2). The Alliance
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The Invasion storyline of 2001 looked great on paper. WWE had just purchased WCW and the former WCW and ECW wrestlers would form an alliance and invade the WWE.
Just imagine the classic matches that could follow – DX vs NWO, Austin vs Goldberg, Sting vs The Undertaker and so on. However, most of the top WCW talent had contracts with WCW’s parent company Times Warner which meant that they could afford to sit at home for a year and still get paid rather than sign a new contract with the WWE. Hogan, Nash, Goldberg, Hall and Sting opted to do the same and the Invasion featured very few WCW wrestlers with true star power.
However, the storyline was too significant to be ignored and it dominated WWE programming for months. WCW wrestler Lance Storm would start the invasion, with a superkick to WWE wrestler Perry Saturn during a tag team match on Raw. Booker T and DDP would be the most well known WCW wrestlers to invade WWE and they would be joined by ECW stars including RVD and the Dudley Boyz.
The angle would involve multiple defections and would end at Survivor Series when team WWE defeated the Alliance in a 5 on 5 elimination tag team match.
