10 Wrestling Moments That Made You Mark Out
9. Austin Saves Team WWF
An entry that just as easily fits onto about 100 other articles. Biggest WWE Pops, Best Raw Moments Ever, Great Moments In Terrible Angles, the list of the lists goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on.
Bears repeating though, because for all the many ways this exact moment of the July 16th 2001 episode of Monday Night Raw has become immortalised in history, the disbelieving reaction it drew from its crowd remains the most iconic. Many fans were still reeling from the creative misstep of WrestleMania X-Seven's main event, that saw the biggest babyface anti-hero of a generation sell his soul to the owner of the company, but in one moment all of that was undone.
Appearing first on the video screens fighting his way back from a bar where he'd been wallowing in self-pity, the Stone Cold Steve Austin of old swaggered down the ramp to lay waste to the entire WCW/ECW alliance. Never mind how haphazard the angle had been up until this point, or how weird Austin's direction had been that year, fans forgot all about it the moment his music hit.
Sadly it would never get this good again for the Invasion angle or, arguably, Austin himself, but for the few minutes that followed it barely mattered.