In July of 2001, the stars from WCW and ECW banded together under the leadership of Stephanie and Shane McMahon in an attempt to take down WWE and Mr. McMahon. It was duriing this time that Booker T,(since he already had the WCW title as well) handed over the U.S. title to Chris Kanyon. Soon after, Kanyon started calling himself the Alliance MVP, but the MVP’s value went down when Tajiri beat him for the U.S. title a couple of months later.