Top 5 WWE Home Invasions Of All Time

#1 Pillman’s got a gun

Steve Austin and Brian Pillman teamed up for one of Raw's most tense moments.

The early stages of the Attitude Era were a pretty fascinating time to watch wrestling, as WWE tried to find its footing in a changing landscape, and to figure out where the lines of decency, good taste, and responsible programming were—if they existed at all.

The Pillman’s Got a Gun segment quickly became the stuff of legends for the then-off-beat choice to go on location to Brian Pillman’s house. The set up was that anti-hero Stone Cold Steve Austin was on his way there to beat Pillman, but a turn in the story came up when Pillman brandished a gun, suggesting a level of violence and chaos WWE had never broached before.

The scene culminated in Austin arriving, Pillman pulling the gun, and the scene going dark. While it was a bit of a cop-out to not really resolve the tense situation, we nonetheless had a captivating story threaded through that episode of Raw.

Maybe it did go too far—the network and advertisers were reportedly unhappy with it. Just the same, when it came to suggesting something truly devastating might happen, few performers could pull off an authentic sense of mayhem like Stone Cold and the Loose Cannon.