The only time it actually felt like Survivor Series had stakes
>>19423451based matchhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-1AUWHKIT0
i liked this one
>>19423451a meh ppv to cap off a very underwhelming half-year long arc
>>19423481Yeah I'm sure you would've spend 100 million dollars to buy out all those bloated Turner contracts, because you're so much smarter than Vince
>>19423488I am smarter than Vince actually. Smart enough to know that I should have brought back Russo. Anyway, they could have just waited those guys were available to do the invasion. In the meanwhile build up the WCW guys they had like Booker.
>>19423451>ITS ECW AND WCW VS WWE! THE DREAM MATCHES YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR! >…With two, count ‘em, TWO total guys that actually came from those promotions that hadn’t been in WWE for years!
>>19423488They would have made that money back and more if they had the actual stars of WCW and booked them properly. Instead they drove off legions of lifetime wrestling fans who never came back.
>>19423451for me it's 2015, especially as a Ziggler mark. I didn't read dirtsheets at the time so everything was a surprise.
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>>19423488Hogan, Flair, Nash and Hall were all on TV within 2 months of the Invasion ending you fucking pig.
>>19423501tbf austin did too which i'm guessing was part of the justification for him to be their leader but i don't think the general WWE audience knew that. i certainly didn't at 12.
>>19423548They ruined this because the authority then just came back
>team authority vs team cena>austin's career on the line vs team bischoff>team evolution vs team benoit winners run raw for 4 weeksthere's been multiple with stakes you fake fan piece of shit
>>19423616doesn't matter, OP is referencing it feeling like it had stakes DURING the match and as far as I know during the match you didn't have a time machine or crystal ball.
>>19423451People don't talk enough about how much the swerve double turn killed Kurt Angle's momentum. Even after it was revealed he was the mole or whatever, he should have just tapped Steve out to end the feud, instead he never really got one over on him and it felt like everything they built up with him as the savior of WWF was for nothing
>>19423451Why are kurtis, shane & steven on wcw/ecw? Beeg & y2j make more sense than those guys. Steven was at least in wcw & ecw so i get that i guess.
>>19423641Who was team benwahh
>>19423988Benoit, Jericho, Eugene, Maven I think
>>19423998sorry Orton, not Eugene. I was mixing up when Eugene became gm for a week and did musical chairs but that I guess was unrelated to this match.
>>19424005Just remembered that Euegene got a literal retard gimmick over so much that Haitch stepped in to work with him for a quick program. That's impressive.
>>19424010this is a top 5 segment in WWE history, don't give a fuck what anyone says https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqUrhCKwfjU everyone has a character here and it's perfect.
>>19424010The Eugene gimmick was sadly always destined to have a very short shelflife, and it killed Dinsmore's chance to ever get over as a serious wrestler.In fact, it was probably worse that Dinsmore got it over as well as he did. If it flopped out the gate, he would've had at least some chance to pivot away from it. Instead, he wasn't even able to go back to being himself.
>>19423451The Invasion sucked
>>19424713While true that it limited him in a way, I don't think OVW wrestlerman Nick Dinsmore would have gone anywhere back then. They had a bunch of those guys.
>>19424713There was always the out of a "I was only pretending to be retarded" heel turn.
