What if Shawn had never been beaten up in Syracuse?

I gotta think no matter what, his feud with Douglas was the end of him in the IC ranks. The plan all along was for him to win the Rumble in 96 and then World Title at WM XII.

By that point he was way past that title so it was for the best that they put it on Douglas for the short term as during that time period his ''Dean'' gimmick was getting some good heat.

Big Mistake on Douglas part declining The Kliq. EVERY SINGLE MEMBER went onto big things....Douglas would have been no exception. Particularly when Hall, Nash & then Waltman took off...He would have been made.

Have to say him collapsing in the ring against Owen was a great storyline. With the story being public knowledge that he’d been beaten up, it was one of the few times that WWF got it 100% right. Too often mixing reality into the storylines ends up a pile of nonsense

I can see Shane getting a good push during the Attitude Era, definitely shedding the Dean Douglas character during an in ring promo. Much like Jeff Jarrett's 1997 return promo, but better.

Kliq or no kliq, Adam Bomb and Pierre were going nowhere. Adam Bomb's fate was sealed very early on in his WWF career and he went as far as he could as a heel and as a face. I'm glad Pierre has found success as CPO but he was with WWF multiple times and with WCW and outside a good push as Quebeccer Pierre (pretty much because there was so little tag team talent at the time) he didn't do too much noteworthy. As a kid, I wanted to see Shawn Michaels, Razor Ramon, Diesel and 123 Kid on a card.

That was common back then, usually if one person had a finishing move no one else was allowed to use the maneuver - as a finisher or even in a match. When the Warlord became a singles competitor his finisher was the over the shoulder running powerslam. But when Davey Boy returned to the WWF in late 1990, Davey used the running powerslam (which he used previously with the British Bulldogs) and the Warlord started using the full nelson. Same thing with Arn Anderson, he did the DDT in NWA/WCW but when he was in the WWF the DDT belonged to Jake so Arn never used it (he used the spinebuster). The thought process was if it was someone's signature move no one else should have it and if someone used someone else's finisher during the match and it didn't pin the opponent then it wouldn't make sense when it did, for instance if Arn used the DDT during a match and it didn't pin the guy it would look odd that Jake's DDT would. However, there were a few times that wrestlers used the same finishing maneuver, ironically one of those times was powerbomb. When Sid returned in 1995 as Shawn's new bodyguard he used the powerbomb. I think they even had a match to see who's powerbomb was more effective. With that being said, the powerbomb would have made a lot of sense for Adam Bomb. They could have done the sit-out (or sit-down) powerbomb for Adam Bomb to make it a little different than Diesel's.