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2001 to me, and probably most, is more of a dissapoitment than a creative low. Under normal scrutiny, the time period was very good. The matches were great, there were great fueds and several dream matches as well as a decent storyline. The roster alone was worth marking out, and it was also still at a time where the attitude era was still cookin. Some moments like the reformation of ECW, Booker's arrival, Angles title win, all things Jericho and RVD were gold.
The year started off absolutely amazing. It had one of the greatest Royal Rumbles ever, probably the best Wrestlemania ever and King of the Ring was one of the last truly great ppvs of that era. Summerslam was even amazing. The Jericho/Benoit push was fantastic as well as The Two Man Power trip and all the anticipation of the Shane/Vince powderkeg for the eventual invasion angle.
The problem lies with the execution. It wasn't that the product or quality of the product was lacking, it was certainly still there. It's just that for wrestling fans of all kinds it was a massive dissapointment. It was barely epic and even though it was chock full of great matches, fueds and talent it was nothign near what the invasion angle to cap off the most heated promotional battle and popularity high point in professional wrestling history.
The WCW wasn't star studded enough, and the stars it had were buried. They had no Bischoff or Nash Goldberg Steiner. All things they should have waited to have in place. ECW was immediately consolidated into the alliance and buried, as well as the Alliance being full of WWF names rather than actual stars from the other side of the war. DDP was buried and never given a match with Taker, and the whole thing was just a firecracker when it should have been a nuclear bomb. It also killed dead the attitude era and stopped the momentum of stars like Booker T, Jericho and RVD dead in their tracks.
So yea, pound for pound compared to any other time period 2001 was great. It was a good time by normal means. But to me it's just something that, although entertaining by regular standars, could have and should have been 100 times better.
Just my two cents.
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