WCW Invasion for those watching at the time

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Amusingly it was the appearance of DDP on Raw that got me to follow wrestling against after I quit watching thanks to Russo booking in WCW (I never liked WWF before that, I was always more interested in WCW). I didn't come back full time to watching wrestling until Hogan/Rock at Wrestlemania made me a fan again.

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Jan 9, 2018 16:08:53 GMT -5 Cieto said:

My interest peaked when they made plans to run a WCW weekly show, which only turned out to be a one-off (if Im remembering that correctly), then the whole invasion angle just went left-field.

Wasn't Bagwell vs Booker T for the Title supposed to be their test for if a WCW Weekly Show would work? They held it in the second hour of RAW in front of fans who had been brainwashed to think WCW was shitty TV, so the match and the setup was highly shit on by the live crowd, and you can see droves of fans actually leaving the arena

Wasn't smart. 

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Jan 9, 2018 12:32:53 GMT -5 Feargus McReddit said:

Funny thing, I’m pretty sure the InVasion Angle turned me into a “smark”.

So when I was watching it, I didn’t think much of the storyline. It was cool to see new people or people I only heard about briefly and I at least enjoyed parts of the storyline.

Then there was the interview segment with Kurt Angle which had Shawn Stasiak run into the steel grating to try and attack him and, for reasons I only knew at the time, something clicked in my brain that made me realise that this whole thing was a farce, the WCW guys were deliberately made to look like crap and it was nowhere near as fun as it should have been.

So yes, Shawn Stasiak turned a 13 year old boy into a guy who’d be more cynical about WWE storylines from then on.

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The more I think about it, I don't get the business logic behind making WCW guys look bad

You've acquired the assets. Make them work for you. The workers weren't trying to put Vince McMahon out of business, they were just doing their job.

It's like Disney acquiring Warner Bros and insisting Thor must look stronger than Superman, or Batman being a klutz when he is awed by the manliness of Captain America. How do you expect to make money off it?

I get Vince McMahon was primarily buying the video library but that's like Disney saying they wouldn't make any more Star Wars movies and will only re-run or stream the first 6 movies.

But dis biznez and it's petty ego-stroking, hehe?

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I was 16 and liked it. I wished the bigger names were there but I genuinely got into it. The Austin turn was needed (although badly handled in places) because of the lack of talent from WCW comparable to the top WWE guys at the time. I hadn't completely gone off Shane at that stage either so that helped.

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Jan 9, 2018 23:18:54 GMT -5 cabbageboy said:

The oddity of the Invasion is that the actual PPVs and wrestling were far better than if they had brought in the big names. Summerslam 2001 is one of the best SS PPVs of all time. Unforgiven and No Mercy had a lot of terrific stuff on them as well.

Austin and Angle had their three matches over Summerslam, Unforgiven and No Mercy and all three were spectacular. Austin really made Kurt look like an absolute killer in their Summerslam match. Kurt eats three stunners and is still going, Austin just can't put him away.