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Originally Posted by Jaded-Dragon
Anything after the close of WCW, to present time. Invasion, nWo, Draft lottery, Jericho's main event push, Guerrero's title run, turning Orton face too quickly, not pushing guys who aren't 6'4"+ 300+lbs., etc. etc.
The invasion and the nWo were two of the lowest points for me. The invasion was every wrestling fans wet dream, and seemed damn near impossible to screw up, but Vince found a way. I thought for sure that he of all people would understand that to make the angle work, the WWE had to appear weak and vulnerable. And a we all know, not having the top WCW stars from the start really hurt. Booker T and DDP were the only two main event guys that came over quickly. They should of had the Alliance taking out the WWE's top guys by sneak attack, or just interupting their match and jumping them. The alliance needed to be built up as a legit threat and it wasn't, and that is what killed the whole angle completely.
As for the nwo... it could have worked again. The main key to the groups first run was the kayfabe of it. At the time, the internet was still fairly new, a lot of us, including myself, were marks. So when two of the most recognizable WWF guys show up on WCW and say, "You want a war? You got one." everyone thought that the WWF was invading WCW. That gave WCW the early momentum to run with it. It wasn't until about a month after Scott Hall showed up that Vince acknowledged Nitro and said that Hall and Nash were not speaking for WWF. By that time it didn't matter though. And even if it did, the angle was played off so convincingly that people thought that Hall and Nash left the WWF to go war with WCW. Ahhh to be young and foolish....
Anyway, the WWE did not have the kayfabe to go off of. But the angle still could of worked. Again, the nwo had to be made to appear as a legit threat. Of course, they were not. As said already, Hall was a joke, Nash did nothing, and Hogan quickly abandoned the idea. Having Triple H or Shawn Michaels join the group early on, may have saved it. Oh well.
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