I thought that 2001 started off great with 3 really good PPVs. The Rumble, which featured Jericho/Benoit Ladder match, and a good Rumble match..No Way Out was a really good show IMO, which had a good fatal four way for the IC title, Austin/HHH, Rock/Angle, and of course WM X-7 which was just awesome.
But then, once Austin turned heel everything just went downhill. This left Taker/Kane as the top faces and Backlash was headlined with a RAW main event tag team match, which only notable moment on the PPV was when Shane jumped off the tron. EDIT- Wow how did I forget the Angle/Benoit Submission match...
Judgment Day was meh, even though I thought the HHH/Kane chain match was pretty good, and plus they had a good tag team turmoil with Jericho/Benoit winning the belts. Then in June they had TLC 3 which was an awesome match, but it was kind of forgettable because it really had no hype, and was just a way to get Jericho/Benoit over as champs. Also, KOTR was a good show, which Angle worked two good matches with Edge and Christian, and a great street fight with Shane.
And then in the summer, the Invasion happened and it seemed like Vince was reluctant make have any WCW stars highlight any show as already developed WWE wrestlers were joining the Alliance. So it was basically just WWE vs. WWE (I noticed that in the "Winner Take All" Match there were only 2 wrestlers they came from WCW or ECW which were RVD and Booker T)
But the year was capped off by Jericho winning the Undisputed Title
, but it was obvious that he wasn't being booked correctly as he was destroyed by Austin the very next night, barely escaping with his newly won title.
So the year started off really well I thought, then they botched a highly anticipated angle by not giving the former competition a chance to shine, and they ended the year by finally giving Jericho the title.
Wow, I actually felt like writing a quick review of the whole year.
