What if the Invasion angle was built up properly?

WCW went down to WWF at the end of March 2001, so there would of been no time to put together programs and scrap everything for WM 17.
So ideally they should of been kept separate for awhile. Have Shane move his WCW to Thursdays in Smackdowns slot eventually, maybe sometime after July. SummerSlam could of been the 1st Co-Branded PPV. This would be the 1st time all talents were in the same arena at the same time. Have a few verbal confrontations backstage or something.
After SummerSlam have each brand invade each other slowly (example Sting drops from rafters and drops Undertaker with the death drop on an episode of Raw).

Survivor Series rolls around and there is finally a WCW vs. WWF tag match (only match between them on the card)

Booker T, DDP, Scott Hall,& Kevin Nash vs. Triple H, Chris Jericho, Kane, Mankind.

Royal Rumble each brand has 15 names and crap gets out of control. Goldberg wins the Rumble and challenges Stone Cold for the WWF Title at Wrestlemania 18.

WM 18

WWF title Match
Stone Cold vs. Goldberg

WCW title match
Hollywood Hogan vs. The Rock

Tag Title unification

Hardy Boys vs. The Outsiders

Sting vs. Undertaker (Deadman gimmick)

Ric Flair vs. Triple H

The Steiner brothers vs. Kurt Angle & Chris Benoit

DDP, Lex Luger, Booker T vs. Edge, Christian, & Kane.

I'd have ECW debut and destroy the winner of the main event. They would start off with
RVD, Tommy Dreamer, Dudleys, Taz, Raven, Shane Douglas, Sabu, & Sandman.

If they waited until 2002 to do this angle then the whole thing would've worked out in the long run. They rushed it and in turn the whole angle failed.

I personally would've started it right after WM 18 and ended it at the SSeries that year with a big WWE vs WCW showdown with McMahon and Bischoff in their respected teams corners.

As awesome as it would have been to see guys like Nash, Hall, Hogan, Luger, Sting, Steiner, Goldberg and such be a part of the WWE in 2001, you can't really blame them for sitting at home for two years and collecting guaranteed money from Turner still.

I do remember hearing rumours of Smackdown becoming a WCW show during that time frame. I guess Vince really waited a year later and had it be just Raw and Smackdown as two separate brands.

Yeah if I were to had booked the inVasion angle I would've held it off until Survivor Series. (Also no Austin heel turn) Where like WeWantBritishBulldogs said, have Sting drop from the rafters during a Taker match (preferably in a buried alive match) and Scorpion Death drops him signaling a WCW invasion has come.

More and more WCW stars come and invade the WWF during matches and promos. Then at the Royal Rumble the nWo debuts (Hogan, Hall, and Nash) and wins the Rumble, Hogan defeats Jericho at No Way Out, and defeats the Rock at Mania X8. meanwhile down in the card Austin defeats Goldberg, Hall and Nash become new WWF Tag Team Champions, Vince and Flair have their RR '02 match here, and The Undertaker defeats Sting (10-0)

Then after 6 months I would end the inVasion angle at Summerslam '02 where Austin defeats Hogan for the WWF Title and ends WCW for good.


Cheers

Wasn't their a plan for a Invasion 2.0 in 2003?

Good thing they didn't

This angle like many others will forever be discussed and ripped apart by fans. But this time I hope to get everyone in for full opinion and perspective on the angle. I am going to lay it all out and say I did like the angle, but I didn't like the people who portrayed the roles. 

As others have stated they went to fast on the Invasion angle and really only had Booker T & DDP as true top stars for the angle,which is why so many WWF guys had to join and also ECW.If the WWF had such a hard on to do the angle super fast like they did they should have tried and bought out some of the bigger name stars that where sitting at home or worst case turn some of the the WWF guys that had strong ties to WCW like Chris Jericho & Big Show instead of guys like Austin & Angle.Also should have treated Booker T & DDP as much bigger stars and treats then the jokes they where after the first month or two.


Ideally they would have waited until '02 or '03 to do a proper invasion with the likes of Bischoff,Flair,Hogan,Goldberg,Hall,Nash,Booker T,Steiner,Mysterio...ect which would have been huge.