As I do every Monday night – I turned on wrestling to find the same thing I would every Monday night at 9:55pm – Booker T defending the WCW title on a program with a WCW logo on the screen. There was only one difference this time – the match was on RAW – and Booker T’s opponent was Kurt Angle.

Later in the night, WWF Hardcore Champion – WCW Superstar Mike Awesome, and Lance Storm took on WWF Superstars Kane and Chris Jericho. Right in the middle of the match, ECW Superstars Rob Van Dam and Tommy Dreamer – who made their first appearance on RAW – ran into the ring and attacked Jericho and Kane to side with Storm and Awesome. Then, six other wrestlers entered the ring – the WWF’s Tazz, Rhyno, Raven, Justin Credible and D-Von and Bubba Ray Dudley – who started to defend Kane and Jericho – and then turned and attacked them – along with Storm, Awesome, Dreamer and Van Dam.

And if that was not baffling enough – Paul Heyman, the owner of the now defunct ECW – stepped into the ring to join the ten wrestlers – all of who used to work for the former Philadelphia based organization – and announced that every wrestler in the ring has just left their now former employers – and joined the now reborn member of the big three.

Then, in an attempt to thwart the lesser of three evils – WWF Owner Vince McMahon and WCW Owner Shane McMahon agreed to put five of each of their roster on the same team against the ten members of the new ECW.

Still with me?

The most historic – and most unbelievable match in wrestling history began with the WWF and the WCW Superstars acting more like opponents then teammates – and when the ECW stars entered the ring – I lost the ability to understand what was happening – until I noticed that the ECW stars cleared the ring.

As ten members of the new ECW stood in the ring with five members of the WWF on one side and five members of the WCW on the other – the WCW stars were the first to enter the ring – hug the ECW wrestlers – and attacked the five members of the WWF.

When Vince McMahon came out to do the same thing we did – try and figure out what was going on – it was WCW owner Shane McMahon that answered everyone’s same question – by announcing that he was responsible for the merger between the WCW and the new ECW – which was now owned by his sister and Vince’s daughter – Stephanie McMahon.

Are you as half as confused as I am?

Tonight – I experienced the most amazing, confusing, breathtaking, baffling – and entertaining two hours of wrestling I have ever seen in my life. When you have been in the business as long as I have – you tend to know what will happen on RAW and SmackDown – but I don’t think anyone saw what happened tonight coming a mile away.

For years, I have hoped for the day when there would be no territories, no boundaries – no corporate red tape separating the three major wrestling federations. No matter how loud the screams and roars of the fans were to have a night – just one night – where the territories were joined, the boundaries were gone – and the corporate red tape was cut away to allow the WWF, the WCW and the ECW to compete under the same banner, the same federation – their screams fell on deaf ears – until tonight.

Tonight – each and every wrestling fan got their wish and all three wrestling federations wrestled in the same ring in the same building on the same show under one federation that carries the letters M-C-M-A-H-O-N.

Thanks to Vince McMahon, the loyalty, devotion and endless dreams of the millions – and millions of wrestling fans all over the world were repaid with the ultimate Monday Night Raw involving all three federations and containing more shocks, surprises, double crosses, face and heel turns – and unbelievable moments then the last twenty six years that I have watched wrestling combined.

Just when I thought what happened couldn’t be topped – I was proved wrong. Just when I was convinced that what I saw was by far the most amazing moment in sports entertainment that I ever witnessed – I saw another one. And just when I thought that Vince McMahon redefined the wrestling industry – he outdid himself only seconds later.

As the most historic two hours of wrestling in it’s over one hundred year history came to a close, Vince McMahon, the owner of the WWF stood on the ramp and watched with horrified amazement as Shane McMahon, the owner of the WCW – raised the hand of Stephanie McMahon – the new owner of the reborn ECW.

Now what?