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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 3934212, member: 1969"] I would say there are some yes / no in this. WWE built a number of stars from WCW -- in a "very slight" way around 2000, it was the "AEW" of the WWE/WCW war in that it was doing a better job of building good talent. There was the WCW vs WWE angle in 2001 that went nowhere, but to be fair to Vince, creating a fair fight storyline was tough to do. Remember that most of the stars of WCW chose to sit out for about a year after the acquisition. Not that it was handled well. But in 1999/2000 the WWE brought in some guys who were middling in WCW and made them ** big stars in the WWE (Jericho, Guerrero, Benoit) and also built up Booker T / Mysterio pretty well after the acquistion date. There was a number of casualties as well, especially those that came right in April 2001 when they were acquired. (** or made it easier for them to become stars then it does to people today) [/QUOTE]