"How The Invasion Should Have Been Booked."

[GearSolidMetal]

I haven't had a smile this big on my face throughout watching a 40-minute YouTube video in a very very long time.



Everybody knows the Invasion had so much potential to be the most epic storyline in the history of pro-wrestling with the most stacked roster in the history of pro-wrestling, and it was..... Well..... 'meh.'

I've seen a lot of 'If I was head write of WWE' videos, and some of them had great ideas and this one may be the absolute best.

Highly recommended.

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

Is this a game?

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Without listening is it realistic? They didn't have the contracts of Sting, Hogan, Steiner, Goldberg etc at that point so they can't use them .

 

[My Spot]

I believe the original plan was Austin and HHH would be the "main" story line all the way to WM18. Then the Game-uh tore his quad.
Vince also wanted to run a weekly WCW show but no one not even FX wanted rasslin programming after the MNW ended. So Raw was gonna be the "WWF" show and SD would become Nitro or Thunder with either Shane or Linda as the onscreen authority figure. But that got canked after the infamous Bagwell/Booker T match on the Tacoma Raw (and I'll never understand why they didn't just wait a week since the next Raw was in Atlanta).

 

[Frank23]

I raise you an almost 3 hour video.

 

[My Spot]

Without listening is it realistic? They didn't have the contracts of Sting, Hogan, Steiner, Goldberg etc at that point so they can't use them .

They got Flair the night after the invasion ended in Nov 2001.
Got Hall/Nash/Hogan in Feb 2002.
I think they could've gotten Sting had they not booked DDP like shit (who took a 50% pay cut).

 

[Thrawn33]

Even if Vince could've landed all the big WCW names there was no way his ego was going to allow them to go over without them first getting humiliated.

Hogan, Nash and Hall were probably the only exceptions, Hogan because he's too big to bury, and Hall and Nash were Cliq with Vinces son in law and boy toy.

WWE was going over WCW and ECW no matter what.

It sucks because there was huge potential, even with the big name holdouts

 

[Hellowhosthat]

They got Flair the night after the invasion ended in Nov 2001.
Got Hall/Nash/Hogan in Feb 2002.
I think they could've gotten Sting had they not booked DDP like shit (who took a 50% pay cut).

In retrospect maybe they should have carried on running Nitro for a bit rather than having the invasion being all "oh shit here comes Billy Kidman"

 

[My Spot]

In retrospect maybe they should have carried on running Nitro for a bit rather than having the invasion being all "oh shit here comes Billy Kidman"

They tried, even UPN and FX didn't want wrestling programming in the summer of 01 though. The bubble had burst.

 

[sleepwalk]

I think they could've gotten Sting had they not booked DDP like shit (who took a 50% pay cut).

And don't forget Booker T with The Rock's "Who in the blue hell are you?"

 

[TheBrownRanger]

I'd like to see more love for the Hardcore or Cruiserweight divisions when we retrospectively look at the Invasion storyline.

Would have been cool to see the WCW cruiserweights like Rey, Psicosis, Juventud, and Ultimo Dragon against WWF's LHWs/CWs.

The hardcore division would have been interesting with Norman Smiley and some of the other WCW guys that were signed to WWF developmental at that time like Crowbar, Reno, Mike Sanders, etc.

WWF had a good undercard with Crash, Essa Rios, The Godfather, Steve Blackman, etc that would have been interesting with those guys on like Sunday Night Heat.