They had SO many chances to do so much more with Taz than what they did. His arrival was giant! People reaked over him. Let's face it, no one actually watched ECW, but everyone kind of knew that it was a company with hardcore rules all the time. Hell I remember people talking about how in ECW they bring sawed of shotguns to the ring for shits a giggles, I never really tried to correct them since they wern't too far from the truth, but he was VERY well received. I think it all kind of went south at WrestleMania 2000 when Hardcore Holly at the last second got the pinfall and left as Hardcore Champ. That should have been Taz to leave with the belt. Then he just kind of floated around doing nothing before Raven came in. Ok, so they have Taz and Raven, two of ECW's biggest names, and people got behind them again...so they got fed to Jerry Lawler?
But still despite this, they teased almost the entire time during the InVasion that Taz was going to fucking go buck nutty on everyone...but they dropped the ball again. Taz easily could have said "Ah fuck this!" to Austin, not leave the Alliance, but create a rouge faction of it. People who stuck with the Alliance because they were tired of WWE, but they wern't about to kiss Austin's ass over it. I realise that came off as Alienoid, but it's just the first thing thar sprang to mind.
The point is, they had at least half a dozen good chances to turn Taz into a serious Upper Midcard Threat...but they let every one of them fade away.
