15 Most memorable moments in the history of Monday Night Raw

10: Shane McMahon buys WCW/Raw and Nitro simulcast

The Raw and Nitro simulcast created network television history and Shane McMahon’s ‘purchase’ of WCW started the Invasion angle.

March 26, 2001 was a historic date in the history of the WWE, professional wrestling and television itself. It was the date of the Raw and Nitro simulcast and the date of the final episode of WCW Monday Nitro. WWE had finalized their purchase of WCW earlier and Raw started off with the iconic moment with Vince looking at two separate television screens, one broadcasting Raw and one broadcasting Nitro with Vince announcing his purchase of WCW.

Vince came out later in the evening to cut a promo in the ring, that was shown on both Raw on TNN and Nitro on TNT which was a historic moment in television history. As Vince announced his purchase, Shane showed up on Nitro to tell Vince that even though a McMahon had purchased WWE, it wasn’t Vince, it was Shane.

The segment was historic, with North America having only one major wrestling promotion at the end of it, the last promotion standing was the WWE.