Mike Awesome's run in WWF/E was a huge flop!!! It's a pretty sad way to start off but, sadly, it's a fact. Awesome's WCW contract was absorbed, as a part of WWF's purchase of WCW on March 23rd 2001, and, to be fair, his run started off pretty strong with a victory over Rhyno for the WWF Hardcore title, on June 25th 2001, which made him the first WCW 'invader' to capture a WWF title. Shortly after that Awesome (kind of) re-joined ECW as a part of 'The Alliance' stable (alongside WCW), on July 9th 2001, and had started a feud with Edge which lead to a match between Awesome and Lance Storm facing Edge and Christian at WWF's 'InVasion' PPV, on July 22nd, and then, well, nothing. Awesome was relegated to matches on shows like 'Sunday Night Heat' in which he was mostly on the losing end of his matches. After sustaining an injury, in November 2001, Awesome would be out of action until July 2002 where he would
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