The Legacy of the InVasion

Should be good one. I remember ordering this PPV.

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Following the heinus attacks the previous Monday night on RAW is WAR, it was obvious that a certain Chairman wasn't going to be the happiest man in Madison Square Garden for SmackDown. He kicked off the show by further cutting a promo on pretty much the entire arena as well as the situation with his son, Shane McMahon owning the invading company, World Championship Wrestling. His wife, the CEO of the WWF, Linda McMahon then made her way out to the arena as she reminded us of Vince's humiliating of a handicapped Linda from March. Linda questioned Vince's competitive spirit and announced that she'd canned WWF's July PPV, Fully Loaded and replaced it with a special WWF vs WCW show titled WWF InVasion.

In the opening contest of this edition of SmackDown it featured Kane defending his WWF Intercontinental Championship against Albert, the man who attacked Kane on RAW. Kane looked like he had the match won but the referee was down and WCW superstar and Kane's brother's rival, Diamond Dallas Page cost Kane the title against Albert.

Then, in tag team action it was a one-night-only reunion for former Degeneration X members, 'The One' Billy Gunn and WWF Light-Heavyweight Champion, X-Pac as they took on Edge and Christian. Edge and Christian picked up the win after Gunn was pinned by Christian.

Then in an action to try and seperate a love story, Crash Holly persuaded MTV Tough Enough trainer, Jacqueline to fight his cousin, Molly as Molly teamed with boyfriend, Spike Dudley. It was a back and forth match but eventually, Molly pinned the putz, Crash. Jacqueline and Crash argued afterwards.

Up next, it was the insane and bizarre Perry Saturn with a mop and Terri, taking on Big Show with 'partner' Trish Stratus. Saturn and Show battled as did Trish and Terri at ringside but Show chokeslammed Saturn for the win.

Afterwards, it was time for the more featured bout here on SmackDown as the Dudley Boyz defended their WWF Tag Team Championships against Hardy Boyz in a tables match, identical to their match at Royal Rumble 2000, in the same venue. But WCW World Tag Team Champions, Chuck Palumbo and Sean O'Haire made a run-in as they put the Hardys through tables before the undercard WWF crew came out and chased off Palumbo and O'Haire.

In a match hyped through backstage segments throughout the evening, it would be Chris Jericho and a mystery partner taking on the duo of William Regal and Tajiri. Scotty 2 Hotty returned from ankle injury to team with Jericho as he pinned Tajiri for the win.

Finally, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, WWF Heavyweight Champion came out calling out any WCW superstar to a match at any time in any place, but tonight would be best. Tazz then got on the mic, saying how Austin brutalized Michael Cole last week on SmackDown and that he wanted Steve to apologize to him. Austin battered Tazz as he did even more to Cole before WCW Heavyweight Champion, Booker T came in and took out Austin before fleeing in a parked limousine in the parking lot as the WWF undercard crew were hot in persuit as SmackDown went off the air.[/center]

I hope you do the Invasion angle some justice man.

Interesting. I was actually at Madison Square Garden for those two shows lol.

What's with the blurry ass logos?

Should be good though man, looking forward to seeing how this goes.

The backstory was really well written. Although the Invasion angle sucked in the end I quite enjoyed a lot of the stuff during this time so I hope your version does well to. Wouldn't mind seeing some sort of different ending to this whole angle instead of WWF beating WCW at Survivor Series. Also please don't include ECW with WCW maybe make them their own group or something with RVD being their main guy or something. It could make it really interesting and give a lot of ECW people a good push.

Anyway looks good so far and I look forward to seeing more.

WWF Schedule posted.

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- The opening video for Sunday Night Heat played following the usual Attitude Era opening video package. Anyways, the opening video for Heat is the usual showing of some fire while 'Sunday Night Heat' scrolled across a short box in the bottom-right side of the screen. The logo appears as we go to the live arena.

- We get right into the action as the announcers begin to hype up the upcoming card, featuring our main event, Justin Credible taking on the returning D'Lo Brown. That's when the theme of Chris Kanyon played as he appeared out of one of the fire escapes in the audience, Kanyon showing off his ticket and sitting right there in the front row. Jonathan Coachman walks to ringside to catch a word with Kanyon as Chris brags about how if Booker T could invade the WWF, then why couldn't Kanyon. He then executed his nice catchphrase 'Who Betta Than Kanyon'. Love it.

- Jerry Lynn defeated Tajiri[/color] in 5:45. This match was a solid, hard-hitting contest between two former superstars from the defunct Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion. These two did so well in this match, the crowd that really cared for this contest chanted 'ECW' from start-to-finish. I should look up whether if these two ever had a match in ECW. Tajiri did some thunderous kicks to Lynn, him and his 'educated feet' as Jim Ross would say. Tajiri could of hit a Buzzsaw Kick on two or three occasions only for Lynn to dodge it. The Tarantula amused the audience but when Tajiri went to deliver that deadly green mist, Lynn ducked, kicked Tajiri in the gut and delivered a sit-out powerbomb (that's probably WWF making Lynn use that move as a finisher) for the win. ***1/4[/color]

- We see the two lightweight members of X-Factor, Justin Credible and WWF Light-Heavyweight Champion, X-Pac arrive, spoiler for the main event? Or hype. We go to commercials.

- A commercial for WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role plays. Good game.

- The APA, Bradshaw and Faarooq stormed out to the ring as they both stood in the ring, Bradshaw went on a rant about how the WCW think they can do as they please. Faarooq assures everybody that the WWF is their house and that it will stay like that for a long --Ahem-- DAMN time. Bradshaw says that their opponents for tonight are two former WCW alumni, the ever-so-famous Los Vilanos!

- The APA defeated Los Vilanos[/color] in 1:42. Yes, you did indeed read that correctly, this match lasted merely two minutes, which is pretty obvious considering that the two Vilanos are both midgets in comparison to the two APA members, Bradshaw and Faarooq. I'll give you the entire detail of this match. Bradshaw and Vilano V started off, lock-up but Bradshaw overpowered him, flipping him backwards. Vilano IV got the tag as Faarooq came in. Faarooq and Bradshaw double-teamed Vilano IV with a double flapjack. The APA with a Double Powerbomb on Vilano IV before Bradshaw took out Vilano V for the win. **[/color]

- We return to the arena where some WWF stock music plays, I heard it was called 'Doin the Joint', comically. Anyways, WCW Cruiserweight Champion, Hurricane Helms came out to join his WCW associate, Chris Kanyon in the front row.

- Taka Michinoku defeated Steven Richards[/color] in 6:03. This was an okay match though it seemed like a filler, but then again the entire undercard of a show here on Sunday Night Heat is considered filler. Michinoku and Richards did some decent in-ring moves as both men fought a mat-based contest involving some nice aerial attacks. Richards came out in his Right to Censor attire but after Michinoku lost momentum following a missed crossbody, he tore off his shirt and tie, removing his pants to reveal his old attire, some tights. Seems like he's gone off the RTC style. Michinoku eventually regained momentum and hit the Michinoku Driver for the final three count. No sign of Sho Funaki. **3/4[/color]

- We go to a graphic hyping up the upcoming main event of the evening, Justin Credible vs. D'Lo Brown up next. We go to commercials.

- Justin Credible defeated D'Lo Brown[/color] in 7:23. Justin Credible was accompanied by X-Pac here tonight, and I'd personally love to see these two men feud over X-Pac's WWF Light-Heavyweight Championship. Anyways, this was D'Lo Brown's in-ring return to the World Wrestling Federation since February I believe, D'Lo has thankfully dropped the absymal Foreign royalty gimmick, that team with Chaz (Headbanger Mosh) was awful. D'Lo came out to his 'You Bettah Recognise' theme. I loved that song, to be honest. These two both shared some nice in-ring skills as both men exchanged mat-based skills and hard-hitting moves, the match was fast-paced and D'Lo had the match won when going for his Frog Splash only for X-Pac to knock him down, Justin hitting That's Incredible (superkick) for the win. ***[/color]

- Following the contest, D'Lo Brown ran Justin Credible out of the ring, leaving him alone in the ring as X-Factor celebrated on the ramp and we go off the air.[/center]