Where Would The Ultimate Maniacs Have Gone?

One option could be Crush. He was over during that time so it couldve been a good rub if he teamed with his good friend in Mach

With Hogan gone, maybe they could have swayed Sid to come back? He wasn't in WCW until mid 93.

That definitely isn't the worst idea and would have propelled Crush higher up the card than he ever actually get.

Even as a Doink guy, Crush was done after that feud. He lost all of his momentum. Doink took him out of the Rumble, beat him at WrestleMania and then cost him the Intercontinental title at King of the Ring. Totally buried Crush.

For years I've joked with my brother that we should watch the famous "Savage/Crush Summit" on Raw as they called it and take a shot every time Crush says "braddah." Probably the most efficient way to get blackout wasted in about three minutes.

I think the entire scenario here is absurd. What's the origin of that story? I first heard it from Scott Keith. 

Let's think about this. First, McMahon would not have wanted a babyface match to headline 1993. Savage and Warrior was plausible since they used Flair as the instigator. It's a kind of heat by way of deception. Otherwise, McMahon would not have wanted a face match because those divide the fan base and they don't draw. Warrior and Hogan did not draw money and the view was that Warrior's winning only served do upset Hogan fans who then never got behind him. The plan was always to establish Razor Ramon as credible. Having Warrior against Hart risked sabotaging Hart. In the event of a no decision, Bret would have looked inferior for one who badly needed a credible victory. Warrior could have done a job, but Hart gets heat for that. 

I think Warrior would have had a feud with Nailz but the company was going to hit a creative impasse with him. Warrior's strength was in having really good to great freak show matches. By 1993, there was no longer a roster that could suit him in the post-steroid era. Maybe a feud with the Giant Gonzalez but would McMahon really have wanted that? Warrior could sell but I don't see any point to this feud unless Giant Gonzalez was creatively exhausted after a feud with the Undertaker, only for Warrior to squash him later.

Warrior was drawing as well as the rest of them in the post-Hogan era. That's no fault of his as much as Hulk Hogan was that special of an attraction. No one could follow that act. The question then becomes, on top of his HGH use, whether Warrior was worth keeping around? Probably not

I also don't think Warrior's heart was into it after his 1991 sacking. I think, despite the character assassin job done by a lot of jealous wrestlers, that Warrior was a really passable to good worker from 1989-1991. I've seen a lot worse, whether it's a plodding Crush or a routine worker like Charles Wright. Warrior bumped, he had fire, he sold very well. A lot of the resentment towards him, besides the toxic WWF machine waging a propaganda war against him, is that he got rich, then left the cult-like industry.

Warrior lost a lot of his mystique without steroids. I think Papa Shango was a good feud on paper except Shango couldn't work. I think Warrior was less in tune with his character by 1992 without the drugs. I think he was legitimately heartbroken, justified or not, when McMahon fired him. I think he took the money and went through the motions. Sad though. He's probably my favorite wrestler of all time. I think Hulk Hogan was a much more varied and complete worker, and Warrior was much more limited. Warrior did awesome freak show matches though. By the end of 1992, I think WWF had no idea what to do with him

Let's assume Warrior doesn't get busted for steroids...

Scott Hall has said in shoots that the plan at Survivor Series was for him to "break" Machos leg and send him into commentary. However, Bruce Prichard said on his pod last week that he doesn't remember ever hearing that as creative.

I'd theorize original plans were for a warrior/nailz feud in the winter. I think if Warrior hadn't been fired, Nailz probably beats Bossman at SVS.

I think Razor does put Macho out of action which builds him even more for the title match with Bret at Rumble.

By the time WM9 rolls around, MAYBE we see Warrior and Macho take the place of Hogan and Beefcake against Money Inc for the tag titles. Or Macho simply continues in his commentary role as he did, and Warrior is used in the "attraction" spot. Maybe he jobs to Yoko to build him up? Maybe a feud with Luger?

Regardless, the two of them as a unit didn't look to last past SVS in my opinion.