10 Awesome WWE Returns RUINED By Awful Reactions

10. Buff Bagwell, Booker T, And WCW (Raw - July 2001)

They tried. They really did.

This match represents the attempt to try to re-introduce WCW to TV, an experiment in keeping WCW alive after its acquisition by WWF. The point of this match was to highlight 'the best' that WCW had to offer. The defunct promotion's return, four months after Vince McMahon's purchase.

It's also the only WWF TV match for Buff Bagwell. That's probably for the best.

From the start, the match was doomed. WWF had been conditioning their fans to actively hate WCW for half a decade, and the fans responded in kind. Booker got a decent pop, Bagwell less so, especially after the surprising response his name had first generated when mentioned by Vince McMahon a few months before.

Because of this, anything associated with the match was booed. Stacy Keibler as the ring announcer. Arn Anderson and Scott Hudson as the commentary team. Shane McMahon as the 'owner' of WCW. Booker and Buff.

It wasn't necessarily a bad match, just a very hostile crowd, many of whom can be seen heading for the exits during the match. It wasn't until Stone Cold and Kurt Angle (remember that whole Invasion thing?) interfered in the match that there was any real crowd response.

This should have been, as Scott Hudson said, a historic moment marking the end of the Monday Night Wars. Instead it was a fiasco.