WWF Raw Is War (December 28, 1998)

Since I already reviewed the December 21, 1998 episode of Raw prior to starting this 1998 deep dive we’re moving on the December 28th episode. It might have taken three months longer than I had originally intended but this is the final episode of this project so let’s get to it.

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WWF Raw Is War (October 26, 1998)

Last week’s Raw had a huge overarching angle that dominated the bulk of the show and saw Stone Cold take Vince McMahon hostage, torture him, and then threaten to shoot him in the head in the middle of a wrestling ring. It was not a thing I was a fan of back in the day and 23 years after the fact it hadn’t gotten any better. So will this week be more of the same or will we get two hours of hot in-ring action? Probably not the latter since the only thing announced in advance for this episode was the fact that Motley Crue would be showing up. Oh goody…

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WWF Raw Is War (October 12, 1998)

Another week, another episode of Raw Is War from 1998. It seems that we’ve finally gotten to the point of the Attitude Era where every episode of Raw has some huge, super memorable non-wrestling related angle surrounded by a bunch of shitty wrestling matches that 9 times out of 10 end in a DQ or No Contest. Will that trend continue this week or are we going to get two hours of five star mat classics? Let’s find out!

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WWF Raw Is War (October 5, 1998)

Last week’s Raw had one of the all time great Raw segments as well as a bunch of shitty wrestling matches I more or less forgot about as soon as they ended and if memory serves correctly that’s pretty much going to be the norm from here on out: molten hot main event angles that everyone remembers 20+ years after the fact and undercard matches that everyone forgets five minutes after watching them. Let’s see if I remember this all correctly and I’m dead wrong and this week is going to be a bunch of five star mat classics!

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WWF Raw Is War (September 28, 1998)

So Breakdown happened, but outside of the Royal Rumble and Fully Loaded (which I technically reviewed before beginning this project) I’m not fucking around with the PPVs so I didn’t watch it. It doesn’t seem like anything all that important happened anyway besides the stuff with the main event but that was really the case in general with the WWF in 1998 wasn’t it? Anyway since I didn’t watch that PPV we’re moving on to the following night’s episode of Raw Is War.

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WWF Raw Is War (September 21, 1998)

Last week’s episode of Raw Is War was, if not the best single episode of the show I’ve seen since I started this project, definitely up there in terms of quality. The angles were good and well booked, the in-ring action was pretty good for the standards of the day, and the crowd was absolutely nuclear, all leading to a surprisingly entertaining show. Will this week continue that trend? God I hope so!

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WWF Raw Is War (September 14, 1998)

The last two weeks worth of Raws have been airing on Saturday night and have thus been either outright awful (the September 5, 1998 episode) or basically an episode of Shotgun Saturday Night (the September 12, 1998 episode) but this week their back to their regularly scheduled day and time so hopefully some stuff worth talking about will actually happen again.

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