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Raw Is War June 1, 1998 Review | Kane Becomes #1 Contender & Undertaker Explodes
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Viewer discretion is advised — because this Raw is WAR.
We’re breaking down the June 1, 1998 episode of Raw Is War, coming off the chaos of Over the Edge — and somehow it gets even messier.
Vince McMahon opens the show as an unreliable narrator (because of course he does), verbally dismantles Mick Foley in one of the most brutal dressing-downs we’ve seen, and then immediately starts manipulating the board behind the scenes.
Meanwhile:
- Undertaker shows up in sweats and sunglasses and chooses violence.
- Kane earns a #1 Contender’s match… by defeating his own brother.
- Mankind returns (and immediately makes us question our loyalty).
- DX and The Nation tear into each other in elimination chaos.
- Mark Henry vs Terry Funk is somehow both insane and underrated.
- Val Venis continues to terrorize Chicago’s signage.
- And yes… we are officially on the road to that Hell in a Cell.
This episode is a tonal shift. The stories are tighter. The rivalries are sharper. The Vince vs Austin war is happening on commentary while Kane and Undertaker are literally fighting in the ring.
And for the first time, it really feels like the pieces are locking into place for King of the Ring.
We’re inching closer.
You know what match we’re talking about.
Let’s get into it.
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SPEAKER_01Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of the New to Wrestling Podcast. Today we watched the June 1st, 1998 edition of Raw Is War, and we are right after the over the edge pay-per-view, um, which saw a lot of lot of chaos, lots of um debauch. Um but lots of debauch. But I will say also, I apologize if my camera, if you're watching this on whatever, starts clipping in and out, it's a new camera. I'm figuring it out. Um but um yeah, lots of debauch on the pay-per-view, but it might pale in comparison to whatever was going on uh today, the season.
SPEAKER_06It was a funky one. I don't know. I we Xavier and I were talking before, and I was like, the thing about doing the episode after the pay-per-view is not only is it usually insane, but it also feels like five minutes long because the pay-per-view was so long. So then we watch this, I'm like, it's over already. Like that was a 1000%.
SPEAKER_011000% a lot happened. Yeah, they really like to like pack it in. They're like, okay, the time is the time is nigh. We must. Um this one opens up with a recap of the pay-per-view. Um, this one with a skewed narrator, uh, Vince McMahon. Um uh he basically he opens it up and he's just like with the the shallow victory of last night. Like he goes into like basically like berating Stone Cold Steve Austin for like 30 seconds over a montage of the events of last night. So sinister, so sinister, and when I was just like, oh, oh, okay. I as a as a plot device enjoyed.
SPEAKER_06Oh, absolutely.
SPEAKER_01It's annoying like it's Vince McMahon, but it's as great, right? As like uh to open the show, like the unreliable narrator taking you through the events is is fun.
SPEAKER_06Xavier literally said he's like, I love an unreliable narrator, and it's like so true. I do love I do love the super villain perspective of like he really believes he's correct and it's just so blatantly wrong, but the spin right the spin, mama.
SPEAKER_01Um spin. Um, speaking of this opening segment, um is oh just a complete just 180 of what we have seen for the last like couple weeks.
SPEAKER_06I'm not kidding.
SPEAKER_01No, like a thousand percent, which is fine, and because this uh is Mick Foley and he has a bunch of personalities, it's like there's a lot of forgiveness there. Um, I think we are bore borderline approaching on asking for too much forgiveness.
SPEAKER_06Literally, no, it's so true.
SPEAKER_01As far as the popping in and out of these characters, like he's in a forensics tournament. Like it's getting wild.
SPEAKER_06Um whoa, that just that deep cut really that struck bone.
SPEAKER_01So sorry. I feel strange. 1000%. Um, but McFoley is in the ring, he's apparently staging a sit-in because of the events of last night, uh, where he lost um and did not gain to a sit-in.
SPEAKER_06He loves he loves to sit in a chair in the ring and talk about his feelings, girl.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god. I love it. I love it. Some would say some would say get a therapist. I say thank you.
SPEAKER_06Yes, get an arena full of like 16,000 people. No one tell them instead.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, better. Um, because like you're never gonna get like a real um, I mean, a therapist, I guess, is qualified to give you a like unbiased opinion, but if you want to know what like the the people think, what what most people think, having 16,000 people like answer you in real time is a pretty good barometer, I'd say.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, and it's a pretty firm yes or no, and there's really no nuance, like no gr no discussion because it's yes or no.
SPEAKER_01No, I mean if if like wrestling crowd science has told us anything, there is no nuance, there is none, and we'll talk about a couple in a little bit, but um basically back to Nick Foley, he's in the middle of the ring, he's talking about his lost teeth, his broken face, and it looks a la beter after the wrench, like it's puffy, it looks a little dented, it's fucked up, it's it's fucked up, it's insane. Um, he's like, I I broke my face, I lost the match, I'll just come out with it. Stone Cold Steve Austin kicked my ass. And I'm like, okay, great. I mean, we love when uh we love a self-aware king.
SPEAKER_06We love a self-aware king if he did get his ass beat, and yeah, it listen, no lies were told.
SPEAKER_01Um, and he's like, I've clearly like made some mistakes recently, um, mainly being listening to like the wrong people. So he comes out and he calls out Mr. McMahon and he apologizes to him um based on not doubling down for not getting the job done. And he s is currently uh you know dealing with his face wound.
SPEAKER_06So he's like, I'll be out of action for a little bit, but I am I just realized the end I forgot that he had a gaping face. Okay, we'll get there, but I completely you whoa. Yeah my god.
SPEAKER_01Okay, sorry, continue. Um, so he's basically just like, I'm gonna be injured for a little bit, but I expect to be the number one contender when I come back because like did you see that match?
SPEAKER_06Um I will say though, kind of a crazy thing to ask. You're gonna take time off and you expect to just come back here and get a title shot?
SPEAKER_01The second title shot, yes, maybe. Maybe I don't know. Um, and then Mr. McMahon's like, you want me? Oh, he asked Mr. McMahon for an apology. Um, and Mr. McMahon's like, um no. Ew. Hey, and he goes, You're a miserable failure as a WWF superstar, you're a miserable failure as a human. Um, and if you want me to accept your apology, like get down on your knees, freak. Um, and he um and McFoley understandably is like you're joking.
SPEAKER_06Like that's not I love that he was like, You're kidding, right?
SPEAKER_01You're joking, and he was like and then he goes, No, you're the joke, crazy. Um, and then he goes, You're an embarrassment to me, you're an embarrassment to yourself, and honestly, like you shouldn't worry about like kneeling in front of me now because you're an embarrassment to your whole family already, and you're like, Jesus, so he verbally undressed him to the point where he McFoley sat down. Like he sat in the chair and was just like like staring off, yeah, with the thousand-yard stare, just like ooh, um, and then uh he goes, he being McFoley, he's like, I have a confession to make, it felt good hitting you in the face with that chair, and I'll do it. And and then Vince McMahon's like, um do it again, right now. So essentially he's like egging McFoley on for a reason to uh fire him, this, that, or the other.
SPEAKER_06Um apparently he didn't even need one.
SPEAKER_01No, well, he's in charge. He doesn't he never needs one. That's not so annoying. Um he's basically just like do it again. He's like really loud about it, he's like really aggressively trying to get in McSpace. Um and then he goes for a second lashing um on McFole, and he's like basically just like remember like all that shit that's going on in your life that I pay that like sign the checks for.
SPEAKER_06Remember all that little account I have for your parents, right?
SPEAKER_01Just like throws it in his face, and you're just like, oh, okay. Um, and then he goes, Your services at the WWF are no longer required. Hits dude loves music and then starts dancing around him.
SPEAKER_06It was volatile, it was fucking volatile. Like I was just like the disrespect on every he was categorically eviscerated in every single level other than physically. No, but he already came physically eviscerated, so already done. We're not wasting time, we're getting right to the the core, the soul is speedy to a like just right in there, dude.
SPEAKER_01Right in there, and you're just like, um, okay, crazy. So McFoley fired question mark is I was like, ain't no way.
SPEAKER_06Like, I was like, first of all, he has four different characters, they fired dude love. McFoley, whatever. I was like, there is no way. Like, I no, no, I was like, all right, we'll see you, we'll see you real soon.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And then that takes us, yep, and thank god. And that takes us into our next segment, which is the first match, which is a Chicago street fight between the DOA and LOD and DRAZ. I'm gonna start calling him Draws. I refuse to call him puke. Um I know I know the name is fitting, I get it. We know, but so basically we're in like an the one of the entrances into like a parking garage um to the arena, and they're it's like blocked off by like police, um, and you know, it's supposed to, you know, set the scene. And honestly, I kind of respect that they I mean this was crazy, um, but I respect that back in the day when they were like, oh, it's gonna be a street fight, like you went out all like onto the street. To the street, right? And like nowadays they call it a street fight and they bring street items to the ring, right? But like, no, girl, like go go outside. Like, I want to see someone get thrown in a river again. Like, I miss that.
SPEAKER_06You know, BBT, so like I remember when didn't the rock throw a belt into the river and we just all went yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Stone cold did, I think.
SPEAKER_06Stone cold didn't love him, yeah.
SPEAKER_01So, I mean, in this era it happens more, but I mean generally like nowadays, like bring that back.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, because I would have loved like obviously the bad bunny Damian Priest street fight is like what shumped it to mind because like I'm telling you, if you would have done that on like the sidewalk in front of the beach in Puerto Rico, that's what I'm saying, done, done, and even do a little stint, like you could do like the pre-match to the match, like like you can.
SPEAKER_01You could also get away with building a ring out there in Puerto Rico, no one no one would bat an eye to see a wrestling ring just show up in a parking lot. I guarantee I'm not kidding. No one would no one would even think anything twice.
SPEAKER_06They'd be like, Oh, the lucha's here today, got it, and then so suddenly, suddenly the lady with the piedagues is coming, and like thank god anyway, thank god anyway. Bring back real street fights, amen, amen, amen.
SPEAKER_01Um, but before we get into the nitty-gritty of this, Kevin Kelly uh tries to interview Draws, and no, all the while he is actively trying to and successfully vomiting on Kevin Kelly, like the whole time. You're just like he's like answering questions, like trying to bring up his lunch, you know, and that's insane. No, insane work.
SPEAKER_06Kevin Kelly did not deserve that, like they did not move. Kevin Kelly accepted getting puked on like twice. They said, Kevin, get your little ass outside on this ramp, like at dusk, right, and interview draws and have him throw up on you, and you just stand there and keep asking him quite are you finging serious?
SPEAKER_01That is the love of the game, Kevin Kelly. That is the love of the game. I hope you got a fating raise. I hope they gave you a puke bonus. Like, that's crazy.
SPEAKER_06A huge Christmas bonies bonies bonus and like slammy or bestier.
SPEAKER_01I doubt it, but he should. He deserves it.
SPEAKER_06I has anyone asked Kevin Kelly about that? Like, I want to like DM him and be like, hey.
SPEAKER_01Come on the show. We got questions.
SPEAKER_06I got questions about this because I I got a lot of questions for Kevin Kelly.
SPEAKER_01He's been around the back for a hot minute now. I want to know what you know.
SPEAKER_06And I have like, and I have like stupid questions like when you had to like wait outside the cemetery for Undertaker and Kane, and Undertaker just came to attack you. Where were you really? Because like, was it a real cemetery? How far were you? Like what was the like I don't know.
SPEAKER_01Logistics of this, yes.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, like stupid, and like, did you know you were getting puked on? I assume.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Does he just like make himself gap? I don't even want to know. Pretty much.
SPEAKER_01And and so basically he's throwing up on Kevin Kelly. Um, this interview's not going anywhere, obviously, because he's actively vomiting. So then the Legion of Doom come in and they're like, you know, ha ha ha, Kevin Kelly, he's puking on you. Um, and basically they're like, We're gonna like end this feud um with the DOA, they're gonna be dead on arrival, blah, blah, blah. This opens the door, like they're talking to Kevin Kelly for Chains to arrive on the bike. I was like, okay, um, but where are your other two two girlies? This is not the cheetah girls, like, what's happening? So there's Aqua and Dorinda. No, literally. Um, so the LOD and uh draws are distracted by uh golden locks on the bike, and that allows the bald Barbies to come up behind them with the trash cans and just wallops them, and then the what ensues for the next three-ish minutes is the most chaotic just uh match I've ever like had to witness. Like they're in a like the entryway, so it's just like there's this much space, and it is just like six of the beefiest dudes you've ever seen just essentially just like ping-ponging each other against these walls and like picking up the same two trash cans and hitting each other all the while Sunny is adding her soundtrack of screams, just to like girl, you didn't have to be here, okay. And you didn't have to scream the whole time. No, when you know what I mean. Like, first of all, like I know, like, get your shots, get your minutes, sure. Um, but I could have done just as well with you looking hot on the cop car in the back. Like that would have been fine, you know what I mean? Like, I like it didn't her being there didn't contribute anything, like she wasn't helping anybody win.
SPEAKER_06She wasn't the only thing at one point is like she tried to get animals' attention and like pass him like a pipe or something, and he like was not paying attention, so she ends up walking over to draws and being like, here. Ugh. But I feel like they needed either more camera angles, like oh, like somehow like over that'd be nice, or like up the rant. Like, I just feel like it needed more because it just felt so like we're stuck here.
SPEAKER_01Yes, I felt stuck, like I felt claustrophobic watching.
SPEAKER_06Yes, and if there was somebody like over that railing thing, like getting overhead, I feel like that would have been interesting. Like, I don't know, but also I'm gonna like I love Sunny so much, she did not need to be here, and she needs a new outfit now. I'm really sorry. I know she probably dropped coin on this fit, it's so fire.
SPEAKER_01See, but the thing is, like they have moved on outfits, you know what I mean? Like they have uh also worn different things since that WrestleMania like re-debut. Um, so it's time and like like you don't gotta do the Princess Leia every time.
SPEAKER_06Like it's no, because you ruin it, like you you do it too much. Like this what it was a WrestleMania fit, like you know what I mean? It was giving it was so cunty, and it it still is, but it's like okay, now we need like we're wearing the the pleather fire bra for the street fight in the alley. We don't need to do that, girl. Even a pair of leggings and a tank top, right?
SPEAKER_01Like, yeah, you could have sandied this, yeah.
SPEAKER_06Uh anyway, it was so chaotic, so chaotic.
SPEAKER_01And then all of a sudden, like just as quickly as it got messy, everyone as if like a under a sleeping potion just start dropping, and you're just like, oh, okay, yeah, um, and then all that's left is chains and draws, like fighting up the ramp, and then all of a sudden, just figure starts like badass walking down, and it's the Undertaker sweatsuit, sunglasses, comes down and just beats the shit out of everybody and just like moves on.
SPEAKER_06Like it was he looked like the Terminator, yes, like when the Terminator on the all black and the sunglasses just appears and takes everybody out and then just keeps he legit was the terminator.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, he just like I literally my note just goes Undertaker walkthrough kills everyone, like kills everyone in the club everybody.
SPEAKER_06No, literally, I was just like I go, Oh my god, Hunter Taker interferes, a serve.
SPEAKER_00Your notes are better.
SPEAKER_06Mine are so stupid, it'll just be like, what the fuck? And I'm like, what what was I talking about? Anyway, hello um so good, but yeah, Undertaker in the civilian garb in the day. I'd never I've never seen him in the sun.
SPEAKER_01No, literally, I'm like That's actually really funny.
SPEAKER_06Uh shocking, and honestly, and this is honestly the most casual promo I've ever heard from him.
SPEAKER_04Ever.
SPEAKER_01So, which is great. Um, but uh Takers Backstage, he's looking for Mr. McMahon. He's like, he's holding up anybody that passes his like little his walk, his little hawk girl walk and on into the arena. Um, he's like throwing just like regular people against the wall and being like, Where's Vince?
SPEAKER_06Like and his hair is dry, so he's really like he's really like and where is Vince? Right, one thousand because your little friend told me that way, but now I'm talking to you, and you're saying this way. So, what's the truth, Jim?
SPEAKER_01Like, legit was giving like no cockroach, love to see it. Yeah, um, okay, so this is gonna take us into our next match, which is a another outing for our good pal Valvinus. This time he's taking on Poppy Chulo. I have thoughts. Um, it's fine. I just I yeah uh you know it's just like here's here's the thing no one on commentary during this time um could no one on commentary at this time can eloquently speak about anybody of a different race. Um it's it's kind of wild, but you know, we're here, and the point of this match is it's a squash, it's for Valvinus to look good. We're building him up, he's new, he's you know, he's the shiny new toy. The girls eat him up. Love him, love, and I get it. I get it. Of course.
SPEAKER_06Um he really has some motion in that ocean. Like he really what did you say? Like, God forbid. Oh no, this is that was about road dog. We'll get to it. He's another contender.
SPEAKER_01Oh no, absolutely, but it it applies here too. Um, but yeah, so Valvinus grabs the microphone before the match. He's like, uh, I'm not happy to see ya. That's a gun in my pants, because that's exactly who you think he is.
SPEAKER_06And also, like, that's just so ridiculous. Cause like, of course there's not of course a gun in your pants. Like, you're not about to wrestle with a Glock in your tights.
SPEAKER_01Like And then he um yeah, and it's basically he makes a shooting blanks joke. That's that's the whole the gag. And I was like, okay, Val. Um the crowd signs. Um, fantastic.
SPEAKER_06I literally at one point wrote um Chicago turned up with the signs. Like there was 100% good ones.
SPEAKER_01Um giant, two-parter, too, huge. Um, it just says Val Venus penetrates Chicago.
SPEAKER_06Well done.
SPEAKER_01Well done. Well done.
SPEAKER_06It's simple, effective, large that it should be.
SPEAKER_01Right, absolutely. That's our rose. Now for our thorn. Uh Val squirt on my sign.
SPEAKER_06I forgot. I forgot.
SPEAKER_01Jail.
SPEAKER_06Jail, jail, jail. Val squirt. No.
SPEAKER_01You stop that right now.
SPEAKER_06Go to bed.
SPEAKER_01You stop that right now.
SPEAKER_06Put the lotion back in your mother's bathroom and go the fuck to bed.
SPEAKER_01Put that Macy's catalog away. Anyway. Any hoodles.
SPEAKER_00Um also we couldn't have a lot of holding.
SPEAKER_01Hey, this is a very serious matter. It's Valvinus and Papy Chulo. Amen. Welcome back, everybody. Um, so we'll wrap up this one. Uh Valvinus uh hits uh Papy Chulo with a camel clutch with a with a twist. Um basically grinds his entire body, yada yada, into the back of Papi Chulo. His lower back will never be the same. No, absolutely not. Um, we were just like, okay. Um, but to wrap this match up, Val hits the money shot, picks up the victory. Uh uh an easy peasy win for uh our boy Val.
SPEAKER_06Miss Venus, Mr. Venus. Oh, and someone also had a sign that said, Um, Venus, I want Uranus.
SPEAKER_01That's ridiculous. Um okay. Um, but now we're gonna get down to business because the Undertaker marches his ass down to the arena. Um, literally doesn't even wait for like literally him and Val like cross paths, and Val like boots goots it, like yeah, he's like his way. He's like, not Mises. Smart man, smart man. Live to see another day. Thank you very much. Um, so he comes down to the ring and he's like, You want to know why I'm mad at Vince? And I was like, Oh, here we go. Please tell me. I was like, This is um, and basically he's just like, Um, so when I came here like 10 years ago, um like Vince essentially made me the slayer of like dragons. Anybody he put in front of me, I like knocked them down, I moved on, blah blah. Like, so for all this time, like you know, and he's like, and did I get my opportunities? Sure, I am like a two-time uh WWF champion. He's like, and but both of those were very short-lived, and you want to know why? Um, it's because Vince McMahon doesn't want to see uh somebody like The Undertaker uh representing the WWF. Um and he's like, I had to basically just sit around and watch all of Vince's hand chosen uh champions move on to greener pastures uh and leave him high and dry, and I still remain loyal. Um and what do I get for my loyalty? He bit he goes, he's like Vince forces me to fight my brother in every manner of match you can conceive, and then he gives Paul Bear an or open forum to like discuss everything about my life. Um and fantastic. It's great, it's wonderful logic. I love it. Um, and he goes, and you know why he did it for ratings. Um, and we're like, we know that's true.
SPEAKER_06Um Undertaker talking in his casuals talking about ratings, gagged. Right. I've never seen him like this. He's never he the only time he ever speaks is in his little fit and he goes, creatures of the night. Like, you know what I mean? Right. But now he's like, all right, well, you guys pissed me off, so I'm here in my fucking sweats because I need you to know I'm not fucking playing.
SPEAKER_01No, it's on site. Thank you. Thank you.
SPEAKER_06Um, and and it's about time.
SPEAKER_01And basic, no, literally, he's basically just like, um, and during all like all this time, like I'm busy dealing with my family drama. Stone Cold Steve Austin done rides all the way to the top. Um, and he's like, I got no problem with Steve. He's like, he's like basically I would do it too. But he's like, Yep, he's like, all Steve has ever done is come down to the ring and fight me like a man, which is all I've ever asked of anybody. Hot, fantastic.
SPEAKER_06I hope my two fans respect each other at a distance.
SPEAKER_01No, 100%. Um, and then he goes, but I've I've had enough. Uh, he's basically just like, I demand my shot for the WWF title. Um, and then he calls out Ms. McMahon, he goes, Get your pencil neck geek ass out here and face the Reaper, which is just the what a phenomenal sentence. Like every bit of that ate. I was just like, Thank you. No, literally. Um, Vince then marches his happy ass down and he is pissed. Um, imagine being pissed at The Undertaker. So funny. Um, he grabs the mic, like snatches the microphone from The Undertaker. The audacity.
SPEAKER_06I don't know where this confidence came from. You were peeing your pants yesterday.
SPEAKER_01No, literally. Um, after and then he goes, After all I've done for you. Uh nothing like a boss giving you the after all I've done for you speech.
SPEAKER_06And you signed my evil demonic brother. He must have a contract here, and then just appear.
SPEAKER_01Right. Thank you. Um, and basically he's just like, After all I've done for you, you choke slammed me last week, and then you stalk me, essentially.
SPEAKER_06Um, as it hung like a like hung over him like a buzzard or something.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. Um, as the enforcer, like in the championship match. Um, and and essentially he goes, What have you done for Vince McMahon lately? Ooh. Ooh. Oh, I literally was like, it is it's a good because that wrestling is very much a what have you done for me lately business, but it's very it's a good spin to be like, I am wrestling. What have you done for me recently? You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_06Like, yes, but also it's like I just fucking said, like I just brought my brother in a ring of fire for your show, right? Like, I'm fighting, I'm literally watching my dead exhumed parents' corpses. No, I didn't forget how on the stage, and you walk. Remember, he just walked right out after and made no comment, was like, guys, clean this shit up. I'm on next. Right. What have I done for you lately? I am the show, right? I am the show. And we had a whole pay-per-view off of me and my brother fighting in a ring of fire because of Paul's prophetic dream, right? Like, what am I doing? What am I doing?
SPEAKER_01Like, oh, like, yeah, and then Vince really takes this to another notch because he goes, um, is Paul Bear telling the truth when he says your ma your mother's a whore?
SPEAKER_06What the I literally was like, I I literally had to get up. I was like, are you serious?
SPEAKER_01Insane.
SPEAKER_06First of all, why would I know that? Is Paul is Paul telling the truth? Go ask him. He's your little man, he's your little funky. Go ask him. Go ask Kane. Hey, was your mom a whore? I would love go ask him. And what does that have to do with what I've done for you? This happened allegedly, allegedly, like 30 years ago, or however old they are. I don't know. But like, right, is my mother a whore? Is my I know your wife is, bitch. Like, I love that. I literally just wrote, bro, I'm literally furious.
SPEAKER_01Amen. Um, and then Vince really just like sticks the knife in when he's basically just like, oh, you want to be the number one contender so bad? I'll put you in a match tonight for the for the number one contendership. If you can beat your opponent, um, then you know it's all yours. And then he goes basically like as he's leaving the ring, he's like, um, and it's your brother Kane, ha!
SPEAKER_05And then like scurries off, and you're just like, Okay, okay, and I was like, whatever, they fought before, he can beat him. That's fine. I don't care.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm. Um, but we are in King of the Rings season. That is going to be our next pay-per-view. So we are treated this evening to a series of qualifying matches to find out who are going to be the eight men in the tournament, in the official tournament.
SPEAKER_06I love a bracket tournament. I can't lie.
SPEAKER_01I mean too. Girls.
SPEAKER_06I'm really into it.
SPEAKER_01100%. Recently, we watched um those uh live action Mortal Kombats from so good. Love a tournament. Anyway, love a tournament. Um so this is Steve Blackman and Mark Miro. Uh, this is again a qualifying match. Uh Miro grabs the microphone because he's got to address the Sable situation in the arena. Um, because the arena immediately starts chanting for Sable because duh. And um he, you know, is a man. And he's like, Sable is at home in the kitchen where she belongs, and you're like, okay, moving on. Um, but then he's like, but I found myself like a new like hot baddie, and then he's just like he's like describing her, and then he's like, She's black, long pause.
SPEAKER_06Like, what he was like, she's beautiful, she's whatever, she's black, and you're like, oh, is there more?
SPEAKER_01Like I don't think I was like, I was like, you okay. I was like, I think we would have figured that out. Um well, yeah, that's yeah, so funny, so funny, but anyway, it was just the long pause after.
SPEAKER_06I was just like, Yes, where he was like, did he want to see if there was gonna be like pushback on that?
SPEAKER_01Or I was like, I don't know, but anyway, it was weird, it was weird, but but but but but but I love this. It is the debut of Jacqueline, Miss Jackie. I love her, I love her so much, she is a badass, she's so tough, and she act she is absolutely stunning. Um, but she so much more than that. Um, so I cannot wait until she gets all uh into the ring.
SPEAKER_06Um, because she looks ripped, she's in incredible shape. She is, and I was like, okay, because there was also like a weird little moment with China where they were like, is China gonna wrestle? Like whatever. And I was like, Are we are we getting there? Are we inching our way closer? Because there's another woman here. I was like, everyone pause. Another woman's here. She's new woman. There's been the same three women here for four years.
SPEAKER_01Like, no, literally. So now that's fine. So now we're up to we got Sable, we got Jaclyn, we got China.
SPEAKER_06Sunny was there, but Sunny is gonna leave.
SPEAKER_01And then um Terry, if she decides to come back.
unknownTerry.
SPEAKER_06And you said Luna?
SPEAKER_01Luna.
SPEAKER_06Luna.
SPEAKER_01So we're getting there.
SPEAKER_06But I saw Jacqueline and I was like, are the girls because I like j I'm not even kidding. I was thinking about this either today or yesterday, where I was like, man, I hate like not because I think I was thinking about our interview with Brian Baum, and he was like, Who's your favorite female wrestler at like the time you're watching? And I was like, There are none. Like, I like I and I said China because obviously, but I was like, there are none, and I like hate that, and it's nobody's fault, and we have to see it because then we have to we get to appreciate it for what it is, even though it's dog shit for a while. Not like really, but you know what I mean. No, no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, I'm ex like I want I want that, even in the small, stupid little dose. Like, I need I I want it.
SPEAKER_01No, I agree, I agree. Um, but fantastic. She's in like a red jumpsuit little number, backless. So good. So um I love on commentary. JR uh calls Mark Miro an idiot for getting rid of Sable. And I just I was like, you know what, speak it.
SPEAKER_06He was literally like, he is an idiot, right? No, absolutely when I feel the reality in the in the words, it makes me yeah.
SPEAKER_01This no, literally, this as an episode was actually a very good wrestling show. Like there was a lot of like actually like some good stuff going on.
SPEAKER_06Um great matches, great commentary, like actually a lot of great yeah, fun point.
SPEAKER_01So uh this match was fun. It was a lot of back and forth. Steve Blackman was like really getting the upper hand for the most for the early part of the uh match. Uh Jackie really uh she pulls her weight for the team. Um, she pulls uh Mark Miro's leg onto the rope to break up a pinfall, uh hits um sorry, distracts the referee, which allows Mark Miro to hit uh the low blow um on Steve Blackman. And then he pulls out the moonsault, which we haven't seen in a hot minute. Um, and I don't know if it was like intentional to like make us think that he was like wobbly, but it was like it's been a minute, like it's been a minute, or if it had like actually been a minute for him, but yeah, I was like, okay, because I thought he was gonna hit the TKO and then he didn't, and then I felt crazy because Michael Cole was like he hit the TKO, and I was like, Yeah, you gotta remember Michael Cole's new at the commentary game.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, so I don't know anything, Michael. So I was like, I don't think that was it, but I could be wrong. I know nothing. But then he he just did like a back body drop and then did the moonsault. I missed it.
SPEAKER_01So good, so good. Um uh then uh we get a little like after this match, we get a little bat like a cutaway scene. It's Steve Austin on a radio show. Vince McMahon calls in and they have a uh verbal back and forth. I I love it, I love um the creativity of like building story, like adding fuel to the story elsewhere um in the outside world. Um, Vince was good at that. Um we get another promo from Edge, which was just kind of funny in that it it said a lot and said absolutely nothing. Nothing, like there was a lot of words, none of it had any meaning, none of it, and it was all contradictory.
SPEAKER_06So at the end, I was like, so what is he?
SPEAKER_01Like, I and I'm just like I don't know if they know they don't, they for sure don't.
SPEAKER_06They're like he's so ambiguous, and I was like, nailed it. I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.
SPEAKER_01No, like I was like, okay, um, no, I don't know. I'm just like I I love Edge, but like I forgot about this.
SPEAKER_06This is weird, and it was like the same clips, only then he like beat up a homeless man at one point, like it was just like a guy walking on the street, just beat him up. I was like, Okay, what's going on?
SPEAKER_01He is black, he is everywhere, he is nowhere, he is Batman.
SPEAKER_06They were like, he's the light, but he's also the purest form of darkness. He is everywhere and he's nowhere, he's inside your head and he's never existed at all. And it's like I don't understand what it is. I don't know. I don't get it. The edge of madness, I fear.
SPEAKER_01I literally say like, don't push me because I'm I'm close to the edge. Um, so next we have um a rematch of sorts um from the pay-per-view. It is DX, namely Triple H and the New Age Outlaws, taking on the nation of domination, Owen D Lo and The Rock, this time in a six-man elimination tag match, a la Survivor series. Um I love it. Yeah, fun. Give me something to spice up the um just the the day-to-day. We get we we get a lot of these like multi-man situations. Um, so new fit for D Lo. Very fun. It's the same fit, new colors for D Lo.
SPEAKER_06Let's be and sure. They're shinier, they're more fun. Sure, sure, sure.
SPEAKER_01I'll take it. Um Slaughter comes down to kick off all to kick out all of the excess people, the people and again, I guess he showed up to work, sort of. Um for two minutes. I guess we're see, this is again like I just like is he a stooge? Is he not a stooge? Like, I'm I feel like having two authority figures is confusing.
SPEAKER_06Yes, and it would be cooler if Slaughter was like more on the wrestler side because he was a wrestler, right? Like if he was also kind of pushing back against Vince, like in a in a more of a management way, right? But he's just whatever he is. I don't still unable to define it to this day.
SPEAKER_01It because it's like sometimes he has authority, and then sometimes he just like isn't there, and then sometimes he's just doing whatever Vince wants. So I don't I don't know. Um he and Ed could get together. No, you know what, you're right. They could have a little a little tete. Um or have nothing at all, right? Right. You who knows, or never speak, they maybe listen to each other's eyes or close them.
SPEAKER_06I don't or not see each other or enter the space blindfolded, whatever.
SPEAKER_01Well, you know, it's it is what it is. Um, so this match, another good another like kind of underrated one I enjoyed. I I think if you honestly, if you're looking for like a good example of like the wrestling during this time and an episode that like has shenanigans but does allow the wrestling to breathe a little bit, this is a good one. Six is a good one, six one.
SPEAKER_06Um, yeah, six raw, six one, Monday night raw. But also because also it's just it's not that long, it's an hour and a half.
SPEAKER_01And like I enjoyed this is a good one. And so if you go back, this is definitely like I for sure would not rewatch every episode of Monday Night Raw, like again, you know what I mean? For the purposes of the show, absolutely.
SPEAKER_06Um, but there are some to see it all, but yeah, we we we'll tell you which ones you can watch at leisure, like that you should go check out.
SPEAKER_01But like right, right, right.
SPEAKER_06This is fun.
SPEAKER_01Um uh, but yeah, so I'm just gonna go through because essentially what I have written now is who eliminated who with what? Right. Um, so first one eliminated D Lo, uh, and he gets eliminated by uh Mr. Ass with a pile driver that allows um the rock to come in, um, and he eliminates Road Dog with the rock bottom, and then uh during the next phase, it is Owen Hart eliminates Mr. Ass with a spinning heel kick, and then it's just triple H on his lonesome to take on the Rock and Owen, which again I'm loving that the that Owen is in the nation.
SPEAKER_06It's just loving, I'm like living, laughing, loving.
SPEAKER_01No, like I love it. Um, and then uh China comes down, and I was like, wait, wait, wait, like, slaughter, what are you doing? This he is the equivalent of when someone texts you and then you text back immediately and they don't answer for four hours. You're just like girl. It's me. But you No, same at me. But it is that. Like, it is just like it is that. It is very, it's just like, hey, are you Like, here are you not?
SPEAKER_06I'm not kidding. He was just there. He can't be that far. He can't be in the car on the way home.
SPEAKER_01What are you what other business could you possibly have to attend to?
SPEAKER_06Like, I don't even know what business you have to attend to in the first place. Let alone you actually had one job and you've tonight and you failed. Like literally failed. Right.
SPEAKER_01So China comes back down. Um, the rock tells China to suck it, which she did not love. Um, but Triple H hits the pedigree on the rock, eliminating him. So then it's just Owen and Triple H. They're going back and forth. But then we see the return of the injured Ken Shamrock coming to get his revenge on Owen for the because if we remember, Owen done smashed his ankle in a chair. Um, so yeah, it was bad. He's back to get his licks in. Um again, dad prompts the disqualification of Owen, or sorry, of Triple H because he hits Owen, um, which means that the nation picks up the victory. Um, the nation comes down, starts walloping on Ken Shamrock, then Dan Severin comes down um because he's got beef with members of the nation. Um and which is great. We this is the combo that makes sense in my mind. We were just either as a match andor a tag team. I'm okay with either.
SPEAKER_06Well, because we were saying they should give we were saying they should give Dan Severin the Ken Shamrock treatment in terms of like actually highlighting his fighting and like the whatever. And then when they came together, I was like, exactly, these two things are similar. We put them in a group or we have they have similar fighting styles, they go back and forth about like UFC versus whatever, like you know what I mean.
SPEAKER_01Yes, absolutely makes complete sense. Um so then we get a little standoff between the two. Um, and Triple H is big pissed, obviously, because he lost the match on account of Ken Shamrock. So Shamrock and Triple H start getting into it. A lot of fighting, a lot of fighting, and I love it. I love when everybody hates everybody. Um, way more fun that way. No, absolutely, and then we cut to Mr. McMahon talking to Paul Bear and Kane in the locker room, shady dealings, um, seem to have gone down, but we don't really know because we're too far away. Fucking bitch.
SPEAKER_06No, listen, let it I wigged out. I was like, you I was like no filthy little I was so mad because of course you're in the locker room shaking hands with that little weasel because birds of a feather flock together, you little bird ass bitch. I'm so so good, shaking hands with Paul, shaking hands with Kane. How dare you! How dare you you started all this shit for The Undertaker, said he does literally nothing for your company after they put on a pyrotechnic magical blow up the lights and light the man on fire shit type beat, fights in the cemetery type shit. Right, and then you're gonna go in the back in the greasing the palms, your mom's a whore. I'll kill you. Like I you big yep.
SPEAKER_01Um, so that's that. Um, and then we're gonna go right into another qualifying match for the King of the Ring tournament. It's Jeff Jarrett and of course Tennessee Lee taking on Farooq. Uh, this match is pretty, it's it's you know, it's fine. It's not my favorite of the evening, but it's it's good. Um uh but this match is notable because it is the I guess re-debut of the Godwins, now known as Southern Justice, and they look like they got the Men in Black treatment. I don't know what this was. Kelsey literally could not even like place them.
SPEAKER_06Unpluggable.
SPEAKER_01Even after they said their names, I was like, no. I had to look at Mark. Was it Mark? This close.
SPEAKER_06Mark and Henry?
SPEAKER_01No, Phineas.
SPEAKER_06Where did we get Mark from?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I don't know where I got Mark from Henry.
SPEAKER_06Henry and Phineas?
SPEAKER_01Um that sounds right. Um Southern Justice? What's that? I don't know why I forgot the god of his name. That's crazy. Um, yeah, but Southern Justice.
SPEAKER_06I feel terrible, but I JR was like, it's the Godwins, and I was like, the who? And then I was like, oh yeah. I was like, that's and then I go, that's not them.
SPEAKER_00And then I was like Big Squeeze.
SPEAKER_06Oh shit. I go, yeah, that is him. Crazy. Crazy, crazy, crazy, but they look like Secret Service.
SPEAKER_01Sure. I was gonna say like security outside like the most popular red lobster, but like that's not the one in Times Square. Right.
SPEAKER_06Um yeah, evil. First Dan Severin Zapringle can reading the bills. It's true though. They look like I don't know. It's just so weird. I'm not saying it because I'm not this is horrible, but it's not like it's a it's a better look for them. I just didn't understand.
SPEAKER_01I thought the other one fit. Like, I don't know. I think you can have like I listen, I'm down for like one or two, like if you want to do like like hokey whatever characters, that's fine. I don't think it should be the majority of your roster. But like that, look, give me serious cowboy, Bradshaw, silly cowboys, godwins. Like, I'm okay with that.
SPEAKER_06Like we have cowboys and then we have like the farmers, yeah, who are like bucking bales of hay and they're just like big, strong, but yes, like but first of all, southern justice, okay, sure. But also, like, why are we wearing suits?
SPEAKER_02I don't know.
SPEAKER_06Like, what is this? I don't know. I don't understand. I have to see what they wrestle in for ring attire because um I don't under I just think that's confusing, but yeah, yeah, we'll see.
SPEAKER_01Um, but I I don't know if they're just like playing security for Jeff, um, but they help him pick up the victory. Um, they allow for distraction, which allows Tennessee Lee to give Jeff Jarrett a leather belt with a belt buckle, like a big big old belt buckle, smashes it into Farouk, picks up the victory. Jeff Jared is moving on into the qualifying match.
SPEAKER_06Hate that for me.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's I don't want to see it. We're here. Um, but next fun high light heavyweight division. Remember when we were talking about her? Missed her. Um, it's Takamichinoku taking on Shofunaki. And I will say, like, again, just to reiterate, like the addition of Kai and Tai to like all of this. Thank God. Thank God. This was easily the best light heavyweight match I have seen. Without a doubt.
SPEAKER_06Yes, even the pay-per-view one, right? Was it when it was the three on two? Also great. Thank God they came here. Thank God, thank god. We needed you guys so badly. So badly. It was so bad.
SPEAKER_01Um, so um Taca is accompanied by Bradshaw, show obviously accompanied by Kai and Thai. Um, this match is it's a lot of fun, it's a lot of back and forth. It's just their crazy athleticism is insane. Um, Al Snow makes an appearance um as a photographer. Uh yeah. Um, and of course, him and Head have like matching hats. It's it's a whole ordeal. He gets the other photographers to stop taking pictures of the match and start taking pictures of him and the head.
SPEAKER_06And then he takes a picture of them though, which I thought was actually so cute. Like he gets them, the photographers, together and takes a picture of them. And I was like, I want to see that picture.
SPEAKER_01No, 100%. That lives somewhere. Um cute. So that was a lot of fun. Uh Taca hits a crazy moonsault onto all of Kai and Thai, which was wild. Although, from the rip of from like the ding ding of the bell, he springboards like all of no, literally, immediately, like the man can't be stopped. Um, and then he just gets up and is like, Hey, no, literally wild. Um, security kicks out Al because you know, hey, that's the bit. Um, and Taco wins with the Michinoku driver. Love to see it. Duh. Duh. Um, and then we get a quick little backstage, uh, kind of like one-liner, essentially, um, from Paul Barron Kane. They're asked, like, how confident are you in your abilities to like, you know, uh beat the Undertaker this evening? And he's like, um, and essentially he's just like talking about like obviously we're gonna like take this. Kane's already beat the Undertaker, and it's just like super zoom onto Kane's eye, a la um Sauron, and there's one. Um, so except this blue, you know, literally, but it's just like okay. Um, so then it I love this because they immediately cut away from Paul Bear and Kane and cut to Al Snow yelling at the head because the head is giving him bad ideas how to get into the arena. Um, because uh last week uh or yesterday was the Spanish announced table, and he's like, You told me you could speak Spanish, and I was like, This is insane. Um, but I love it.
SPEAKER_06I this bit is fantastic. I love him so much, but that's the thing, like it's such a great pocket to be in because he can literally do anything because he is crazy, yeah. And the people just eat it up, right? And they have right signs that say, like, we want head, which is hilarious, right?
SPEAKER_01And I love um, I love uh just wait till you hear, wait till he gets a theme song. Um but next, Vince McMahon joins us on commentary. Uh so sad, but hey, throwback to the early years, early days, the early days. I mean, now he's very much in the character, not really he's not calling anything.
SPEAKER_06It's so weird because it feels like it took forever, but also happened in a blank. Like one second, I was like, ooh, we're seeing like the first iterations of the McMahon character, and I'm like, he that's and it's over.
SPEAKER_00The mask is off.
SPEAKER_06It's crazy. Like I was voicemailing with Xavier the other day, which I do very frequently, but I was like in the middle of a sentiment, and then I was like, whoa, I just realized what like an actual like structural shift we went through on the show, with like in terms of like what we've watched, like the like what we used to watch versus what we watch now, and I like haven't even not even not noticed, but it's just like suddenly you're so aware of the difference. Like, if I went back and watched one of our first episodes, like a match we watched, I would be like, What?
SPEAKER_01Well, first of all, there was like so much match, and so much match, just a little story, yeah. And this is like very much the opposite, and it's also there's I don't know, it's just a more diverse cast, like there's really yeah, it's just like there's so many like different facets of this show now. Um, yeah, it's it's just very interesting to like to see how they piece it together.
SPEAKER_06Um completely. It's just so insane. I was just like, whoa, the tonal shift we've got. I don't know, whatever, but it was just so crazy, yeah, amazing.
SPEAKER_01But he's on commentary, hey girl, yeah, hey, um, uh, but he's gonna be on commentary for this match and the main event. He's like, I'm coming down, not gonna miss, not gonna miss the girlies. I'm like, okay, like he couldn't get a seat. I anyway, um, but he is there to bear witness to the Mark Henry and Terry Funk qualifying match, which is great. Um I love this combo. What a what a fun, random, like forgot ever happened match.
SPEAKER_06You know what I mean? Yes, and so amazing. And it's one of those things too because Mark Henry is new, and Terry Funk is so not new, and he's basically like willing to just be a ragdoll. It's almost like perfect for a new wrestler who is so big and like to just like Terry Funk is just that boo. Like he can just he is just the one. Like he'll just get you over, he'll flip drop his little body, let you throw him, let you like he's just that one.
SPEAKER_01No, literally, the uh the story of this match is experience versus power. Um, I don't know how he got away with this, but at one point Terry Funk like grabs a steel chair and just absolutely decks Mark Henry in the head. Chair bent, like like fully not a no disqualification match. I don't know where the referee was during this, but that was crazy. And then he follows that chair shot up with the most insane moonsault I have ever seen. That man springboards off the ropes, no, springboards off the ropes, does a moonsault and lands kind of on Mark Henry, mostly on the steel grate, like the steel guardrail. Yes, he done hit it with such a force. Oh my god, they are never getting Humpty Dumpty back together again.
SPEAKER_06That was insane, and it like really hit like the hip. Like I could just uh and then I go, I go, hey, don't show me that again. And they go, let's see it again. No, it was immediate. Like, you don't want to do this to me because remember, we saw Henry Godwin break his now, I remember his name, break his neck oh, 400 times a night.
SPEAKER_01This angle, that angle, slow-mo. Let's draw on the picture, yeah.
SPEAKER_06Let's draw the angle.
SPEAKER_01No, I was like, thanks, girl. Um ratings. Um, but then essentially the end of this match is just Mark Henry just overpowering Terry. Terry's got like, you know, he's never gonna quit, but his body will eventually um Terry. So it's you know, the big splash, Terry kicks out, the leg drop, Terry kicks out, power bomb and a big splash. Terry. I love it because he doesn't like he doesn't kick out, but his little legs are just like flailing as the pins happening. No, so you know there's like a there's a little like a little fight left in there.
SPEAKER_06He just too small, he just yeah, he just too widow of Giro.
SPEAKER_01So love to see it. Love to see it. I underrated, very fun match. Absolutely. Um then uh much to the uh chagrin uh to of Vince McMahon, uh Stone Cold Steve Austin. We get a cut a shot of him like coming down the stairs, like making his way like into the arena. First, uh before he makes it into the arena, Vince just looks flummoxed. He looks like he's gonna like shit himself. Um, and then he gets so mad. So so so mad. He's like just glaring. But he looks so crazy.
SPEAKER_06Like I will say he's so good at being this. Like it's at because the hard zoom on him being like no, oh my god. It's a it's amazing, and the faces and the anger and the the Emily Gilmore's taking notes, like not kidding, Emily.
SPEAKER_01There's like a just a like a blue blood rage in there.
SPEAKER_06A Connecticut blue blood rage. You are so correct, right?
SPEAKER_01Right. Um but that allows for Stone Calls E Boston to join commentary, and then it's just scurly from there it's all hell is breaking loose. The girls are yep, yep, yep, yep, yapping. And it's just crazy because like the greatest like rivalry, uh wrestling rivalry really is happening in your ears while my favorite wrestling rivalry is happening in the match. It's just like bonkers.
SPEAKER_06Honestly, it's funny you say that because at when I was watching it, I was like, Kane and Undertaker are literally fighting right now, and I am distracted by commentary. Like, I am like keyed into what they're they're yapping about because I'm like they were taking like shots, yeah.
SPEAKER_01It was good years.
SPEAKER_06I was like fantastic.
SPEAKER_01If I was JR and Jerry, I would literally just be like no, literally, Venus and Serena take center stage.
SPEAKER_06Literally, oh my god, it's so good.
SPEAKER_01So um, this is the number one contendership match. It's Kane and the Undertaker. At one point, the Undertaker um in just the just backflips out of the ring and punches Paul Bear twice.
SPEAKER_06I literally just goes bumps.
SPEAKER_01I literally goes bumps. I love this. Like he it was amazing.
SPEAKER_06He just goes, hold on, and he does his little backflip and he goes, bah. And then and that's what I like to see.
SPEAKER_01Oh, so good. I love it because I listen, I like that it's like any opportunity to to like get on Paul is a good opportunity, and that's my friend, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_06My friend, yes, I do, yes, I do love it.
SPEAKER_01I love that he takes it now, like because for too long, he was chasing Paul Bear around, and I love now the Undertaker goes, actually, holds no, literally, it's it's scary movie three when he's beating up the girl from the TV.
SPEAKER_06Oh my god, so great! No, it really is, and I love that he he like knocks Kane a little asunder and then he goes!
SPEAKER_01Oh I so good, so good. Um uh Kane and your drinker are beating like the holy hell out of each other. Of course, the referee gets squeezed in the corner. We of course we all saw that coming. Um, take her tombstones cane. Uh, no referee. Hey, well, that will happen. What are you gonna do? Um, while um uh we're trying to like bring some life into the referee. He comes down, mankind mask on, hits the Undertaker with the mandible claw, of course.
SPEAKER_06And here's my stupid ass. He comes running down, and I'm like, I don't know why so stoked. Couldn't tell you. I was just like, oh my god, and then he put that mandible claw immediately, and I was like, no, no, no, wait, I was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I thought you were coming out here to get Vince McMahon. No, no, no, Nick, how many times I can't forgive you anymore. I can't.
SPEAKER_01You do what you gotta do. Um, so eventually he gets knocked off the apron. Uh just with enough time to finish the match. Kane hits the Undertaker with the tombstone. Of course, the referee starts coming to at that specific moment. Kane picks up the victory. Vince McMahon is so happy. He is crawling on the commentary desk to point in Steve Austin's face. He is just so giddy. Um so Kane is the number one contender uh for Stone Cold Steve Austin's WWF championship. They have a little standoff uh in the on the on the floor. Uh Kane does his little I'm sorry, I really couldn't think of the word. The uh Kane hits the pyro. Oh yeah, he does a little belt sign, um, hits the pyro, and then Paul Bear, you know, leads him off to wherever he shuts down for the evening. Um sleep seems crazy.
SPEAKER_06Um I don't know why he just stands in a room and is like 100% in stasis.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_06Um, so I will say this was my favorite Kane moment because it almost felt like he wasn't like a robot. Like, do you know what I mean? Like he is, obviously, because you know he's in stasis, but when he did the the very subtle like belt and then he did the pyro, and he like legit was like what's up, it was like yeah, I was like, I don't even think he might want it for Daddy Paul. I think this might be a little glimmer of something in there. Like, I don't know, it was interesting.
SPEAKER_01Um love it. So we get a little standoff. So that is our main event. That is our title match at uh King of the Ring. It is uh Stone Cold Steve Austin and Kane. Uh there is a stipulation, and we'll get there, but I'll let them announce it when we when we cross that path.
SPEAKER_06Um, I wonder what it could be.
SPEAKER_01And it's not one you've seen before. Um, okay. Um, so um after Kane is pulled off to wherever he goes, mankind and the Undertaker continue fighting until the end of the episode. They are just all over each other. Hey, we're back. We're back in 1996 where we started, girly.
SPEAKER_06Not kidding. Micholas, I am so disappointed in you. You know why. You know why I don't have to tell you. You know what you did. But when you came out as mankind, I thought this is Vince's retribution. This is the moment he no. And Vince is on there on the commentary table, apoplectic with joy, like, I gotta reconsider firing McPulley. I mean, he's really shot, he's got some guts. He's got shut the shut up, bitch.
SPEAKER_04Shut up.
SPEAKER_01You're getting a mandible claw next, you stupid bitch. No, literally. It will be cashed like the first time that they have to do it. Amen. Whatever.
SPEAKER_06Um, I do want to I am excited to see Stone Cold wrestle Kane. And also, Xavier was like, When you finish watching, he goes, and I was like, what the? I was like, Kane? What do you mean Kane won? I was so mad. So I literally was going, no, no, mad. Yeah. But then Xavier's like, but do you see? Do you see what's happening? And I was like, what are you talking about? So then I'm like, I'm we're like getting ready to film, and I'm like, okay. And I think I figured out what my problem is, is that I sleep on the auxiliary happening sometimes because I'm just like, okay, I keep thinking of like the trajectory of the belt, and that's where I get stuck. Where it's like, okay, I just can't imagine like Stone Cold losing the belt right now, but like if he loses the belt to Kane, then it's like really can't like I was thinking too hard about like that. And then he was like, no, like do you he's like, Do you want me to tell you or do you want to wait? And I was like, I want to wait. And then he was like, I'll just say this if Kane's over there with Stone Cold, who does that leave the Undertaker with? And I was like, mankind, and then I was like, Yeah, girl. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01We're coming up on the match, girl.
SPEAKER_06I don't know what to do after this. Like, after we get to this hell in a cell, I mean I know there's so much more to be had, but like this is the one people like when I tell people we're doing a rewatch, they're usually like, Oh, did you get to the hell in a cell yet? And I always assume they're talking about the very first one with Shawn Michaels Undertaker debut of Kane, but that's not what they mean. And it never is. It never is, it never is, and it should be, but it never is. And I I am so good, but anyway, it's so it's still one of my top like it's still for me right now, I think my favorite match of all time. So but I this is like the thing. Like, I don't know. I don't know how I'm gonna feel, but I can't believe we're we're here.
SPEAKER_01Yep. Listen, we're rapidly we're getting we're on its heels.
SPEAKER_06Um guys, that's where they leave us.
SPEAKER_01Any final thoughts uh on the episode?
SPEAKER_06I'm still giggling a little bit about the Macy's gig you know when like you're you're you like laugh, but then you're trying to like reel it in, and so but you can still feel like your diaphragm jumping a little. Like you want to laugh so bad, but you're like, I mean keep it the galer. But um, no, other than this was a great episode. I'm disappointed in McFoley. I'll get over it. I am uh I uh I'm sure. And then Vince and Paul Berra. I mean, it's what I always say, and it snakes in the grass because of the bitchain cut.
SPEAKER_01Period. Period. All right, guys. This has been another edition of the New to Wrestling Podcast. Thank you so much for listening, watching, subscribing, all that fun stuff wherever you happen to find us for Kelsey. I am Xavier, and we will catch you on the next one.
SPEAKER_06We'll see you there.
SPEAKER_01Bye.
SPEAKER_06Bye.