Invasion revisited

[Mr.LV]

Who knows their might be a invasion 2 when TNA crashes and burn and get bought out by WWE.

 

[illestni99ainne]

I dont think vince has any interest in etna product outside a few wrestlers.

 

[Broddie]

Who knows their might be a invasion 2 when TNA crashes and burn and get bought out by WWE.

TNA doesn't have even a quarter of the brand awareness dubya see dubya had by it's end. Most people will be like "who?" I would love to see Joe Vs. Punk and Aries Vs. Bryan on a higher platform than ROH though.

The Invasion is a case of Vinnie Mac's gargantuan ego keeping him from making more money than he eventually did with the angle. I would've booked it like this myself

The guys who were available then (like Booker) "invade" WWF. They prove to be a threat and go back and forth with WWF for months one upping each other. You could even have dudes like The Radicals and Y2J align with them and go back to WCW.

Keep them feuding for the year ending with WWF being the victor and WCW vowing revenge and eventually bringing in the heavy hitters (NWO, Goldberg, Steiner etc) to help them retaliate since their contracts with AOL/Time Warner would be up by then.

With the full WCW roster now styling on WWF Vince has no choice but to turn to Paul Heyman and align with ECW to help them take down WCW for good (since WWF and ECW already had an amicable relationship at that point). That shit would've been way more entertaining and even could've set up the return of Nitro as a seperate show and everything.

Too bad the ball was dropped so badly.

 

[jono]

The names weren't there. It wasnt even a proper invasion because it was lead most by WCW's B-team and little known ECW acts (with the exception o Dreamer and RVD)

 

[VIBE]

So much more could've been done. Like giving WCW it's own show, keeping Nitro around. Keep the rosters separate, wouldve made for interesting "drafts" and good feuds with actual sides people could choose.

Burying it all so quick was bad for business.

 

[jono]

So much more could've been done. Like giving WCW it's own show, keeping Nitro around. Keep the rosters separate, wouldve made for interesting "drafts" and good feuds with actual sides people could choose.

Burying it all so quick was bad for business.

He didnt have a place to keep running Nitro. I guess he could have used it to replace SD but I don't think that would have worked.

He had to dissolve WCW because there was nothing that could be done with it at that time. The roster was too big also which is why so many people got released. They wouldn't have been able to run WCW separately at that time. Notice when they did the brand split the rosters were short for both brands.

 

[TheBossman]

the ecw/wcw invasion was a fail for th esimple fact vince didn;t want to prop the other companies talents with his.

booker t looked like a fool vs rock and austin, hell even against hhh at wm 19.

ddp looked weak, and tyall already know about goldberg.

only people that came in during that time who got shine was RVD.

 

[herbalism101]

Didnt they tweak the invasion due to HHH's injury?

Vince has always had a tendency to bury wrestlers from his competition unless they are extremely over with the fans. That's why RVD, Booker T and the Dudley Boys actually got to hold titles and carve out a legacy in WWE whereas the others just fell to the wasteside getting in where they can fit in.

That being said, I found Austin most entertaining during the invasion

 

[TheBoyRo]

thinking about it now, it was a failure, i always thought the reason why they started it when they did was cause of HHHs quad injury, there was no need to start it right after that, they could have wait til the year was over and when the contract of wcw wreslrets were up and then slowly start an epic angle, HHH coulda still had his moment and won the wwf title at mania, then have maybe eric bischoff watch from the entrance, and HHH could say the night after on raw that bischoff "ruined his monument" and he can confront him and then have one of the wcw guys (goldberg, sting, booker t, etc) back up bischoff and have another one make an appearance on smack down, hell if you think about it, at the time in 2002, all the themed ppvs woulda make perfect sense for the invasion (backlash, judgement day, king of the ring, etc) that shit coulda been so much more

 

[Mr. Rich Pryor]

wat a fail & fuckery dat shit wuz! goooood lawwwwd!

 

[TRILLip Brooks]

Shitty angle and nothing but Vince feeding his ego trying to prove that the WWF was far more superior than WCW and ECW.

Never understood why he waited till after The Invasion angle to bring over the NWO, Flair and Goldberg. It was WWF best vs WCW's mid card

Not to mention like always, they just had to make everything about the McMahon.

 

[TRILLip Brooks]

Didnt they tweak the invasion due to HHH's injury?

Yeah, I think HHH was going to be the one that double crossed WWF and joined the Alliance, not Austin.

 

[Trollio]

scust

 

[dalyricalbandit]

ya got to remember tho that wouldve been a whole lot of contracts/Money, thats two whole rosters/companies all that tv time wouldve been hard to work... shit the roster now days has trouble getting work and its prob just half of what it was during the invasion

 

[Serious Juice Mayne]

Nigga had DDP booker t Dudleys and RVD as "wcws ecws best" .....

:/

 

[genocidecutter]

That shit sucked

 

[5th Letter]

They shouldn't have even done an invasion angle. Just bring in the wrestlers they want and incorporate them in normal story lines. In their own subtle way they could still do the WCW vs WWF thing. Not enough big names outside of Booker T and DDP to pull it off.

 

[Copper]

Hated how the McMahons were the central part of every angle

 

[DOPEdweebz]

Shit was Power Rangers in Space... (yall nerds understandz me)

 

[Cymicaldane]

Come on people. How would you expect anything else from a roster that included people like Shawn Stasiak and Chuck Palumbo and even Kronik