[6.0] "Invasion is a unique and historic PPV, the historical fact is there, but the matches weren't the best, WWF took the lead in most of the bad matches and the Alliance came back in some better like the Hardcore match of Rob Van Dam vs Jeff Hardy, and the final score being 5-5, not a bad PPV, and the moments in backstage with Vince, Shane, Stephanie and Paul Heyman moving everything from both sides was good. 6/10"

[6.0] "Opening match was pretty fun with a lot of creative spots, although at some point it turned into one of those AEW-style chaotic matches where the rules get disregarded and it was all over the place. They worked hard tho. ***1/4 Referee match was show stealer. When Bret and Austin had the match in '97 they must have wondered who was going to outdo what they accomplished and they would have never guessed. Nick Patrick hitting a baseball slide dropkick was the highlight. Hebner was more enthusiastic than some of the wrestlers. APA/O'Haire and Palumbo was ok but not exciting one bit. Sean and Bradshaw looked good tho. ** Kidman/X-Pac was pretty fun. Crowd hated X-Pac a lot and that got Billy some support. Fun fact: there is at best 3 people on tbis card that have pinned Hulk Hogan before and Kidman is one of them. Finish was cool. ***1/2 Following two matches could have been an email. *3/4 for Regal and Raven. Tajiri and Tazz had a cool little exhibition of a match. Green mist is always fun to see. **3/4 Hardcore title match was incredible, easy Match of the night. Words can't do it justice. Fantastic chemistry and I guess that this was what WWF and ECW fans could expect out of these two in 2001. No boring moments in this one. ****1/2 Women's match worked well for the audience it was looking for, let's put it that way. Main event was good but I remember it being way more chaotic, this was like rehearsal for that Survivor Series match. Entrances were LONG since every wrestler and tag team got individual entrance. Pretty fun start and ending and fine but not exciting middle part. Austin turning heel again was a wrong call and sadly except for Dudley Boyz nobody in Alliance team looked like a threat. *** I wonder how all these people that bought this PPV must have been dissapointed when there was no Rock, NWO, Sting, Flair, Goldberg etc. on this show. Overall the vibe was good, show seemed promising but it didn't live up to the expectations."

[0.0] "There's a lot to hate about this piece of shit ppv. It's a terrible show because there was no reason for it to exist. WWE should have waited until they eventually signed the nWo, Goldberg, and Scott Steiner. Hogan, Hall, Nash, Goldberg, and DDP vs. Austin, Rock, Kane, Undertaker and Kurt Angle sounds a hell of a lot better than we got. By then the Dudleys had been working in WWE for two years and felt like WWE guys. The alliance ended up being a bunch of nobodies at first and then had WWF guys in."

[7.0] "Not much to hate about this one. Everyone always hates on the invasion, but it introduced us to Rob Van Dam, Torrie Wilson, Stacy Keibler, and more. Granted, no Hogan or Sting hurt the invasion, but they did the best they could. This was a good start, but if it had led to another return, it would've been great. Two great matches and seeral decent ones."

[5.0] "The Invasion PPV is pretty indicative of what the Invasion was as a whole. A few good matches with the wrestlers the company cared about, with the rest of the card being filler, weirdly booked or just bad. Overall is quite a mixed bag but its not terrible, the three best matches are the longest ones and it goes by fairly quick. Match Ratings: Storm & Awesome vs. Edge & Christian (7/10) Hebner vs. Patrick (1/10) Palumbo & O'Haire vs. The APA (4/10) Kidman vs. X-Pac (5/10) Raven vs. Regal (3/10) Six Man Tag (4/10) Tajiri vs. Tazz (5/10) Hardy vs. RVD (8/10) Keibler & Wilson vs. Lita & Trish (3/10) Team WWF Vs. Team WCW/ECW (7/10)"

[4.0] "Invasion feels like the WWF was trying to do the whole WWF/WCW thing in one night. This card is absolutely bloated. The amount of matches that barely get any time at all is off the chart. Like...I'm not a fan of modern PPV's where the whole even is 4-5 matches because everyone gets a half hour, but having the average match be 6-7 minutes isn't the way to go. Most of these matches are over before you can really get into them. And then you have absolute throwaway matches like the referee match and the bra and panties match. The whole card is really just the Hardcore title match and the main even, although the opening tag match is better than expected. Honestly a weak card that had a good story going into it. Not horrible, but should have been WAY better than this."

[4.0] "such a underwhelming pay per view, this one imo was worse then no mercy 07 and i thought nothing was topping that, other then RVD v Hardy and a few matches being decent this show is just terrible 2 refs having a match a bra and panties match, multiple boring tag matches, the fans hating X-Pac just a terrible show with some decent matches in there that get forgotten easily"

[6.0] "Underwhelming PPV, needed some big WCW names like Goldberg, Hogan, Nash, Hall and even Rey Mysterio who would all eventually join WWE within the next two years. Team WCW looked weak as only Booker T looked like a star on the level of the WWF guys in the main event. Massive buy rate for this PPV means it was a success but the card itself doesn't match up. Best match is the Jeff Hardy/RVD match."

[4.0] "The only saving grace for this show was RVD and Jeff Hardy, everything else was either boring or absolutely horrible. The Raven vs Regal match being a prime example of it. Add the fact that most of the matches had barely any heat besides RVD/Hardy and the main. I didn't find much joy in this show besides the match I mentioned before."

[7.0] "Oh man this PPV is getting shitted on even though there were 8 actual wrestling matches, and 5 of them were average or better. I have been very critical of this era on re-watch because I wasn't able to watch it when it originally aired due to life circumstances, so I'm watching many of the episodes now for the first time. With that said, it does seem to me that they did a good job with this PPV considering how they botched the first go-round attempt at this "invasion". Things I am not happy about: Tajiri/Tazz barely went 5 minutes. It really was just getting good, and I think both guys could have used more time. Especially Tajiri who deserves more of a boost here. The Six Man tag match was a waste of time. They were advertising this as 3 on 3 big men match but WCW's guys are not on Big Show or ALBERT's level here, and why is billy gunn in this? Things I liked about this PPV: Using ALBERT properly. They didn't have him defend the IC belt. Instead they put him in a gimmick match, where he belongs. I enjoyed the bra and panties match, sorry guys kill me if you want. Not sure why people expect the WWF to use Torrie, Trish, or Stacy any other way. None of them have any wrestling skills and their entire existence, at this point in WWF, is to be eye candy. I realize Trish later on in her career learns wrestling, but that's not where she is at this point in her life, and she's aware of it. Ref match was fun, was just long enough. RVD match was fucking awesome. And the main event was good, in my opinion. This elevated Rhyno to main eventer, hope he stays there or near it, and doesn't go back down to hardcore matches. Seems like Kurt Angle and Stone Cold are now done with being clowns, which was needed. Bigger picture comment here... There's a lot of different opinions on when exactly the Attitude Era ended. Some people consider WM17 the end of the Attitude Era, some people consider the "Ruthless Aggression" speech the definitive point. For me, upon this rewatch journey of mine, it is OBVIOUS, and CANNOT BE ARGUED, that the Attitude Era is over at this point, and it was CLEARLY over on the 2nd raw after KOTR 2021, when they made the fateful decision to switch stories from simply integrating WCW stars like they normally would, and instead integrate them as a package and with that, a separate entity altogether. This was JULY 2ND, 2001, on Raw. This is the night that they shifted all the angles, and killed characters. Previously, they've been building up Kurt Angle as this amazing bad ass, who just fought 3 matches in one night, including the street fight at KOTR. They also built this feud with him and Shane. Now? Gone. Now he's a clown wearing a cowboy hat back stage, jealous of Stone Cold, and yearning for Vince's attention. Previously Stone Cold and Booker T were building up some kind of feud, but now? Seems like Stone Cold doesn't give half a fuck that Booker T threw him threw the announcer's table at KOTR, and Booker T sure as hell doesn't care about Stone Cold, at all. instead they have him defending his title every single show, on "WCW" tv, every episode, without Stone Cold wanting his revenge. Yes, Stone Cold interfered that night, but we get the impression that it's more of an anti-WCW move than a revenge on Booker T move. Then of course we got 3 weeks of no matches from Stone Cold, him beating Michael Cole's ass, him going through some weird emotions back stage and buying Vince gifts? Molly Holly/Crash storyline is still in play but starts to disappear.the following week. Does it come back? Hopefully, i thought they were cute together. Big Show just starts this storyline with Trish and that disappears. I could go on, and as history would show it got much worse very quickly. Mark my words, the Attitude Era DIED in between the last PPV and this one, specifically on JULY 2nd, 2021. This is now the "Invasion ERA", for better or worse. And really it's both better and worse at some points."

[4.0] "Giving it a 4 because so much of this card felt like Sunday Night Heat in terms of the names and the way the matches were run. If you isolate just the opener, RVD/Jeff and the main event, it's a pretty solid show. Everything else didn't have even close to the level of energy you'd expect for a show like this. RVD/Jeff honestly saved this from being a very bad show, since the main event was merely decent."

[4.0] "Out of 10 matches, when you only have 2 that come out worth watching, that's a bad PPV. The opener was okay but after that, we just go downhill. RVD vs Hardy was definitely match of the night. And maybe if that main event lived up to its name and didn't end the night on a wet fart, maybe that could've been a great match."

[4.0] "The match quality wasn't awful and also wasn't something to write home about, but the main issue was the star power on this show. They could have waited a little longer to get bigger stars from WCW, but here we are with a lot of midcarders throughout the whole show and upper main eventers in the final brawl. There was some good stuff here like a very good opener with Storm and Awesome really impressing as a team. I also loved the Hebner and Patrick angle and the match itself, plus X-Pac vs Kidman was a fun little high flying contest. But also APA vs Palumbo & O'Haire was a mess, Raven vs Regal had a silent crowd, RVD vs Hardy had an unnecessary hardcore stipulation and Bra and Panties Match was just insulting. The main event though definitely had a star power on the WWF part, but The Alliance not so much. At least the babyface team was over so the reactions from the crowd were huge, but then again Austin turning on them felt weird. So not an awful PPV, but it just reeks of unused potential."

[4.0] "I mean, there isn't much positive to say, WWE put themselves over and made themselves the babyfaces for pretty much every match, not many of these matches are worth rewatching, and some are just down right trash. This may be cool and nostalgic for some but as someone who didn't grow up on this this is just objectively not a good PPV"

[4.0] "Below average show with only one standout match, a lot of short pointless ones, and an overlong main event that didn't really do anything to justify the length. The lack of meaningful title matches really hurt this show, as did the lack of the remaining big stars from WCW."

[4.0] "Disappointing show for WWE vs WCW vs ECW it should be hyped as 3 companies were fighting against each other"

[5.0] "This was a fine PPV but ultimately not as good as you would hope for when you get a WWF vs WCW/ECW but not all that shocking considering the people that WCW/ECW had fighting for them outside of the main event. The MOTN was easily Hardy/RVD which was a great match between the two, the inaugural brawl was also a good match but everything else was pretty meh outside of maybe the opening tag. Matches from best to worst: Hardy/RVD ****, Invasion Brawl ***1/2, E&C/Storm & Awesome ***, X-Pac/Kidman **1/2, Taz/Tajiri **1/2, APA/Pulombo/Haire **, six man tag *1/2 , Bra and panties *1/2 Regal/Raven *, Patrick/Hebner NR"

[5.0] "A bit of a disappointment considering how great the shows have been up to this point this year. The main event and hardcore match are the only thing really worth going back for. Very middle of the road PPV."

[6.0] "A quite good PPV with only few very good matches. Expected more from this one. It would have been better to have less matches, and give more time to some of them. Thankfully the ending left a good impression, with the willingness to watch the next Raw episode"

[7.0] "Weakest WWE PPV of 2001 for me, but still a solid event overall. For a supercard featuring WWE, WCW and ECW stars theres just too many big stars that they didn't sign to make the Invasion angle work as it felt lopsided in WWE star power and it was pretty obvious the only way the WCW/ECW team could win the Inaugural brawl was a betrayal even before the event. The undercard was a bit of a mixed bag, Edge and Christian vs Mike Awesome and Lance Storm was a decent opener, and the APA vs Palumbo and O'Haire was also better than expected, Kidman vs X-Pac was also a decent cruiserweight crossover match. You also got matches like the 6 man tag with a directionless WWE team against three WCW stars that barely featured on Raw or SmackDown so nobody cared about that. Regal v Raven got the dreaded boring chant. Earl Hebner and Nick Patrick had a terrible referee match, but at least the crowd was hot for it. Also theres a bra and panties match between four hot women so it is what it is. Two matches are great, Jeff Hardy vs RVD is an excellent dream match for the hardcore title with a surprisingly limited use of weapons. The main event is excellent and as chaotic as you would expect ending with a second Austin heel turn. One of the missteps for me on this show was the commentary. I love JR don't get me wrong and Cole was a solid commentator for Smackdown too, but having two biased WWE commentators running down the competition at every opportunity without Paul Heyman there does somewhat take away from some of the matches for me, particularly being constantly told Booker T is a sell out even though he was WCW from the start."

[6.0] "I find the show as a whole disappointing, even though it's pretty easy to watch and there are more good matches than bad. It just didn't deliver on the promise of these three companies finally going at it, and I still think the ending of the Main Event was a real mistep. Ultimately they didn't do a good enough job of building up the WCW guys, which left the ECW guys to carry things for the invaders. Talented though they were, Raven, Rhino, Tazz and The Dudley Boyz felt very much like WWF guys in ECW shirts, which took away from the feel of it being promotion vs promotion. There are worse shows, but an event of this magnitude needed to be better than just that IMO"

[8.0] "I always heard bad things about this historic event and about the Invasion Angle itself. From at least 10 years I Wanted to see the show to make my opinion about it and it was one of the first shows I Wanted to watch when I subscribed to the WWE Network. Personally I Think that the over hype about the Invasion Storyline ruined the show itself. People expected Sting, Goldberg or NWO and they came in WWE when Invasion was over (NWO 2002 to start the Hogan vs Rock dream match up for WM X8, Goldberg at Backlash 2003 he too Against The Rock and Sting in 2014! ). The Show is good in my opinion, historic, the beginning of the End of the Attitude Era that I think ended right with the Invasion Storyline and the end of the Monday Night War to let the Ruthless Agression Era begin. I loved the Stage, the Atmosphere and the Company was great in giving the idea that the show was played in a neutral field where the two factions clashed. great stage with two separates entrances etc etc. Great Jeff vs RVD probabily two of the best if not the two best High Risk Takers and High Flyers of that period. RVD was HOt from his ECW stint that will led him to become the most popular Superstar of the Year by Meltzer in 2002 (a year in which Michaels returned and Hulk Hogan returned? so That's incredible) and Jeff was very over for his TLC Showdowns during the 2000/2001. MAin Event was Great, great story about the depressed Austin (I Had Goosebumps because I did not know the story itself and I think it was narrated very well) and the heel turn was good. I thought was Angle to turn on Alliance but I was wrong. Even if the Austin Betrayal was great I think it was one of the elements that started the fall of Austin because His persona started to become too much swinging from being a Baby Face of a Heel with to Heel turn in 5 Month (the increibile turn at WM X-Seven and this one). Overall a Great show, A must for every WWE worshipper."

[8.0] "I contemplated what to give this event as a rating, and I feel that 8 is a solid rating. Match wise, its obvious that there was a lot to be desired. In no way did this event include wrestling classics and that's understandable because WWE (WWF at the time), became a story-driven promotion. The event was important because it was the first time and wrestlers from WWE, WCW and ECW were all on the same show, and involved in the matches. I was a teenager when I watched this event, so reviewing it almost 18 years later feels weird; feels like yesterday that my brother, my cousin and I were watching this. Only two matches are worth noting, the hardcore title match was was awesome and the main event, which was historic and defined the summer of 2001. Like I said, I'm not giving this an 8 for the matches, but for the overall impact this show had on me and for that summer of 2001, being a WWE fan at the time. Watching these wrestlers from different promotions come together and wrestle one another was historic."

[6.0] "First event for the Invasion angle (short storyline). The undercard has many filler matches that don't matter at all. Rob Van Dam vs Jeff Hardy is a great match, the main event is enjoyable, Billy Kidman vs X-Pac is another okay match but most of the card seems useless. It's not a bad show, but maybe it has too many short matches."

[6.0] "A decent show. Only 3 matches I'd rate above *** (X-Pac vs Kidman ***1/4, Hardy vs RVD ****1/2 and the main event ***1/2). A few poor matches but luckily they were quite short and a there was a couple of average matches like the opening tag and APA vs Chuck/Sean. A lot of the card wouldn't have looked out of place on a basic smackdown or raw however despite this it was an easy watch and did have some good and 1 great match. MOTN was Hardy vs RVD for me. Michael Cole on commentary was a big demotion from Heyman with him calling quite a few moves wrong mainly in the main event. Apart from that an average show 6/10."

[6.0] "The Invasion remains one of my all-time least-favorite storylines and, in my opinion, the biggest wasted opportunity in wrestling history in terms of how it ultimately played out. Even at this early point in the storyline, you could see cracks forming in terms of what would follow, i. e. the outright burial of WCW and ECW (here, the "Alliance" team only won with help from the turning Steve Austin, who had been in WWF longer at that point than either of the other companies). But looking objectively at this show in and of itself in retrospect, this was at least a good start to the story; as has been mentioned, it did capture the feel of multiple companies at war and vying for power. There were several very good matches as well (along with a lot of filler), including the opening Edge/Christian vs. Storm/Awesome tag match, the RVD-Jeff Hardy Hardcore Title match, Tajiri vs. Tazz and the main event, which was an overbooked cluster, but in the context of the storyline, that worked just fine. If only the rest of the story played out with the sides relatively even."

[10.0] "I love the way this whole PPV was constructed! Not only were the matches very enjoyable to watch, but throughout this whole show, the way this whole show was played out, they made you feel like this was truly an all-out war between WWF and WCW/ECW and that they were really trying to one-up each other and keep the wins going for both sides like everything was literally on the line for both groups especially when the Inaugural Brawl match was coming up and later took place, and I loved how they never stopped reminding you of that which also made this an all-around fun show to watch! I have always loved watching this show!"