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Well there's no telling what would have happened with WCW as far as the nWo angle is concerned. If you watch the rise and fall DVD, Mike Graham mentions that he and others attempted to get Hogan into WCW prior to Bischoff being in charge, but the money wasn't right. I think at some point Hogan would have showed up anyway, but there's no way to know how the whole nWo thing would have played out. It may have happened anyway as well because Hogan was also trying to do something that hadn't been done yet, he just had Bischoff giving him ideas. I would say that the Monday Night Wars might not have ever happened because it seemed that Bischoff was the main person behind getting the competition going and trying to put the hurt on the WWF.
I absolutely think the Attitude era still would have happened. Some of those Russo interviews shed some light on how it happened in the first place, if they're true. Russo and his backers believed that they needed to do something drastic because too many fans were becoming aware of the backstage politics and such. He seemed to indicate that the attitude transformation had nothing to do with WCW and its popularity at the time. It almost makes sense though because that era really didn't kick into high gear until '98 or so. The nWo had been around for nearly two years already and was getting stale fast.
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