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A few weeks ago I was just watching an old WWF tape from mid-2001 right before the invasion PPV. Austin was depressed because Vince needed "the old stone cold" but I guess he didn’t want to be that anymore, so he sitting at some bar. Then it was a brawl all over the arena and the WWF was outnumbered until Stone Cold came and whipped all of the alliance guys and WWF stood tall. As I watched the tape I got sucked into that whole storyline again, not because it was a captivating storyline, but because I thought it sucked so bad! Don't take me the wrong way but when WCW became a major competitor to the WWF , everyone wondered if the 2 companies would ever meet in the ring. Well that did happen, but the angle was weak and it ended up making both companies look bad. I thought that if WCW invaded WWF it would have to be in a big way. But the big way I wanted it never happened. In the end, the alliance and the whole invasion looked like a big mistake. I wrote up a totally different way that the WWF vs. WCW war could have begun. If it were started right, maybe the WWF vs. WCW war would still be going to this day. I know that this is a little long but I showed it to a few of my buddies and they really seemed to like it. I would appreciate it if after reading this you could give some comments about it:
It’s about a month before Wrestlemania X-7, and it has been announced that the last edition of WCW Monday Nitro will be next week in Panama Beach. Scoot Steiner will put his WCW title on the line against Booker T and the Cruiserweight Tag team title championship tournament will be coming to a close. On the WWF side of things, The Rock and Steve Austin are preparing to meet at Wrestlemania X-7 and Vince McMahon is set to face his son Shane in a street fight. No one is really sure what will happen to World Championship Wrestling after next week’s Nitro. The WWF doesn’t even mention anything about it on their programming. The last Nitro happens as it actually did.
Wrestlemania X-7 goes just like it actually happened up to the point where Vince McMahon walks down to the ring before the Rocky vs. Austin main event. As Vince gets down to ring-side he joins J.R. and Paul Heyman to do ring-side commentary. It isn’t explained why it’s just what Vince felt like doing that night. As this great match continues, you can hear pops from the headsets in the background of the commentators play-by-play. Heyman stops in mid-sentence and J.R. mutters an audible, “Holy Shit!” You know that he isn’t talking about the match because there was nothing that happened in the ring at that moment that could have that remark. The cameras never cut to a shot of the announcer’s table but continue to show the ring, even without the commentary. Meanwhile the crowd is going nuts but not because of the action in the ring. About ten seconds after J.R.’s comments. The Rock goes for his Spinebuster to set up for The People’s Elbow. As he looks out at the crowd, he begins to pull off his elbow pad and then he throws it into the crowd of 67,000+ he then runs to the rope and shoots back, jumps over Austin and then stops. He stares at the announcer’s table in a look of awe, the camera stays on the ring. He then goes over to Austin, who is still laying down in the middle of the ring, not taking his eyes off of the announcer’s table, he shakes Austin a little bit and says something into his ear. Austin very quickly gets up and looks at Rock with a look of sheer stupidity. Finally, a cameraman gets a shot of the action and you can see that Vince is on the ground getting beaten down by none other than Eric Bischoff. There is only a quick shot of this as the camera man gets knocked down and the camera goes to the ground. The main camera angle of the ring is back up and you can see that many people have come out of the stands and have bombarded the ring. With a closer look, it is seen that these aren’t just people, but WCW wrestlers in street clothes. They attack Rock and Austin and they hold them near the turn buckles. Goldberg delivers a jackhammer to Austin and Eric Bischoff then goes to the ring, microphone in hand and tells gives a speech about the WWF/WCW rivalry has culminated to this. And that Vince might have thought that World Championship Wrestling was done, but it has risen to a new life. During his speech there were a few interferences from WWF wrestlers, but they were all immediately trampled and beaten down. Almost all of the WWF roster were at the top of the entrance ramp as Bischoff continued his speech. He ended it by saying, “You thought the war was over, it hasn’t even begun.” At that moment the WWF Superstars ran to the ring and the WCW wrestlers met them at the alleyway. A huge brawl breaks out and Bischoff is seen leaving through the crowd with a few WCW guys accompanying him for protection as Wrestlemania X-7 comes to a close.
It’s about a month before Wrestlemania X-7, and it has been announced that the last edition of WCW Monday Nitro will be next week in Panama Beach. Scoot Steiner will put his WCW title on the line against Booker T and the Cruiserweight Tag team title championship tournament will be coming to a close. On the WWF side of things, The Rock and Steve Austin are preparing to meet at Wrestlemania X-7 and Vince McMahon is set to face his son Shane in a street fight. No one is really sure what will happen to World Championship Wrestling after next week’s Nitro. The WWF doesn’t even mention anything about it on their programming. The last Nitro happens as it actually did.
Wrestlemania X-7 goes just like it actually happened up to the point where Vince McMahon walks down to the ring before the Rocky vs. Austin main event. As Vince gets down to ring-side he joins J.R. and Paul Heyman to do ring-side commentary. It isn’t explained why it’s just what Vince felt like doing that night. As this great match continues, you can hear pops from the headsets in the background of the commentators play-by-play. Heyman stops in mid-sentence and J.R. mutters an audible, “Holy Shit!” You know that he isn’t talking about the match because there was nothing that happened in the ring at that moment that could have that remark. The cameras never cut to a shot of the announcer’s table but continue to show the ring, even without the commentary. Meanwhile the crowd is going nuts but not because of the action in the ring. About ten seconds after J.R.’s comments. The Rock goes for his Spinebuster to set up for The People’s Elbow. As he looks out at the crowd, he begins to pull off his elbow pad and then he throws it into the crowd of 67,000+ he then runs to the rope and shoots back, jumps over Austin and then stops. He stares at the announcer’s table in a look of awe, the camera stays on the ring. He then goes over to Austin, who is still laying down in the middle of the ring, not taking his eyes off of the announcer’s table, he shakes Austin a little bit and says something into his ear. Austin very quickly gets up and looks at Rock with a look of sheer stupidity. Finally, a cameraman gets a shot of the action and you can see that Vince is on the ground getting beaten down by none other than Eric Bischoff. There is only a quick shot of this as the camera man gets knocked down and the camera goes to the ground. The main camera angle of the ring is back up and you can see that many people have come out of the stands and have bombarded the ring. With a closer look, it is seen that these aren’t just people, but WCW wrestlers in street clothes. They attack Rock and Austin and they hold them near the turn buckles. Goldberg delivers a jackhammer to Austin and Eric Bischoff then goes to the ring, microphone in hand and tells gives a speech about the WWF/WCW rivalry has culminated to this. And that Vince might have thought that World Championship Wrestling was done, but it has risen to a new life. During his speech there were a few interferences from WWF wrestlers, but they were all immediately trampled and beaten down. Almost all of the WWF roster were at the top of the entrance ramp as Bischoff continued his speech. He ended it by saying, “You thought the war was over, it hasn’t even begun.” At that moment the WWF Superstars ran to the ring and the WCW wrestlers met them at the alleyway. A huge brawl breaks out and Bischoff is seen leaving through the crowd with a few WCW guys accompanying him for protection as Wrestlemania X-7 comes to a close.