How would you book the Invasion angle

WWE & ECW Vs WCW & nWo.

Two allies Vs two enemies who had joined forces to destroy the WWE. 

But also think about all the dream matches that could have happened if this Invasion angle were done right such as:

Sting vs Undertaker
Hulk Hogan vs Stone Cold Steve Austin
Kurt Angle vs Mr Perfect
Goldberg vs Stone Cold Steve Austin
Ric Flair vs Kurt Angle
The Rock vs DDP
Triple H if he were healthy vs Kevin Nash

While it is so easy to look back and say WTF for many of the things that happened during this angle. I can honestly say that at the time I was freaking hooked and loved every minute of it.

I think, as others have said, I'd have moved WCW into the rotation of weekly programming on a temporary basis with their own PPVs, house shows and storylines for one year.

For the first six months have them as totally separate with Shane "owning" WCW.

After a while, Bischoff makes a re-appearance with all the talent that never made into the InVasion - essentially the new and final version of the nWo.

He begins to run roughshod over the WCW roster and de-rails the weekly programme, professing that WCW was dead as long as a McMahon was in charge.

He begins to recruit more and more WCW stars to destroy their own company in protest of Shane's ownership with the exception of the top faces - Sting, Goldberg, Flair, Booker T and DDP.

Bischoff says to really destroy Shane and take back WCW, they need to destroy his trust fund and his family allowance by finally, once and for all, destroying WWF. This time, he says, it's not a ratings war, it's a gang war.

Monday Night Raw. During the main event of the night, a four way between The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Big Show and a healthy Triple H, Bischoff jumps the barricade with Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash while the entire nWo locker-room (or WCW Bishoffites) pour into the arena too, blocking access to the ring for anyone other than Hogan, Hall and Nash. Security with Vince McMahon behind them come rushing in but can't get past the WCW stars. Nash, Hall and Hogan enter the ring and begin to brawl with the WWF guys, through WCW guys on the outside grabbing legs and causing distractions they manage to take out HHH and The Rock, it's three on two when Big Show shocks the WWF by chokeslamming Austin who then takes Hogan's leg drop. The WWF locker-room is pouring out while WCW, now with new recruit Big Show, jump back over the barricade and exit the building with Bischoff shouting "It's done, leave it".

Nitro. Big Show - Now back to being referred to as The Giant - is with Bischoff and his followers in the ring. They're gloating about the black eye they just gave WWF the night before on Raw when out comes Sting. He talks about how he loves WCW and would do anything to protect it, and berates Bischoff and his gang for bringing trouble to its door by pissing off wrestlers from the rival organisation. He says that if Bischoff won't stop, he (Sting) will stop him. Bischoff says if he wants a fight, he's got it, and that he needs to find three guys who share his opinion to back him up in an eight man tag team match against Hogan, Nash, Hall and The Giant. Sting finds Goldberg, DDP and Booker T with Ric Flair agreeing to watch from ringside to make sure Bischoff doesn't try any funny business. Instead, during the match, WWF stars Austin, Rock, Triple H, Kurt Angle, The Dudley Boyz and The Hardy Boyz all jump the barricade like the WCW guys had done the night before. They enter the ring and begin to destroy the nWo while Sting pleads with the faces to stay out of it and tries to reason with the WWF guys. Austin hits Sting with a stunner and the faces jump in to defend him.

We go back and forth, some weeks they invade each other's shows, other weeks it's a war of words. To a WCW crowd, the WWF guys would be heels, to a WWF crowd, the WCW guys would be heels, just like Bret and Shawn in Canada/America during the mid 90s.

Eventually, we get to WrestleMania X8, by this point Bischoff has run Shane out of his own company who is seeking the help of Vince and the WWF to get his company back under control. If Shane wins with the WWF, he shuts WCW down like he should have done to begin with, if Bischoff wins he gets to be the legitimate owner of WCW and the McMahon family has to surrender all its shares in the WWF and WCW to him so that they can know the humiliation he experienced when he learned of Shane's ownership of WCW.

The only involvement of Paul Heyman and ECW is in brief cameos where Vince is seeking advice from the Bischoff-hating genius of Heyman and extreme soldiers for his army who are willing to go through hellfire to destroy their mutual enemy.

WrestleMania X8 sees the ultimate dream fixtures become a reality:

Rock vs Hogan - To crown the first Undisputed Champion
Austin vs Goldberg
Undertaker & Kane vs The Outsiders
etc.

WWF wins, The Rock is the first ever Undisputed Champion after defeating Hogan in the main event. Eric Bischoff is brought out to the ring by Austin like he was at One Night Stand in 2005 where he takes a stunner and a rock bottom to the delight of the McMahon family who watch on from the stage.

The next night on Raw, Vince and Shane come out and say it's time to shake things up with all the world class talent on display at last night's WrestleMania, and that even though WCW was now no more, its talent and their contracts now belonged to WWF. He announces that Raw and SmackDown will be getting their own rosters and General Managers. Shane asks which show he'll get to run to which Vince replies "You had your chance to run a company and it cause a war the likes of which we had never seen and you lost the respect and admiration of your men. But, you know who won the admiration and respect of your men? Eric Bischoff!" the crowd is amazed. Vince then announces that as a thank you for his consultation during the war, Paul Heyman will be the first SmackDown GM and the ferocious rivalry between the two will be good for the WWF. The draft occurs the following week and so begins the Ruthless Aggression era.

Bottom line, they should just waited. They pulled the trigger too soon and did not have any of the actual WCW main stars. This was a mistake. A year later you had Hogan, Hall, and Nash. You eventually got Steiner and Goldberg. Had it been done and presented this way, they probably could have gotten Sting because WCW would have been made to be taken seriously.

Instead, they did it with a bunch of WCW mid-carders, and Booker T. DDP was brought in with the whole stalker, so they even botched that.

The ECW part of it was actually decent, because you actually had the main ECW stars....but the WCW part was bad.

Like I said, I would have waited. I would have waited until I had enough of the actual WCW stars signed on, and then I would have done it. Didn't work with mid-carders. No disrespect to Booker T, but he was not the face of WCW.

They also should have had Chris Jericho, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Saturn, and Dean Malenko turn on the WWE, just like Taz, Rhyno, The Dudley Boyz, Raven, and Justin Credible did.

Hogan, Hall, Nash, Benoit, Guerrero, Malenko, Saturn, DDP, Booker T, Jericho........that would have been a good enough base, even if you couldn't have gotten Goldberg or Sting at that time. If they started with that team, Sting would have seen it was being taken serious and he would have signed. Instead it was a joke from the get go and Booker T got his ass beat in a supermarket. lol

Gotta say ,this is one of the more fleshed out, yet tidy ways to pull it off and tie up loose ends to get us to the brand split and RA era. Very good ideas there sir.