In terms of crack fantasy rebooking ideas, here is one that came to me in a dream last night.
During the start of the Russo era, Ming and Hacksaw Jim Duggan team up as the new “All-American Miracle Violence Connection”. Ming reveals he's gotten his American citizenship and is repackaged as an American loving freedom loving badass. He hooks up with Jim Duggan, who also loves America, and they take on the “Miracle Violence Connection” moniker. Which in turn, pisses off OG Miracle Violence Connection member Dr Death Steve Williams, who has gone full anti-American Weeb in terms of thinking Japan Superior > America Inferior. Williams (with no Oklahoma) forms his own anti-American/pro-Japanese group with the Young Dragons and Jamie Noble (who would be presented as a redneck weeb like Williams) and they would feud with the American loving goody goody Ming and Jim Duggan. Ming and Duggan would be aided in their war by Three Count, retooled as an America loving boyband and a vehicle for Shane Helms to get over in since we know he will be the member of Three Count that has an actual future.
Which in turn would have given us an undercard of Ming vs Williams, Duggan/Helms vs Young Dragons, and Helms vs Noble driving storylines in the fall of 1999/spring of 2000 and get Helms and Noble over with fans and have them ready to replace Benoit/Guerrero when they bail for WWE.
Jesse Baker
I like that you warned me right in the subject line.