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BlackAchilles
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Watching Wrestlemania X8 aka Nu MetalMania w/performances by Saliva and Drowning pool 
Crazy how this was 17 years ago
Of the main event contestants, One still wrestles part time and is the booker man, and other is the geezer ace of the upstart competitor, and is also a rollin' stone, wherever he lays his hat is his home ...
Crazy how this was 17 years ago
Of the main event contestants, One still wrestles part time and is the booker man, and other is the geezer ace of the upstart competitor, and is also a rollin' stone, wherever he lays his hat is his home ...
Especially Ricky Morton... looked like a 40-year-old uncle that was having midlife crisis so he dressed like a teenager...
Honga Ciganesta
Japanese Keyhole Porn Don
All those gimmick matches look like a Russo Nitro (first hour of Nitro)
OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
I'm not seeing it
All those gimmick matches look like a Russo Nitro (first hour of Nitro)
keep releasing the JCP tapes
The Rainmaker
Mr. Money in the Bank
What's this?
BlackAchilles
Veteran
Judgement Day 02: Batista powerslams Trish in her match vs Stacy but Trish kicked out 
In kayfabe the women back in my day were so much tougher
In kayfabe the women back in my day were so much tougher
May 6th, 1996 Nitro
Malenko doing excellent work against Jushin Liger
Macho Man slapping that fukking ref for pushing him
The comical fukkERY at the end with Sting and Luger...lol
Malenko doing excellent work against Jushin Liger
Macho Man slapping that fukking ref for pushing him
The comical fukkERY at the end with Sting and Luger...lol
Put on the last Raw before Summerslam 2001 last night for some reason. The amount of people still around and in prominent roles 18 years later 
Paul Heyman: New creative head of Raw in 2019
Chris Jericho: Top star of AEW
JR: Voice of AEW
Stephanie McMahon: Still occasionally an on screen character, was a main character up until 2-3 years ago
William Regal: HHH's right hand man basically the second in command for the entire developmental system, on screen character for NXT
The Undertaker: Occasional on screen character, apparently to be featured more often in 2019
Kurt Angle: Regular on screen character until 3 months ago
RVD: Current talent for TNA
Rhyno: Current talent for TNA, just coming off an inexplicable 4 year WWE run
Tommy Dreamer: Current freelance talent for TNA, head of his own promotion, worked MLW and AEW this year as well
Jeff Hardy: Injured but current WWE talent
Lance Storm: Helping with TNA creative
Dudley Boyz: Bubba is headish of ROH creative, D-Von a high ranking backstage official for WWE
Michael Cole: Voice of WWE
Shane Helms: Has worked on screen and behind the scenes with TNA and ROH recently, currently an agent for WWE
Shane McMahon: All over Raw and Smackdown, currently feuding with seemingly the entire face roster
Charles Robinson: Still a WWE ref
Mike Chioda: Still a WWE ref
The show opens with 20+ minutes of Austin talking and brow beating various members of The Alliance. The first match isn't until 25 minutes in (which doesn't include the commercial time, so really closer to 30 minutes in) and was under 3 minutes long. Chris Jericho has a promo with Steph where literally all he does is make fun of her for getting a boob job for 10 minutes with the most childish and immature shyt and the crowd eats it up. This is also the show where Rock calls Shane both a p*ssy and a motherfukker and neither are censored
To build for Taker/Kane vs Kanyon/DDP in a cage, Taker/Kane absolutely demolished Palumbo and O'Haire in a cage, en route to doing exactly the same thing to Kanyon/DDP at Summerslam. Austin has multiple backstage segments where a member of the Alliance comes to him for motivation and he doesn't know who they are.
There are 7 matches on the show for a total of 23 minutes and 18 seconds of in ring action. The Alliance went 2-5, one match being Test vs Spike and the other Rhyno/Booker vs Rock/Jericho that needed outside interference from Shane and Stephanie to win. Booker T is basically called a retard who doesn't know basic math. He's the WCW Champion and headlining Summerslam against the Rock in 6 days.
It's really baffling how poorly the Alliance guys are booked outside of Rhyno and RVD. Even Booker is treated as a complete joke and is constantly dunked on and portrayed as the dumbest mother fukker around. RVD came off like a geek, too, as Kurt dominated him in a hardcore match which had run ins from Raven/Dreamer/Awesome and Kurt beat all of their asses too, then let Jeff Hardy pin RVD to win the Hardcore title while he had Dreamer in an ankle lock.
It's baffling that Vince thought it could possibly be good for business to constantly bury half the roster every week. What isn't baffling is how and why Vince got so complacent with putting no effort into his product. The reactions shyt like Jericho saying "boobies" got dwarfs anything you've heard on WWE TV outside of Bryan's biggest reactions at his hottest in the past 15 years. For all the nonsensical booking and Alliance guys looking like absolute trash, the crowd is still hot as fukk for everything (except X-Pac) By the time the crowds stopped reacting Vince was already deep into the groove of putting the most minimal of effort and still being rewarded for it and it was too late to change his ways.
From a logical booking stand point, WCW 2000 might be booked better than the Invasion, tbh. There is absolutely ZERO foresight or long term planning or thoughts that went into it. If you've been reading the Observer Rewind things on Wreddit, you'll see that plans changed every single week for months until they just said fukk it and hot shot the Invasion without pre-planning or any ideas of where it would go, Vince would decide he didn't like half the WCW guys and sent them to developmental, then decided there weren't enough WCW guys and no stars, so you got all the turns of WWF guys, no thought of what would become of all these guys they buried on TV for months after the angle was over, no plans of where the angle was heading or how it would end. Remember they didn't even have the rights to use the ECW name and logo and Vince said
and used them anyway?
This whole thing is so half assed, so poorly thought out (in that it wasn't thought out at all), you can trace all of the problems with WWE directly to this angle and period.
Paul Heyman: New creative head of Raw in 2019
Chris Jericho: Top star of AEW
JR: Voice of AEW
Stephanie McMahon: Still occasionally an on screen character, was a main character up until 2-3 years ago
William Regal: HHH's right hand man basically the second in command for the entire developmental system, on screen character for NXT
The Undertaker: Occasional on screen character, apparently to be featured more often in 2019
Kurt Angle: Regular on screen character until 3 months ago
RVD: Current talent for TNA
Rhyno: Current talent for TNA, just coming off an inexplicable 4 year WWE run
Tommy Dreamer: Current freelance talent for TNA, head of his own promotion, worked MLW and AEW this year as well
Jeff Hardy: Injured but current WWE talent
Lance Storm: Helping with TNA creative
Dudley Boyz: Bubba is headish of ROH creative, D-Von a high ranking backstage official for WWE
Michael Cole: Voice of WWE
Shane Helms: Has worked on screen and behind the scenes with TNA and ROH recently, currently an agent for WWE
Shane McMahon: All over Raw and Smackdown, currently feuding with seemingly the entire face roster
Charles Robinson: Still a WWE ref
Mike Chioda: Still a WWE ref
The show opens with 20+ minutes of Austin talking and brow beating various members of The Alliance. The first match isn't until 25 minutes in (which doesn't include the commercial time, so really closer to 30 minutes in) and was under 3 minutes long. Chris Jericho has a promo with Steph where literally all he does is make fun of her for getting a boob job for 10 minutes with the most childish and immature shyt and the crowd eats it up. This is also the show where Rock calls Shane both a p*ssy and a motherfukker and neither are censored
To build for Taker/Kane vs Kanyon/DDP in a cage, Taker/Kane absolutely demolished Palumbo and O'Haire in a cage, en route to doing exactly the same thing to Kanyon/DDP at Summerslam. Austin has multiple backstage segments where a member of the Alliance comes to him for motivation and he doesn't know who they are. There are 7 matches on the show for a total of 23 minutes and 18 seconds of in ring action. The Alliance went 2-5, one match being Test vs Spike and the other Rhyno/Booker vs Rock/Jericho that needed outside interference from Shane and Stephanie to win. Booker T is basically called a retard who doesn't know basic math. He's the WCW Champion and headlining Summerslam against the Rock in 6 days.
It's really baffling how poorly the Alliance guys are booked outside of Rhyno and RVD. Even Booker is treated as a complete joke and is constantly dunked on and portrayed as the dumbest mother fukker around. RVD came off like a geek, too, as Kurt dominated him in a hardcore match which had run ins from Raven/Dreamer/Awesome and Kurt beat all of their asses too, then let Jeff Hardy pin RVD to win the Hardcore title while he had Dreamer in an ankle lock.
It's baffling that Vince thought it could possibly be good for business to constantly bury half the roster every week. What isn't baffling is how and why Vince got so complacent with putting no effort into his product. The reactions shyt like Jericho saying "boobies" got dwarfs anything you've heard on WWE TV outside of Bryan's biggest reactions at his hottest in the past 15 years. For all the nonsensical booking and Alliance guys looking like absolute trash, the crowd is still hot as fukk for everything (except X-Pac
) By the time the crowds stopped reacting Vince was already deep into the groove of putting the most minimal of effort and still being rewarded for it and it was too late to change his ways.From a logical booking stand point, WCW 2000 might be booked better than the Invasion, tbh. There is absolutely ZERO foresight or long term planning or thoughts that went into it. If you've been reading the Observer Rewind things on Wreddit, you'll see that plans changed every single week for months until they just said fukk it and hot shot the Invasion without pre-planning or any ideas of where it would go, Vince would decide he didn't like half the WCW guys and sent them to developmental, then decided there weren't enough WCW guys and no stars, so you got all the turns of WWF guys, no thought of what would become of all these guys they buried on TV for months after the angle was over, no plans of where the angle was heading or how it would end. Remember they didn't even have the rights to use the ECW name and logo and Vince said
and used them anyway? This whole thing is so half assed, so poorly thought out (in that it wasn't thought out at all), you can trace all of the problems with WWE directly to this angle and period.
A quick addendum to the Invasion stuff:
At the end of it, the only guys actually brought in post WCW/ECW going under to still be on Raw/SD and not just weekend shows or off TV entirely: Booker, RVD, Lance Storm, Hurricane. Everyone else in the Alliance were already WWF talent. Most of the WCW guys got banished to Heat/Jakked right after Summerslam or in the next 2 weeks, meaning Palumbo/O'Haire, DDP, Kanyon, Mike Awesome, etc were all off TV for 3 months of the angle. Anyone with any name from the WCW crew, basically.
Also I didn't realize that they not only turned WCW as a company heel in ATLANTA, but also had WWF win the war in...The Greensboro Coliseum. The pettiness of this company
At the end of it, the only guys actually brought in post WCW/ECW going under to still be on Raw/SD and not just weekend shows or off TV entirely: Booker, RVD, Lance Storm, Hurricane. Everyone else in the Alliance were already WWF talent. Most of the WCW guys got banished to Heat/Jakked right after Summerslam or in the next 2 weeks, meaning Palumbo/O'Haire, DDP, Kanyon, Mike Awesome, etc were all off TV for 3 months of the angle. Anyone with any name from the WCW crew, basically.
Also I didn't realize that they not only turned WCW as a company heel in ATLANTA, but also had WWF win the war in...The Greensboro Coliseum. The pettiness of this company
BlackAchilles
Veteran
Put on the last Raw before Summerslam 2001 last night for some reason. The amount of people still around and in prominent roles 18 years later
Paul Heyman: New creative head of Raw in 2019
Chris Jericho: Top star of AEW
JR: Voice of AEW
Stephanie McMahon: Still occasionally an on screen character, was a main character up until 2-3 years ago
William Regal: HHH's right hand man basically the second in command for the entire developmental system, on screen character for NXT
The Undertaker: Occasional on screen character, apparently to be featured more often in 2019
Kurt Angle: Regular on screen character until 3 months ago
RVD: Current talent for TNA
Rhyno: Current talent for TNA, just coming off an inexplicable 4 year WWE run
Tommy Dreamer: Current freelance talent for TNA, head of his own promotion, worked MLW and AEW this year as well
Jeff Hardy: Injured but current WWE talent
Lance Storm: Helping with TNA creative
Dudley Boyz: Bubba is headish of ROH creative, D-Von a high ranking backstage official for WWE
Michael Cole: Voice of WWE
Shane Helms: Has worked on screen and behind the scenes with TNA and ROH recently, currently an agent for WWE
Shane McMahon: All over Raw and Smackdown, currently feuding with seemingly the entire face roster
Charles Robinson: Still a WWE ref
Mike Chioda: Still a WWE ref
The show opens with 20+ minutes of Austin talking and brow beating various members of The Alliance. The first match isn't until 25 minutes in (which doesn't include the commercial time, so really closer to 30 minutes in) and was under 3 minutes long. Chris Jericho has a promo with Steph where literally all he does is make fun of her for getting a boob job for 10 minutes with the most childish and immature shyt and the crowd eats it up. This is also the show where Rock calls Shane both a p*ssy and a motherfukker and neither are censored
There are 7 matches on the show for a total of 23 minutes and 18 seconds of in ring action. The Alliance went 2-5, one match being Test vs Spike and the other Rhyno/Booker vs Rock/Jericho that needed outside interference from Shane and Stephanie to win. Booker T is basically called a retard who doesn't know basic math. He's the WCW Champion and headlining Summerslam against the Rock in 6 days.
It's really baffling how poorly the Alliance guys are booked outside of Rhyno and RVD. Even Booker is treated as a complete joke and is constantly dunked on and portrayed as the dumbest mother fukker around. RVD came off like a geek, too, as Kurt dominated him in a hardcore match which had run ins from Raven/Dreamer/Awesome and Kurt beat all of their asses too, then let Jeff Hardy pin RVD to win the Hardcore title while he had Dreamer in an ankle lock.
It's baffling that Vince thought it could possibly be good for business to constantly bury half the roster every week. What isn't baffling is how and why Vince got so complacent with putting no effort into his product. The reactions shyt like Jericho saying "boobies" got dwarfs anything you've heard on WWE TV outside of Bryan's biggest reactions at his hottest in the past 15 years. For all the nonsensical booking and Alliance guys looking like absolute trash, the crowd is still hot as fukk for everything (except X-Pac
From a logical booking stand point, WCW 2000 might be booked better than the Invasion, tbh. There is absolutely ZERO foresight or long term planning or thoughts that went into it. If you've been reading the Observer Rewind things on Wreddit, you'll see that plans changed every single week for months until they just said fukk it and hot shot the Invasion without pre-planning or any ideas of where it would go, Vince would decide he didn't like half the WCW guys and sent them to developmental, then decided there weren't enough WCW guys and no stars, so you got all the turns of WWF guys, no thought of what would become of all these guys they buried on TV for months after the angle was over, no plans of where the angle was heading or how it would end. Remember they didn't even have the rights to use the ECW name and logo and Vince said
This whole thing is so half assed, so poorly thought out (in that it wasn't thought out at all), you can trace all of the problems with WWE directly to this angle and period.
Basically when they truly hooked me in as a fan, wrestling immediately had its biggest fall off, I'm Rodney Dangerfield status
Has there ever been a really thorough, accurate post mortem on the Invasion on YouTube?