10 Fatal Mistakes Of WWE's 2001 Invasion

5. The Wrong Talent Defected

In the prior slide, I pointed out the fault of mid-card talent changing sides. However, that doesn’t mean no one should have turned to make the fight more even. It’s just that the wrong people were chosen.

During the course of the Invasion angle, besides Austin, Christian, Test, William Regal and Ivory all joined the enemy. No offense to any of those talented men and women, but who gave a s**t?

It's really not a statement on their talent, but a mark on how they'd been portrayed at that time. Christian was years away from being a star, Test was a failed pet-project, Regal was a mid-card commissioner, and Ivory was already on the downswing of her career.

Five names should have turned that would have made a difference: The Big Show, Chris Jericho, Perry Saturn, Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit (though he missed out on the story due to an injury, he could have appeared on TV. Eddie Guerrero was sadly in rehab). At that point, those guys had been in WCW longer than they'd been in the WWF.

X-Pac would have been more useful turning back into Syxx, and even Farooq could have turned on Bradshaw to go back to the place that made him a World Champion. Hell, they could have made something up and said The Radicalz left WCW earlier to be spy on Vince's company, but they could never take over without some reinforcements.

The history of those wrestlers re-joining their old company would have meant a lot more to the angle than Test and Ivory. Sorry Test and Ivory.