One thing that actually prevented the invasion storyline from hitting the heights that it must have was the guaranteed Time Warner contracts many big WCW names were under when the corporate was purchased. They might either take a risk and have their contracts bought out so that they could possibly be involved within the invasion, which is what DDP and Booker T did, or they may sit at home, rest up, and earn a boatload of cash for doing absolutely nothing. As you possibly can imagine, most of them sat at home, with Jeff Jarrett even calling the summer of 2001 “The Summer of No Worries.“
Nonetheless, by the tip of 2001 and the beginning of 2002, numerous those contracts would have expired, and for people who hadn’t, seeing WWE willingly change their entire product to suit the narrative that WCW and ECW had gotten one over on them would have been very enticing. Sting famously noted that he wanted no a part of the invasion based on a segment where The Rock buried Booker T on “WWE SmackDown,” and thought if they may try this to Booker, what would they do to him? Having WCW and ECW get the victory at Survivor Series might have been the thing that sealed the deal for Sting to affix WWE on the time, and he would not be the just one.
In point of fact, the unique version of the Latest World Order, comprising Hollywood Hogan, Scott Hall, and Kevin Nash, joined WWE in February 2002, but in a world where The Alliance won the war, the nWo would have most certainly made an appearance much earlier and played a significant part within the storyline. The likes of Eric Bischoff, Rey Mysterio, and Scott Steiner all ended up in WWE by the tip of 2002, but they may have easily popped up after Survivor Series if the lay of the land looked appealing to them.
Stars like Goldberg were a bit more complicated, as his Time Warner contract ran a little bit longer, meaning that he could have still said no to joining the invasion even when The Alliance were on top, but the concept of constructing even extra money being a part of the most important storyline ever would have probably been too great to show down. As for the ECW alumni, they weren’t really a priority within the grand scheme of things, and fans would have been more inclined to tune in for the nWo than the bWo, but guys like Sabu, The Sandman, and Steve Corino could have gotten healthy paydays with an Alliance victory.