Booker T, Bubba Ray Dudley, D-Von Dudley, Diamond Dallas Page & Rhyno vs. Chris Jericho, Kane, Kurt Angle, Steve Austin & The Undertaker

[6.0] "Good brawl and Survivor Series style match, but goes on far too long for me. Heats up more towards the end with some table spots and Vince and Shane getting involved. A star studded main event and a decent match. ***"

[9.0] "The Inaugural Brawl is a match that I enjoyed more than the Survivor Series "Winner Takes All" match, which is much higher rated by critics and fans alike. But this one has more definitive stars for each company across the ring from each other. I feel like Kurt Angle was in the spot Triple H was supposed to be in after he went out injured. The Rock's absence is glaring as well. I felt like the Steve Austin heel turn was a ridiculous direction to move this and basically jst made Vince the star of his own show (like he probably wanted), but I can't fault the match for that. This was excellent."

[7.0] "Fuelled by a memorable build, this feels more like the genuine article than the lineup might suggest, with the final product falling somewhere in-between. It's somewhat a tale of two matches, pairing a wild brawl with something more conventional. The former is more suited to the scenario and stipulation but for my money, the latter proves far more engaging. All involved are on their game here, producing crisp, snappy work throughout. Hilariously, Bubba does quite a bit of his team's heavy lifting, yet again entirely unfazed by the heavy hitters opposite him. The finish is a little clumsier than you'd like, but it's a lively affair that at almost half an hour long, sustains the runtime pretty well. ***1/4"

[6.0] "Significantly too long and a finish that I'd argue triggered the decline of the WWF that they'd never return from again. First, I'll break down my thoughts on the finish. People often talk about Austin's heel turn at WM17 starting the downfall. I disagree. PPV's were excellent up until this point after WM17. Austin was doing the right thing as a heel and helping make new names like Jericho and Benoit feel like major stars. People were at least content with the Austin situation. I think Austin's initial turn worked fine. Honestly, I think people were happy to see where it went; hoping he'd be a violent asskicker before turning back. But this. This was too much. When Austin flipped back for these brief few weeks, people were overjoyed. He had his short heel run, and now he's back! But when he turned back heel here, I think people just stopped caring. Essentially pulling the same stunt but watered down as WM17 tuned people out. They knew they weren't getting the Austin they wanted back anytime soon. For this match itself, it was about 10 minutes too long. It started out with fire, and the pace is excellent, but it really just turned into a beat-up type match that just merry-go-rounded between the 10 participants. After 15 minutes, it was incredibly stale. Then you had a predictable and boring clusterfuck before the finish. The promise, energy, and work ethic was there, but there were just too many guys out there and it bogged the whole thing down. Even though the rosters fit better here than later at Survivor Series, this match isn't nearly as good. It's still a pretty solid bout because of the electricity, but too many flaws drag it down."

[5.0] "A long and convoluted main event for a long and convoluted angle, great. The fast start was nice, but I quickly spaced out as the matches pace wound down and the Alliance team resorted to rather long punch kick beatdowns, equally, no pairing really felt like a dream encounter(I know this wasn't WWF's fault due to the contract situation). The spot with Kane and the Dudleys and the tables was nice, but other than that nothing really stood out. With the superior Survivor Series 2001 main event existing, I just feel this match has no reason to exist."

[7.0] "decent match alot going on at the end but i think austins turn was easy to see when u know about it he doesnt leave the apron on the brawl, randomly gets a knee injury altho again never left the aapron and then turns on kurt after grabbing the match id say it was a good ending to a very bad show"

[6.0] "It was fine but I just couldn't get into it. The heat segments just took me out of it. The heel turn also didn't help, since I'm not a fan of heel Austin at all either."

[7.0] "This match was sorta boring for the first 20 mins, which is to be expected in a 5 on 5 match when you have to let everyone get some action in. So, if it is to be expected that it will be boring, then why do it? Well, I have no fucking clue really. WWF had been the kings of stories and angles, giving meaning to many of what could be the most pointless matches, and they've been great at it for years, pretty much for the entire attitude era dating back to late 96. But it seems 3 months after acquiring WCW, this was the best they could come up with? Well, after everyone gets their token 3-4 mins in the ring, things start to pick up and chaos ensues. I felt like the coordination was handled very well here and doesn't get enough credit. You have 10 guys in here who are all pretty important to what's going on, and nobody fucked up their spots, and everyone seemed important at times. Everything Stone Cold did got huge pops and of course the ending was a shocker. Problem is that some people (not me) felt that the shocker ending should have included some bigger names from WCW who we haven't seen yet, but instead it was simply Stone Cold switching sides. Now, I have no problem with this and in fact I liked it. I wasn't expecting the WCW stars, so I wasn't disappointed that they didn't show up. And, I liked that this sorta makes sense in the past couple weeks of story since Stone Cold felt betrayed by Vince, and he sorta foreshadowed this by hitting him with the guitar earlier in the week. In a bubble, with no expectations of WCW stars, I'd say this is a good fun match. Definitely not match of the year, or even match of the night (RVD vs Jeff Hardy), but it had ups and downs, a lot of fun spots, a lot of story, emotion, and a nice swerve at the end. If you were hoping for something else, then I understand why you'd vote this lower."

[6.0] "This was solid but I couldn't help feeling at times like it didn't have the level of energy you'd expect with such high stakes. Like I was waiting for it to pick up and then when it did, it ended up a couple mins later. The last 5 minutes or so is fantastic though. Austin's turn made for a good moment, but god as a whole it just gets rougher and rougher from this point forward. Angle was the MVP of this match, in my opinion."

[6.0] "It would have worked better as an Elimination Match, but they still did a good job with what they had. Everybody from the WWF team was over so they were milking every single tag and getting huge reactions from the crowd, especially when Kurt entered the ring. I also liked how they started eliminating each other from the match later on by taking big bumps, because it wouldn't have ended with so many guys stopping the pinfalls. Austin turning was a weird decision though."

[6.0] "Overlong brawl, basically. They wanted to showcase everybody, which I get, but the match didn't really flow as a match, and got a little tedious in the middle. Also the heel/face dynamics were all over the place, and the heel turn at the end wasn't particularly well executed. Definitely a match that was less than the sum of its parts, and needed a much better connecting thread going through it to justify the length."

[7.0] "Kurt Angle comes out to the 2nd biggest pop here, and the fans really want to see the old Stone Cold back but unfourtanely they don't even get that for at least a whole match. This was overall good tho with the constant tags here helping to keep the match from not ever getting too dry. The last 5 minutes or so were just an all-out brawl with Kurt Angle having a great performance, he almost gets the win up until Stone Cold switches over to the alliance and costs Kurt the match.***1/2"

[6.0] "This was basically WWF's version of the Hostile Takeover tag match from Bash At The Beach 96. The difference here is the swerve at the end missed the mark horribly and pissed off a lot of fans. Nice touch by giving everyone extended individual entrances. Noticeable plot hole as Booker T comes out second to last so DDP can be the last introduction for the Alliance. That way Taker can attack him and a big shmozz breaks out, letting Austin make his "Austin" entrance and clean house. Crowd goes nuts for Angle and Austin. Big brawl on the floor and back inside Austin gets a superplex on Rhyno. Jericho comes in with Booker and hits a flying forearm and missile dropkick. Angle tags in and gets beat on by D-Von. He tags Kane who cleans D-Von's clock. Backdrop suplex, but the Dudleyz get their double team neck breaker for 2. Kane goes up top and gets the flying clothesline for 2. Undertaker goes old school to take over. Buh Buh suplexes him and Rhyno stomps him in the corner. DDP gets a discus clothesline for 2. DDT gets 2. Booker T tags in and UT DDTs Booker for 2. Austin comes in, but the Stunner is blocked. They head out and Austin suplexes Booker over the railing. Back in, Jericho goes for the walls, but DDP breaks it up. Jericho gets sneak attacked and plays the proverbial face in peril. Angle tags and suplexes the Dudleyz all over the place, but gets Bubbabombed. Rhyno pounds him down for 2. Booker with the Axe Kick for 2. DDP gets the rotation powe rbomb for 2. Wazzup for 2 from the Dudleyz. DDP with a front face lock leads to a false tag to Austin and the ref stops him as the Alliance squash Angle in the corner. Angle takes a Diamond Cutter and the whole structure of the main event goes to hell as fights break out all over the damn place. Rhyno goars Booker T by mistake, UT choke slams DDP and then power bombs Charles Robinson for interfering. Austin goes knee first into the steps. Taker and DDP fight through the crowd to parts unknown. At ringside the Dudleyz double team Kane but he choke slams D-Von through the announcers table and Rhyno and Bubba in turn suplex him through the Spanish table. Jericho jumps off the apron and puts Rhyno through a tilted table on the guardrail and jams his neck at the same time so their both down for the count. So it's the Olympic hero against Booker and Bubba. Shane and Vince get in the ring and Shane whacks him with a title belt then Angle takes him out. Olympic slam takes out Bubba and the slam and angle lock on Booker. But We reach the suckiest point of the ppv when Austin gets in and stuns Angle and puts Booker on top for the pin. Austin celebrates with the Alliance and the entire story line is now crap! The match was good but the finish tanks it."

[9.0] "It was a very good match and I have to admit I am a bit of a sucker for big multi-man main event matches like this that end up getting really chaotic and it doesn't disappoint in that regard. Plus its always fun when you have a lot of different storylines playing out to a bigger picture. While the WCW/ECW team is lacking in star power compared to the WWE having all of their biggest stars that wasn't injured, it's a really well structured match. It was pretty obvious to me even when I saw this match live that there was going to be a betrayal and to have it be Stone Cold Steve Austin after all those teases where the old Stone Cold was back was just a heartbreaker as a fan. I felt the match really needed a colour commentator like Paul Heyman because using two biased WWE commentators took away from it in my eyes especially when they was saying things that didn't make sense, like how Booker T somehow betrayed his fans and sold out even though he was legitimately a WCW guy."

[9.0] "Great match, in fact I like it more than the much beloved Survivor Series match later in the year. This felt much more like a real interpromotional match, genuine stars of WCW and ECW against some big WWF names, rather than mostly WWF names taking up space on both sides. The ending swerve seems hardly necessary considering how badly the crowd obviously wanted Austin to stay a babyface, but even so a great and drama filled match."

[7.0] "The highlight of this match is Kurt Angle for me, as the crowd totally buy into him as a hot new babyface star, which combined with how over the supposedly newly face turned Austin is give the match a great atmosphere. The finish takes it down a bit for me, as they'd got pretty much everything they were going to get out of heel Austin and it was probably time to just let him be a babyface again. They actually could have turned Angle back, especially as he'd been disrespected by most of the WWF guys in the build-up and thus it would have made sense for him to jump ship in order to show Team WWF what they were missing. It could have had a Rock at Survivor Series 98 feel to it actually. The match itself isn't bad for being a Main Event styled brawl"

[7.0] "Many top wrestlers involved in the first WWF vs WCW/ECW team match. The WWF team has some dangerous alliances inside and there is the turn of Stone Cold Steve Austin, that helps WCW team against Kurt Angle. There are some good spots but it's not a big match, just entertaining enough as a main event. ***1/2"

[7.0] "A good multiman brawl but nothing special by any means. WCW/ECW were quite clearly lacking in star power. The wrestling was decent and it really picked up at the end when it turned to an all out brawl, I'd agree with the ***1/2 rating"