Finally, the Rock has come back to the invasion and has very briefly bumped up the ratings,

but now everything's just back to where it was a moment ago.

And back to where it was, you actually mean back to where it was four months ago,

as if the WCW part never happened.

It does weirdly feel that way, doesn't it?

Yeah, it feels like the invasion by August is Chris Canyons here and Lance Storms here.

Yes.

And that's it. Yeah, because DDP and Booker T are also here, but they were here kind of slightly before the invasion. Yeah.

Because they were there at King of the Ring. And all the ECW guys, apart from Rob Van Dam, Rob Van Dam is the only person who feels like a new fresh thing here.

All the other ECW guys were WWF guys for the last 18 months?

There's even a joke on one of the episodes of Roar leading up to August, where Steve

Austin looks at Tommy Dreamer and says, you haven't even wrestled a match. And it's true.

Dreamer has done nothing since coming in.

You're a little rascal. So this is the pay-per-view, this is what premium live events used to be called. This is the paper view after the invasion. Correct. We get the invasion. Stone Cold's turned heel again. Yep. The rock comes back. SummerSlam. Yes, there are four weeks worth of TV. Then we're at SummerSlam. Welcome to Russell Talk Extra, by the way.

We are reviewing SummerSlam 2001 as part of our journey through 2001 and the invasion.

If you want to check out to the episode prior to this, where we reviewed The Rock's return to WWF Raw.

That is over at patreon.com forward slash wrestle talk.

I would say that episode is

the definitive episode where they gave up tonally. I would also say as a review, it's the

episode where we have laughed the most because it's when Undertaker accidentally hit Sarah with

a chair.

I watched Guardian to the Galaxy Volume 2 again recently.

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