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.

WWF Raw Is War (December 7, 1998)

Time to get back on track and finish up my Raw ’98 deep dive. The previous week’s episode kind of sucked ass as it leaned WAAAAY too hard into the sports entertainment Vince Russo bullshit. This week’s episode is pre-taped so maybe it will feature a bit more actual wrestling but it’s also the go home show for Rock Bottom so who the fuck knows. Let’s just get this over with…

WWF Raw Is War (November 23, 1998)

So last week’s episode of Raw Is War from the year 1998 sucked so much ass and the week before that wasn’t so great either. Will this week’s episode be any better? I doubt it but I’ve committed to getting through all the Raws from 1998 so let’s just get on with it.

WWF Raw Is War (November 16, 1998)

I’m getting really burned out on this ’98 WWF deep dive but we’re coming down the home stretch so I’m going to try and just muscle through. This is the Raw after Survivor Series and we’ve got a new champion in The Rock which might help liven things up a bit. Who knows?

WWF Raw Is War (November 2, 1998)

I’ve not been a fan of the past two episodes of Raw for vastly different reasons but we’re coming down the home stretch with stupid 1998 rewatch project so I’m going to muscle through. This week we’re going to take a look at the November 2, 1998 episode of Raw and see what’s going on with the McMahons and maybe also get a wrestling match or two.

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…

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!

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.

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!

WWF Raw Is War (September 5, 1998)

So I’d already reviewed the August 24, 1998 episode of Raw before I began this project and the August 17, 1998 episode was so shitty I decided to just watch old NWA studio wrestling shit instead of reviewing an episode of Sunday Night Heat or SummerSlam. This week, though I’m back on the grind and…FUCK! It’s a Saturday episode of Raw because Raw was preempted by the US Open. Maybe they’ll just be like, “No one’s watching anyway so let’s just let X-Pac and Brian Christopher wrestle an 8 minute match like it’s Shotgun Saturday Night!”