50 Greatest WWE Raw Moments Ever
13. Hell Freezes Over (July 15th, 2002)
Far from being casualties of war, nearly all of WCW's topline crew found work in WWE as the company desperately tried to reignite the spark that had retrospectively gone out long some point during the phoney battle between Vince McMahon's organisation and the Shane and Stephanie-led WCW/ECW Alliance.
Whilst the New World Order in February and Bill Goldberg the following March were stars fans felt they may never see on Raw, Eric Bischoff's million dollar smile was the one expression thought to be ostracised forever. Vince McMahon's real contemporary even when he pretended Ted Turner was his peer, Bischoff was the devil incarnate to dyed-in-the-wool WWE'ers in the heat of battle. The grinning face of competition that, for the first time since McMahon crushed the territories, wasn't just giving the the company a taste of its own medicine but actively enjoying administering it.
His arrival again highlighted just who won the war, (and the relentless bullying of the Bischoff character over the years peeled back a layer as to why he might have been hired in the first place) but steady employ under Vince after all he'd perpetrated was certainly 'Easy E's lasting success on the battlefield.