Professional wrestling legend and former WWE trainer Bill DeMott who is a former two times WCW United States Heavyweight champion recently talked about the nixed WWE WrestleMania X-Seven plans where WCW wrestlers would have made their WWE debut.
WrestleMania X-Seven is considered as the best ever pay per view event in the history of professional wrestling. It was so good that whenever any professional wrestling pay per view does a good job, it gets compared to the greatness of X-Seven. From top to bottom it was a perfect pay per view event.
Bill DeMott Reveals Nixed WWE Plans For WrestleMania X-Seven
According to the formal two timed WCW United States Heavyweight Champion Bill DeMott, WCW stars were scheduled to make their debut at the event and it would have been the very beginning of the invasion angle of WWE. Even though it was not confirmed how WWE planned it.
The invasion angle of WWE was one of the most talked about storyline angles of WWE history. It was on the brink of the end of the Attitude Era of WWE. Vince McMahon purchased his biggest competition WCW and started an invasion angle where the WCW stars were invading WWE.
It looks really well on paper and the fans were really excited to see such a storyline since such a thing was completely new back then. But the execution of this storyline was not good and ultimately it turned out to be a failure. WWE even had plans of running WCW as a parallel show but they could not do it properly either. By the end of 2001, WCW died completely.
Bill DeMott who is a former two times WCW United States Heavyweight champion recently spoke on Stories with Brisco and Bradshaw where he talked about the nixed WWE WrestleMania X-Seven plans where WCW wrestlers would have made their WWE debut. He said;
“I have an opportunity to start my WWE career in the ring at WrestleMania 17 next to Shane McMahon. They flew us in secret squirrel at two o’clock in the morning to some rinky dink airport and we stayed at a hotel outside the city limits. We got woken up at six o’clock the morning of Mania, and “You’re fired. Get everybody in a lobby, be there in five minutes.”, and it was Johnny Ace. ‘Get everybody down there. You’re all fired.’ I’m trying to figure out what happened between the time I landed, and then you’re trying to put it together.”
“Like I flew in with these couple guys. Nothing happened. You know, we’re here in the hotel. Lance Storm comes down. Now he’s pissed, which, you know, he’s so even keeled, you don’t know if he’s mad, happy, or breathing half the time, he’s just so straight. Now he’s talking to me, and he’s on fire.”
“Johnny comes down and says that Kevin Dunn called and to send every one of them home, we got no use for them because someone went on the internet the night before and gave up the 10 names that were showing up in the ring. So we went from going to get the red carpet to being picked up on some kind of little short yellow bus.”
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