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WWE: Monday Night Raw (05.06.96)

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Monday Night Raw
May 6, 1996
Sioux City, IA
Civic Auditorium

The current WWF Champs were as follows:
World Champion: Shawn Michaels (3/31/96)
Intercontinental Champion: Goldust (4/22/96)
World Tag Team Champions: The Bodydonnas (3/31/96)

Tonight’s program is dedicated to Ray Stevens who passed away on the previous Friday from a heart attack. He has been called by many as one of the most influential and greatest wrestlers of his era. He was 60 years old.

Before we hit the RAW intro, a blackened out ex-wife of a professional wrestler announces to the world that Shawn Michaels is a homewrecker and ruined her marriage.

Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler. Read the rest of this entry

WWF: Monday Night Raw (04.22.96)

Monday Night Raw
April 22, 1996
San Bernardino, CA
Orange Pavilion

The current WWF Champs were as follows:
World Champion: Shawn Michaels (3/31/96)
Intercontinental Champion: Vacant (4/15/96)
World Tag Team Champions: The Bodydonnas (3/31/96)

I have the Sky Sports shortened version. To play Eric Bischoff here, I want to let all you fans know that here in the World Whining Federation, here’s what I missed: the Godwinns (Seriously? They still think hillbillies are funny or whatever?) beat up a couple of nobodies with the Slop Drop. Hello? It’s called the Scorpion Death Drop. Get with it, guys. Sunny distracts that Hillbilly Jim character (1985 called!) so that her two blonde friends can attack the other hillbillies. Snoozer! Okay, now that we have got that out of the way…

Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler. Read the rest of this entry

WWF: Monday Night Raw (04.15.96)

Monday Night Raw
April 15, 1996
San Bernardino, CA
Orange Pavilion

The current WWF Champs were as follows:
World Champion: Shawn Michaels (3/31/96)
Intercontinental Champion: Goldust (1/21/96)
World Tag Team Champions: The Bodydonnas (3/31/96)

Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler. Read the rest of this entry

WWF: Monday Night Raw (04.08.96)

Monday Night Raw
April 8, 1996
San Bernardino, CA
Orange Pavilion

The current WWF Champs were as follows:
World Champion: Shawn Michaels (3/31/1996)
Intercontinental Champion: Goldust (1/21/1996)
World Tag Team Champions: The Body Donnas (3/31/1996)

This is one of the few times I remember watching Raw. There was no Nitro this week due to a TNT movie premiere, but I had to get my wrestling from somewhere, so I decided to see what was going on in the WWF.

Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Mr. Perfect. Read the rest of this entry

WWF: Raw is War (06.23.97)

WWF: Raw is War
June 23, 1997
Detroit, MI
Cobo Hall

The current WWF champs were as follows:
World Champion: The Undertaker (3/23/1997)
Intercontinental Champion: Owen Hart (4/28/1997)
European Champion: Davey Boy Smith (3/3/1997)
World Tag Team Champions: Vacant (6/16/1997)

Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Jim Ross. Read the rest of this entry

WWF: Raw is War (06.16.97)

WWF: Raw is War
June 16, 1997
Lake Placid, NY
Olympic Center

The current WWF champs were as follows:
World Champion: The Undertaker (3/23/1997)
Intercontinental Champion: Owen Hart (4/28/1997)
European Champion: Davey Boy Smith (3/3/1997)
World Tag Team Champions: Vacant (6/16/1997)

Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Jim Ross. Read the rest of this entry

WWF: Raw is War (06.09.97)

WWF: Raw is War
June 9, 1997
Hartford, CT
Civic Center

The current WWF champs were as follows:
World Champion: The Undertaker (3/23/1997)
Intercontinental Champion: Owen Hart (4/28/1997)

European Champion: Davey Boy Smith (3/3/1997)
World Tag Team Champions: Shawn Michaels & Steve Austin (5/26/1997)

Most of you insiders reading this probably already know the story, but this is the infamous evening where Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels – both scheduled to appear on the program – got into a legitimate argument backstage. Apparently, the argument that started all of this was Bret confronting Shawn over his comments about Bret having “Sunny days” crossing the line a couple weeks back. Once they started fighting, Shawn got a hunk of his hair pulled out of his head and walked out of the company for the second time in four months this time claiming unsafe working conditions and threatened to leave the WWF for good to go work with his “real friends” over in WCW. Nothing concerning the off-screen altercation was mentioned on the air until the following week when the WWF tag team belts were declared vacant for the third time in three years.

Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Jim Ross. Read the rest of this entry

WWF: King of the Ring 1997

WWF: King of the Ring
June 8, 1997
Providence, RI
Civic Center

The current WWF champs were as follows:
World Champion: The Undertaker (3/23/1997)
Intercontinental Champion: Owen Hart (4/28/1997)
European Champion: Davey Boy Smith (3/3/1997)
World Tag Team Champions: Shawn Michaels & Steve Austin (5/26/1997)

Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Jim Ross. Read the rest of this entry

WWF: Raw is War (06.02.97)

WWF: Raw is War
June 2, 1997
Huntington, WV
Civic Center

The current WWF champs were as follows:
World Champion: The Undertaker (3/23/1997)
Intercontinental Champion: Owen Hart (4/28/1997)
European Champion: Davey Boy Smith (3/3/1997)
World Tag Team Champions: Shawn Michaels & Steve Austin (5/26/1997)

Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Jim Ross. Read the rest of this entry

WWF: Monday Night Raw (03.18.96)

Monday Night Raw
March 18, 1996
San Antonio, TX
Freeman Coliseum

The current WWF Champs were as follows:
World Champion: Bret Hart (11/19/1995)
Intercontinental Champion: Goldust (1/21/1996)
World Tag Team Champions: Vacant (2/15/1996)

Yesterday at MSG, Diesel went FULL BLOWN HEEL and laid waste with a steel chair not to just Bret Hart and the Undertaker, but he then did the unthinkable and took out his own best friend Shawn Michaels as well! Maybe we’ll find out why tonight.

Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jerry Lawler. Read the rest of this entry