Playaz Eyez
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Wasn't the story that Vince thought Christian was ugly?
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that's where these pics came from
Positives and Negatives from The Invasion
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yes
that's where these pics came from
Actually I think Test was pretty impressive booting the fukk out of everyone. He had a lot of intensity at the time, juiced to the t*ts, real mean streak, some good hoss battles with Kane.
He was arguably the hardest pushed Alliance guy in the last 3-4 weeks, which again says everything about the angle as a whole. It's kind of weird that after pushing him so hard at the end of the angle that they really didn't do anything of note with him afterwards. He just became another mid card heel to put over bigger faces.-
They literally only needed to build up 3 main eventers
They had 2 in DDP and Booker T. Based on RVD popularity building him up would’ve took no time.
Which other 2 talents could’ve filled those roles?
They had 2 in DDP and Booker T. Based on RVD popularity building him up would’ve took no time.
Which other 2 talents could’ve filled those roles?
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NYChase718
Veteran
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Vince making austin give him the name C.L.B
Creepy little b*stard
Microfracture
Real G's move in silence
fukk Edge
Vic Damone. Jr
Don't support the phonies, support the real
The hell is this “peeps” nonsense?Wasn't the story that Vince thought Christian was ugly?
FunkDoc1112
Heavily Armed
Why does this board and only this board hate Edge so much?
Other boards are ultra gay and Edge ain't shyt. Never was.
I wanna know the orginial plans if HHH never got injured.Went back and read the OP and I agree with pretty much every bit of this. I vividly remember this in real time and 2001 was but fun and frustrating as hell. The part you mentioned about the crowd was spot on. I think people forgot how hyped crowds used to be, not that "THIS IS AWESOME" look at me shyt these crowds do today, REAL crowds.
The part about Edgethough I think the general TSC disgust of Edge is very weird, I get what you were saying about Edge in 2001. Edge was maybe 75% face/25% heel at this time, but in general, he was just MEH in 2001, and didn't really start gaining anything personality wise on his own until when he came back from his injury in 2004 as a tweener. That's when you really started seeing who he could be on his own, and Lita put him over the top the next year.
It was disgusting that they reduced the entire Invasion angle to McMahon family drama and WWF vs WWF. Just look at the way the multi-man matches are set up:
Look at the Alliance side. Rhyno was popular, but still a midcarder. The Dudley Boyz were stale as hell like you said. DDP and Booker T were WCW's two biggest stars (who accepted buyouts), but DDP had already be demolished and embarrassed at this point. Booker T may have been the only legit Alliance headliner here (but we know what happened post-Alliance and pre-King Booker). Meanwhile, look at that star studded Team WWF lineup....
Now look at this Winner Take All match. Team Alliance is WWF made Kurt Angle, WWF made Stone Cold, SHANE fukkING MCMAHON, Booer T, who though still was very popular, was coming off having Shane at ringside as he lost to the Rock at Summerslam (Booker hitting his Scissors Kick and taking 40 seconds doing the spinarooni then walking right into a Rock Bottom was one of the dumbest things ever). Booker T was also two time tag champion with Test at this point, meaning they viewed Booker as a very popular midcarder. Ditto to RVD. Look at that WWF lineup. Big Show til this day can be flipped on and off to look like a force, but you basically had main event stars all across the board. The WWF never ever planned on making WCW guys look legit, and there's a reason people have tuned out in droves for years. If you come from another company, you will be dismantled and built back up in the way the WWE sees fit.
At the time HHH went hurt they were still in preliminary stages of getting WCW back off the ground as its own separate brand, the whole Invasion thing was a last minute reaction to USA saying no. It would have been WCW running as its own thing and then a brand split/draft like what eventually happened in March 2002 (and was planned to happen about 5 times prior to that).
InstantKlassik
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RVD should’ve beat Austin for the title. He was at his height and the most over babyface during this time and they dropped the ball..as usual.
NYChase718
Veteran
Always forgot eddie and benoit were gone here
They couldve defected back to wcw/ecw
They couldve defected back to wcw/ecw
OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
RVD vs Angle vs Austin
