As it looked as though they were going after Storm and Awesome, they instead attacked Jericho and Kane. It ended in a no contest when the ECW Alumni from both the WWF and WCW along with the debuting Rob Van Dam and Tommy Dreamer made their way to the ring. Later that night, Chris Jericho and Kane (from the WWF) fought Lance Storm and Mike Awesome (from WCW) in a tag team match. The two instead attacked The Undertaker, turning Shane heel (Page had already debuted in WWF as a heel, as part of a stalker angle with Undertaker and his wife). On the July 9 on Raw Is War, when then-face WCW owner Shane was scheduled to face Page in a street fight against the Undertaker. The decision was thus made to make WCW a heel group who was out to destroy the WWF.
The Booker/Bagwell title match, however, was very poorly received both by television viewers and the live crowd in the arena, with the two other WCW matches receiving a similar reaction. This continued on SmackDown!, where Gregory Helms lost the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship to Billy Kidman and Booker defended the WCW Championship against Diamond Dallas Page. To test the waters for this, the final twenty minutes of the July 2 Raw Is War telecast was given over to WCW, which brought in its own commentators ( Scott Hudson and Arn Anderson), ring announcer ( Stacy Keibler), referee ( Nick Patrick), ring apron, and Chyron graphics, to present a match between Booker T and Buff Bagwell for Booker's WCW Championship (which he had won on the final episode of WCW Monday Nitro). The ultimate goal, reportedly, was for WCW to "take over" one of the WWF's two primary programs, either WWF Raw Is War or WWF SmackDown!, and rebrand it as its own separate entity. On the June 28 episode of WWF SmackDown!, it was decided that Fully Loaded was to be changed to Invasion, and would feature matches between WWF and WCW. On the following night, the June 25 episode of Raw is War, Shane declared his intention to invade the WWF, and the Invasion storyline started with Booker T performing a scissors kick to Vince. At the 2001 King of the Ring, Booker T interfered during a Triple Threat match for the WWF Championship and tossed Steve Austin through the announcers table, nearly costing him the title. During May and June, WCW wrestlers interfered in matches on WWF programming. At WrestleMania X-Seven on April 1, Shane defeated Vince in a Street Fight with some of the WCW talent in attendance while sitting in the upper level seats at the Reliant Astrodome. Nitro started with WWF Owner Vince McMahon announcing a simulcast with WWF Raw is War later that night to address the future of WCW, during which it was revealed that Shane McMahon had bought WCW. The last episode of WCW Monday Nitro aired on March 26, dubbed the "Night of Champions". On March 23, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) bought out its long-time rival, World Championship Wrestling (WCW). With a buyrate of 770,000, the event is the highest grossing non-WrestleMania pay-per-view in WWE history. The other main match was a singles match for the WWF Hardcore Championship between Rob Van Dam and Jeff Hardy. The main event, dubbed the "Inaugural Brawl," was a five-on-five tag team match between Team WWF and Team WCW/ECW. The event featured WWF wrestlers facing WCW and ECW wrestlers. Invasion was the first pay-per-view to feature the ongoing Invasion storyline, which featured wrestlers from the WWF taking on a combined force of wrestlers from World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), later known as The Alliance.
This event was originally planned to be called Fully Loaded 2001, as it was advertised at the King of the Ring 2001 event, which immediately preceded Invasion. It took place on Jat the Gund Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Summerslam Invasion (also typeset as InVasion) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and presented by PlayStation.
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