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4. Shawn Stasiak Feuds With WWE's Top Stars...
...and they don't even notice.
The Alliance was such a busted flush by the summer of 2001 that WWE were trying some bizarre stuff to salvage as many of the young stars as they could. Kanyon maximised his minutes as a token United States Champion, Steve Austin noticed Shane Helms' tattoo and transformed his career forever, and Shawn Stasiak took it to The Rock, Kurt Angle and others without them ever even noticing.
This was a genuinely inspired wrinkle from an otherwise flat spell - Stasiak would be the first to charge at a babyface, or accept an open challenge, or attempt a backstage ambush, and he'd be avoided and simultaneously ignored.
Wrestling's a strange game, and this somehow made him more recognisable than the slew of bodies getting fed to The Undertaker or Bradshaw or some other miserable c*nt that had worked themselves into a shoot about a wrestling war that was now no more. Like just about everything else from that depressing time, it may as well have not existed as soon as the Alliance had been finished off for good in November.