SmackDown 1000: The Top 10 Moments In SmackDown History

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4. Stone Cold Steve Austin And Booker T’s Supermarket Brawl: December 13, 2001

Despite ultimately being viewed at as a failure, the invasion storyline did feature a few glimpses of brilliance along the way.  The angle was destined to fail when WCW’s top stars had guaranteed checks to sit at home and they didn’t come over to the WWE to join the storyline, but one top WCW star decided to take advantage of the situation.

Booker T was a five-time WCW Champion by the time Ted Turner’s organization went under in early-2001.  He was one of the few homegrown talents WCW gave a chance to shine and he made the most out of it.  Booker saw an opportunity to make his name in the WWE and he did so throughout the final few months of 2001.

At the Vengeance pay-per-view, Booker T cost Stone Cold Steve Austin the Undisputed Championship, which eventually went to Chris Jericho.  The Texas Rattlesnake wouldn’t take that lying down, however, and on the following episode of SmackDown, he managed to get his hands on Booker T, in a supermarket.

The five-time WCW Champion tried his best to avoid Austin, but he was unable to and the brawl throughout the supermarket was one-sided in favor of Stone Cold.  He did about everything imaginable to Booker and it was one of the funniest and entertaining segments in WWE history, especially SmackDown history.

In one of the most memorable segments the WWE has ever produced, Stone Cold made Booker T pay for his sins in a supermarket of all places.