Heyman also said that he welcomed Bischoff's invasion, claiming, 'You may light a fire that you can’t put out.' Heyman then lit the funeral wreath ablaze. Paul Heyman then came out and reminded McMahon that, while he does not own ECW, he still has control of it. McMahon spoke of his support for the ECW reunion and his financial interest in bringing back the promotion. Bischoff planned an ECW funeral for the May 23 episode of Raw but was interrupted by WWE Chairman Vince McMahon. He also vowed to 'destroy' ECW with the help of the Raw superstars chosen to compete at the pay-per-view. In the middle of the contest, however, Bischoff came out to stop it, and announced anything related to ECW was banned from Raw. The invasion angle began on the edition of Raw, when Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff made a statement regarding the pay-per-view, saying that he would 'squash ECW like a bug.' The following week, on the May 16 episode of Raw, Tajiri agreed to an Extreme Rules match with Chris Benoit.

Although many of the individual matches on the One Night Stand card were announced weeks before the pay-per-view occurred, none of them got any build-up, with WWE choosing to focus on an 'invasion' angle, with several Raw and SmackDown! superstars feuding against wrestlers from the original ECW.

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