10 Totally Wasted Wrestling Factions
1. The Alliance
Who else could it be?
When Vince McMahon purchased the rotting corpse that was WCW in 2001, fantasy bookers went into overdrive. Finally, all those years of imagining the two promotions going up against each would become reality, and events promised dream match after dream match after dream match. Vince was faced with the biggest angle in wrestling history, and almost impossible to mess up beaut that had endless possibilities.
Instead of any of that, we had a botched invasion story that did nothing more than ram home the fact that WCW sucked, whoever wrestled there sucked and that was all there was to it. The Alliance (ECW also joined in the fray) were booked as fools at every turn, and when it came to the final battle between the two teams at Survivor Series only two of the 10 men in the match were truly ECW or WCW guys.
Any wrestling fan from this era will have their own ideas on how the invasion should have been booked, but one thing is undeniable; the way it panned out was horrible, and all we got out of it was the wasted Alliance stable that did nothing for a single person on it. Except Nick Patrick maybe.