10 Forgotten WWE Matches That Came Right Before Iconic Moments

10. William Regal Vs Crash Holly - Shane McMahon Buys WCW (Raw, March 26 2001)

In an obviously very eventful edition of Monday Night Raw going head-to-head with Nitro for the very last time, William Regal had taken a presumably scripted potshot at the former competition that earned him a bit of blowback on the other channel from Tony Schiavone. This one remark from the future joyous uncle of AEW lingered longer in the memory than the Commissioner's brief brawl with Crash Holly.

As was the style at the time, the contest barely existed before it was broken up, in this case by Chris Jericho dressed as Doink to promote both the Gimmick Battle Royal and their Intercontinental Championship match at Sunday's WrestleMania X-Seven.

The famous McMahon/McMahon simulcast happened immediately afterwards as any memories of Regal and Holly beyond Jericho's humourous clowning were lost to time completely. Even that survives mostly as a result of Jericho's guiltily hilarious tale of a not-very-well-at-all Shawn Michaels not being able to reconcile that this was an angle rather than 'Y2J's next move. "I can't believe they made you Doink" was 'HBK's furious assessent before stumbling off to get into a blazing row with Triple H that wouldn't be rectified until he finally cleaned up several months later.

Busy night.