuff that Vince McMahon put out before his departure in late 1997. The reality-based, unpredictable, clad exposed women from one the things you see in porn movies, male/female sexuality to draw in horny teens, off-color adult humor from Trash TVs, and extreme violent programming was mostly all the things the almost bankrupt WWF/E needed to compete with the already richer and popular WCW who was killing Vince McMahon's company in ratings and buyrates for all of 1996 to half of 1998.
If Bret stayed in the WWF/E, that means Vince McMahon would had to put up with Bret Hart with all the "Attitude Era" storylines that he drew up and dictates how Vince should run because Bret wanted the WWF to soften up it's adult-oriented product. In October 1997, Bret Hart was willing to take less paycut if Vince had any future plans for him. Originally, Bret was supposed to keep the WWF title in two more PPVs of 1997, lose the title to HBK at Royal Rumble 1998, then win it back at No Way out 1998, then drop the belt to Austin in Wrestlemania 14. Then Vince planned on making him a mid-carder for the rest of his career along with HBK. Apparently, it didn't happen because the WWF/E was suffering through a lot of financial problems thanks to WCW and Bret Hart didn't like being out of the main event spotlight so he, encouraged by Vince, decided to sign with WCW who was offering him more money. HBK was out of the WWF(now WWE) spotlight for four years due to back injury in 1998.
The "Mr. McMahon" character would probably still be created but it will not mean as much if it weren't for the Montreal Screwjob. It was that night that his character was born when Vince double crossed Bret out of his WWF championship for reals and it got the fans to legitimately hate him. Because of it, it made Vince created the "Mr. McMahon" character the ultimate evil owner of the WWF/E because of the heat he received from the Montreal Screwjob and was the driving force of winning the Monday Night Wars.
3. Owen Hart actually was close to retiring by the end of 1999 to spend time with his family when his contract was up so chances are he will not be one and planned on being a gym teacher. Owen was offered a WWF/E champion push a chance but turn it down because it would require him to be on the road even more.
4. Triple H would probably be a member of the WWF team against the Alliance so he was being face like the others in the process and feuded with Austin as well. That we may never know.
WcW
1. WCW would still be exploded anyways with or without the FPOD but this one hurts WCW in the process more. It was a badly runned company with poor management since it's launch of WCW Monday Nitro in 1995. The nWo angle was good in 1996 which blew the WWF away but it got stale and boring withing two years that it drove WCW fans away and tuned into the WWF which had it's new "WWF Attitude" concept that launched the company into prominence again. WCW never again had it's mature feeling because their parent company Time Warner ordered WCW to be a family-friendly show similar to the Hogan Era of the 1980s whereby the WWF allowed a lot of inappropriate stuff to be put on national TV. Also the writers in WCW was mostly bad.
2. Hogan would never put over Bret or any other stars in the matter. WCW had 0 idea what to do with Bret Hart so they put him in pointless feuds while the stale nWo was the main focus of WCW. That i can't answer since i never watched a single WCW show in my life(I was a WWF fanboy back then lol).