@@vladimirgrosse1938 "Hold up, I was the only n***a in the nineties in Arkansas wearing a mullet muthafuka, dont you know what it did for Hulk Hogan and Lex Luger?"XD
@@mammothchimp1774 nah they gave him a solid run, the survivor series debut was insane etc. yeah the wrestlemania was dumb but he was clearly getting a retribution run until Seth Rollins destroyed it
@@mammothchimp1774 They were going to give him the world title belt after his loss to Seth, the story was going to be Triple H turns on Seth takes the belt back and then Sting goes over finally. But the neck injury ended it. Seth Rollins was the worst at injuring guys
As bad as DDP got it? Kanyon got it even worse. Young, talented guy. Can cut a promo. And you literally chuck him out of the cage match in 5 seconds and never see him again. And why? Because he was DDP's friend? What an absolute waste.
No, Kanyon got it bad because of his sexuality, it's been said that he was bullied because of it, which may have been what led to his suicide, not to mention suffering from bipolar disorder
Ill never forget that nasty chairshot Undertaker gave to Kanyon. Like another commenter said i think Kanyon sexuality was why WWE/Vince buried him. Next to Bagwell and Public Enemy, Kanyon got the worst burial out of all the WCW/ECW guys.
Absolutely, that's why I figure it was a sabotage. You wouldn't have to change a thing, DDP would have been as hot as they wanted. You would have to go out of your way to fuck it up
now i think about it they had better changed Steiners and DDP's roles in WWE. Steiner was a natural heel forced to be a face and you just know that his stalker promos would've been weird but extremely funny while DDP (natural babyface) could've gone around attacking midcard heels before a Triple H championship match.
WWE did DDP dirty. I was waiting for so long for some of the big name WCW talent to finally come to WWF and they always found a way to ruin them. DDP got it the worst though because of the dumb stalker story line.
It was Vince getting revenge after WcW beat him for 83 weeks. DDP was a heavily involved in Hall and Nash signing with WCW in 1996. He was good friends with them and he and Bischoff where friends and actually neighbors at the time.
They couldn't even blame the Time Warner deal on that either since she left WCW prior to that angle. It shows how out of touch the writers were despite feuding with the company for years.
@@justinkelly9526 Go by the official start when the bell was rung. It was literally less, than 10 seconds. DDP was new to the company, so whoever made the outcome he was just going to say yes, even how awful it was. Effectively, DDP was buried with the worse possible outcome. There was no point of having the one time non wrestling wife pin a veteran, as it took away any credibility of DDP being a threat. An Undertaker vs DDP match lost any value after that. The angle and story sucked. It went nowhere as evidently clear of it's failure. Edit: If people saw Kimberly compared to Sara, it wasn't believable either, why DDP would stalk UT's wife. 2nd Edit: One more thing, the DDP vs Sara match if I recall correctly the end of the feud, as it marked the idea the person stalked beat the stalker. No progression for DDP as he was buried.
@@justinkelly9526 Guess what? The Invasion Angle also FAILED. Yes, Vince can be blamed for that also. The stalker storyline was only one out of the other failures from that. Booker T was made to look like crap also, during that angle. You made it sound like DDP came up with all the ideas to make himself look like crap, and Vince just said yes to everything. You posted the Sara win was to progress the storyline. What story exactly happened after specifically between UT and DDP to progress their feud? I am sure the Sara match was the end.
@@michiel1162 they would have rebranded him Grave Digger or something like that. Pushed him to the World Title and he'd lose the title in a Tombstone on a pole match.
I love The Undertaker, but it was so ridiculously lame how he was basically untouchable at the time during the Invasion. Dominating DDP and getting the best of guys when he was being attacked 5 on 1 or 6 on 1. I think it had to do with his ego and his feelings against WCW. But, you didn't see Kane like that. He was booked dominate, but no where near as Undertaker. Probably because he didn't buy into the BS politics at the time.
Which is sad to Taker is love more than Kane who was a team player his whole run. Kane shouldn't have job to guys till late 2010s but he did it pretty much in the 2000s.
You probably shouldn't compare Undertaker and Kane. Kane is good and all but he ain't on level of Undertaker. And yea, Undertaker buried him bcoz of DDP's attitude backstage. Taker never buried guys like Eddie, Booker and Jericho.
@@part-timebrock1126 Not to mention only a few months from this SummerSlam, Undertaker gives Maven the biggest moment of his career at the Royal Rumble.
Which is doubly annoying in DDP's case. Page was far more over than Taker was at this point in his career. Most people *dreaded* Taker doing anything. DDP was the bigger star during this time frame.
DDP, a nice guy who was one of the two biggest WCW guys you could get during that time period, comes to your company and is willing to be a team player and be a coward heel... And you reward him with this humiliating and pathetic booking despite the fact that if you actually tried booking him properly, you could have had a new, fun and exciting feud or two with top guys. FFS, Vince.
@@user-fe8gx3ie5v nwo and Ric Flair weren’t in the invasion. Ric came like RIGHT after. And NWO came at No Way Out the following year. Sting didn’t show up in wwe until like 5 years ago. It was only Booker and Dallas who were former champions.
DDP was a wcw guy,over rated,didn’t have the look,his matches were mediocre at best,his promos were lame,and he looked like a homeless methed out bum. He wasn’t WWF material and Vince knew it. If he was so great he’d of had a better run,people need to get over that
DDP's legacy in WCW and life after WWE trumps most legends. His time in WWE... Yes massive burial. But hey we all know he is one best. Legend status earned.
Unfortunately, I've noticed a lot of wrestling fans have been brainwashed by WWE propaganda and tend to believe the WWE narrative on everything. As a fan of guys like DDP and Vader, who were popular in other companies but treated like dirt in WWE, it can be frustrating to hear the revisionist history of how they were never big deals because they failed in the WWE.
To be fair, DDP had to put up with some serious crap in WCW too. DDP was crazy over in '97 and '98, but instead of letting him go over Goldberg at the height of his popularity they waited till 99 and turned him into a cowardly heel.
DDP is a life saver.. he’s responsible for giving us more moments with the likes of Jake the snake roberts instead of his legacy being a man who hit rock bottom and was killing himself, we got to see him be part of the industry again, looking healthy and happy and it meant a lot to people like me who adored Jake the Snake as a kid, DDP is undoubtedly an incredible person and no matter what happened in his career, he is one of the greatest minds to ever come through the business.
Considering the backstage politics at the time and the job he was given I think DDP did a great job. It's hard for fans to get behind a wrestler if their losing most of the time or getting wins via DQs
I know I've *always* loved The Undertaker for my whole life. Ever since I was a wee babby sat in front of the TV watching that spooky dude work, it was always so fun! And then as I grew older and understood more of the Wrestling business, I learned more about Mark Calloway, and him behind the scenes of WWE, stories about how he was a Locker-Room leader, about how much most wrestlers respected him deeply, about how he loved the business and helped rookies and put divas in their places. I always loved 'Taker. But *jeezus*, Undertaker's hate-fueled-fury toward the former WCW guys, and just smashing and *burying* the Hell out of DDP (by all accounts a good dude, also respectful of the business and such) was *so* disappointing to me.
@@andrebryant5081 takers legacy has aged like milk the last couple years. I used to think he was the greatest wrestler ever because he did whatever was best narratively for the storyline. But he’s just basically turned into a bitter old man who doesn’t know his last good match was against CM Punk in 2013.
@@JokersRWildStudios he has reached Jim Cornette levels of bitterness, pettiness, and how out of touch he is. Not to mention insecure as fuck with how embarrassing his career has been the last few years.
@@NicCollinsFilms according to DDP, Undertaker used a incident where DDP hugged Vince McMahon as leverage. It's not roses and daffodils on Undertaker's image, lemme tell you. th-cam.com/video/NTbrMcHNM90/w-d-xo.html
I never understood why DDP wasn’t in the survivor series match but Kurt angle and Shane McMahon were. It was awesome back then as a kid but now that I’m older the WWE really messed up that storyline
@@Will-h7h not to WCW fans he wouldn't have. DDP is one of only eight WCW Triple Crown Champions, he would never look out of place at the top of the card.
Changing story direction week to week, letting wrestler egos dictate booking, putting too many Hollywood writers in creative and not enough wrestling people... the Invasion is really the start of the WWE creative problems that still plague them to this day.
Man, thanks for digging up old mark-wounds. I can't tell you how much it pissed me off that they had DDP say to the Understaker "make me famous". Like EFF-OFF! He's DDP. He doesn't need the Undertaker. Everyone knew him and threw up the diamond cutter hand gesture.
@@TyyTheFlyGuy looks don't equal character. Michelle isn't there for love IN MY OPINION. Do you honestly think Michelle would've married taker if money didn't involve to get her push in WWE? LOL That would be a no. lol
He really could have been a massive help in the Invasion story as one of the few WCW/ECW main eventers who was participating but nooooooo, dude's a joke before the Alliance angle even happens.
Undertaker was one of the worst parts of the invasion. He’s the reason DDP, Kanyon, Mike awesome, and Kronik were all made to look like trash. Nobody personified the short sighted “WCW guys can’t work at our level” that damned the storyline than Taker
Bless DDP, he always says nice things about his time in the WWF, BUT........ man DDP was a total baby face going into the company and I cannot help but feel a midcard feud would have been better with a WWF heel. Who that heel is i cant think of the now
RVD and Booker T were both the first guys eliminated in the Survivor Series 5-on5 Winner Take All match. None of the 3 remaining on team Alliance came over from WCW or ECW after they folded. It was a total and utter burial.
Such a waste of DDP here. I though he did great with what he was given, but DDP never had a chance to succeed in WWE because everything was rigged against him from the start.
VERY hard to find footage altho I'd imagine it's all on the network. I remember I TH-cam before and only having 2 available clips. But man, that's a great answer
I was 14 during the invasion angle, had barely watched WCW and this was my first exposure to DDP. I really liked the positively Page gimmick. If only Vince wasn't so determined to bury WCW talent
I also loved the smiling motivational speaker gimmick, it was very good. But it was still inexplicable to have him start out in such a 1 sided feud with Undertaker. The reaction he got on his unmasking says it all about the potential they squandered. With that said he did later on get his smiling gimmick over, so it wasn’t all bad. Great video! I remembered a fair bit of what you covered but also completely forgot, or didn’t ever see, the matches with Booker T. and when you said Chuck Palumbo was the guy in the rumble, that was actually Billy Kidman.... oh... wait a minute!
I have said this a lot but Raven would of fit more in the stalker angle it would of fit much much better. DDP should of been one of WCW's biggest players but he was treated like a jobber
Unfortunately, it probably would have had the same results as it did for DDP, because Raven was probably even lower than Page on the totem pole. But it would have been way more fitting, especially considering what he did in ECW to Tommy Dreamer and Beulah
Having a script might've prevented that disaster of a match Taker and Kane had with Kronik at Unforgiven 2001. I mean, Randy Savage always meticulously laid out matches and never got any shit for it like Page did. Funny how heavily scripted WWE matches would become just a few years later anyway. I think Taker was less annoyed about a script and more annoyed about DDP wanting to actually have a competitive back and fourth match.
Was at that Raw in Tampa, and the crowd popped HARD when he took off that mask, but Vince’s hubris wouldn’t let him make the WCW guys competitive. Really a shame.
This is from DDP’s own mouth about the reason why he left: DDP stopped after that Hardcore Holly match due to a concerning legit injury. Holly knocked him out on his feet from a boot in the corner earlier in the match. Then later when DDP went to superplex him, DDP was still concussed, so he rotated strangely & took all of the impact right on his neck & his body jackknifed & so he kicked Holly straight in the balls by accident. He lost feeing in his arms & legs right after the superplex & was still half knocked out. The feeling came mostly back but it was a concern that they couldn’t continue so they ended on Holly’s dropkick. He went to the doc afterwards & they told him he had a dangerous C1 congenital neck defect his whole life, the way he landed on the superplex bump was SO lucky because it should’ve paralyzed him, & they told him he needed to retire. He stopped wrestling immediately because he had lingering symptoms for months & took time off until doing a little for TNA. So that’s why he left WWE.
It was obvious from the beginning. Even when Booker T was introduced, the Rock said "who the hell are you?" When referring to Booker. Like he didn't exist before WWE.
@@andrebryant5081 Sting would be above stalking his opponent's wife when there was nothing personal between them. Raven though? Nothing is beneath Raven.
@@tafua_a The stalking the wife part was lame making Sting stalk Taker for prize bigger than a title beating him at WM would work to get Taker attention for the match
@@andrebryant5081 If Sting just stalked Taker though, the angle would be completely different, and I can see Sting playing mind games on Taker, giving us a situation where the Undertaker is being beaten at his own game and faces his own demons in the shape of Sting. But as the wife stalker, Raven would have been a way better fit than Sting, and with better booking he might have even gotten over. Although at that point, the Streak wasn't that big of a prize yet
“Billy Kidman chucks him out the ring.” Scratch the Billy Kidman part and start this sentence with the Chuck part as it was Chuck Palumbo who eliminated Page, but I get the confusion as he was in that storyline with Billy Gunn at the time.
@Eddie V it was two men who were experiencing a very loving bromance, nothing queer at all. Marked or should i say markyd told me he was a huge fan of billy and chuck, but not his favourite tag team, as it was the rainbow express from TNA.
Just recently found this channel and I love everything about it, the amateur production values, the shitting on wrestlers that are too fat/skinny/short and especially the don't give a shit non smark pandering attitude. Glad that stand in nerd didn't last long tho he was a charisma vacuum fr.
i spoke to marky about this a few months back, said it would be soon for him to do this full time, in that two months he jumped about 15k subs, insane levels.
Kind of. He sent Paul Wight to fat camp a little over a year after signing him, and he made Jericho work with Chyna and Bob Holly for a while before doing anything with him.
@@Bubba__Sawyer This is gonna be a long one, but here it goes.. I don't think he really considered Jericho or Big Show WCW guys. They jumped ship before the war was over so he still have them big pushes and major title runs. Guys like DDP, Sting, the Outsiders, Scott Steiner, and I'd even argue Goldberg and Booker T (for most of their time with Vince) were absolutely buried and used to make WWE guys (mostly Triple H) look dominant. Even Goldberg and Booker who most would consider WCW success stories were booked to lose most of their major feuds and neither man was given the company's top title (the WWE Championship). The other guys I mentioned never got to hold ANY major titles after their post WCW careers. They were all fed to Triple H, they were all used as glorified enhancement talent, and they all had their gimmicks, music, and promo styles altered to be lesser versions of who they were in WCW. Despite the fact that Vince literally owned the rights to their music and gimmicks. Why was Nash being booked more like Diesel than Big Sexy? Why was he coming out to some boring generic music instead of his Wolfpack theme? Why were his promos blatantly overscripted and watered down despite it being in 2002-2003 almost a decade before that became the norm? Obviously because Nash had the persona and the mic skills and the entrance to be the top guy on RAW even at that point in his career. Same reason they instantly made Booker T a joke and fed him to The Rock. Same reason Goldberg's persona was changed entirely and he was booked to lose to every WWF Attitude Era star except his debut against The Rock. He even had to defeat Kane via a distraction in their one on one match in early 2004. Years later just to get Vince's point across, Goldberg had to put old man Taker over in 2019. DDP however got the worst end of Vince's wrath. He was instantly made into a coward heel, he was buried into oblivion, everything that was recognizable about his persona from WCW was gutted and repackaged, and he was only allowed to win the European Title, which he lost only a short time later. Very rarely will you see a case of Vince allowing a WCW guy to get one over on a WWF guy unless the WWF guy completely buries him later. Goldberg defeating The Rock maybe one of the very few cases where a WCW star was legitimately allowed to go over a WWF Attitude Era star. Even though it took 10,000 spears and jackhammers to put The Rock away, I guess it's still impressive it was allowed to happen.. So I don't think Vince ever considered Jericho or Big Show WCW guys. They were given clean wins over other "WWF guys" and they were multiple time WWE Champions. Also it never even crossed Vince's mind to have them join the Alliance during the Invasion angle (despite how bad the Alliance could have really used them). Same with Eddie, Benoit, and the Radicals. They came to Vince before the WCW buyout, so I think Vince seen them as WWF guys. They were safe from Vince's Anti-WCW wrath for the most part.
DDP deserved so much better. He was my favorite in WCW and I got to meet him thanks to make a wish in 1999. That just makes his WWF run all the more angering to me.
You forgot the 3 Biggest Stars from WCW was Diamond Dallas Paige, Booker T & Buff Bagwell. Buff Bagwell took a $80k ($130k) lost in today’s money to work immediately for Vince & WWF. And Vince just let him go after 1 match with Booker T. So dirty
In an alternate universe, DDP was pushed to the moon in wwe. Facing off with Orton in his last match at wrestlemania to prove who the king of the cutter is.
Interesting moment DDP and Kanyon vs Edge and Christian, Back when Edge made his WWF debut, he and Kanyon did a lot of the same innovative moves, like the falling sparrow/flatline, Electric Chair, inverted DDT. Would’ve been interesting to see them run a program with one another.
The UT DDP feud still pisses me off to this day. The unkillable phenom vs the everyman who never quits. That story writes itself, but noooo. Instead we get this
@@rickyrosay33977 1: Zack wasn't a former world champion. DDP was. Also, was one of the biggest stars they had in the Invasion 2: He was pinned by a woman. It wasn't clean, but still pinned. 3: All his matches with the Deadman were matches where he got little if any offence. Also the fact he ran almost every time. To conclude, yes, maybe Ryder was screwed over more. But add the fact that Page was supposed to be a threat, they made a top guy a jobber, rather than a midcarder a jobber in Zack's case
I was so estatic to see him as a kid it didn't bother me.....till he lost to Sara on Raw, that was inexcusable. Fucking legend, met him once in a Philly convention, great man.
@@marcespinoza6068 Gold diggers can stay around for a long but it doesn't mean they want the person. It happens every day. They're waiting for that right moment. some wait till that person dies. AND IT'S ACTUALLY TRUE she is just that. I remember reading on some message boards of an individual that was close to taker at this time says she is there for money. Not my words. But I believe it. Look how she got her big push in WWE with their relationship. lol
People say that the Invasion failed because of a lack of star power. That the supposed WCW team was represented by too many WWF defectors. This burial of DDP tells me that even if Vince McMahon did by those contracts the Invasion still would've sucked ass.
I think ur wrong compared to wwe stars booker t and ddp were midcarders in status .so when fighting rope wwe stars they had to make it realstic in the wwe world by making ddp a cowardly heel. They should have gave ddp a smaller storyline to raise him up but it's kinda pointless as u hav other stars that need something to do
@@wingedhussar1453 To each your own. But I'm not sure. At Wrestlemania 31 they booked Triple H vs. Sting. They had DX help Triple H and nWo help Sting. It was basically an unbranded version of the Invasion. WWE vs. WCW. And they STILL pissed us off by having Triple H go over Sting. 😑
All because DDP wanted to give taker a script of moves for a match they were gonna have. The fucking egotistical mindset of taker and vince. Literally had money eith DDP vs The Rock.
I'd love to see you go back in the Time Machine and tackle DDP's Diamond Exchange stable from the AWA with Paul Diamond, Curt Hennig and Colonel DeBeers as a predecessor to his In Ring career
I’ll be honest. I enjoyed DDPs run in WWF. He was in his 40s and was not going to be a guy to take the company to new heights. Trying to elevate the mid card and tag division was the smart thing to use him for. The matches didn’t have to be squash matches. Like the Summerslam massacre... I mean taker just whooped his ass much more 1v1 than DDP did.
They shouldn't have even bothered doing the inVasion. Only that first PPV after it started did good business. Summer Slam drew the same buys as the year before and after, and Survivor Series, which was the culmination of the angle only drew like 300,000 buys, compared to inVasion which did 700,000 buys. They knew they couldn't do the angle properly at the time so they either should've delayed it until all the big name's contracts were up in early 2002 or just not not done it at all.
@@Bubba__Sawyer I mean. It made sense to do it because Vince just bought WCW. And ECW was going out of business. Waiting a year or so would’ve been worthless
Yo Hawk Brother, great entry as always. I think you need to start highlighting the name of the Wrestler you are covering on your Grade Chart at the end there, Brother. There are just way too many jobbers on that board now.
Ive heard Jim Cornette's invasion storyline in one of those YouShoot wrestling interviews & it's 10 times better than what Vince wound up doing. You saw the same thing happen 5-8 years ago at... was it Wrestlemania? When they had "Raw Vs Smackdown," and Vince couldn't possibly let Smackdown win more than, like, 1 match. (Spoilers, I know.)
This wasn't bad booking of a chicken shit heel but Page was absolutely miscast in the role. I'm sure Page regrets opting out of his 7 figure WCW contract just to look like a scrub to any and all WWF talent
Undertaker deserves respect for what he's done, but he also deserves to get shit on for burying one of the nicest guys in the business. He should feel horrible too since Page helped Jake The Snake get better. & Taker owes a lot to Jake.
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DDP should have kept the mullet. That is where his power was.
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@@Markyd123 I thought 2000-2001 WCW short hair DDP was a bit better tbh.
@@vladimirgrosse1938 "Hold up, I was the only n***a in the nineties in Arkansas wearing a mullet muthafuka, dont you know what it did for Hulk Hogan and Lex Luger?"XD
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This is why Sting was right to hold out, they would have destroyed his character in this fashion.
They would have had sting job out and be goofy
...eventually they did...
@@mammothchimp1774 nah they gave him a solid run, the survivor series debut was insane etc. yeah the wrestlemania was dumb but he was clearly getting a retribution run until Seth Rollins destroyed it
@@mammothchimp1774 They were going to give him the world title belt after his loss to Seth, the story was going to be Triple H turns on Seth takes the belt back and then Sting goes over finally. But the neck injury ended it. Seth Rollins was the worst at injuring guys
i'ts crazy. they shouldve rewarded the first wrestlers who were willing to come work instead of get paid to sit at home.
As bad as DDP got it? Kanyon got it even worse.
Young, talented guy. Can cut a promo. And you literally chuck him out of the cage match in 5 seconds and never see him again. And why? Because he was DDP's friend?
What an absolute waste.
No, Kanyon got it bad because of his sexuality, it's been said that he was bullied because of it, which may have been what led to his suicide, not to mention suffering from bipolar disorder
@@batistafury6668 I thought kanyon died of a heart attack.
Ill never forget that nasty chairshot Undertaker gave to Kanyon. Like another commenter said i think Kanyon sexuality was why WWE/Vince buried him. Next to Bagwell and Public Enemy, Kanyon got the worst burial out of all the WCW/ECW guys.
@@batistafury6668 which is weird considering what pat Patterson what getting away with
@Bare Knuckle I love his heavy metal reviews!
Dude was one of the biggest babyfaces in Pro Wrestling during the 90s and they booked him to be a Stalker. Still baffles me to this day.
Absolutely, that's why I figure it was a sabotage. You wouldn't have to change a thing, DDP would have been as hot as they wanted. You would have to go out of your way to fuck it up
Vince hated wcw so he just shit on every single wcw star so did triple h
now i think about it they had better changed Steiners and DDP's roles in WWE. Steiner was a natural heel forced to be a face and you just know that his stalker promos would've been weird but extremely funny while DDP (natural babyface) could've gone around attacking midcard heels before a Triple H championship match.
WCW had already kind of fkd up his image. I remember thinking what a stupid idea it was to have him as the main heel in that David Arquette movie.
Well atleast he sold the bumbs like a real man. Some were even comical.
WWE did DDP dirty. I was waiting for so long for some of the big name WCW talent to finally come to WWF and they always found a way to ruin them. DDP got it the worst though because of the dumb stalker story line.
Love ddp, buy clearly someone as aged and experienced should have seen that burial a million miles away.
@@gradyingersoll3826 Knowing Vince, probably. Sting got lucky he didn't get buried until way later, after his prime.
It was Vince getting revenge after WcW beat him for 83 weeks.
DDP was a heavily involved in Hall and Nash signing with WCW in 1996. He was good friends with them and he and Bischoff where friends and actually neighbors at the time.
Imagine having your entire run with a company derailed by a guy’s wife who he’d end up divorcing 5 years later.
At least he went on to be very successful with DDP Yoga.
5 years still long time. Try staying in prison for 5 years
@Zach I'm quite sure you lack imagination
actually, it was 7yrs not 5. LMBO
I didn't know Sara was booking at the time. 🤷
Even though DDP was married to Kimberly, Vince has DDP stalk Sara. Talk about insulting the intelligence of the audience.
They couldn't even blame the Time Warner deal on that either since she left WCW prior to that angle. It shows how out of touch the writers were despite feuding with the company for years.
Hearing Bruce Pritchard try and defend this is hilarious. Just a bunch of BS.
@@justinkelly9526 Did DDP come up with the idea of being pinned by Sara then in less than 10 seconds?
@@justinkelly9526 Go by the official start when the bell was rung. It was literally less, than 10 seconds. DDP was new to the company, so whoever made the outcome he was just going to say yes, even how awful it was.
Effectively, DDP was buried with the worse possible outcome. There was no point of having the one time non wrestling wife pin a veteran, as it took away any credibility of DDP being a threat.
An Undertaker vs DDP match lost any value after that.
The angle and story sucked. It went nowhere as evidently clear of it's failure.
Edit: If people saw Kimberly compared to Sara, it wasn't believable either, why DDP would stalk UT's wife.
2nd Edit: One more thing, the DDP vs Sara match if I recall correctly the end of the feud, as it marked the idea the person stalked beat the stalker. No progression for DDP as he was buried.
@@justinkelly9526 Guess what?
The Invasion Angle also FAILED. Yes, Vince can be blamed for that also.
The stalker storyline was only one out of the other failures from that. Booker T was made to look like crap also, during that angle.
You made it sound like DDP came up with all the ideas to make himself look like crap, and Vince just said yes to everything.
You posted the Sara win was to progress the storyline. What story exactly happened after specifically between UT and DDP to progress their feud?
I am sure the Sara match was the end.
Heel DDP: Buried
Face DDP: loved by the fans and gets over
The problem is the move-set didn't really change, just the mannerisms.
They turned WCW’s “people’s champ” into a creepy stalker coward jobber. That’s some great booking and creative writing. Thanks WWE…
if WCW won would they have made Taker into a male cheerleader? just wondering the fking stupid shit Bishoff would've come up with
WCW turned their own "people's champ" into a cowardly heel shortly after he won his first World title. It didn't go over well.
@@quentinkaasa47 who?
@@marvaff6878 Diamond Dallas Page
@@michiel1162 they would have rebranded him Grave Digger or something like that. Pushed him to the World Title and he'd lose the title in a Tombstone on a pole match.
I love The Undertaker, but it was so ridiculously lame how he was basically untouchable at the time during the Invasion. Dominating DDP and getting the best of guys when he was being attacked 5 on 1 or 6 on 1. I think it had to do with his ego and his feelings against WCW. But, you didn't see Kane like that. He was booked dominate, but no where near as Undertaker. Probably because he didn't buy into the BS politics at the time.
Which is sad to Taker is love more than Kane who was a team player his whole run. Kane shouldn't have job to guys till late 2010s but he did it pretty much in the 2000s.
If you anything about the career of mark Calloway then you would know what a ridiculous statement that is
You probably shouldn't compare Undertaker and Kane. Kane is good and all but he ain't on level of Undertaker. And yea, Undertaker buried him bcoz of DDP's attitude backstage. Taker never buried guys like Eddie, Booker and Jericho.
@@part-timebrock1126 Not to mention only a few months from this SummerSlam, Undertaker gives Maven the biggest moment of his career at the Royal Rumble.
Which is doubly annoying in DDP's case. Page was far more over than Taker was at this point in his career. Most people *dreaded* Taker doing anything. DDP was the bigger star during this time frame.
That’s what I never understood Kimberly is hotter than Sara lol
Sure. If you want to get a guy’s attention, stalk their wife but isn’t your wife one of the hottest women in wrestling?
agreed!
@@TheCamSays thank you! That’s what I never understood! Why are you going to stalk another man’s wife when your wife is five times hotter?!
Even DDP said in a interview.
😤😤 that's what I don't understand Kimberly was🤤🤤🤤🤤😍🤑🤑
DDP, a nice guy who was one of the two biggest WCW guys you could get during that time period, comes to your company and is willing to be a team player and be a coward heel... And you reward him with this humiliating and pathetic booking despite the fact that if you actually tried booking him properly, you could have had a new, fun and exciting feud or two with top guys. FFS, Vince.
Blame undertaker too
Three. Sting, DDP, Ric Flair. Hogan makes that four. Nash makes that five. Hall makes that six.
@@user-fe8gx3ie5v nwo and Ric Flair weren’t in the invasion. Ric came like RIGHT after. And NWO came at No Way Out the following year. Sting didn’t show up in wwe until like 5 years ago. It was only Booker and Dallas who were former champions.
@@Thor-Orion I'm talking about WCW's top guys, not the ones that were in the Invasion.
DDP was a wcw guy,over rated,didn’t have the look,his matches were mediocre at best,his promos were lame,and he looked like a homeless methed out bum.
He wasn’t WWF material and Vince knew it.
If he was so great he’d of had a better run,people need to get over that
DDP's legacy in WCW and life after WWE trumps most legends. His time in WWE... Yes massive burial. But hey we all know he is one best. Legend status earned.
Unfortunately, I've noticed a lot of wrestling fans have been brainwashed by WWE propaganda and tend to believe the WWE narrative on everything. As a fan of guys like DDP and Vader, who were popular in other companies but treated like dirt in WWE, it can be frustrating to hear the revisionist history of how they were never big deals because they failed in the WWE.
@@LokiTricksterG those fans don't know shxt about the business, just brainwashed by the current BS gae propaganda put out by the sellout wwe network
To be fair, DDP had to put up with some serious crap in WCW too. DDP was crazy over in '97 and '98, but instead of letting him go over Goldberg at the height of his popularity they waited till 99 and turned him into a cowardly heel.
DDP is a life saver.. he’s responsible for giving us more moments with the likes of Jake the snake roberts instead of his legacy being a man who hit rock bottom and was killing himself, we got to see him be part of the industry again, looking healthy and happy and it meant a lot to people like me who adored Jake the Snake as a kid, DDP is undoubtedly an incredible person and no matter what happened in his career, he is one of the greatest minds to ever come through the business.
Holy shit I hated this. Turning DDP into some kinda crazed Stalker was so damn stupid. They completely ruined him.
It should've been raven
It didnt completely nothing him but we get what you trying to say
At least he went on to be very successful with DDP Yoga.
He still got an incredible pop that first time DDP was reviled as the Stalker.
Considering the backstage politics at the time and the job he was given I think DDP did a great job. It's hard for fans to get behind a wrestler if their losing most of the time or getting wins via DQs
... or running away like a little baby making a crappy in his nappy.
18:04 And this is one of the things that makes Big Show so great. He's always up for a laugh.
I know I've *always* loved The Undertaker for my whole life. Ever since I was a wee babby sat in front of the TV watching that spooky dude work, it was always so fun! And then as I grew older and understood more of the Wrestling business, I learned more about Mark Calloway, and him behind the scenes of WWE, stories about how he was a Locker-Room leader, about how much most wrestlers respected him deeply, about how he loved the business and helped rookies and put divas in their places. I always loved 'Taker.
But *jeezus*, Undertaker's hate-fueled-fury toward the former WCW guys, and just smashing and *burying* the Hell out of DDP (by all accounts a good dude, also respectful of the business and such) was *so* disappointing to me.
God imagine if instead of doing this awful DDP stalker angle. They instead did Rock vs DDP people's champion vs people's champion.
People's champion vs corporate champion.
DDP > Rocky sucks
They could've did the stunner vs the diamond cutter . And whoever loses doesn't do the move
@@Modeloman8 So Paige loses his finisher 🤣🤣
Oh man, face DDP and face Rock would have been fantastic. Page was the reason I kept watching WCW back in the day. His charisma was amazing
@@joshpeacock2951 Face vs face sucks worse than Batman vs Superman.
I lost a lot of respect for Taker after I read about the DDP feud. That was a complete injustice.
And he calls this generation soft
@@andrebryant5081 takers legacy has aged like milk the last couple years. I used to think he was the greatest wrestler ever because he did whatever was best narratively for the storyline. But he’s just basically turned into a bitter old man who doesn’t know his last good match was against CM Punk in 2013.
@@JokersRWildStudios he has reached Jim Cornette levels of bitterness, pettiness, and how out of touch he is. Not to mention insecure as fuck with how embarrassing his career has been the last few years.
Was the burial ever explained??
@@NicCollinsFilms according to DDP, Undertaker used a incident where DDP hugged Vince McMahon as leverage. It's not roses and daffodils on Undertaker's image, lemme tell you.
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I never understood why DDP wasn’t in the survivor series match but Kurt angle and Shane McMahon were. It was awesome back then as a kid but now that I’m older the WWE really messed up that storyline
Because he was so far down the card at this point he'd have looked out of place.
@@Will-h7h not to WCW fans he wouldn't have. DDP is one of only eight WCW Triple Crown Champions, he would never look out of place at the top of the card.
Changing story direction week to week, letting wrestler egos dictate booking, putting too many Hollywood writers in creative and not enough wrestling people... the Invasion is really the start of the WWE creative problems that still plague them to this day.
Vince has always been the problem.
Man, thanks for digging up old mark-wounds. I can't tell you how much it pissed me off that they had DDP say to the Understaker "make me famous". Like EFF-OFF! He's DDP. He doesn't need the Undertaker. Everyone knew him and threw up the diamond cutter hand gesture.
"Sara looks like a pigeon here" that had me rolling xD
I’m sure her bolt ons look nice enough but she’s nowhere near as pretty as Takers current wife.
@@TyyTheFlyGuy Michelle McCool is a huge upgrade over Sara.
@@TyyTheFlyGuy looks don't equal character. Michelle isn't there for love IN MY OPINION. Do you honestly think Michelle would've married taker if money didn't involve to get her push in WWE? LOL That would be a no. lol
@@xbigwormx She may be pretty but she only got with taker for his money lol. didn't come from me. lmbo
He really could have been a massive help in the Invasion story as one of the few WCW/ECW main eventers who was participating but nooooooo, dude's a joke before the Alliance angle even happens.
Undertaker was one of the worst parts of the invasion. He’s the reason DDP, Kanyon, Mike awesome, and Kronik were all made to look like trash. Nobody personified the short sighted “WCW guys can’t work at our level” that damned the storyline than Taker
And it makes me disgusted seeing Taker, a grown man, approve of this burial.
DDP got smacked hard in this one. Such a wasted opportunity.
At least he went on to be very successful with DDP Yoga.
He was old and broken down
@@user-gt8fw1uz9v He wasn't that old, and he could still go.
Bless DDP, he always says nice things about his time in the WWF, BUT........ man DDP was a total baby face going into the company and I cannot help but feel a midcard feud would have been better with a WWF heel. Who that heel is i cant think of the now
Why not X-Pac? He would've been heel around that time. That's when "X-Pac heat" started anyway.
@Sakis Papas ring work doesn't matter when you have charisma to hide it. Just ask Austin post neck injury.
@Sakis Papas Did you even watch his matches in WCW?
No. He wasn't overrated at all.
Undertaker was super insecure about DDP and Mike Awesome out-working him and replacing him as the top big-guy and promptly got them buried.
LOL . People would still have supported the Undertaker more so he fucked up.
🧢🧢🧢
The Christian/DDP feud should have had RVD and Booker T thrown in to be a feud over who's the most unduly buried wrestler of the early 2000s
RVD and Booker T were both the first guys eliminated in the Survivor Series 5-on5 Winner Take All match. None of the 3 remaining on team Alliance came over from WCW or ECW after they folded. It was a total and utter burial.
DDP tries to put an Indian death lock on big show but he’s slaps some sense in to him, That had me on the floor dude you’re hilarious!!!
Such a waste of DDP here. I though he did great with what he was given, but DDP never had a chance to succeed in WWE because everything was rigged against him from the start.
Suggestion: Matt Bourne’s Bourne Again in ECW
Brilliant
yesss.i loved matt bourne
Krusty The Clown!!! 😂😂😂
VERY hard to find footage altho I'd imagine it's all on the network. I remember I TH-cam before and only having 2 available clips.
But man, that's a great answer
I was 14 during the invasion angle, had barely watched WCW and this was my first exposure to DDP. I really liked the positively Page gimmick.
If only Vince wasn't so determined to bury WCW talent
Damn u missed out
I also loved the smiling motivational speaker gimmick, it was very good.
But it was still inexplicable to have him start out in such a 1 sided feud with Undertaker. The reaction he got on his unmasking says it all about the potential they squandered.
With that said he did later on get his smiling gimmick over, so it wasn’t all bad.
Great video! I remembered a fair bit of what you covered but also completely forgot, or didn’t ever see, the matches with Booker T.
and when you said Chuck Palumbo was the guy in the rumble, that was actually Billy Kidman.... oh... wait a minute!
When the Undertaker said, "Page... you're not famous because you suck!", I knew DDP was done.
I have said this a lot but Raven would of fit more in the stalker angle it would of fit much much better. DDP should of been one of WCW's biggest players but he was treated like a jobber
Unfortunately, it probably would have had the same results as it did for DDP, because Raven was probably even lower than Page on the totem pole. But it would have been way more fitting, especially considering what he did in ECW to Tommy Dreamer and Beulah
I got 2 things from this
1) DDP wasnt maliciously squashed. It was shit booking
2) Christian is rightfully one of my favorites
HHH: Hey, Dallas. Don’t go to Taker with your written out bullshit
DDP: *goes to Undertaker with his script*
Having a script might've prevented that disaster of a match Taker and Kane had with Kronik at Unforgiven 2001. I mean, Randy Savage always meticulously laid out matches and never got any shit for it like Page did. Funny how heavily scripted WWE matches would become just a few years later anyway. I think Taker was less annoyed about a script and more annoyed about DDP wanting to actually have a competitive back and fourth match.
@@Bubba__Sawyer that’s probably true. I don’t think Vince would’ve used DDP as a main eventer even if he had made a good first impression backstage.
WWE could've done so much more with DDP instead of making him do a stalker gimmick. What a waste of one of my favorite WCW wrestlers.
This was such a shame 😒 I was so hyped for Dallas in the WWE, He didn't deserve this crap 😒
Thanks for all your hard work!! I love these
Was at that Raw in Tampa, and the crowd popped HARD when he took off that mask, but Vince’s hubris wouldn’t let him make the WCW guys competitive. Really a shame.
Kenny Dykstra in WWE after the Spirit Squad
That's a good one
I always liked his one handed top rope leg drop he did.
@@seinenwax94jr9 legit probably my favorite version of the leg drop
John Cena already buried the video
This is from DDP’s own mouth about the reason why he left: DDP stopped after that Hardcore Holly match due to a concerning legit injury. Holly knocked him out on his feet from a boot in the corner earlier in the match. Then later when DDP went to superplex him, DDP was still concussed, so he rotated strangely & took all of the impact right on his neck & his body jackknifed & so he kicked Holly straight in the balls by accident. He lost feeing in his arms & legs right after the superplex & was still half knocked out. The feeling came mostly back but it was a concern that they couldn’t continue so they ended on Holly’s dropkick.
He went to the doc afterwards & they told him he had a dangerous C1 congenital neck defect his whole life, the way he landed on the superplex bump was SO lucky because it should’ve paralyzed him, & they told him he needed to retire. He stopped wrestling immediately because he had lingering symptoms for months & took time off until doing a little for TNA. So that’s why he left WWE.
DDP was a legend in WCW and seeing him getting buried in WWE is baffling, No wonder Sting thinks WWE is gonna mistreat WCW Stars since WCW ended.
It was obvious from the beginning. Even when Booker T was introduced, the Rock said "who the hell are you?"
When referring to Booker. Like he didn't exist before WWE.
A missed opportunity but hardly baffling. He was a new WCW guy who was in his mid 40s
@@treywar25 Which means he could have been a part timer upper midcard guy to help get younger talent over
Raven as the stalker would have made more sense IMO
Or sting if Vince wouldn't have ruined WCW guys
@@andrebryant5081 Sting would be above stalking his opponent's wife when there was nothing personal between them. Raven though? Nothing is beneath Raven.
@@tafua_a The stalking the wife part was lame making Sting stalk Taker for prize bigger than a title beating him at WM would work to get Taker attention for the match
@@andrebryant5081 If Sting just stalked Taker though, the angle would be completely different, and I can see Sting playing mind games on Taker, giving us a situation where the Undertaker is being beaten at his own game and faces his own demons in the shape of Sting. But as the wife stalker, Raven would have been a way better fit than Sting, and with better booking he might have even gotten over. Although at that point, the Streak wasn't that big of a prize yet
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
“Billy Kidman chucks him out the ring.”
Scratch the Billy Kidman part and start this sentence with the Chuck part as it was Chuck Palumbo who eliminated Page, but I get the confusion as he was in that storyline with Billy Gunn at the time.
@Eddie V it was two men who were experiencing a very loving bromance, nothing queer at all. Marked or should i say markyd told me he was a huge fan of billy and chuck, but not his favourite tag team, as it was the rainbow express from TNA.
Given what DDP would later do for broken and injured former wrestlers, especially Scott Hall, DDP absolutely _didn't_ deserve this in restrospect.
Holy shit that WCW team at invasion 2001 was... Something else to say the least.
The stalker gimic felt like WWE hazing DDP
That's like saying "You may have been a star in WCW, but you're nobody in the WWF"
Just recently found this channel and I love everything about it, the amateur production values, the shitting on wrestlers that are too fat/skinny/short and especially the don't give a shit non smark pandering attitude. Glad that stand in nerd didn't last long tho he was a charisma vacuum fr.
Dude your channel grows so fast you get like 1k more every day
i spoke to marky about this a few months back, said it would be soon for him to do this full time, in that two months he jumped about 15k subs, insane levels.
@@DUFFYISBACK yea its crazy
DDP was the first victim of Vince McMahon's revenge on WCW stars.
Kind of. He sent Paul Wight to fat camp a little over a year after signing him, and he made Jericho work with Chyna and Bob Holly for a while before doing anything with him.
@@Bubba__Sawyer This is gonna be a long one, but here it goes.. I don't think he really considered Jericho or Big Show WCW guys. They jumped ship before the war was over so he still have them big pushes and major title runs. Guys like DDP, Sting, the Outsiders, Scott Steiner, and I'd even argue Goldberg and Booker T (for most of their time with Vince) were absolutely buried and used to make WWE guys (mostly Triple H) look dominant. Even Goldberg and Booker who most would consider WCW success stories were booked to lose most of their major feuds and neither man was given the company's top title (the WWE Championship). The other guys I mentioned never got to hold ANY major titles after their post WCW careers. They were all fed to Triple H, they were all used as glorified enhancement talent, and they all had their gimmicks, music, and promo styles altered to be lesser versions of who they were in WCW. Despite the fact that Vince literally owned the rights to their music and gimmicks. Why was Nash being booked more like Diesel than Big Sexy? Why was he coming out to some boring generic music instead of his Wolfpack theme? Why were his promos blatantly overscripted and watered down despite it being in 2002-2003 almost a decade before that became the norm? Obviously because Nash had the persona and the mic skills and the entrance to be the top guy on RAW even at that point in his career. Same reason they instantly made Booker T a joke and fed him to The Rock. Same reason Goldberg's persona was changed entirely and he was booked to lose to every WWF Attitude Era star except his debut against The Rock. He even had to defeat Kane via a distraction in their one on one match in early 2004. Years later just to get Vince's point across, Goldberg had to put old man Taker over in 2019. DDP however got the worst end of Vince's wrath. He was instantly made into a coward heel, he was buried into oblivion, everything that was recognizable about his persona from WCW was gutted and repackaged, and he was only allowed to win the European Title, which he lost only a short time later. Very rarely will you see a case of Vince allowing a WCW guy to get one over on a WWF guy unless the WWF guy completely buries him later. Goldberg defeating The Rock maybe one of the very few cases where a WCW star was legitimately allowed to go over a WWF Attitude Era star. Even though it took 10,000 spears and jackhammers to put The Rock away, I guess it's still impressive it was allowed to happen.. So I don't think Vince ever considered Jericho or Big Show WCW guys. They were given clean wins over other "WWF guys" and they were multiple time WWE Champions. Also it never even crossed Vince's mind to have them join the Alliance during the Invasion angle (despite how bad the Alliance could have really used them). Same with Eddie, Benoit, and the Radicals. They came to Vince before the WCW buyout, so I think Vince seen them as WWF guys. They were safe from Vince's Anti-WCW wrath for the most part.
@@squarepickle I'm surprised Booker T survived that stupid burial of WCW Stars.
It's insane just how badly they used DDP. Dear lord what a debacle.
Match 16 should be 2002 Royal Rumble. Yeah, I just didn’t understand why he would stalk Sara when his wife, at the time, was way hotter.
DDP deserved so much better. He was my favorite in WCW and I got to meet him thanks to make a wish in 1999. That just makes his WWF run all the more angering to me.
Isn't make-a-wish for dying kids? Like, kids who are definitely going to pass away? Congrats on surviving.
@@jonbourgoin182 No. Dying kids qualify but dying isn't the only qualification.
You forgot the 3 Biggest Stars from WCW was Diamond Dallas Paige, Booker T & Buff Bagwell. Buff Bagwell took a $80k ($130k) lost in today’s money to work immediately for Vince & WWF. And Vince just let him go after 1 match with Booker T. So dirty
In an alternate universe, DDP was pushed to the moon in wwe. Facing off with Orton in his last match at wrestlemania to prove who the king of the cutter is.
Markyd, you should do a video on the Scott Steiner vs Rick Steiner Feud in 1998. No one on TH-cam has done it, you could be first.
Wrestling Bios will certainly have done one by the end of the year. 😄
I hated Invincible Never-Sells Taker in '01-03
The Undertaker: more powerful as an average motorcycle enjoyer than as an immortal undead supernatural being. 😂
Clearly DDP was flapping his wings like the Hawk at 26:50
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@@kaijones64 agreed
That intro tho............ Sick👌👌👌
Watched your vid as recomondation now waiting for the one...... Lots of love from India.... Keep shoving
28:07 ol shiny teeth nearly nackered his fookin neck doing that suplex.
That was the injury that ended his run
Definitely one of the worst burials ever they made it a mission to make him look bad.
then of course they put him in their hall of fame some years later (all while ignoring how badly they booked/treated him during this time), lol.
@@dudeman25 I know right I wouldn't even had accepted it if I was DDP smh, how do you not do a DDP vs The Rock people's champ feud.
Burials
Interesting moment DDP and Kanyon vs Edge and Christian, Back when Edge made his WWF debut, he and Kanyon did a lot of the same innovative moves, like the falling sparrow/flatline, Electric Chair, inverted DDT. Would’ve been interesting to see them run a program with one another.
MarkyD thanks again well done...this is such an underrated channel
You got yourself a NEW sub 👍🏼... Love your video’s...
Thanks bro
23:02 that smile is the best thing I’ve seen in wrestling in years
The background music for these are great
10:04 Austin pulling referee Charles Robinson hair is hilarious. I've watched this match loads and never noticed lol
Ending a beautiful day with a beautiful video
The UT DDP feud still pisses me off to this day. The unkillable phenom vs the everyman who never quits. That story writes itself, but noooo. Instead we get this
I know the buried term is used loosely, but, DDP was buried. I have never seen anyone buried this bad in my life, and frankly, nobody would top it.
Zack Ryder in 2012 was worst
@@rickyrosay33977 Are you serious? DDP was pinned by a non wrestler woman. gtfo of here.
@@aboriginalson you do have a point but Zack got thrown off a wheelchair with nothing to break his fall just concrete he could’ve broke his ankles
@@rickyrosay33977
1: Zack wasn't a former world champion. DDP was. Also, was one of the biggest stars they had in the Invasion
2: He was pinned by a woman. It wasn't clean, but still pinned.
3: All his matches with the Deadman were matches where he got little if any offence. Also the fact he ran almost every time.
To conclude, yes, maybe Ryder was screwed over more. But add the fact that Page was supposed to be a threat, they made a top guy a jobber, rather than a midcarder a jobber in Zack's case
Positive ddp was good
And is actually much like he is now with ddp yoga.
I was so estatic to see him as a kid it didn't bother me.....till he lost to Sara on Raw, that was inexcusable.
Fucking legend, met him once in a Philly convention, great man.
I want an interviewer to ask Taker why he buried DDP.
Good God did Taker ever upgrade when he got with Michelle McCool.
IKR?!?
Michelle is all about money. LMBO. You honestly think she really wants taker as old as he is? And I'm a really big fan. This is just my opinion lol
@@niaedmonds3342 They have a nice family together, if it's a scam she's the most committed 'gold digger' of all time.
@@marcespinoza6068 Gold diggers can stay around for a long but it doesn't mean they want the person. It happens every day. They're waiting for that right moment. some wait till that person dies. AND IT'S ACTUALLY TRUE she is just that. I remember reading on some message boards of an individual that was close to taker at this time says she is there for money. Not my words. But I believe it. Look how she got her big push in WWE with their relationship. lol
@@niaedmonds3342 What are the examples of her "gold digging"? They appear to be a happy family.
People say that the Invasion failed because of a lack of star power. That the supposed WCW team was represented by too many WWF defectors. This burial of DDP tells me that even if Vince McMahon did by those contracts the Invasion still would've sucked ass.
I think ur wrong compared to wwe stars booker t and ddp were midcarders in status
.so when fighting rope wwe stars they had to make it realstic in the wwe world by making ddp a cowardly heel. They should have gave ddp a smaller storyline to raise him up but it's kinda pointless as u hav other stars that need something to do
@@wingedhussar1453 To each your own. But I'm not sure.
At Wrestlemania 31 they booked Triple H vs. Sting. They had DX help Triple H and nWo help Sting. It was basically an unbranded version of the Invasion. WWE vs. WCW. And they STILL pissed us off by having Triple H go over Sting. 😑
@@TheBmb2jn thats wayyy far ahead when wwe was in difrent spot also sting was a huge star and booker and ddp not so much
Wasn't WCW going out of business enough of a victory for Vince? Why bury the talent that worked there?
All because DDP wanted to give taker a script of moves for a match they were gonna have. The fucking egotistical mindset of taker and vince. Literally had money eith DDP vs The Rock.
DDP was like my favorite WCW wrestler so seeing being buried in the WWE like that is really frustrating.
The day WCW died was the worst day in wrestling history...
I remember the cage match with the Brothers of Destruction. I thought it was very sad.
These are so good.This needs more views.
Do EC3 time in wwe next “the worst burial ever”
Yes please
Mhm, EC3 in the Ring Of The Hawk!
EC3 was never even a superstar. DDP was actually well known...
@@chrismorgan8330 You’ve obviously never seen his TNA run....
This this this
DDP could have been great in WWE
I'd love to see you go back in the Time Machine and tackle DDP's Diamond Exchange stable from the AWA with Paul Diamond, Curt Hennig and Colonel DeBeers as a predecessor to his In Ring career
Markyd123 covering DDP's WWF run isn't a bad thing. IT'S A GOOD THING! :)
25:16 lmao that welt on regal's chest is just literally a hand 😂😂😂
I wonder why Sting was reluctant to join WWE during this time.
I just realized that the hawk's face is changing depending on the mark
I’ll be honest. I enjoyed DDPs run in WWF. He was in his 40s and was not going to be a guy to take the company to new heights. Trying to elevate the mid card and tag division was the smart thing to use him for. The matches didn’t have to be squash matches. Like the Summerslam massacre... I mean taker just whooped his ass much more 1v1 than DDP did.
They shouldn't have even bothered doing the inVasion. Only that first PPV after it started did good business. Summer Slam drew the same buys as the year before and after, and Survivor Series, which was the culmination of the angle only drew like 300,000 buys, compared to inVasion which did 700,000 buys.
They knew they couldn't do the angle properly at the time so they either should've delayed it until all the big name's contracts were up in early 2002 or just not not done it at all.
@@Bubba__Sawyer I mean. It made sense to do it because Vince just bought WCW. And ECW was going out of business. Waiting a year or so would’ve been worthless
Good video Markyd123
Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪 😀
Oh no I hope he isn't protestant 😳😳
Yo Hawk Brother, great entry as always. I think you need to start highlighting the name of the Wrestler you are covering on your Grade Chart at the end there, Brother. There are just way too many jobbers on that board now.
It’s ok to play the scary chicken shit heel but at least when most wrestlers like flair and jbl do it they win their matches
or hhh.
Ive heard Jim Cornette's invasion storyline in one of those YouShoot wrestling interviews & it's 10 times better than what Vince wound up doing.
You saw the same thing happen 5-8 years ago at... was it Wrestlemania? When they had "Raw Vs Smackdown," and Vince couldn't possibly let Smackdown win more than, like, 1 match. (Spoilers, I know.)
This wasn't bad booking of a chicken shit heel but Page was absolutely miscast in the role. I'm sure Page regrets opting out of his 7 figure WCW contract just to look like a scrub to any and all WWF talent
Undertaker deserves respect for what he's done, but he also deserves to get shit on for burying one of the nicest guys in the business. He should feel horrible too since Page helped Jake The Snake get better. & Taker owes a lot to Jake.
I was a wcw kid. The diamond cutter was my favorite move. That big show chok slam on ddp was one of big shows better looking ones of all time
"...Taker, I'm begging ya... MAKE ME FAMOUS!"
It takes some real talent to make this crap into crap salad. You gotta admit.