How would the invasion angle been different had hhh not gotten injured right before?

>>18480011 (OP)
Invasion was poorly done all around. I’d have done it better because I’m not a retard like vince

>>18480011 (OP)
Still would have sucked since so many wcw guys were at home collecting ted bux

I wonder had he not botched the entire angle and buried everyone, if we would have got a WWE WCW like they did with ECW down the line.

>>18480011 (OP)
Still would have been shit since the proto invasion was the Radicalz being vanilla midgets.

>>18480292
>>18480309
About a decade ago I really got into the invasion angle and went back on the WWE network and watched a bunch of smackdowns and raw from that time.

>>18480313
I doubt it ecw made more sense because it was a smaller brand and has a theme with it I.e. “extreme wrestling”

>>18480323
Did you like them?

triple h would have pushed for jericho to defect so he could bury him

>>18480329
Yeah I thought it was a good storyline. I don’t into it because I saw the survivor series match on YouTube and wanted to see how it developed.

>>18480011 (OP)
It will be worse because that man went full dick head mode 2000 forward.

>>18480011 (OP)
Idk sorry

>>18480309
This is the real reason. But everyone acts like it was poor booking. Also when they finally got the stars it was Austin being a bitch about facing Hogan and getting booed.

the end of the HHH injury match (the Chrises vs Power Trip)
HHH mistakenly hits Austin with the sledgehammer
HHH doesn't get injured, he'd be feuding with Austin. they were going to split up the 2 Man Power Trip but that whole story went down the drain with the injury. we never got another HHH vs Austin match after No Way Out '01
so i think Austin and HHH would've had their own rivalry going on and wouldn't have been involved so much with the invasion story.
so this turned out to be bad for Austin because he got injured by Booker, that probably doesn't happen if Austin is working with HHH instead.

>>18481405
Austin turning heel was one of the dumbest fucking things WWE ever did.

>>18480309
Couldn't they have stalled the invasion angle on the midcard for a year? Wasn't that all the time a lot of the top guys that would come WWF had left?

>>18481424
2 man power trip explosion would have been a way better story, i wonder who would've been face and heel in that. that tag match, they should've called an audible and have HHH eat the pin since he just got severely injured and was obviously going away for awhile. instead you have HHH gone and Austin looking weak by getting pinned by Jericho
>>18481442
austin turning heel but still opposing vince could've worked somewhat. austin aligning with vince was a bridge too far. killed the company's most over feud and storyline. austin vs mcmahon was what launched that whole era and hooked that generation of fans and the WWF killed it, told you it was all fake bullshit and laughed in your faces

>>18481484
>austin turning heel but still opposing vince could've worked somewhat.
In one post you fixed the entire angle. This is why I laugh when people say that bookers and promoters shouldn't listen to fans.

>>18481479
It had been stalled half a year already.
Early 2001 already had signs the business was cooling off. WWF wanted to move on it in hopes WCW fans would come over.
However hardly any fans were still watching that shit in its final months kek.

>>18481424
pisses me off Austin never got his win back on Gaytch
Austin jobs to Gaytch then looks like a cuck by teaming up with him, the guy who masterminded his hit and run and put him on the shelf for a year. made no sense. almost as dumb as teaming up with vince

>>18481506
i always thought they were pretty half-ass with extending the olive branch to WCW fans.
i was already a WWF fan but if i was one of the WCW-only fans, i doubt i would've switched over.

>>18481532
>pretty half-ass with extending the olive branch to WCW fans
Bro they were no-ass with that olive branch. They made all the WCW guys look like fucking geeks and made it very clear that Vince had no respect for any of them, or the fans. He had already won at that point, but instead of capitalizing on the opportunity, he played it petty so he could gloat after nearly getting put out of business. I can kinda get where he was coming from, but he could have done so much more with what he had it remains one of the biggest missed opportunities in the history of wrestling.

>>18480011 (OP)
Wouldn't have really changed. The biggest problem with the invasion wasn't who was was on the WWE side, it was who WASN'T on the invading side. It's insane that Vince didn't just buy out the contracts of the bigger names from WCW and ECW, especially since he absolutely could have. As >>18481545 said, Vince had this weird pettiness that fucked everything over, because he wanted to rub it in the faces of Ted Turner

>>18481545
>>18481557
the very first person the WWF put on screen to show the WCW fans was Vince, Public Enemy #1 for any WCW fan. mindbogglingly stupid. no WCW fan is thinking "hey i'll watch WWF to see vince".
it should've been anyone else. a great respected WWF wrestler. one of their favorite WCW wrestlers switching over to WWF (in the hopes the fans will follow). anything.

>>18481574
on the simulcast episode, I would've tried to hook the WCW fans with a great match. either a WWF vs WCW dream match or a match showcasing WWF talent that would appeal to WCW fans.

>>18481579
it's crazy they flew shane to nitro. but didn't think to fly any wwf wrestlers to nitro and/or any wcw wrestlers to raw

>>18481589
i would have had Jarrett smash the guitar over Vince's head. that's how i would've kickstarted the whole thing. that kills TNA before it's even born like its baby hitler or some shit

That angle was the easiest free money gitch in wrestling and they botched it because of pettiness

>>18481601
Accurate