Where we're Val Venis & The Godfather during the invasion?

[TheDieselTrain]

The big 4 returns during the 2002 Royal Rumble were Val Venis, Godfather, Mr. Perfect, & Goldust. I know Goldust was a part of WCW when they were bought and Mr. Perfect was a free agent at the time. What of the other two? I don't recall either of them being injured at the time. Where we're they during this time?

[Push R Truth]

Supplyin' and Demandin'

[A damn road sign]

At home washing their tights.

[Deleted]

Val Venis;

When RTC broke up and the Invasion began, Venis disappeared from WWF television while recovering from surgery on his hip to remove bone spurs from his motorcycle racing days. After recovering, he was kept off television along with several other wrestlers, for whom WWE bookers could not come up with any storylines.

[Deleted]

There were a lot of guys who were around at the beginning of the Invasion who just vanished because, with SO many people on the active roster, there was just nothing to do with them.

Venis had an injury to deal with.
Godfather went off the road.
Blackman went down to their Heartland Wrestling Association developmental camp, and eventually left the company while there.
Same with Haku and Bossman, IIRC.
Essa Rios went off the road and left.
Grandmaster Sexay was fired trying to cross the Canadian border with drugs.
TAKA was there for most of the Invasion, but left the company shortly before its end in November.

[thegame415]

I believe Godfather actually appeared on Raw with a group of others the night after KotR as a bunch of guys trying to chase out WCW.

[lildude8218]

Secretly married