Our match of the week is Booker T defending the WCW World Title in opposition to Buff Bagwell, on July 2, 2001, from Tacoma, Washington (WWF).
Regardless of being promoted by and introduced on a WWF present, the argument may very well be made that this was the ultimate WCW match.
Despite the fact that this was an earnest try by Vince McMahon to introduce and current WCW a second promotion, almost every little thing he did was a mistake. Selecting to do the match in Tacoma, Washington, which wasn’t precisely a WCW southern wrasslin’ hotbed, was a useless uphill battle, as have been the members.
Booker T, whereas not one of many true high stars of WCW, was a minimum of the inherited world champion. Bagwell was chosen primarily based on an off-the-cuff check of a stay crowd weeks earlier, the place Vince named a bunch of WCW wrestlers to gauge what sort of crowd response they acquired. Bagwell obtained a pleasant pop, and in contrast to among the greater stars like Ric Aptitude, Kevin Nash, Sting, Goldberg and others, who refused to take pennies on the greenback buyouts of their Turner contracts, he was additionally obtainable.
Booker T was one of many few greater stars who did take the buyout, playing on himself and figuring that as the largest WCW star left standing, he would obtain a superb WWF push. Finally he was right, as he can be figured in closely within the invasion storyline, and programmed right into a feud with The Rock. However Booker T vs Buff Bagwell simply didn’t have the star energy or traditional large time WCW really feel of one thing like Ric Aptitude vs Sting or Hulk Hogan vs Goldberg, and the Tacoma crowd rapidly turned on it…
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