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Post by Cvslfc123 on Jul 24, 2016 13:01:25 GMT -5
I enjoyed it at the time. However I was 9 years old so my perception would have been different. I remember it was exciting and everyone at school would talk about it. I was gutted when Kurt Angle joined them. Once I get around to watching that era again on the WWE Network I'll probably realise how bad it actually was.
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Jul 25, 2016 22:59:24 GMT -5
Exactly. A very, very depressing show. And the buyrate makes it even more depressing. My friends and I were fans of both WCW and WWE. Up here in Canada we could watch Nitro and Raw on different days so we were able to follow both. We were shocked when we heard Nitro was ending (none of us had access to dirt sheets) and when we saw the final Nitro we thought 'oh my god, this is actually happening'. Then we saw where it went, some of our favourites treated like nothing, the entire WCW roster sucking up to Stone Cold because they needed him and other garbage. For a fan of wrestling in general I don't think I've ever been more depressed. Yeah, as a WCW loyalist who was actually a fan of a lot of what the WWF was doing and was in awe of their ability to crank out an amazing product, it not only meant the stark, sad death of "my" promotion (even if it was purely in kayfabe and the actual death was months earlier), but it was also when I lost all faith in the WWF to be able to craft a compelling narrative. Had Chris Kreski been there to steer the Invasion, or, yes, even Vince Russo and Ed Ferrera, we would have possibly had the most compelling wrestling storyline of all time (even with the depleted WCW roster). I mean, say what you will about the man, but Russo's ideas for the Invasion do-over that got him kicked to the curb in his one day of reemployment by WWE in 2002 are more captivating than anything we got from the actual Invasion.
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