WWE 2001 PPVs From Worst To Best

Ah, the good old days...

You could say that 2001 was a pretty big year for the wrestling business. Of course, the major story was Vince McMahon officially winning the Monday Night Wars, buying WCW in March while also acquiring ECW which went out of business in January. So Vince now owned his competition. What was he going to do with it? The original idea was to continue to run WCW as a separate brand, with Monday night Raw becoming a new version of WCW Nitro. When Buff Bagwell and Booker T had a match so awful that thousands of fans left while it was still in process, WWE changed their mind. Instead, the company decided to run with the WCW/ECW versus WWE invasion. It was a storyline that fans had been clamouring to see for years. Unfortunately, Vince did not acquire the services of the real stars like Hulk Hogan, Goldberg and Sting, since they had lucrative contracts with Time Warner and were essentially paid to do nothing. For those who were signed by Vince, it was a humbling experience: they were mostly jobbed out to the WWE wrestlers and the whole angle was done and dusted in half the time it should have been. For the WWE it was a year of two halves: pre and post invasion. How did the company's PPV efforts measure up?

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