The Day The Wrestling World Saw An Invasion

 

The day the wrestling world saw an Invasion. 

So beginning in 2001 VInce McMahon owned WCW and ECW. Well he wanted to do something interesting with those two companies involving his own company so he decided to start the invasion. Invasion took place during the attitude era which is one of the most popular eras in wrestling history. WCW and WWF at the time were at War on Monday nights to see who has the better show well Vince bought WCW because of mismanagement so this leads to the Invasion. The final night of the Monday Night Wars occurred on March 26, 2001: Raw Is War primarily focused on the major storylines heading into WrestleMania X-Seven, while Nitro held their final episode with a "Night of Champions". Mr. McMahon opened up Nitro and announced a simulcast later that night to address the future of WCW. Throughout Raw Is War, McMahon publicly named several WCW wrestlers who would not be retained.[1] Though most would wrestle for the WWE in the ensuing years, he did legitimately fire Jeff Jarrett on television due to animosity between the two dating back in 1999, when Jarrett blackmailed McMahon for payment after he was booked for a match at No Mercy following his contract expiry the day before.[1] so Shane McMahon decided to buy WCW during The Invasion and he is Vince's only son. Stephanie the daughter decided to buy ECW and for wrestling since I don't know these are all rival companies at the time they were competing to see who is best well during The Invasion they decided to have a brand extension adding in these new brands. One of the things they decided to do was have Diamond Dallas Page play a stalker to Undertaker's Real life Wife named Sara at the time. Diamond Dallas Page was a top WCW Wrestler.On the July 9 episode of Raw Is War at Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, Kane was scheduled to face Mike Awesome and Lance Storm in a handicap match.Chris Jericho came out and offered to be Kane's partner, thus turning it into a tag team match.Near the end of the match, Jericho applied the Walls of Jericho on Lance Storm. As the move was being applied, however, Rob Van Dam and Tommy Dreamer ran through the audience and into the ring and started to beat on Kane and Jericho. In response, WWF wrestlers consisting of The Dudley Boyz, Tazz, Justin Credible, Rhyno, and Raven (all former ECW wrestlers) ran to the ring. After a brief stand-off, the WWF cavalry turned around and attacked Kane and Jericho. This prompted Paul Heyman to leave the announce table and enter the ring. After high-fiving the wrestlers, he announced that ECW has been brought into the Invasion.[3] Heyman talked about how tired he was sitting beside Jim Ross and discussing WCW vs. WWF, stating that he felt that everyone had forgotten about ECW and announced, "This Invasion just got taken to the extreme!".

Later during the night, Shane and Vince McMahon bumped into each other backstage.Shane told his father that ECW needed to be taken care of and pointed out that there were ten ECW wrestlers under Heyman's belt. He suggested that WWF and WCW field five wrestlers each to take out ECW; Vince agreed, but he stubbornly insisted that WCW would eventually meet its demise when all was said and done. 

At the end of the night, the WCW wrestlers came into the ring, accompanied by Shane McMahon. The WWF wrestlers then came into the ring and, before ECW entered, the WCW and WWF wrestlers started to brawl.The WWF wrestlers cleared the ring, but then were stormed by the ECW wrestlers and taken out.The WCW wrestlers came into the ring, high-fived the ECW men and then dismantled the WWF wrestlers as Paul Heyman and Shane McMahon hugged in triumph.Upon seeing a stunned Vince McMahon asking what was going on, Shane admitted being responsible for all the events that just transpired and announced that ECW and WCW merged to form The Alliance – with Stephanie McMahon as ECW's new owner.

All this lead to a PPV called the Invasion which was to see who had the best brand. 

At this very moment in wrestling we could have an invasion actually we are but in different ways we have a totally new audience who are not familiar with some of the wrestlers or the companies involved.