Post by cordless2016 on Dec 18, 2010 14:48:42 GMT -5
Since the last thread got some good responces I decided to keep going through the years. The year 2000 was voted as above average by most of the voters, so lets continue on to the next year...
WWF 2001:
Main Eventers: Steve Austin, Triple H, The Rock, The Undertaker, Kurt Angle
Upper Mid-Carders: Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit, Booker T, RVD, Kane, Big Show, DDP
Mid-Carders: Edge, Christian, Test, Rhyno, Taz, Jeff & Matt Hardy, Eddie and Chavo Guerrero, Billy Kidman, Lance Storm, William Regal, Chris Kanyon, Albert, Tajiri, X-Pac, Mike Awsome, Hugh Morris, Billy Gunn, Chuck Palumbo, Sean O'Haire, Spike Dudley, The Hurricane
Tag Teams: Edge & Christian, Dudley Boyz, Hardy Boyz, APA, Brothers of Destruction, O'Haire & Palumbo, Storm & Hurricane, DDP & Kanyon, Booker T & Test
2001 is a hard year for me to rate. The first half was great, yet the second half was awful IMO. The Invasion was a huge part of this. This was a dream come true for every wrestling fan at the time, yet it turned out to be a huge nightmare.
The biggest problem that everyone can see is the lack of big name stars from WCW. There was no Sting, nWo, Flair, Steiner, or any of the other big name WCW guys. Just Booker T and DDP.
This leads to the next big problem that plagued the Invasion IMO, and thats the blatant burrying of the Alliance wrestlers. The Alliance was viewed as very inferior to the WWF because of the lack of big name stars, yet Booker T and DDP were big names from WCW. Contrary to what the WWE revisionists would like us to think, Booker T and DDP were big stars from WCW, yet were treated as inferior to even some of the WWF mid-carders. DDP could have been a huge draw during the invasion angle, yet he became Taker's bitch for 3 months, and was lucky if he got a punch or two in on Taker during that whole span. Hell, even Taker's wife pinned him at one point. Huge, huge waste. Booker T was treated somewhat better, but was still jobbing all of the time. He was called the "gem of the WCW aqusition," yet couldn't get one single victory in one on one action at any PPVs during the whole angle. This lead to another problem...
WWF guys joining the Alliance. Now I wasn't against some WWF guys joining it to even the score, yet when Steve Austin joins and becomes the main focal point of the whole Alliance, it sucked. The angle wasn't about WWF vs WCW, but WWF vs Austin. Adding Kurt Angle to the group didn't help either. And when guys like Test and Christian were treated as better than guys like Booker T and DDP, I couldn't take the angle any longer. Having Steve Austin beat the hell out of Booker in a grocery store for 10 minutes and Taker beat the hell out of DDP at King of the Ring for 15 minutes was hard to watch.
The year ended on a high note IMO though. Jericho finally winning the big one was great to see, and the whole product seemed to have that "attitude" feel to it again. Taker going heel was entertaining and Flair joining the company was cool(why the hell did they wait until after the whole Alliance angle was over to debut him?).
I'd have to give the year just average since the first half of the year was great.
So, how do you guys rate the WWF during 2001?
WWF 2001:
Main Eventers: Steve Austin, Triple H, The Rock, The Undertaker, Kurt Angle
Upper Mid-Carders: Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit, Booker T, RVD, Kane, Big Show, DDP
Mid-Carders: Edge, Christian, Test, Rhyno, Taz, Jeff & Matt Hardy, Eddie and Chavo Guerrero, Billy Kidman, Lance Storm, William Regal, Chris Kanyon, Albert, Tajiri, X-Pac, Mike Awsome, Hugh Morris, Billy Gunn, Chuck Palumbo, Sean O'Haire, Spike Dudley, The Hurricane
Tag Teams: Edge & Christian, Dudley Boyz, Hardy Boyz, APA, Brothers of Destruction, O'Haire & Palumbo, Storm & Hurricane, DDP & Kanyon, Booker T & Test
2001 is a hard year for me to rate. The first half was great, yet the second half was awful IMO. The Invasion was a huge part of this. This was a dream come true for every wrestling fan at the time, yet it turned out to be a huge nightmare.
The biggest problem that everyone can see is the lack of big name stars from WCW. There was no Sting, nWo, Flair, Steiner, or any of the other big name WCW guys. Just Booker T and DDP.
This leads to the next big problem that plagued the Invasion IMO, and thats the blatant burrying of the Alliance wrestlers. The Alliance was viewed as very inferior to the WWF because of the lack of big name stars, yet Booker T and DDP were big names from WCW. Contrary to what the WWE revisionists would like us to think, Booker T and DDP were big stars from WCW, yet were treated as inferior to even some of the WWF mid-carders. DDP could have been a huge draw during the invasion angle, yet he became Taker's bitch for 3 months, and was lucky if he got a punch or two in on Taker during that whole span. Hell, even Taker's wife pinned him at one point. Huge, huge waste. Booker T was treated somewhat better, but was still jobbing all of the time. He was called the "gem of the WCW aqusition," yet couldn't get one single victory in one on one action at any PPVs during the whole angle. This lead to another problem...
WWF guys joining the Alliance. Now I wasn't against some WWF guys joining it to even the score, yet when Steve Austin joins and becomes the main focal point of the whole Alliance, it sucked. The angle wasn't about WWF vs WCW, but WWF vs Austin. Adding Kurt Angle to the group didn't help either. And when guys like Test and Christian were treated as better than guys like Booker T and DDP, I couldn't take the angle any longer. Having Steve Austin beat the hell out of Booker in a grocery store for 10 minutes and Taker beat the hell out of DDP at King of the Ring for 15 minutes was hard to watch.
The year ended on a high note IMO though. Jericho finally winning the big one was great to see, and the whole product seemed to have that "attitude" feel to it again. Taker going heel was entertaining and Flair joining the company was cool(why the hell did they wait until after the whole Alliance angle was over to debut him?).
I'd have to give the year just average since the first half of the year was great.
So, how do you guys rate the WWF during 2001?
up in wrestling history. below average.
