Undertaker Played EVERYONE (We Did NOT See That Ending Coming) | Raw Is War 7.6.1998

This episode put us THROUGH it.

Between technical disasters, cursed Brawl for All chaos, Vince McMahon being insufferable, and at least three moments that made us question reality… this Raw was a ride. 

This week:

💥 Undertaker demands a title shot immediately
💥 Stone Cold remains the king of choosing violence
💥 Ken Shamrock screams from the depths of his soul
💥 Terry Funk continues to treat his body like it owes him money
💥 Edge keeps lurking like a strange little gargoyle
💥 Vince creates chaos because apparently that’s his love language

And then…

THAT ending.

A twist we genuinely did not see coming that turned this entire episode on its head.

Some of this was messy. Some of it was bizarre. Some of it aged… deeply poorly.

But when Attitude Era Raw delivers chaos with a killer payoff?

It absolutely works.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:25

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SPEAKER_00 0:27

Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of the New To Wrestling Podcast. This week we watched the July 6th, 1998 edition of Raw Is War. And alright, guys, we're just gonna have to be honest with you. It's like two days, three days. No, it's almost a week after the fact that we watched it. It's two or three days like past the fact that we were gonna record it again. Um, yeah, it's fine.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

The watching experience was so sinister that Xavier and I were like shakily like holding the metaphorical cigarette like this is supposed to be fun.

SPEAKER_00 1:03

Yeah, I was Ben Afflecked against that wall, like so hard.

SPEAKER_01 1:07

And Xavier and I, we it was so egregious how troubling it was to watch this episode because I kept stopping and starting and reloading it.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

It was such a nightmare that eventually one of us would freeze, you would like not like be live. It was a hot mess.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

Oh my god, and so we literally called it at some point. We're like, I may jump out of my fourth story window. I like we need to take a pause, and so it I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:36

Like listen. And Lord knows we'd be working all damn day and then come and do this like silly little project to be given like an iota of a problem. I was really not we were like we were like, we gotta choose us.

SPEAKER_01 1:50

I gotta put my oxygen mask on first, and we like slam the laptop shut and like dips. We were like, I gotta do it, but now we're back. It's also 7,000 degrees in my apartment right now.

SPEAKER_00 2:03

So one 100. I'm ready to mine manufactured by this light, but feeling the heat. Um uh so this episode starts with a recap of the prior week, um, which was the crowning of Kane, the big rematch between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Kane, and then Stone Cold Steve Austin winning the title back for the short, short, sweet title run of uh Kane. Um so just so that you're caught up, we're two weeks out from the King of the Ring. Um, we're also in the myths of the Brawl for Brawl for All tournament, which is just something.

SPEAKER_01 2:44

It's something.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

It's really something.

SPEAKER_01 2:47

Although they got me with if you guys missed it last week, if you fast forwarded Ken Sham the Shamrock shorts. Not the Shamrock shorts, Blackman the C Blackman shorts.

SPEAKER_00 2:57

The Blackman blue shorts, uh the blue blackman shorts, either way, yeah, took me to church, really and truly. Um, shout out to um Kevin Ferrara Sanchez for the funniest comment on um that little clip that I posted where he was literally just like um the shorts had Xavier about to do like backflips because like I was like Kevin?

SPEAKER_01 3:21

I thought it was Pat.

SPEAKER_00 3:23

No, it was Kevin.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

Oh my god, it was Kevin, Kevin. Because at first I thought of your roommate Kevin, and I was like, I don't remember, but Kevin B KHS from Ringville. Hi, Kevin.

SPEAKER_00 3:35

No, 100%. And I was like, honestly, yeah, I watched that clip back and I'm like gripping the earth to so they don't like float away.

SPEAKER_01 3:44

I was like, damn, all right, majestic for all and and to all a good night.

SPEAKER_00 3:54

Um, but this episode um opens proper with the Undertaker coming down to the ring mad as hell. I forget that his new entrance is just like three explosions right after each other because like he's just like and honestly, I think he also is still getting used to it because he's like just booking it past them, and they're like bombs going off behind him, like it's the opening scene of saving Private Ryan, and you're just like, What is happening? You're just like he's mad, he's mad.

SPEAKER_01 4:27

So it works for him to rush through, but I I feel like I've heard in an interview before that he really didn't like it, like the pyro so close to him, he was like, I first of all, it's hot, I'm deaf, I can't breathe.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

Like, I yeah, he's but of course he's gonna no-sell that, obviously. Um, but he grabs a microphone and he makes it short and sweet. And he's like, Austin, I want a title shot now. Thank you. Um, and then uh we cut to the backstage area where Michael Cole is been has been given the task of uh trying to find our new champion. Um, he's looking for Austin. Austin eventually comes out only to push Michael Cole aside because obviously you are superfluous in this scenario. Um Austin's got ears and he's gonna make his way to the ring regardless. He's like no 100% is a clobbering time bitch. Yeah, uh and his music hits, um, the glass breaks, you know what that means. He comes down to the ring and he's like basically like, okay, let's get it on. Um, only to be stopped by Vince McMahon, of course. Um, and he's basically just like, um, what's wrong with this picture? Um, the inmates are trying to run the asylum, don't love that. And you're like, okay, I guess, I guess technically you are charged, sir. Whatever. Whatever. Um, uh, he's like, Taker, who named you number one contender? And Austin, who the hell do you think you are? And I was like, Um, your biggest moneymaker, your two-time WWF champion. Like, what do you mean?

SPEAKER_01 6:03

Fucking smoked all the competition you keep sending to me. Like, stop embarrassing yourself.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

No, 100%. 100%. Basically, uh, Vince is like, You defend the title when I say um I'm in charge, and uh, you two are actually going to uh be in a match at the next pay-per-view, which is the fully loaded pay-per-view, um, but not in the way that you think. You were actually going to be a tag team, so it's going to be Austin and Taker taking on mankind and cane. Um, and yeah, we're like, okay, period. Interesting. And just based on how this episode ends, is makes a whole lot more sense. Um, and uh then he goes, I will name the number one contender tonight. So uh you and anybody else back there uh that has interest, which should be everybody, um better better tune in for that one. Um, and then he's like, Oh, and uh Austin, let me be clear about how I feel about you being the WWF champion again. Uh let me salute ya, and then just gives him the double birds. And you're just like, Oh, honestly, I yeah, gotta give it to him. That was good. I'm not gonna lie. That that was a good sometimes the the bad guy has to win to to keep the the party moving.

SPEAKER_01 7:28

Um yeah, and it makes complete sense not to like let a match just happen out of the like hi, so we can't do that. You know, yeah, totally.

SPEAKER_00 7:38

Um, so Austin starts chasing Vince out of the arena, and that is that on that segment. Um, and so our next one is going to be our first match of the evening, which is a brawl for all uh match, and it is our boy Savio Vega taking on the debuting Brackis. Guys, we we did this. I swear to god, we did this. I know this happened 30 years ago. I don't care. I don't care. The way that we were talking all this shit about the like just endless promos for Brackis, the like, and then we just up and forgot that this man exists. He became a figment of our imagination. He was a character in Pee-wee's Playhouse for all I knew.

SPEAKER_01 8:24

He was a member of Maroon Five, for all I knew.

SPEAKER_00 8:26

Right, 100%, 1000%. All of a sudden, I I shan't. I won't. Even if I could, I will not. Um lo and behold, we get the debut of Brackis, the the thickest German you've ever seen.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

And I feel like I was just talking about this like a couple weeks ago. I was like, I never forget anything. Don't ever, I remember when you guys were shoving Brackis down my throats, and he never came here. You guys pissed me, and then they were like, here's the switch running, bring Brachus in because she's reverse.

SPEAKER_02 9:08

Sorry, but guess what?

SPEAKER_01 9:11

Savio Vega did us fucking proud girl. No, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 9:17

Absolutely. Uh, my next note is well, my first note was I fear Savio is going to get eight. Looks can be deceiving. He said, and that's on me. That's on me. That that's on me. I should not have ever doubted a fellow Puerto Rican. That was that was my mistake.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

And Sabi with the hands. We know he is that that.

SPEAKER_00 9:37

Yeah, my next note is Savi with the blows. Like he had like he rises again. The thing that's crazy to me is not only did they make us wait all of this time and do all of this nonsense with um Brackass, but they have him debut in a not wrestling match only to get his ass kicked. Oh my god. He must have been like so bad in the ring that they were just like, you know what? Whatever. Just get out there. Just let Savi deal with it.

SPEAKER_01 10:10

And you're like, okay let's let's have let have Savio let whoa. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 10:18

That was good.

SPEAKER_01 10:19

That was terrifying. We literally said before we started we are going to have a rough time speaking today because the two of us are like just I don't know, but they were like, let's let Savio have his moment. That's what I was trying to say. Now it feels very underwhelming.

SPEAKER_00 10:34

No, absolutely, no, and they absolutely let him have his moment. He had his moment all over Brackus's face and body. Um, Brackus got rocked, and Savio picked up the victory. Um yeah, girl. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 10:47

I brought a little smile to my face, a little joy to my heart. I know.

SPEAKER_00 10:52

We don't see him enough, um, and we don't see him solo enough. So this was great. I'll take it.

SPEAKER_01 10:58

I know.

SPEAKER_00 10:58

I missed it. This tournament, although absolutely unhinged, is at least like amusing.

SPEAKER_01 11:05

Um at the for the viewing pleasure.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

No, absolutely. I'm just like, um, was this a good idea? Probably not, but too soon to tell. Um, we have Ken Shamrock taking on Jeff Jarrett with Tennessee Lee. Um, no, my notes again, we're going off of a week old memory, guys. So the notes are really uh carrying us to the end of the finish line. Um Ken's uh really hard hitting. We Ken is like no longer pulling punches anymore. He's just like, I'm crazy, and you're gonna feel every one of them. It's beautiful. Um Ken's got some smooth transitions, love to see that. Just the growth. That's the like working with um like Owen um in the dungeon and whatnot for you.

SPEAKER_02 11:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

Um ref lets tetnessily cheat, basically. Uh like uh he can be.

SPEAKER_01 12:01

In front of everyone's face.

SPEAKER_00 12:02

No, 100%. And we're just like, oh, oh, okay. Um and we're just like, I don't know. Fine, fine, whatever. Whatever. Um we get like a very uh interesting exchange of sleepers between the two. Um and Jeff Jarrett picks up the advantage after all of the shenanigans with Tenny Sally, but not for long. Um, he gets power slams out of his gourd. Um only for the returning King Mabel, the 1995 King of the Ring winner, um, comes back, smushes Ken Shamrock. Um, and uh yeah, just it was insane. It was it was bonkers. It killed him, that was the end of the match. Jeff Jarrett wins, uh sorry, uh Ken Shamrock wins via disqualification. Um hey, turns out the craziest part, not even just the match or the return of Mabel. It is when Ken Shamrock gets back up, pushes off the referee, and gives us the most primal scream just from his like absolute core of his being.

SPEAKER_01 13:13

I literally just wrote Ken's screams in all caps, LFAO, and I was like, What was that? And then he just reminded me because I was like, Where is he going with this?

SPEAKER_00 13:20

And I was like, the scream, the scream, he just yeah, he just got like crushed by Mabel, is left in the ring, knocks over a referee because he can, and just gives out just a blood curdling yell, and you're like, right, right, right, right. Um, and then that segues immediately into a backstage interview um with Michael Cole, and Ken's like huffing and puffing, and basically he's just like, Mabel, if you're a man, you're gonna meet me in the ring tonight, good and proper. And uh we'll see, we'll see what happens there. Um, our next uh contest is Vader and Bradshaw.

SPEAKER_01 14:00

Um The big man.

SPEAKER_00 14:03

No, 100%. I'm trying to like remember if this was this was just a regular match. Regular match.

SPEAKER_01 14:10

Well, it's funny because in the previous one I had written Ken versus JJ having a normal match, which confused me at first. Because when they started wrestling, I was like, wait, and I was like, oh, nope, okay, wait.

SPEAKER_00 14:22

No, one hundred.

SPEAKER_01 14:24

Every other match, I was like, oh, we're wrestling. Wrestling. Okay, wrestling, not boxing, wrestling, okay.

SPEAKER_00 14:30

Um Bradshaw doesn't get enough credit for how big he is, um, because he's standing next to Vader, and you're like, that is a comparable man. Like he is taller than Vader, and he is like just as girthy. Like he is a thick man. Yeah, absolutely. Um, to quote Biggie, this match is big meaty man slapping meat. Um, my next note literally just says wallop. I just cause I'm sure it was accurate. Um, Vader does not like they Vader does not pull punches, he's known for not pulling punches. Um, people be like, oh, like how do you sell like you don't have to sell shit? Like Vader is actually punching you in the head. Um, so there was like, I think an exchange between the two where it got like a little bit heated, and then they were like, Oh, we're like not in the back. Um 100% cane and mankind come down and just beat up everybody, forcing um, I guess the double disqualification. Oh wow, and then and then Kane hits us with the Kane explosion, ends the segment. You're like, all right.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

And I'm like, Bradshaw, I'm like, he's probably like, what did it what did I do? Like, where did this come? Vader, I was like, he was team Paul Bear for a minute. Is this like no?

SPEAKER_00 15:52

It's just I think it's more just strong and they're together. Yeah, it's just for the sake of like you know, doing the damage. Um but then our next match is a tag team match, the uh DOA uh with their new manager, Paul Ellering, uh taking on the headbangers. Um yeah. Uh Paul is wearing a very bright pink shirt that says, Who's gonna beat us? Um, very interesting. Um uh the headbangers come out and pour hot wax on themselves. Sure. Sure. I mean, not no, but sure.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

I was friends with that person in high school too.

SPEAKER_00 16:38

Um uh Paul joins uh the commentary team, and uh he's basically just like he's asked why he did what he did to uh the LOD. Um, and he's basically just like, it doesn't take a genius to see which way the wind is blowing. Basically, he's like, I am a gold digger, I am going where I think the money is.

SPEAKER_01 17:00

You know what? Uh one thing about it is at least he's honest. I hate all that. No, it's different. No, no, I want there probably which, although I don't agree with choosing the DOA, and you know that I literally one of my notes says this stupid DOA shit.

SPEAKER_00 17:17

About what could be literally, literally every time.

SPEAKER_01 17:21

Apply all control all select, like thank you, all of it.

SPEAKER_00 17:25

Um so uh basically he goes, I was there for the first chapter of the LOD, I'm gonna be there for the final chapter of the LOD. Um, they're prisoners of their own memory. Um Kingdom Hearts chain of memories, he's at no 100%, all while his face um looked like the villain from Sonic. Um Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 17:48

Thank you!

SPEAKER_00 17:51

Okay, I am it's the bald head and handlebar mustache.

SPEAKER_01 17:56

That's just like I have been trying to figure out who which cartoon villain he looks like, and I for some reason did not think of it's the Sonic guy.

SPEAKER_00 18:07

I can't remember his name. I know Jim Carrey plays him.

SPEAKER_01 18:10

I was just gonna say I think of uh Jim Carrey, which is you know, whatever, but thank you.

SPEAKER_00 18:17

Yeah. Um during this match, it is confirmed that Mabel will take on Ken Shamrock later on in the evening. Um the headbangers are on a roll. Um, but this is like a this is a match to give us the taste of the newer, meaner DOA. That's that's the point. That's why we're here. Um the the DOA win with a double slam.

SPEAKER_01 18:39

Chains and whatever their freaking names singles.

SPEAKER_00 18:44

That was Skull and So our next match is going to be D Lo Brown taking on uh Terry Funk. Uh, this is the debut of D Lo with the chest protector, this whole um little gimmick. Um yeah, and I I just love to see Terry Funk do anything at this point, honestly. So happy to see him out here.

SPEAKER_01 19:06

And honestly, I love him and D Lo in a match together. It's just like that's just so fun, good times for all.

SPEAKER_00 19:12

No, absolutely. Um, uh Terry with the beautiful leg pick, not to just be like, hey, um, still know what I'm doing, turns out. Um, the chest protector coming into play almost immediately with the splashes in the corner. Um, the godfather is really taking shape as a character with the big ass cigar. Um, you're starting to see the meta the metamorphosis of what that is turning into. Um, Terry Funk hits us with the it's it's the Terry Funk moonsault where you are left just more concerned for Terry Funk than anybody else in the room um every time he does it because he somehow manages to always hit the metal like great. Yeah, just hits the guardrail every time, and you're just like, you are gonna snap your femur in half.

SPEAKER_01 20:05

Like his shins must be either like calcified from how many times he's hit it, or like I I just don't know because and they will show it to you 700 times.

SPEAKER_00 20:15

100's horrible, and I think it's crazier is he follows that up with a moonsault to D Lo's back after the one he like misses and hits the guard ring.

SPEAKER_01 20:27

And we were going, I kind of remember this. We were going, no, no, you don't have to do that. Like, right, no, you already did it, like you don't have to do it again.

SPEAKER_00 20:35

100%. Um Godfather nails um Terry with a chain. D Lo hits the the low down, the big splash from the top with the chest protector. That is it for Terry Funk. He picks up the victory. Undertaker comes down, just absolutely choke slams everybody, and that is that on that.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

And for one second, you think Undertaker's coming out because he's mad about Terry getting beamed with the chains, and then you're like, Well, if you thought but then you remember he choke slammed Terry like while he was checking on mankind, like nearly died, yeah. So then they're like, Yeah, no, that's not that's no, that's that's not chokeslam for you too, sweetie.

SPEAKER_00 21:20

No, 100%. Um, so then Mr. McMahon comes down for the number one contendership announcement, and he's like, he basically like decides to like make this a beauty pageant. He's like, I'm gonna call them down to the ring. He's so good. And I'm gonna have no 100%. Like, he's like, I'm gonna have them come face me. So he's like, he brings out Mankind, Kane and the Undertaker, and he's like, Mankind, I feel your pain, but is it enough to make you the number one contender? Like, and then he and then he goes on to Kane and he's like, honestly, I I don't even know what to say. I had no idea that you were so stupid. Stupid, and you're like, you have got to be the dumbest man like on the face of the earth of the earth to accept that challenge last week.

SPEAKER_01 22:09

This is what drove me crazy, though. I'm getting mad all over again because I'm looking at my nose and it said literally says, Then you should have said no, you fucking asshole. Because you could have just said no. This morning, or like the top of the show where you read I make the decision as to when this title is you, you what you literally just did, but instead you did your little game of telephone. Oh, Paul, what do you think, Paul? What does Kane think? So why is he now getting the blame when you could have just said no? Shut up. Piss me off. And also Kane being stupid, that's neither here nor there. We don't know because all we know is eh. So I don't know. But also he's been in hiding for 20 years with Paul Bear as his only access to the outside world. I'm sure there's not a ton of critical thinking occurring.

SPEAKER_00 23:09

So no, I highly doubt he's hitting that homeschool home.

SPEAKER_01 23:14

Learning he's just learned about Undertaker and how to wrestle. So I don't so he's just gonna say yes to wrestling.

SPEAKER_00 23:21

Right.

SPEAKER_01 23:22

Don't piss me off.

SPEAKER_00 23:23

Basically, he's like, You're dumb, but like, should I give you a second chance? And then he turns to the Undertaker, he's like, You the way he says it is so funny. Um, you evil excuse for a human. Why should you be named number one contender? And then he names a main event which will be a triple threat for the number one contendership this evening.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

Which I did want to see. I was like, that's absolutely yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

No, I'm just like, sure, just have each other like it is but also like mankind's like still dead. Like, I'm pretty sure still very dealing with um injuries.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

Um, I do think it was so messy though to bring them all out there just to rip them to shreds and then be like, and now you guys are gonna fight.

SPEAKER_00 24:09

No, 100%.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

But not right now, later. You just had to come out here. So I can say it to your face. No, you're ugly, you're stupid, and you're incompetent. I'm gonna make the three views the stooges fight, but later.

SPEAKER_00 24:22

He's like, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, fuck you.

SPEAKER_02 24:30

You're cool.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

So good. Um, but then that takes us into our next contest, which is the Brawl for All. It is Hawk taking on his good buddy draws. Um, this one was wild. This was Fists of Fury, Fists of Blazing, Fists every which way. It looked like a the equivalent of like a you know when like a cartoon gets into like two cartoons get into a fight, and then it's like a dust cloud, and it's just like limbs and like Yeah, it is, and like for some reason the number sign, and like Right. Yeah, it's just like that. And it that's how this match felt because it was just neither of them are boxers, neither of them are like particularly great, like like wrestler wrestlers, like so they were just flailing, it was just fists everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 25:23

It was soccer boppers, baby, and they were getting punched in the face for real, like they were they were brutalizing each other's faces, they were almost like, oh well, if I have these big old mitts on, I'm sure it's fine.

SPEAKER_00 25:40

And they were absolutely not the smack, the smack. Um one no one thousand percent. And then uh so this match ends in a draw. They are not not worse, they are worse for wear. Like they just nobody really won in this one. Um, I I do respect the whole like we'll just beat the shit out of each other for the allotted time, and then when we're done, we're done.

SPEAKER_01 26:13

Yeah, sure, sure.

SPEAKER_00 26:14

But damn, that was crazy.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

Damn, they were yeah, this one's actually kind of a silly fun one if you guys want to check it out because it's just you're just like, what is happening? But they're landing brutal bunches, it's me.

SPEAKER_00 26:27

So hey, more power to you. Um, so the next segment is Marvelous Mark Miro with Jacqueline. Um Jaclyn's going to speak. Uh, we get a stable chant immediately, obviously, as is synonymous with Mark Miro. Um, and but Jacqueline uh takes the microphone and surprises us all when she's like, I take full responsibility for my man losing last week. And I was like, no, girl, you don't have to.

SPEAKER_01 26:58

No, don't do that, girl. And I knew exactly where it was going to.

SPEAKER_00 27:02

I was like, and then she goes on to be like, Everybody knows that he's the best boxer. Um, but he had happened to have gone 12 rounds with me the night prior, so he was not up to the task. And um, sorry, but you should be. Um, you should be skipping to your fucking loo.

SPEAKER_01 27:23

Um, you should you should be uh yeah, absolutely more energized than you've ever been before, and she should have been left a liquid blob at home, just no bones 100 if you really went 12 rounds, so no one's buying it. Mark mural should have flown to the stadium, like one leaping jump and been crashed through the ceiling.

SPEAKER_00 27:48

No, 100. That's what would have occurred, um but then she goes on to be like, My man was deprived before. I was like, deprived was Sable deprived? That's crazy. Um, and then basically he's just like uh she was just like Sable wasn't able. Um she looked good, but there was nothing under the hood. Basically, just calling her dumb.

SPEAKER_01 28:16

I did write down because that's kind of funny.

SPEAKER_00 28:19

Um hey, listen, I love it too. Um, but then Sable's music hits, um, and she's like, and this, forgive us, guys, was really the height of the uh the the start of the madness that was watching.

SPEAKER_01 28:33

Technical problems, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:35

Um, but basically he's just like, you got it all wrong. Um, I've always had it pedaled to the metal. Um Mark's the one with a flat tire, if you know what I mean. Um, her outfit was giving Madame Webb.

SPEAKER_01 28:48

Very cute, but complimentary.

SPEAKER_00 28:51

Yes, yes, yes, yes. Um, and she's like, I know what a man wants. Uh, and this body is prime real estate. Um, and then she's like, But you, how many times have you rented it out? And you're like, Oh, um, and then she calls her a skank, and then this turns into inevitably, as it does in the Attitude Era, a bikini contest. Yeah. Um and then Sable tells us that her bikini will be fully loaded. Basically, that that's going to take place at the fully loaded pay-per-view.

SPEAKER_01 29:26

She and I do want to say, one, she also mentioned um, well, like, because Jacqueline's like, I don't know when she says like the flat tire comment, and Jacqueline's like, she goes, Well, they didn't have Viagra then. Kanty. But also, um, yeah, I just want, I mean, Sable won, the Slammies bikini. Wasn't there a bikini contest at the Slammies or something? Yeah. If she whips that bad boy out, sober for the girls.

SPEAKER_00 29:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:56

Again, why why I'm even discussing this is making me ill, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 30:00

We're here.

SPEAKER_01 30:01

Here we are. And I love Jacqueline. I can't hate her. I love her.

SPEAKER_00 30:05

No, 1000. Um, uh, but then that's going to take us into Val Venus taking on uh Dustin Runnels. Um uh Dustin goes in for the handshake. He's still on his um path with the Lord. Um, so um he's he's he's so he's on he's on that um journey. Um and I don't know why that made me um but like more power to him. Um uh basically oh uh I I love this. Um Val basically is like try evading Dustin the beginning. Basically, he's just like a come and get it kind of situation. Um only for the camera to hard cut to like Edge lurking like in the shadows. And I can't every time they hard cut to this man, I'm like, what are we doing? And he's just like I imagine, like, or maybe, or like they're setting up a few, like I don't know, because he keeps showing up in like the mid-card-ish matches, like your Jeff Jarrett's, your Valvinuses, you're um, so I'm guessing they're gonna try and like angle him in somewhere there, but it's like, girl, let's get you in the ring again because your first outing was not it.

SPEAKER_01 31:29

No, oh my god, I forgot about that. What a sin. Um I I know we've probably talked about this, but I just wish that Dustin was still gold dust at this time because the freak off the freak off between Val and Dustin, the gyrate off.

SPEAKER_00 31:50

Right, would be glorious.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

I'm so depressed that I don't get to see that. And I said he.

SPEAKER_00 31:56

Yeah, whatever. Well, yeah, this match doesn't even make it uh to its end because Kai and Tai attack Val Venus continuing uh the uh feud that started the week prior, where Val was basically gyrating all up around Yamaguchi-sun's wife.

SPEAKER_02 32:13

Right.

SPEAKER_00 32:13

Um, but Yamaguchi-san comes out with his wife, um, and basically this is his revenge. Um, you know, not that the not that his wife seemed that enthused about any of it. Um, but Yamaguchi-sun slaps Matt, slaps Val and continues like mocking him, and then that's kind of like where we are left. Right. Um next segment. Oh before we get into this next one, I'm going to just we're gonna keep it brief. Trigger warning.

SPEAKER_01 32:46

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 32:47

Um uh this is going to get into some it's racist, so we're very uh very much so. Um so just if you don't want to hear about it, please fast forward. Um there is a reason why this episode is no longer available um widely, uh, and I'm pretty sure it is this. Um we find out throughout the evening, it has been alluded to that DX has like got a big surprise for us all. They've like gone into hiding, like nobody has seen them all day. Um we cut back to the arena after this Valvinus and Dustin match for the nation's music to hit, only for DX to come out all in blackface, with the exception of China and whoever was playing Owen. Everybody else, full blackface. Um and I'm not gonna like qualify like everybody else poor taste. Um yeah, it's there's a reason why it's no longer available. It's it's bad, it's not a good segment. It obviously can like throws gasoline on the feud uh because obviously the nation is not going to take kindly to this. Right, but it's just it's hard to watch in 2026. Yes. In 1998, I'm sure it was also, but I don't think I yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:29

I mean, when I there's I took a picture of this guy actually because I was like this because they flash to the audience and like everyone's laughing except this one guy beh-do you see him like oh you can't really see, like behind this guy is like oh yeah, and it's like what's happening, but um I just it's it's kind of the same thing I felt no, no. Basically, what I'm trying to say is that like the audience enjoyed it too much, and that's like what made it even worse. Like they're like it I don't know. I was like, ooh, everyone's enjoying this too much, it's it's freaking me out. And there were obviously when you panned to the crowd, there were some people that were like, what is happening right now? But there were some people where I was like really into it.

SPEAKER_00 35:18

I really into it.

SPEAKER_01 35:19

And that's what really gets me. And it's like, who's it's that age-old question of who's worse, the person who created the content or the person who enjoys consuming it. But I will say the only highlight of this part was one, China wanted no parts. She literally was like backed into the corner and just like standing there did not get involved, she didn't get in the mix. She was like, I don't know about this, I don't like this. Like, I could just energetically feel that she was like, I don't really want to be a part of this. And honestly, whoever was Owen was pretty good, was pretty good. I think it's weird to go along this journey, but whoever did Owen was pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 36:02

I just like I you could have just done the impressions without the blackface, like you could have just you know what I mean. Like you could have just we would have got it. You came out to their music and you were wearing their clothes.

SPEAKER_01 36:15

I didn't need I didn't need all of some people, I feel committed a little harder than others, and those people did not surprise me who committed harder than the others. I was like yes, so interesting. So yeah, well, that's that's and it was wasn't even honestly to be so serious, it was not even that funny, and I'm not even just saying that because it was uncomfortable. Like the jokes weren't landing, the impressions were not good, except for Owen. Like it was just not poorly executed.

SPEAKER_00 36:51

So moving on. Um we have Mabel taking on Ken Shamrock. This is a the second week that we're having a kind of King of the Ring versus King of the Ring um kind of match. Um Mabel's using that big body, uh absolutely um apparently his reasoning for the return was not being invited into that King of the Ring uh triple threat match the week prior. Um uh Ken is too quick for Mabel. Um and he eventually evades um Mabel's you know, big splashes, big slams, uh, to pick the ankle, get the ankle lock, and Mabel taps. Um, listen, your bones are your bones, are your bones, are your bones. It doesn't really matter how big you are.

SPEAKER_01 37:41

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 37:43

Uh so he won't let go, all of the officials come in. Um, and then he's Ken just starts beating up Mabel. Like it's crazy. I was like, oh, this is this this is what we're doing.

SPEAKER_01 37:57

Yeah, the King of the Ring, he cannot control himself.

SPEAKER_00 38:00

Um, yeah, crazy.

SPEAKER_01 38:02

He's beaten beating girlies upper left and right.

SPEAKER_00 38:05

Um uh, you know, absolutely. Um, so that was that was a fun one. I guess again, it's an it's another feather in uh Ken's cap. Um, he's gonna keep on moving.

SPEAKER_01 38:14

Um I kind of like the defeating of the previous King of the Rings. Like it's kind of fun to actually like I'm silencing all my predecessors, like I'm I'm kind of into it. I have never seen King Mabel before, so that was exciting. I love the actually. I thought I was gonna hate it when I first saw it.

SPEAKER_00 38:31

I was like, he left shortly before we started.

SPEAKER_01 38:35

Oh I love the name King Mabel, so many good things about it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:42

Um, so then our next segment is the main event. We get Mr. McMahon uh coming down to the arena, and Paul Bear is in his tracks. Vince joins commentary, only to of course be stunned when um no pun intended, when Stone Cold Steve Austin comes out um and also decides to join commentary because I don't know why you're surprised. I'm not kidding. Not to be not to be outdone. Um he said hi. Yeah, so they're going back and forth about the um the fully loaded pay-per-view, like teaming with the undertaker, yada yada yada. We get the entrances of mankind and cane, they're both waiting in the ring, and we're like, okay. Um, and then we get the Undertaker music, the Undertaker introduction, no Undertaker. Um, we're like, okay, so again, this is kind of a callback. This is not the first time we've seen something like that. Usually something is up. Um, we get the Undertaker music, the Undertaker intro, still no Undertaker. Um we're like, oh, all right, what's going on? Vince McMahon basically then asserts himself into the fray and is like, oh no, we're gonna have this match. And he goes to the uh ring announcer and he's like, You're gonna make this announcement for me. And he's like, Um, because the Undertaker and then This was so crazy. And then the ring announcer was like, You are you serious? And he's like, You better fucking say it. And he's like, Because the Undertaker was too chicken shit coward to come out here. Um, this match is going to be a one-on-one match. Um, that is no disqualifications, uh, falls count anywhere between Kane and Mankind. And we're like, uh the fuck. Um we're like, right, sure. Um, yeah, sorry. Um mankind doesn't want to go through with it. He's just like, um, I have given enough. Thank you for.

SPEAKER_02 40:52

I'm not kidding.

SPEAKER_00 40:53

And he's like, I will not fight my friend Kane. Um, and then Vince wants Kane to he starts getting all up in Kane's face, like, are you gonna like do something? Hello. Um, and so he basically calls for the start of the match. Nobody's fighting. Vince is going like apoplectic on the outside.

SPEAKER_01 41:13

He scared me because like I don't like y'all like it's the true face. It's the true face. Oh, it scared me. I don't like it.

SPEAKER_00 41:21

No, 100%. So then um Kane comes out to um where mankind has plopped himself uh by the ring steps, grabs a steel chair, and just does mankind's head, like head in, just smashes his face in with the steel chair, stuck betwixt the um uh the steps and the chair.

SPEAKER_01 41:45

Yeah, I mean just brutal. I was like it said holds count anywhere and that he's not gonna fight you. Can't you just push him down and right we had to do the chair right away, right? Right, but then uh let Nick go home.

SPEAKER_00 42:02

Right. Let this man like give him a vacation, damn.

SPEAKER_01 42:06

Call his wife and buy them a trip to the Bahamas like a break.

SPEAKER_00 42:10

What's a man gotta do to get some time off?

SPEAKER_01 42:12

I'm not kidding.

SPEAKER_00 42:14

Because falling a collective like 32 feet was not it.

SPEAKER_01 42:18

So like with a chair against a steel case, a steel chair, no steps, steel steps.

SPEAKER_00 42:24

I'm here thrown on tacks multiple times.

SPEAKER_01 42:27

No worries.

SPEAKER_00 42:28

Um, it's fine, it's fine.

SPEAKER_01 42:29

Everything's fine, still not the number one contender.

SPEAKER_00 42:31

Um, so Kane then grabs mankind's carcass, throws it in the ring, um, pins him. Kane wins. Um Vince is so excited, he's like, Yes, this is great.

SPEAKER_01 42:44

Kane is the number one contender.

SPEAKER_00 42:46

And then we like hard cut to Kane in the ring. He rips off his masks, uh-uh, not Kane. It's the Undertaker. The Undertaker is the number one contender, not Kane. We don't know where Kane is. It it was, and then that's where they that's what they end it there. They go, What up? It's the Undertaker done.

SPEAKER_01 43:07

It literally blackout. The next episode started playing. I was distraught. I was like, right. The way I did not see this coming, even a little. The way did he walk out with Paul Bear? I wasn't even paying attention. So Undertaker literally got dressed in Kane's in the same walker room.

SPEAKER_00 43:26

No, because Paul Bear came out with Vince. Oh, because they were conspiring. So I wonder if we'll find out next week where Kane was.

SPEAKER_01 43:38

If you were to if you were so busy running your freaking mouth, plotting scheming in your twisted little brain, you might have noticed your literal son has gone missing.

SPEAKER_00 43:53

Yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 43:55

But uh honestly, this was so fierce because also, does this mean that? Undertaker, like Kane is somewhere without the mask. You know what I mean? Like, we've never seen Kane without his face.

SPEAKER_00 44:08

I don't think we're going to.

SPEAKER_01 44:09

I know, but still, I was like, that's interesting. What does he wear in his civilian clothes, Kane? I just assumed he slept and showered in that.

SPEAKER_00 44:19

Right. Like it was his skin.

SPEAKER_01 44:21

But literally. But I was gagged. Gagged.

unknown 44:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 44:26

This is not, I don't, oh no, this has happened maybe once or once before we've seen, but not like this girl. Shook me to my core. And I was so happy because at first I was watching this and I was like, if this was the main event, I always think this way where I'm like, I'm at a live event, and if this was the main event, I think I'd be pissed off because I'm expecting a triple threat match between Undertaker Kane and Mankind, and that's so exciting. And I'd be like, okay, so Kane and Mankind again, and Kane wins, and it's barely even fine.

SPEAKER_00 44:53

Oftentimes they'll do the match that was advertised just after TV.

SPEAKER_01 45:01

Uh heard. And I feel like now in this day and age, there's not as much deviation from the schedule.

SPEAKER_00 45:13

Well, also the schedule's not so public. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:19

Or it wasn't.

SPEAKER_00 45:20

No, I mean, both in both cases, it's not like even now, like they like they'll advertise like people appearing, but they won't necessarily advertise all of the matches.

SPEAKER_01 45:30

Right. I'm also thinking like in pay-per-views like brain, where I'm like, obviously I'm gonna don't need events.

SPEAKER_00 45:37

It's usually like it's yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:40

But I was like, and then the they take all wow, so good, so good, love that. So I'm like, is Undertaker tech? He's technically the number one contender. That is so fierce, and they have to be a tag team and fully loaded, right? All the pieces that come in to get them.

SPEAKER_00 46:02

Yeah, more time for some drama to unfold. I cannot wait.

SPEAKER_01 46:05

Yum.

SPEAKER_00 46:06

Oh, it's gonna be good. Um uh, all right, guys, that's it for that episode. Um, this episode is coming out just before Memorial Day if you're participating. Um, you know, DTS from TW, all that good stuff. Um, also, that means that restorative for wrestlers is coming up soon. Um, soon-ish.

SPEAKER_01 46:32

Um, restorative for wrestlers. If you're a professional wrestler, please join us on June, oops, 19th, 18th, 12th. Oops, June 12th. I have a lot of things going on, you guys. My music are graduating. I have like a prom, senior awards. I had to go drive, get milkshakes, the whole thing. But June 12th, Resorted for Wrestlers. Yoga Mechanics in Montclair. Um, doors will open at 7. We will probably begin between 7:15 and 7:30. It is a free class for professional wrestlers. We, me and the yoga mechanics fam are just working out a registration process because it will be free, but that way we can reserve spots for everybody and everyone, you know. So there will be more information, hopefully, sometime this week.

SPEAKER_00 47:20

Period. All right, guys. This has been another edition of the New To Wrestling Podcast. Thank you for listening, watching, subscribing, all that fun stuff wherever you happen to do it. We will catch you on the next one.

SPEAKER_01 47:32

We'll see you there.

SPEAKER_00 47:33

Bye.

SPEAKER_01 47:34

Bye.