10 Awesome Moments From The WWE Invasion

10. The Original Invaders

As a WCW fan at the time, seeing Lance Storm slide into the ring on Monday Night Raw in May 2001 and nearly decapitate Perry Saturn with a superkick was out of the seat stuff. It had been two months since Shane McMahon had purchased WCW but nothing had really happened. But then...shots fired!

Although throughout the duration of the whole Invasion the WCW guys were treated as cannon fodder for the most part, they initially felt like a viable threat. When Mike Awesome powerbombed Rhyno onto a ladder backstage and snared the Hardcore Championship, it genuinely felt like it had been hijacked.

Over the coming weeks, Chuck Palumbo and the phenomenally underused Sean O'Haire, the WCW Tag Team Champions laid waste to both The Hardy Boyz and The Dudley Boyz (in an attack that featured O'Haire's breathtaking Swanton!) Eventually, they were sacrificed at the altar of Vince's ego by getting obliterated.

It felt exciting - like an attack could come at any moment and we were just begging for the bigger names to turn up. At King Of The Ring that June, WCW Champion, Booker T assaulted WWE Champion, Stone Cold and put him through the announcer's table during the main event. The crowd went loopy.

It was a thrilling time and the possibilities felt endless.