Monday Night Raw opening July 2001 WCW Invasion (1of 2)

[TreeHead810]

"ive been to ricky martins concert before its actually pretty good" hahahahahahah

[BigRedMachineReturns]

JR: "well here comes the Jacka..I mean wwf champion aha

[donnerktv]

how different is the crowd! no screaming kids!

[Skajuls]

THIS IS THE WORST ANGLE IN THE ATTITUDE ERA

[jwashburn86]

@Skajuls

Can't say I agree. This angle was kind of necessary. All the years of the "Monday Night Wars" pretty much guaranteed that this would happen eventually. I'll take anything from the "Attitude" era, over the crap that's on today.

[hommage101]

"here comes the jack....uh i mean the wwf champion"

[hommage101]

what happened to wwf new york?



[Jdub14000]

@hommage101 It got closed down.

[TheCanvasAssassin]

@hommage101 WWE renamed it "The World" in 2002 before closing it in 2003. As of 2005, it's been rebranded as a Hard Rock Cafe.

[cyclonesfan2011]

maybe it's about time for another invasion? this time with tna?

[TheCanvasAssassin]

@cyclonesfan2011 WWE owns WCW, so that's why they could do this invasion angle.

TNA is its own company, so a TNA Invasion, unfortunately, can't happen.

[dapunisher1000]

The reason why the era was so great was because wcw caused competition

[trinirabbit868]

BESS FUCKING ERA EVER!!!!!! DONE TALK!!!

[ExlRocker]

whats the song at 1:11 holy fuck!! Makes me wanna fucking destroy all shit around me!!

[MrJej922]

FUCKING ...STUPID AZZ CENA FANS DISLIKE THIS VIDEO STUPID KIDS

[Terryfan]

8:53 Glass Shattered JR:Well it comes the Jacka.. I mean the WWF Champion LMAO

[DemonBitch2007]

LMFAO It's Kurt Angle with hair...haha god I miss the attitude era, wrestling has seriously become pure shit now.

[DragoSteelers]

Best summer of wrestling I remember.

[reptrillion]

What year and month and day did the whole invasion and day start from the beginning

[Clintbdee]

@Fuby803 corporate.wwe.com lists all WWE's management. Vince is listed as the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors.

[scotthitman1]

who da father, who da father, who da father...ha ha

[Jasonxknot]

Best Raw theme ever

[StephenRWWE]

Who gives a shit about when the 'Attitude Era' ended, it was still decent after that.

[Allapattahgoon]

@Fuby803 ..."who ever owns WWE" Vince McMahon, the same guy who has owned it since '84, LMAOOO i swear u stupid kids get dumber n dumber

[Allapattahgoon]

wtf u talking about? HD? how does that apply to creative decisions?unpredictability? that's cuz u marks go around spreading spoilers, and making ur gay little predictions online then when it happens u bitch."looked so real" cuz you were younger and never seen anything like that before."wrestlers never bitched"? u obviously nvr seen Austin's heel run, or kurt angle,crash. "bitching" is part of being a heel."women were always sexy?kelly,trich,lita,etc ...

[dwadefan90]

The amount of signs in the crowd is fucking ridiculous

[monsterjamdude112]

i hat the pg era bring back the attitude era

[stormryzing]

for those who werent around for this you missed out wcw folding and being bought by vince was the last thing i ever thought i was going to see

[killswitch3ngag3]

and now booker t is a commentator... hahaha

[JoeySymphony]

Man, I miss these days. I was eleven at the time. What a blast.

[mandy26lez]

omg look at all the signs. back then everybody brought a sign. now you hardly see any signs and if you do they are far and few between. Also they had MASSIVE pops for wrestlers back then! i wish we could go back to the 90's pg-13 era.

[MixxMasterKid]

these were the days.

[slipknot789able]

i would like to see this invasion stuff again it was really cool

[McLovin6n9]

Damn I remembered when Kurt said "I've been to some Ricky Martin concert before and there actually pretty good" lol and that's around 8:30

[Forston23]

undertaker goin for the IC title? they should put main eventers in mid-card title matches more often

[TheFredster2114]

@CraigWeir1986 How so?

[ZipZagginGallifrey]

@TheExodus5150 Oh yes, if Vince were a retard, how come he came out on top of the wrestling world? Jealous much?

[freddywakko]

I would pay anthing to have this JR back

[DengrayKai211]

they should make a wwf vs wwe!

[Allapattahgoon]

@DengrayKai211 that's stupid cuz their the same company, dumbass!

[IGrapeDrinkI]

@DengrayKai211 No contest lmao WWF would go undefeted lol

[werter1999]

look how many more signs there were back then kind of awesome.

[nonamebrand0]

gotta love that they use Mysterio's classic WCW theme at the start

[GTC240]

i really love that old theme. even the sound loop when the show starts.. much more e-guitars and much more heavy stuff than today.

Too much hip hop in wrestling in my opinion today... that whole attitude and style was way better for wrestling... but well - thats just my opinion.

[srzman1]

i wish vince would have kept WCW Nitro in business but shat on it like ECW

[Raeanynumber]

JR : And here comes jack-I mean Stone Cold Steve Austin!

Hahahahahahah!

And Kurt needs to come back! So frickin funny he is!

[cld1472]

Vintage Linda McMahon

[TheCklm24]

Best Austin theme song!

[PapaShango619]

i miss wwe with attitude but lets face it. An Attitude era won't return till WWE has compitition on Monday Nights again. For now the dogs are called off. Theres no reason to push talent to the limit right now. Back then it was different.

[AdamMarkZabel]

Notice how the second tier is sold out, not cornered off

[skafan89]

wcw 80 % wrestling 20 % talking

wwf 80 % talking 20 % wrestling

any questions ?

[23Haziq]

@skafan89 fuck you 

[skafan89]

@23Haziq aw muffin whats wrong did i affend you and your entertainment ?

[ilsamiri7]

Wow Invasion was that long ago? damn...

[NovemberRain185]

you look at the faces in that theme compared to the ones in the theme today, no comparision in talent and ability

[chege2006]

When Wrestling Was Great.. Now Its A Predictable Piece Of Crap -_-

[RatedRkoDXHardys]

did JR says jackass???????

[RiiahhAnn]

Im like all of you, today doesn't compare at all to WWF but it's better than nothing. Vince didn't want to change it to WWE the WWF(World Wildlife Foundation) was going to sue them if they kept using WWF so they changed it to WWE. Vince changed it to TV PG because he KNEW it would get more fans. Just be glad that we still have something. And people: ITS ON YOUTUBE! :D

[Allapattahgoon]

@RiiahhAnn just because a letter changed, doesnt mean the way WWE does business changed, the name change was in 2002 PG was in 2008, a letter doesnt do anything

[EdgeKnox]

Someone can tell me why other wrestlers don't wrestle in The Invasion storyline ?

And tell me too , why the episodes are ONLY in WWF ?

[TheYungBleek]

I MISS THESES DAYS!!!

[smiffy1875]

i remember watching wwf with my cousin and kicking the shit out of him haha back when i had no worries.

[theevabrand]

now why cant wrestling be ike this anymore

i can remember watching this and thinking good god i wanna wrestle

but nowa days wwe really sucks tv pg my ass i want tv 14 back even raw's like a pg

[themacdown]

@theevabrand wrestling cant be like this anymore until TNA goes out of business then we get another invasion :)

[nightmaredust911]

full episode /watch?v=8QT9la041GU

[nightmaredust911]

@nightmaredust911 of this raw

[leftyfourguns]

I love Vince's "Haters gonna hate" walk.

[ctr8drfan]

Attitude era was the greatest era in wraasling period. Im so glad I grew up on this, not the lame bullshit nowadays. I miss Raw is War, those were the good ol days!

[jhiggs17]

@ctr8drfan Totally agree. This is fantastic. The intro is great.

[AJ36sXe]

What the hell kind of wrestling fan marks for a tv rating lol

[homerguy4444]

yea that opening was sweet wwe sucks now,

[KingJDG]

The opening is Rey Mysterio's wcw theme lol

[44DemonSlayer]

The good old days of wwf miss that raw is war opening

[seepersad8048]

The goooood fucking days. Now we have lame rappers and leprechauns

[DjRemixxDatt]

@seepersad8048 i know!!!:(

[mastasmoker562]

aww shit i just got a tear in my eye cause i rememeber watching this when i was 10 years old

[60pantherfan]

rey mysterio 1st wcw theme playin during the promo???!!!!

[ademsiktrk]

wat does the D L V stand for?

[SuperNiceguy84]

@ademsiktrk viewer discretion advised for Dialogue, Language and Violence

[Geo7080]

@ademsiktrk  direct launge

[ducksinger]

WTF why did wwe have to go all pussycore now a days

[187BG]

damn can we get kurt angle some knee pads??? he was sucking the foreskin off steve and vince's dicks

[zoeboi4ever]

i hate the new wee becuz wwe is pg

[Darkstar2520]

omg so many signs

[iKillGames]

i can't believe how much signs there are...

best storyline EVER...

i can tell this is a mixture of wcw/wwf fans :p

[dothequack]

@MannyIsBallin then why did you fucking come here?

[col06]

i do hope i "spelt" that correctly 

[xbandit1000]

I don't care what people say this was a cool entertaining storyline hope to see it again soon

[ericwaffle31]

huhhh it was finally wcw vs wwf at the boring small wcw invasion. no it wasnt the biggest day in history - that was 1996 with bash at the beach - nwo(wwf) vs wcw

[beatlesecw]

That is maybe the greatest scissor kick i have ever seen there

[masterplans1]

the war is war theme has more action then what they do today

[stucatz1130]

@masterplans1 sure does, better than green day and that other gay band for the other theme

[justjakk]

This is what wrestling was all about. I dunno what they call themselves doing to it.

Disappointing.

[jorge10928]

Stone Cold's theme is fucking bad ass.

[TheWarrior2Game7]

Yes, fuck the pg wwe era. Hope it goes down....in flames.

[robiemsdarkable]

i wanna see the video of the very first moment that the guys from wcw invaded wwf

[MrVivekdantas]

1:57 Look at the f*cking signs!!!

[dportdarkness101]

@MrVivekdantas fast forward 10 years later .... nothing

[TheWarrior2Game7]

@dportdarkness101 Just five year olds sippin' on 'Cena cups'..

[XxOmegaslayerxX]

TV

14

DLV



[bl00dbath999]

are you afraid Vince? are you afraid.. of competition

[chadhoganlive]

Opening is Reys theme (old)

[superdogbigmac3]

:JR: here comes the jack....

King: HEY!

JR: here comes the WWF campion

lol

[MrBomber123456]

@superdogbigmac3 not the king



[sunnysaha0]

damn thats a lotta signs

[rodolfovillamariona]

The electricity that this episodes had is something that we don't have these days. I still like the product, but I feel that there is something missing now.

[HAMMERWWE26]

Us wwf/e fans should stand up for the company that we at one time loved. If you like the product now or not atleast remember the times that entertained you. vince mcmahon has done some good things for us and some bad things. Ill stand behind wwe until it dies

[akisgr8101]

@HAMMERWWE26 oh dnt worry abt tht it will die soon

[MetallicaGladiator]

he bought wcw but didn't keep it alive. dude it would kick ass right now.

[LyonHall1]

back in the day when there were more signs than people lol

[Swgivov]

WWE totally messed the invasion stroyline up! They made WCW seems totally weak without their most of the top stars like Hogan, Hall, Sting, Goldberg, Nash, and even Flair. Then also made the WCW the bad guys.

[Xagui012]

@Swgivov of course they were gonna make them the bad guys,so people would support the continuation of wwf,hogan,flair and scott hall weren't so much involved because wwf wanted to promote the younger wcw stars but i think at least nash,goldberg and sting could have been involved. Sting didnt want to sign with the wwf so that why he wasnt involved.

[Ozgood23]

@Swgivov Those guys wouldn't come for it, they wanted to sit at home and ride out there wcw contracts pay till the year ended. everyone of those guys came to wwe the next year

[Swgivov]

@Ozgood23 except sting. he never sign with WWE

[Ozgood23]

@Swgivov oh yeah i forgot lol

[Sointerestin]

the opening is classic......now let me watch da rest of this shit

[biffvonwrinkle]

haha they buy wcw and one of the 1st things they do is use rey's old music for a promo

[trudon]

ah memories....was 12 when this happened....man i miss those days as a kid watching sky one on a saturday morning

[thazodiak05]

rey mysterio wcw music in the begining recap promo

[rawiswarfan12]

i youse to love watching this with my dad i miss those days

[PS3GodsGift2Gamers]

Vince FTW

[MegaDJack10]

The Golden Era Of WWE/WWF Fuck PG !

[sfcarpio0413]

WCW wrestlers had so much potential

[FountainofFire]

been watching wrestling since the 4th freaking grade in 1998, starting w/ wcw. huge fan. i remember all this. good times

[dothequack]

0:00 anybody else miss that icon in the top left?

[FluffMaster101]

@dothequack (Crying) Yes. Know it's with TNA

[LadyDragonsblood]

@dothequack No because I support the World Wildlife Fund as well....and World Wrestling ENTERtainment fits the company better....I never understood why people got so upset when they changed the "F" to and "E"....it was the same company, same GREAT wrestling entertaninment....nothing changed really.

[wwemaster476]

@dothequack fuck yeah

[shukito1987]

@dothequack Finally someone saw what I :D!!!

[MannyIsBallin]

@dothequack Nope

[Zer0systm]

@dothequack I miss this era completely.

[ChuckNoarus]

@dothequack real fucking talk

[futureshocker]

@dothequack I do

[jamesmorris88]

@dothequack i think we all miss that icon.

[RANDOMFLOWZ]

@dothequack lol hell yeahhh!!!!

[liamrko]

I would hate to be sitting in that crowd behind a "The guy behind me can't see" sign...

[YOUNGGUNZ61]

man i miss those fan made signs

[BlameItOnTheWhiteMan]

3Cena fans or Bitch ass kids hit thumbs down

[lopezfred5]

classic intro

[NickLuce]

There are way way way more signs in the crowd and look how much the crowd gets into it.

[entangle]

They should put that belt back in the WWE, get rid of Cena's stupid spinner belt.

[alansalt]

Rey Mysterio's old wcw theme at the beginning of this promo...

[beyondstitches]

This was an awesome time but they dropped the ball with the whole Alliance angle. Smackdown should have turned into WCW Thunder so all the WCW talent could have their own show instead of being buried by WWF wrestlers. That would have been so much better because it's two different styles of wrestling and two different shows. Now we don't have a choice and don't count TNA as competition.

[lennyman202010]

@beyondstitches still wouldnt have a choice because it would have become the same show if the didnt get different writers for it

[Spulpacz]

Hundreds of sings ,now Only a couple

[DatBOYsmooth92]

When I loved wrestling... also when I thought it was real

[XsethovaheaX]

This was there best intor music

[invisibleman275]

Yep exactly they were afraid of competition. They were doing better shows when they had competition.

[shiringham]

@ 8:57 JR: well here comes the jacka.... i mean here comes the wwf champion

LMFAO

[Proooon]

comparing WA with WA D.C. well washington, we got boeign, microsoft, starbucks, and we got the cleanest air, so you can suck on that vincey

[ValkeSaveUs]

Kurt Angle's song without "YOU SUCK !".... lol

[DoinMeEntertainment]

I dont think Cena sucks it's the way they milk him...he champ once again?! it's cool seein Punk champ so it switches it up but Triple H may be able to bring something new...idk

[BlueBlazer89]

is their a video on youtube with all the run ins from the invasion, like a compiliation ? i think mike awesome was the first person?

[Redemox89]

Back then was the shit not any more

[jeremiahcox]

The 1 thing tht should've happened at the time was return of shawn micheals in wcw!!!

[TKManUTD1989]

the attitude and the ruthless aggression eras are by far the best period in wrestling, in my opinion. i can't believe i was 12 when this invasion happened, i feel sorry for kids these day who have to put up with the shit that wwe serves up these days.

[PlasmaCutter117]

@TKManUTD1989 i agree with ya bro, i was the same age lol

[col06]

Can't believe this was 10 years ago time files 

[nhs2008NC]

@col06 Today's 9/11 2011. Can't believe that was ten years ago too...fire still burns...

[RAGSTAluvsDA90z]

jst b4 9/11

[deathtoallbutmetal2]

@col06 Amen... I was just comig up 13 and i was so pumped to see invasion, It kicked ass

[hussein335]

@col06 time does "files" ROFL

[col06]

@hussein335

Look out its the spell check police

[hussein335]

@col06 lol its not a spell check, you typed a whole different word xD

[col06]

@hussein335

and it matters why exactly 

[AngelofEnduringLight]

What is the name of the opening theme song?

[kingPrakhar]

@socalkev: 94 to current. Missed this entire post-WCW period till June-July 2002 because of broadcasting issues here :(

[TheNickjenn]

goddam the intro pyro was fucking boss

[thegame2011able]

Could'nt make it 3 min. into this.How can ppl watch this shit anymore.

[MrsDreWGaLLoWay]

I haven't heard Kurt Angles theme without the "you suck" in it for a long time lol.

[DW1014]

lol I miss the 3-I's Angle was gold so much curisma

[MattyBVD]

Love how WWE has no balls anymore.