10 Times WWE REJECTED Million Dollar Ideas
9. (A Good) Invasion
It's boring and pointless to ruminate on the various pragmatic whys and hows that blighted 2001's Invasion storyline, not least because most of the key players from the time stand by their decisions.
Jim Ross and Bruce Prichard will hear nothing of WWE spending big on all those WCW talents they really needed to help the idea fly, lest it upset the applecart at the time. The likes of The Undertaker, Steve Austin and other offenders have never really spoken with any regret on how they gobbled up all the newbies as if this really was still a legit wrestling war. Vince McMahon himself almost certainly just reflected upon the whole sorry situation as another wrestling angle that ran out of juice.
The era now is constantly defined by what it could have been rather than what it actually was. Various timestamped checkpoints are fondly remembered, but the drone and drain of the weekly experience (not least in comparison to the electrifying 2000) is ignored for a reason.
This was every wrestling fan's dream. Unfortunately, it was handed to somebody that disavow's the very word.