15 pro wrestling bookings that went horribly wrong

9. “The Invasion”; WCW and ECW invade WWF in 2001

In terms of dropping the ball on a golden opportunity, The Invasion angle might have been the worst of the bunch for WWE.

WCW and ECW invading WWF could have been one of the greatest times in wrestling history, but due to some weird booking and the lack of WCW’s main stars being involved, the storyline felt flat, and in the end, it was Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. The Rock, which is basically how the whole cycle started in 2001, so what really was accomplished?

You can’t have WCW invade their biggest competition throughout the latter portion of the 1990s without the nWo. Period. End of discussion. (Bringing them back in 2002 didn’t make sense either, but we only have 15 slots available, guys.)

Hell, if you’re really trying to take over WWF, where’s your most dangerous weapon in Goldberg? (Goldberg needed shoulder surgery, so he wasn’t around for the end of WCW in the early part of 2001, but you could bring him back in some fashion after the Invasion pay-per-view most likely if you could buy out his remaining contract from Time Warner.)

As for ECW, although having Paul Heyman’s involvement is always good for anything, ECW was a bit different from WCW and WWF back then. It would’ve made much more sense to make it WWF vs. WCW. ECW’s involvement just didn’t really add up.