10 Most Exciting Run-ins In WWE History

10. Kurt Angle (Survivor Series 2001)

There may well be a little personal bias shining through in this one, or rather the bias of my 9-year-old self, who was totally and utterly invested in the 2001 Invasion angle.

With the benefit of hindsight (not to mention a better grasp of how wrestling storylines work), the Invasion angle now doesn’t quite look as great as I once remembered it.

Even so, that doesn’t change the fact that at the 2001 Survivor Series, in the all-or-nothing Winner Take All match, Kurt Angle provided us with a memorable run-in when he turned his back on the Alliance and came home to Team WWF.

Having earlier been eliminated from the ten-man match-up, Angle would return in the contest’s closing stages, batter his supposed partner Stone Cold Steve Austin with the WWF Championship and allow the Rock to capitalise to score the win for Team WWF.

For the stakes involved - in kayfabe, of course - and the crowd’s reaction to Angle’s actions, this will always be remembered in my mind as one of WWE's more exciting run-ins. Plus, it was very much helped by Paul Heyman’s misguided, famous last words of “thank God, here comes Kurt” just seconds before the backstabbing went down.