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Post by Sephiroth on Sept 28, 2022 8:58:36 GMT -5
I feel this should have been a major subplot of the InVasion story. It seemed like the perfect fit; WCW vs WWF, USA vs Canada, two of the best technical workers in the biz, hell they even had a matching color scheme for their attire back then. It should have been the two of them week after week in a flag on a ole match, a submission match, s best of three falls match, a cage match, and so on. I am confident they would have delivered the goods each and every time. How could this not have happened?
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Sept 28, 2022 9:30:21 GMT -5
Because, Toni's from New Zealand, and she was six.
Idiot!
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Sept 28, 2022 13:22:01 GMT -5
I'd guess Vince just didn't see Storm as being on Angle's level, and in terms of star power he certainly wasn't wrong there.
Love me some Lance Storm, but I don't think putting him against Angle would've done him any favors. Picturing a lot of borderline squash matches, and Angle getting to dunk on him constantly in promos while Storm just has to lean into his lack of personality and take the sonning.
ETA: if Angle had actually joined the original ECW though, would've been one hell of a feud to have there.
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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 28, 2022 16:08:04 GMT -5
I think it'd have been a good match, but Storm by the time WCW ended wasn't really being treated as a high level guy. I think he still did well for himself in the WWF, but yeah, maybe a little underutilized in the InVasion itself, even if his superkicking Kane was one of the first shots.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Sept 28, 2022 18:00:46 GMT -5
Would have been some good matches, but Angle was on a different level than Storm by then. Lance didn’t have the star power to face Angle at that point. Had Lance jumped when Angle first started, they would have had a great IC title program.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2022 18:13:07 GMT -5
Lance Storm could've been a bigger star in WWE but to be honest, he wasn't on Kurt's level when it came to the character work.
I always popped when he said "If I could be serious for a minute..." though.
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Post by GodzillaIsMyMonster on Sept 29, 2022 5:38:09 GMT -5
It's always so weird to me that in Russo less WCW, LANCE STORM was given the super push.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2022 5:48:37 GMT -5
They had a match on Smackdown that was a great tv match for the era.
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Post by pinja on Sept 29, 2022 6:04:26 GMT -5
They could have had the typical angle (ho ho): Short rivalry, learn to respect each other, have a successful tag run that gets Storm over as the serious guy. I would have enjoyed it.
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Post by thegame415 on Sept 30, 2022 19:11:20 GMT -5
Was Storm really doing the pro-Canada stuff at the beginning of the Invasion?
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