Retro Ups & Downs: WWE Invasion 2001 - 20 Years On

Our retro review of the WWE Invasion ppv from 2001 as WWE went head to head against the Alliance of WCW and ECW including RVD vs Jeff Hardy, Stone Cold turning on WWE to join forces with The Alliance, and much more.
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[@hornybeast19]

New Blood Rising 2000 (Judy Bagwell on a forklift) I will keep trying 😂

[@stevenwillie7667]

Should do this lmao

[@zacktyler485]

We need this

[@muneebahmad4378]

It happened

[@emearg191]

Retro ups and downs. WWF unforgiven 2001. Kurt angle vs stone cold in Kurts home town for wwf championship

[@matthewsmith4760]

Yeah their rivalry from summerslam and unforgiven 01 is damn underated

[@tinotica]

Unfortunately it had one of the worst matches ever in Takers career and the official burial of Booker T by the Rock (Booker couldn’t beat him w/ Shane, interference by Test, and a crooked referee)

[@poncho_x4410]

You're definitely right about their feud being underrated, I'll agree with you there. However I do think that aside from their matches specifically the rest of the card kinda sucked. So maybe not the best event to make a video about, ya know?

[@oliverthomas-couch]

TNA Destination X 2008 so Simon can watch Shark boy and Curry man vs 3D as well as Samoa Joe, Christian and Nash vs Angle, Styles and Tomko.

[@Deadline63]

Wrestlemania X...(Macho Man vs. Crush, Bret vs. Owen, HBK vs. Razor Ramon ladder match IC Titles, Luger vs. Yoko / Yoko vs. Bret. And MORE!)

[@Jeyapollo]

Backlash 2007 Undertaker vs Batista last man standing, Cena vs HBK vs Edge vs Orton and Lashley vs The mcmahons and Umaga

[@tinotica]

The best ppv of 2007

[@jordandeadley360]

I love Backlash and Judgement Day 2007

[@chrisatkins9195]

Royal Rumble 07

[@franklingoodwin]

Two 'Ups and Downs' in one day. Simon Miller, you're really spoiling us

[@kaspersky8542]

slammniversary is next

[@franklingoodwin]

@@kaspersky8542 How could I have forgotten? 3 in one day has to be a record

[@shamash1739]

Simon is clearly disrespecting the "puppies" golden era

[@tyrelsmith7902]

Retro Ups & Downs: Lucha Underground: Ultima Lucha 1

[@kurtpaulsen6579]

Yea, yes, a thousand times YES!

[@uptb5712]

*Ultima Lucha très*

[@andrewmacneil5453]

You beat me to it, was just about suggest the same thing!

[@Ihateitall]

No

[@SpanishFly120]

Yes, yes, and more yes.

[@dhruvtrivedi1335]

Retro ups and downs : Wrestlemania 31 (It's a damn good show even though it's New) , Wrestlemania 21, SummerSlam 2008 , Wrestlemania 22.

[@markb35]

Definitely +1 for WrestleMania 31 here, in my opinion the best WrestleMania during those last 12 years of PG wrestling next to WrestleMania 28. The others mentioned were amazing PPVs as well, obviously

[@JesseHelsius]

You should do Summerslam 96. First ever Boiler Room Brawl. Plus I was there in attendance as a child.

[@alicod7160]

The one where shawn screwed vader

[@alicod7160]

@AdroDelPedro shawn refused to put him over

[@joecontrino85]

I loved Palumbo and O'Haire.... They really dropped the ball with those two.

[@afd19850]

Came here to say the same! Both were great and very wasted by Vince. Same with Lance Storm

[@bobbymargaret3429]

Lmao he said Billy Kidman when it was actually Billy Gunn 🤣😂 love it

[@bradleybrandl181]

Summerslam 2010. Everything with the Nexus, Kane vs Rey Mysterio and Randy Orton vs Sheamus.

[@rebal180]

As much as I like the current format of doing one match after another I kind of miss the backstage segments that would pop up every few matches during the ppvs.

[@Bigd2k]

This was so cool at the time. But looking back the messed this up so badly.

[@geleneceline2310]

The story it self was good but they didn't actually have the well known wcw stars Which forced them to put stone cold on team wcw and add ecw to it they probably should have waited until some of the contracts ran out for the well known wcw stars who took the monthly pay check

[@CyberDMoney]

Money in the bank 2010. NXT invades, Kane wins the WHC, which will lead to him getting 3 consecutive wins over The Undertaker, etc.

[@RollerCodsterWFEW]

It took far too long for Kane to get those wins. It should have happened much sooner. Well deserved title run. Which he had better ones.

[@CyberDMoney]

@@RollerCodsterWFEW You're not wrong. However, the guy that plays Kane wanted to put over newer talent all of those years. He def should have had a major title run in 2003 the latest.

[@meirnissim5927]

Wrestling with Wregret just did a review of Invasion that aired Wednesday

[@GreatDeath52]

Well it is the 20 years anniversary, so of course many wrestling channels are gonna talk about it

[@tyresethompson5450]

Omg waw

[@craigturner7433]

Unpopular but true Opinion: The Invasion angle, despite being flawed and missing major stars, was the angle that made me love wrestling. The unpredictability made me want to see what was going to happen every week, and I still look back fondly on it today

[@Thecallmemisterajp]

I'll back you up. Despite the downturn, 2001 was a really fun year for WWF. I liked it better than a lot of the more beloved 99-00 stuff.

[@RaghavanN]

The payoff was getting the best ever Survivor Series that year

[@youtubeman3356]

Victory Road 2009 aka the worst TNA PPV of all time and the birth of “-5 stars”

[@jeremyvanduyne2560]

I don't know why but every time there seemed to be a disastrous PPV in TNA it was always under Victory Road.

[@shaunstancombe9867]

Gotta save to watch later. I was AT this PPV. So looking forward to watching. But at a family reunion RN.

[@tyresethompson5450]

Who we introducing

[@shaunstancombe9867]

@@tyresethompson5450 what? I use KZbin on my WiFi at home. It takes a lot of data to watch it.

[@devonairethomas2811]

SummerSlam 2016: 3rd or 4th week trying. Haha

[@krystynfunk4201]

Starrcade 1997. Hogan vs sting.

[@jrayne6360]

I love how you say "that's how the cookie crumbles" lmfao Bruce Almighty is an amazing movie I quote to this day.

[@richardtherichard26]

That idiom is *a lot* older than that movie….

[@adamlennard1828]

It’s cool that Brain Zane did a review of this recently too. It’s interesting getting two different opinions.

[@alejandrodiazfrancia1562]

Still, I want to see Wrestlemania 20 just because the ending pic of Eddie and Benoit celebrating totally worth it

[@joshbrown8806]

True story I was at this event. We sat in the nosebleeds. I rented my binoculars to some drunk frat boy for $25. I then bought a Y2J shirt.

[@a.freeland179]

Here in the US that ppv was $19.95. If all 770,000 ppv was in the US , that event made over 15million dollars just on ppv sales alone.

[@VillaDan]

That's 770,000 global sales, but it was $34.95 in the US

[@minced2fuk]

It was free in the UK on Channel 4

[@anthonyzulawski716]

Hey! since we're getting close to summerslam, let's go down memory lane and get really retro and do summerslam 91. Great show.

[@supachef_dmoney_4]

I was there at Invasion with my nephew and my aunt. The atmosphere was surreal!!! Makes me want to be seven years old again 😅

[@DamionStingerDrake]

Lucha underground Aztec warfare 2 (debut of Rey Mysterio and Matanza)

[@michaelmathes5435]

Ah memories. The only WWE ppv I've made it too. That crowd was NUTS.

[@EricJae.]

They did ddp dirty

[@dougburr4192]

Can you please do a retro ups and downs video for Fully Loaded 2000?

[@spaceghost9201]

Haven’t even finished it yet but RVD vs Jeff should be a Golden Up. That match was 🔥🔥🔥

[@imjusthere750]

All this episode remind me was how bad wwe booked my favorite wcw wrestler, Billy Kidman.

[@jayczzzya]

Billy Kidman deserved better in WWE. Everytime I saw him hit that Shooting Star Press , I felt my heart in my throat.

[@patking8836]

Royal rumble 1992 quite arguably the best rumble

[@dustinsensenig9798]

WrestleMania 28 featuring the end of an era Hell in a Cell match

[@ALL_that_ENDS]

Simon Miller, you are a goddamn treasure, definitely my favorite wrestling channel.

[@thribs]

Invasion was the one PPV in 2001 I didn’t watch back in the day. I don’t know why. I think it was pretty obvious why they had Stone Cold defect. To give a reason story wise to bring back the Rock

[@anonymousgaming5212]

When is slammiversary ups and downs gonna come out ?

[@harleyhunneybell6359]

Jeff Hardy: Fans love RVD cause he does drugs... I should do drugs too!

[@brennanhughes976]

Can you do Royal Rumble 2014 if you haven’t already?? That triple threat match was AWESOME. (And sorry if you did post it already I commented this before looking up if you have my apologies to the comment section)

[@flippineck2825]

Do Royal Rumble 2001, the hardcore rumble

[@erirodriguez9789]

ECW Anarchy Rules Any Year

[@JensaRahm]

Would like to see survivor series raw vs smackdown. Orton won and taker came back after the match.

[@taylor-wes6885]

Vengeance 2001 the birth of the undisputed title

[@tinotica]

The ending always confused me since Booker T wasn’t the legal man, it was DDP

[@danielsmith7084]

Antone else notice Simon called Billy Gunn, Billy Kidman 🤣🤣

[@TheNemisisx]

Wcw fall brawl 1996 for ups and downs

[@CJRozay]

Wrestlemania 15; the first Wrestlemania between Stone Cold and The Rock

[@Paul-dy9bn]

Now will you finally do WM20?

[@jackryan444]

Mick Foley is a good ref for the ref fight, because he fought in all 3 promotions. He’s as unbiased as anyone on the Feds side could be.

[@snubby4624]

I thought that too. Twenty years ago :(

[@daviddaniel6949]

When the alliance sang Wind beneath my "ring" to stone cold. With Steve's head bobbing up and down on the lyrics lmao. Those are the moment parents use to walk into the room and ask "How is this wrestling?" lol

[@erirodriguez9789]

The Raw Where Stone Cold Became CEO

[@TheRealMRGG85]

When the WWE bought WCW it was a classic example of having too many nice things and not knowing what to do with it.

[@Krshna28]

The biggest issue was (as far as I remember) the team of WCW & ECW never actually won anything from this (apart from bragging rights). They could have changed WWF Raw to WCW Raw. Or temporarily bring back Nitro. This was the same issue with nWo in WCW. WCW Nitro should have temporarily changed to nWo Nitro.

[@qwertyrobbo101]

"The alliance had done it, Mr Burns had won it" You got me Simon, you got me!

[@dylanjamieson4300]

WWE Global Warning Tour 2002 from Melbourne, Australia

[@mikedelvalle931]

I never got the Sean Waltman hate. He was a good wrestler.

[@afd19850]

Probably jealous he slept with China

[@TheBadGuuy]

That RVD tiger like attire is what his next WWE Elite Figure is.

[@tudor282]

I saw the match between the referees and it wasn't bad. I give them the thumbs up for giving 100% to entertain the audience. I love this kind of matches because it feels different. Even if you don't see great moves, you are sports entertained

[@fonzizib.2307]

Yeah, I always hated how WWE did Mike Awesome. He was “awesome” in ECW. Just go and watch some of his matches with Masato Tanaka.

[@dbone3356]

I enjoyed the way Simon pronounced Sara.

[@theram1231]

It finally happened, Simon and I have the same tshirt

[@jadziaezri2616]

Seriously I need to know where you got this T-shirt give me a website or something is that is awesome!

[@michaelpalma5882]

It’s funny about Stone Cold joining the alliance cause back in the day before WWF/E he was a wrestler in WCW and ECW first. I think people forget that or don’t even know that in the first place.

[@travismiller4320]

WCW Great American Bash 1991

[@Inyourfacejerks]

WWE Survivor Series 2006 - CM Punks first PPV and the crowd goes nuts with CM Punk chants.

[@joechops90]

I am once again suggesting SummerSlam 1992

[@reesdon8953]

I'm just crapping out words 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 love Simon lol

[@MarcusTheForeign1]

hi simon ✌🏽

[@martinandersen7735]

Do up and down from slammiversary

[@dbone3356]

I agree. Regal is criminally underrated. He definitely should have won the WWF(E) title. In fact... Let me book NXT for a month so we can have a new champion.

[@JKehlx]

“Ahhhhdeeeedas” love it

[@Am0ment0fB]

Nick Patrick was very underated!

[@riotd.r.8363]

It may be because I was 13-14 years, and also a huge fan of RVD, but I actually enjoyed most of the invasion

[@r3tr0gam3r89]

Considering the time of year, I think it would be fitting to go back to Summerslam 1988 since its the next PPV.

[@FlyBoyEnterprises]

Missing a key fact, the invasion was SUPPOSED to start at that years Wrestlemania and get involved in the Shane/Vince street fight but those from WCW gave the spoiler in a interview on radio a week prior to Wrestlemania.

[@Bonesaw_McGraw]

Halloween havoc 95. It's a terrible ppv with the dugeon of doom haha it'll be good if he does jt

[@MrAce-lm8es]

The Natural Born Thrillers, Palumbo & O'Haire vs The APA

[@daviddaniel6949]

Fair play to you Simon. Your the only person I've heard refer to Angles finisher by it's original name of the Olympic slam as apose to the Angle slam.

[@bbsy1]

Regal with a good opponent could put on 10 star matches on a five star rating scale. The guy literally made Goldberg have a good match in WCW before getting fired. Anyone with a similar style or hybrid style would put on great matches with him. Edit:RVD va Hardy? Who smoked more that night lol! Trish and Lita always deserve an up! They are the reason we have a women’s division.

[@masterofmythology]

Retro Ups and Downs for Smackdown 9/12/2002, the wedding of Billy and Chuck.

[@mrc6808]

Retro ups and downs for No Mercy 2002

[@atsprings]

With the imminent return of Davey Boy Jr and Summerslam fast approaching, I say it's time to finally do Summerslam 92

[@punkskaterpizza]

But seriously simon are you really gonna skip that you deserve it chant Liv got on smackdown? REVIEW IT DARN YOU!!!!!!

[@jesseandrews2303]

"You have earned it" That's way more respectful.

[@punkskaterpizza]

@@jesseandrews2303 still

[@RJPHOTONYC]

Idk…the crowd was pretty hype for that earl hebner match. I enjoyed it 😂 and when they started brawling outside the crowd popped

[@jayczzzya]

14:45 You mean Billy Gunn

[@MsDawnKeyballs]

LMMFAO!!!!!! He said ADIDAS the same way the say Aluminum Fucking Brilliant

[@nickgori6979]

Royal Rumble 2002: Rock vs Jericho, Flair vs McMahon, Triple H wins the Royal Rumble.

[@dominickdarpino5584]

i just watch the raw when ecw and wcw joined with haymans promo and man that was awsome. then it went downhill fast lmao

[@Naruto0s44]

Retro ups and downs lockdown 2008

[@tinotica]

I always felt that this was the bargain basement version of Wrestlemania 17 from 3 months prior. Great matches throughout the night but ultimately everybody is there to see Stone Cold in all his glory 😀😀 just to have him turn on the fans in the end 😞😞

[@clarkfoster1442]

Simon said Billy Kidman and not Billy Gunn 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@chunkyboyjames]

Gonna keep suggesting it: TNA Victory Road 2011, the Sting v Jeff Hardy incident

[@scottgormley770]

Billy kidman, Albert and the big show ... ...

[@thomasredmond5793]

here's a intriguing one, unfornately i dont know the actual name of it sadly.. but i say do the ups and downs for the first NJPW ppv

[@tylergraham9537]

The PPV that had the first money in the bank match or the first PPV that had the first ladder match

[@ozates8347]

Uh...the first Ladder Match was at No Mercy 1999. It was a Tag Team Ladder Match. Also, the first Ladder Match in the Men’s Singles Division was for the Undisputed Intercontinental Title on PPV was actually at Wrestlemania 10. The first MITB Ladder Match happened at WM 21, that was 3 and a Half years after the Invasion PPV in 2001.

[@tylergraham9537]

@@ozates8347 he should do No Mercy 99 than

[@drewwilson5026]

Lol you can count one one thing never changing on these retro Ups & Downs and that's JBL delivering the stiffiest Clothesline from Hell every time. 😂😂

[@pjdolont9012]

The funniest part about Nick Patrick v Earl He her sister s that NP was actually a trained wrestler.

[@artistmachine]

You should do the Monday night raw where Kane unmask (June 23 2003)