Judgment day to king of the ring 2001

[Guest]

I was looking for my old Judgment Day 2001 tape, and I stumbled on the tapes of Raw and Smackdown from between Judgment Day and King of the Ring. For some reason, everything looked really really good, especially with the Chrises running wild over the WWF. TLC III on Smackdown, the now-legendary match with the Chrises going over Austin and Trips, hot Canadian crowds, the Angle/Benoit cage match(with the INSANE missed moonsault from the top of the cage and the German suplex off the actual top rope, two of my favorite spots ever), and the Edge/Christian split before the Invasion put it off.

 

I was thinking though, this was the last time that the WWF was really must-see-TV for a period of time. One can make the case that the shows after the ECW reunion were must-see, but that was just one angle that lost steam after the next show.

 

Anyone agree?

[Guest AM The Kid]

I agree as well, thats also when I went to RAW here in Calgary...good times.

[Guest converge241]

no they havent as this was grade A quality stuff..

I think you could say it continued til Summerslam.

The buildup to Invasion and most of Summerslam was great. Jericho vs Rhyno had an underappreciated build up and great story.

[Guest]

I only said until King of the Ring because the Invasion took things over after that. The two time periods are so different that I felt it was warranted.

 

However, the goodness did keep going through SummerSlam, with the exception of Austin's one week face run. I will admit that I was going nuts when he arrived at the arena and kicked pretty much everyone's asses.

 

As for Jericho/Rhyno, that was pretty good now that I think about it, especially the really cool visual of Jericho being gored through the back of the stage. And it provided us with the Rock line about Shane being a silver spoon-fed motherfucker.

 

Just realized this: The Rock was FEELING IT between his return and SummerSlam. The midget thing the night after killed it, as did the handicap match at Unforgiven.

 

Anyways, good to see I wasn't nuts to think that this period has been unequaled.

[Guest HartFan86]

I agree. From Judgement Day 2001 to Summerslam 2001, the WWF was awesome. The InVasion started out good, IMO, but it turned to shit after Summerslam 2001.

[Guest commish13]

yeah, i agree. i just looked back on KOR a few days ago. it was just as great as i remembered it, and the whole show, especially the angle/shane match were AMAZING live.

[Guest The Mighty Damaramu]

Let's not forget about Austin/Benoit in Edmonton at this time.

[Guest]

Yeah, you're right. I should have mentioned that also. I have sadly never seen the match myself except for the snippets on wwf.com at the time.