What if WWE lost the Monday Night War?

3. The Elimination Chamber never exists

The Elimination Chamber probably never would have been had WWE not carried on

After the Monday Night War, WWE had the mainstream national wrestling audience all to itself, and WCW’s intellectual property at its disposal. Triple H reportedly championed the cause of staging a War Games match—a wish he’d never see realized until he had control of and had well established NXT a decade later.

In the interim, WWE created the Elimination Chamber as a nod to War Games, with elements of other gimmick matches intertwined and a new structure. While WCW was known to introduce new gimmick matches on the regular, rarely were they as well conceived as Elimination Chamber, besides which they wouldn’t have gone looking for an alternative to War Games. In all likelihood, the Chamber—which first appeared at Survivor Series 2002 with Triple H defending his World Heavyweight Championship and Shawn Micheals winning his last world title—probably never would have come together, much less become an institution, had WWE lost the War.