10 Reasons Why WWF Vs WCW Invasion Angle Failed

2. The Biggest WCW Names Were Not There

Following WWE's purchase of WCW, the news came out that WWE wasn't going to buy the contracts of those that had expensive deals. Since WCW was paying several of their top guys millions of dollars, WWE would have had to buy out their contracts and then give them new ones before they could appear in WWE. Looking back on it, maybe WWE should have done it for a few guys because the storyline really could have used the biggest WCW names. If you asked fans at the time who the ten biggest WCW names were they would answer with Sting, Goldberg, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Eric Bischoff, Scott Steiner, Diamond Dallas Page and then maybe Booker T. Of those ten names, how many were in WWE at the beginning of the Invasion angle? One. Just Booker T. DDP was next although he was booked poorly as part of a separate angle as a stalker of The Undertaker's wife. Ric Flair went to WWE after the angle was over. Hogan, Nash, Hall, Bischoff and Steiner were all WWE bound in 2002 while Goldberg showed up in 2003. Sting hasn't been there yet, but apparently has a deal finally in 2014. The point is that when fans thought of WCW, those were the guys they wanted to see on WWE TV at that time. Instead we got lesser names like Lance Storm, Mike Awesome, Shane Helms and guys like that. No offense to any of them, but they weren't the top guys in WCW that fans were familiar with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7N8IBanV88 The WCW/ECW team that main evented the July Invasion PPV was comprised of Booker T, Diamond Dallas Page, Rhyno and The Dudley Boyz. In other words, three ECW guys and two from WCW. It was WCW that beat WWE in the Monday night ratings for nearly two full years. They had the star power. So where were they? If the best WCW guys were there the team would have been Goldberg, Sting, Hogan, Nash and Flair. Instead, none of them were there. To make the angle really work, the top WCW stars were needed. It was as if you were playing a team in a sporting event and instead of the starters, all the backups were forced to play. People don't pay to watch the backups. That's a big reason why the storyline failed.