Select Answers: WWE/WCW defections, merging titles, Bowens, United Empire (Patreon)

Welcome to Select Answers, a feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.

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Sean if you had a mega promotion where all the companies were competing for the same belts what belts would you keep from which company and what belts would you unify (ie everyone competes for the big gold belt but I’m unifying the WWE IC Title and AEW Continental title into a new championship)??

WWE Title on one brand, AEW Title on the other. The TNA/NWA/MLW title would get merged and effectively be the bubbling under champion headed towards the top. One major women's title per major show (so two), and a big midcard championship. One set of tag titles per gender, a trios title, an X Division title and then one midcard for the men's too. I think that's about where I would limit it.

In the Monday night wars, do you think that one more defection from WWE to WCW could have changed the everything that played out the way it did, and if so who would you pick as that person?

Yes. Sting as the vice versa. He almost never wrestled at the really hot period of WCW from 1996 to 1997 but was hugely important to the WCW end of things for the NWO storyline. I don't think there's anyone else who could have played well in the type of role he did. They needed someone very serious, a little younger (he was 37 compared to a lot of guys in their 40s) and that the audience loved. If he went to WWE in 1996 instead, that would have been huge for WWF, but more importantly, really hard for WCW.

If for some reason, WCW got Stone Cold, and ran him roughshod over all of their olds and built to Goldberg vs. Austin, it would have been enormous

Hey Sean, love what you and everyone does with Fightful. With Max Caster gone, any news on Bowens? Also, a cheeky second question, who would you have put in or add to the United Empire?

Bowens was at the NJPW dojo this past week, but he'd be able to go there regardless. His contract expired at the start of October, he wasn't in the Opps segment last week, but both sides seemed like they could end up reuniting fairly soon. He's still on the AEW roster page.

I would add Ilja briefly, and then have him sew some frustration between Will Ospreay and Andrade and lead to some feuds. I actually think that Ilja's best work is going to be as a heel in AEW.