10 Wrestling Matches Booked Out Of Spite
2. Team WWE Vs The Alliance (WWE Survivor Series 2001)
One can't fairly speculate on how the great WWE Vs WCW on-screen war might have been waged (and won or lost) had the latter won the real Monday Night one in 2001, but it'd be nice to think it'd go better than concluding with Goldberg Vs Sting or another combination of Nitro main eventers everybody had seen countless times before.
Because that's what Vince McMahon foresaw when he openly admitted to being "tired of this Alliance crap....this Invasion crap" during a Raw promo that set up a Survivor Series final battle.
He was patently as bored of it as the rest of us, even though he'd been the one booking it in the first place. A ten-man tag was set, culminating in Steve Austin (Alliance) tussling with The Rock (WWE) scrapping for the umpteenth time over stakes that supposedly transformed the world as we knew it.
The mere inclusion of 'The Rattlesnake' and 'The Great One' exposed this as a fallacy, as did the post-show Monday Night Raw. Jerry Lawler was reinstalled as a commentator, McMahon and Austin were reset as heels and babyface rivals on the original side of their divide, and ex-Alliance stars worth anything were reestablished as WWE Superstars looking to make the grade.