WCW Domination 2001: Sunday, Week 4, September 2001
You've done some very interesting things from a quick glimpse. I like the abridged set-up you have here with the summarised build followed by pay-per-views. It's a nice and easy formula that no doubt works in your favour.
Handling Shane McMahon's WCW is no easy feat, when you consider all the machinations of the product that was the WWF buyout in 2001, as well as the dying out of the Monday Night Wars-influenced boom period. That said, I like what you've been able to establish here. Your roster oddly blends some of the green guys courtesy of WCW 2000 with those that would eventually go on to great things in NWA:TNA, as well as MLW. I'm a big fan of you using Steve Corino, particularly. It's so baffling to me the WWF passed up on him after ECW folded. The guy was clearly in for a big 2001 before WCW and ECW went away.
You have done some extreme building of Sean O'Haire, which may be the shot in the arm the company needed, in all honesty. Fresh meat like him in the WCW World Heavyweight Championship picture unquestionably would have helped the company in its' blossoming months as an independent product, but I have to question how a match with he and Diamond Dallas Page would have drawn in such a situation. Similar could be said with Rob Van Dam and Billy Kidman working in the semi-main, though RVD will undoubtedly become a big feature in the company in the coming months I would suspect.
This all said, I think the ground work is absolutely here. I'd be very interested in seeing how things progress to a point we arrive in 2002, and how the landscape of the main event scene will evolve in a company without Sting, Goldberg or Scott Steiner. I think there is definite place for any one of them in this incarnation of WCW, but obviously the situation with Time Warner has complicated matters and I imagine WWF will want some of those guys for themselves.