WWFATTITUDE1998: RAW is WAR 11/23!

-Jarrett going over Snow was another decent defense for him. Wonder how long it will go.
-Looked like a pretty tough battle between Owen and X-Pac. Glad Owen won.
-Rock needed this win tonight. A decent match for what it was. How that Rocky moves to something else now.
-Amazing match between Taker and Mankind. A very entertaining read to say the least.
-It was obvious that the New Age Outlaws would come out on top tonight.
-Funk's career ending was sad, but HHH seemed like the right man to do it. Could put him at main event status if worked right.
-Big contreversial main event. This feud between Kane and Undertaker seems to continue, adding in Mankind and McMahon and Austin into it.
-Good PPV; very entertaining read.

I got Jarrett or Rock for KOTR.

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Chicago, Illinois - Rosemont Horizon

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A replay from Over the Edge: In Your House aired, as last night we saw the WWF Championship at stake in a demolition derby as Stone Cold Steve Austin took on Kane, a back and forth match as Austin kept matters under control, Austin even getting rid of Paul Bearer but Austin would be disqualified by Mr McMahon, the evil guest referee of the match, but even after Vince had clotheslined Austin! The lights went out, and when they returned The Undertaker was there, fighting Kane off and running the Chairman out of the ring, then threatening Austin! 'Taker wanted the WWF title as Over the Edge went off the air. The opening video package for RAW aired, and we cut to the live Rosemont Horizon in Chicago for RAW is WAR! Jim Ross and Michael Cole introduce us to the show before going to the ring.

We cut to the ring as Mr McMahon was on his way to the ring, the Chairman of the World Wrestling Federation in the ring as the man that cost Stone Cold Steve Austin a clean victory last night at Over the Edge stood satisfied in the ring. The Chairman stood alone tonight, as Vince talked about how he's quite satisfied with what went on last night, Kane may not have gotten the job done but he's happy that he managed to still harm Steve Austin's street 'cred', as he was beaten up by an old man! McMahon was very quickly interrupted by the glass shattering, and Stone Cold Steve Austin headed to the ring to a massive ovation, the "Texas Rattlesnake" in the ring asking Vince if he thought what he did last night was smart. Austin repeatedly asked Vince several similar questions about last night, not giving McMahon a chance to talk before he told Vince to shut his bunghole! The crowd cheered as the WWF Champion asked Vince if he was really a wrestler then, being that he clotheslined him pretty hard last night. Austin raised the title belt and asked him what it was, McMahon noting how it was the most prestigious belt in this business and how that prestige is being deteriorated by the "Texas Rattlesnake" himself! Austin flips McMahon the bird as Stone Cold tells Vince that he's sick and tired of the Chairman being on his back week in, week out, and so tonight, he's challenging the Chairman himself to take the title from him! Vince states that he doesn't believe in competing, but Austin reminded us of an episode of RAW is WAR from March, Vince commenting on if he considered fighting Stone Cold and claiming he'd 'knock Stone Cold' out! Vince told Steve that they ARE live in Chicago, where at WrestleMania 13, Austin passed out in a match to one of the most embarrassing wrestlers in this business! Vince told Austin that he could have the match, and the crowd erupted, Vince McMahon in action tonight!?

An advertisement aired, promoting the encore presentation of WWF Over the Edge: In Your House, tomorrow night on pay-per-view from 7/8 CT.

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We return to RAW as X-Pac was in the ring with Chyna, X-Pac with a microphone, commenting on the knee brace wearing tonight. X-Pac talked about how last night, Owen Hart took it too far and injured his leg once again, but unlike a **** like our WWF Intercontinental Champion, Ken Shamrock with his broken hand, X-Pac will keep fighting, and with the King of the Ring tournament starting tonight, this is a hot comeback for D-Generation X's biggest degenerate!

1) King of the Ring Qualifying Match: Steve Blackman vs X-Pac (w/Chyna)

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The first match in the King of the Ring tournament this year, as sixteen men this year will compete in the King of the Ring tournament in an effort to make history as the 1998 King of the Ring winner and perhaps obtain main event spotlight. X-Pac was ever confident tonight, despite the loss to Owen Hart last night at Over the Edge. Meanwhile the "Lethal Weapon" Steve Blackman had been home recovering from an acoustic guitar shot to the shoulder, courtesy of Jeff Jarrett. Blackman had a lot to prove to this rising star as X-Pac seemingly tried to humiliate the "Lethal Weapon", confident kicks and mocking Blackman's karate poses before nailing him with the Bronco Buster! Blackman soon recovered and took X-Pac's head off with the Martial Arts Kick out of nowhere! Blackman covered but Chyna got into the ring and smooched Blackman! Blackman grabbed Chyna by the hair as Chyna grabbed Blackman by the throat, X-Pac getting back up with a kick to the gut, and the X-Factor got X-Pac the win!

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Winner: X-Pac @ 4:32 [**]

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X-Pac celebrated his win to boos as Chyna stood alongside X-Pac, the crowd totally shocked by the "Ninth Wonder of the World"'s method to distract Steve Blackman. But the main thing was, X-Pac is the first man in the King of the Ring quarter-finals!

We see the WWF Intercontinental Champion in the backstage area walking to the ring it seemed, a big cast on his hand. And up next we will hear from the "World's Most Dangerous Man"!

An advertisement aired, promoting the King of the Ring; live on pay-per-view on Sunday, June 28th 1998 from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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A vignette aired as it promoted the Attitude Era.

We return to RAW as the theme of the "World's Most Dangerous Man" hit, the WWF Intercontinental Champion walking to the ring wearing his ring attire and a big cast on his broken hand, no thanks to Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw in recent weeks. Shamrock tried to put up a fight with Bradshaw, but resorted to having to get himself disqualified in an unpopular decision from the capacity crowd in Milwaukee. Shamrock stood in the ring with a microphone as he began to talk about how he has a broken hand, and that is clear to everybody in this arena tonight. He says that it is almost impossible to apply the Ankle Lock or nail a fully effective belly-to-back suplex with his big cast on, but he refuses to let these fans down and vacate the title in case it falls into the wrong hands! Shamrock says that he will recover, continue to be a fighting champion, and Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw better watch himself when he's 100% again!

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This was a random championship defense to be made by the supposed fighting WWF Intercontinental Champion with the bad hand, but he did not know what he was getting himself into completely when D-Lo Brown took him on; Brown been absent recently due to appearances in several ECW events in the last month. Brown went right for the hand, as any smart man would, but Brown forgot that the board of directors had sanctioned Shamrock wearing the cast in matches, and so Shamrock started running at Brown with several cast shots, D-Lo soon beating Ken down and stretching the aggravated fingers from the bad hand, wrenching the hand back! Brown soon started to weaken the cast with stomps, Brown going for the Sky High but Shamrock reversed it into the hurricanrana! Shamrock grabbed the ankle of Brown despite the cast and went to apply the Ankle Lock but Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw got into the ring, trying to go after Shamrock but Shamrock laid Justin out with the cast! Shamrock turned around and was given a big Sky High by D-Lo, scoring the victory!

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Winner and NEW WWF Intercontinental Champion: D-Lo Brown @ 4:25 [**]

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D-Lo Brown celebrated his win as the crowd booed, the Nation member getting up and claiming his newly won WWF Intercontinental Championship, but the fighting handicapped champion Ken Shamrock had fought, and could have won had it not been for Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw! D-Lo began to leave as Bradshaw got into the ring and nailed Shamrock with the Clothesline From Hell! Bradshaw dragged Shamrock out of the ring and began to rip his cast off, and then began to slam Shamrock's hand right into the ring post! Bradshaw placed a chair on the hand of Shamrock's, and then proceeded to ram him and the chair into the ring post hand first! Bradshaw left Shamrock riving in pain as EMTs began to rush out to aid to the "World's Most Dangerous Man".

In the backstage area we are with Vince McMahon, Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco in the office of the Chairman, Patterson and Brisco talking about how Vince does not know what he's getting himself into, and does not know why he is letting Stone Cold Steve Austin, a WWF superstar and WWF Champion, touch him in physical natures and harm a millionaire genius like Mr McMahon himself. McMahon laughs, telling Patterson and Brisco that he has a plan and not to worry.

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We return to RAW as the New Age Outlaws are stood in the ring, the WWF Tag Team Champions having something to say here tonight. Road Dogg asks the fans if they're ready to see something spectacular as Billy Gunn talks about how he's the man with the best ass in the World Wrestling Federation, and Jesse James is here to bring the rapping. Jesse James starts a rap about how they are the best damn WWF Tag Team Champions ever, and they will prove it against any team any time!

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It wasn't that bad an effort by the youngsters, Brian Christopher and Scott Taylor as this match was bound to be interesting; two teams that are still youthful, talented and full of potential as James and Gunn were actually cheered by the fans in this bout. The WWF Tag Team Champions worked over Brian Christopher quick and easily, and this made it difficult for the much more inexperienced Scott Taylor. Taylor soon got the tag as he tried to go for several sneaky victories, including various roll-up attempts on Gunn just for each attempt to be kicked out of. Gunn and James soon quickly began to set up for a Spike Piledriver on Taylor before suddenly ECW's Axl Rotten and Balls Mahoney appeared! They ran into the ring wielding steel chairs as they laid out the New Age Outlaws!

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Winners: The New Age Outlaws @ 4:07 by disqualification [**]

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The New Age Outlaws were ran out of the ring as this was the second invasion suffered for the WWF Tag Team Champions, Extreme Championship Wrestling's residential extreme tag team Balls Mahoney and Axl Rotten had arrived in the World Wrestling Federation, and seemingly targeting Billy Gunn and Jesse James' titles! The combination were then escorted by security, as the fans chanted 'ECW' and Balls' name.

In the backstage area we see Al Snow standing with Head watching a television monitor, Snow seeing Too Much wander through the curtains as he told them that the Minis did a good job. This offended Brian Christopher and Scott Taylor, as Snow asked them why they were now nearing in on him. Christopher asks Snow if he's ever looked at himself and said 'tomorrow I will quit taking drugs', because he's an addict! Snow tells them not to mess with them as Head will get them. Taylor smirked, going to hit Al but Taylor got Head! Brian and Snow exchanged a few shots before Christopher got Head too! Snow and Head had laid out Too Much!

The "Black Hart" was shown walking down a corridor, and up next he will be in action with Jeff Jarrett!

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Jim Ross and Michael Cole promoted what was coming up in the second hour of RAW is WAR tonight, the War Zone. As it will feature three other King of the Ring tournament matches; plus we are still yet to hear from both The Undertaker and Mick Foley; Terry Funk will say goodbye once and for all; as well as us seeing for the first time ever, Mr McMahon competing in the ring, one on one for the WWF Championship!

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This was bound to be a hard-fought contest between two of the greatest wrestlers in sports entertainment, the "Black Hart" outsmarting Jeff Jarrett on all fronts and seemingly not going to be wasting time trying to secure a sneaky three count. Owen went for a hurricanrana but Jarrett somehow found the strength to carry the "Black Hart" half way across the ring and powerbomb him to the floor! Jarrett gained momentum as Jim Cornette got involved, slyly attacking Owen behind the referee's back. Jarrett continued as he worked over the spine of Owen, connecting with several big time backbreakers and setting up for what could have been the Stroke. But Owen reversed, nailing a big enziguri and then taking Cornette out with a big right hand! Owen set up for the Sharpshooter as Jarrett was struggling, the NWA North American Heavyweight Champion possibly about to lose another big non-title match. Jarrett got to the ropes, but before anything else could happen the Mid-South Connection had hit the ring, jumping Owen!

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Winner: Owen Hart @ 7:23 [**1/4]

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The crowd booed as the Mid-South Connection began to pound away at the "Black Hart", Bob Holly and Bart Gunn setting up for the big Collision Leg Drop of the Mid-South Connection! Gunn and Holly stood tall before Jeff Jarrett joined in, stomping away at Owen as Dan Severn stood at ringside, the "Beast" finally here in the WWF! Severn climbed into the ring and gave Owen a huge T-bone suplex just like last night at Over the Edge to Al Snow! Cornette and the South stood over Owen, Cornette satisfied with all of this.

We quickly cut to the backstage locker room as Kane was stood fuming, throwing chairs around and tossing over tables in the dressing room, Paul Bearer trying to calm the "Big Red Machine" down, and RAW went off the air!

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The opening video package for the War Zone aired, as we cut to the live Rosemont Horizon in Chicago, Illinois, Jim Ross and Jerry the "King" Lawler introducing us to the second hour of RAW is WAR.

The crowd cheered as Val Venis' theme hit and he came to the ring, taking a microphone and introducing himself to the ladies. Val talked about how he was here to 'arouse' many people's entertainment points, particularly the women's. For Dustin Runnels, he was about to find out what happens when he crosses the line, and Val will bring the innuendo back up Runnels' ass!

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Winner: Val Venis @ 4:53 [**]

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The crowd cheered as Val Venis got back up to his feet and celebrated, the "Big Valbowski" now advancing into the quarter-final round of the King of the Ring tournament! An updated bracket appeared, as Val Venis will now face the winner of Faarooq and Dan Severn, and they will compete tonight!

In the backstage area we see Kane still destroying the locker room, as the wall lockers were tipped over, metal locker sets tipped, chairs broken, garbage all over the floor, a plant destroyed as well, the "Big Red Machine" now going after the wall. Paul Bearer kept yelling for Kane to stop but Kane refused, obviously irate that he was not able to win the WWF Championship last night. Kane finally rested, sitting down in the rubble.

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A video package aired, showcasing the arrogance of the Nation as of late. The Rock had brought personality to the Nation, turning D-Lo Brown into a WWF Intercontinental Champion (although not featured in this video) from being fresh out of training camp; Kama Mustafa from a hard-hitting tank in the WWF to being a massive hit with the ladies, so much he's became known as "The Godfather". It showed the Nation out in nightclubs, Rock, Mustafa, Mark Henry (with two white women) and Brown hooking up with women, and it was here that Mark Henry was known as "Sexual Chocolate" for his fetish for white women. The Nation may as well be family, because they were definitely a hit with the ladies!

We return to the War Zone as the theme of The Undertaker hit, and the lights went out, everything gloomy here in Chicago, but the Undertaker simply walked out from the backstage area, not about to waste a second walking the rampway! Undertaker was not looking like the "Lord of Darkness" tonight, wearing a bandana and biker jacket, Undertaker storming into the ring and taking a microphone, Undertaker asking Vince McMahon if he saw this coming! 'Taker talked about how he's been sick and tired of having to fight through great match after great match, just to revert to having to fight for his life for a WWF Championship shot! Undertaker asked Vince if it was really worth it, being here when all he got was sh*t. 'Taker mentioned how he was undefeated at WrestleMania, he was a loyal employee, a locker room leader. And he still stands around and is expected to wait and perhaps earn a WWF Championship shot. The "Deadman" tells McMahon that he will get his just desserts tonight, and it might not be from the "Texas Rattlesnake"! Paul Bearer finally interrupted, Bearer asking Undertaker to bare with him a second, as he's got Kane under watch from every security member in attendance. He says how Kane is annoyed by Vince screwing with his WWF Championship opportunity last night, and that he used him as a pawn. But their war is not yet over. Bearer says how Kane will never live down the fact that he has to play the "Big Red Machine" - a freak! At least 'Taker gets to show himself in all of his glory. Bearer invites Undertaker to fight Kane next week in a No Holds Barred match! Undertaker didn't need a second to respond, accepting!

A vignette aired, promoting the debut of the mysterious Edge, who will be debuting in two weeks time, only on RAW is WAR!

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In the backstage area we see Mr McMahon preparing for his match with Stone Cold Steve Austin, lifting some weights and looking incredibly well built for a businessman like himself. Commissioner Slaughter came in, Slaughter talking about how he was around the days where McMahon partied all the time. He says he misses those days. But now Vince is power hungry, his ego is massive! He asks Vince if this is what his father did? No, it was to simply commentate matches. Slaughter mentions how he'll be looking forward to what will happen with Vince and Austin tonight, and he wishes Vince the best of luck. But he's lost respect for him. Slaughter leaves as McMahon shrugged it off.

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Faarooq stood alone tonight, looking incredibly annoyed with the fact that he was not successful against The Rock last night at Over the Edge. But this was the debut of the "Beast", Dan Severn. Severn debuted last night also, joining the South of Cornette, and Severn aided Jeff Jarrett in his win against Al Snow. Faarooq put the fight up to the "Beast", nailing the spinebuster but Dan Severn with his larger build and his mixed martial-arts style had Faarooq in loopholes, Severn with a cross armbreaker that could have very well ended the match there. Seven went for the move known as the 'Beast Choker', a dragon sleeper with body scissors and Faarooq attempted to fight it but he passed out!

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Winner: Dan Severn @ 5:12 [*3/4]

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Dan Severn celebrated his win to boos, Jim Cornette getting into the ring as well as the "Beast" nailed a big belly-to-back piledriver on poor Faarooq! Severn stood tall and dominant whilst Cornette revealed that the South were expanding and nobody could stop them! Severn was going into the quarter-finals of the King of the Ring tournament, and he will be facing Val Venis.

We go to Stone Cold Steve Austin as the WWF Champion was tying up his knee braces, Dok Hendrix standing by and asking the "Texas Rattlesnake" for his thoughts before facing Vince McMahon. Austin looked at Hendrix and laughed, then leaving with a smile on his face!

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A mixing of styles here, as "Marvelous" Marc Mero was accompanied by a beautiful young lady that had been humiliated by Sable at Over the Edge, being stripped naked live on pay-per-view, as Jacqueline seemed shy tonight. TAKA Michinoku seemed hyped, facing a former WWF Intercontinental Champion, as Michinoku came at Mero with several headscissors and hurricanranas, TAKA not letting the Kai En Tai thoughts get under his skin, instead focusing on the King of the Ring tournament. Michinoku tried the victory roll but Mero dropped him on his face, Mero soon setting up the TKO just for Michinoku to arm drag his way out of it, Michinoku nailing a big springboard moonsault onto Mero! Michinoku prepared for the Michinoku Driver, Mero getting out of it and applying a sleeper hold to Michinoku, Michinoku running into the corner and backflipping out of the hold, Michinoku with the rolling clutch roll-up, and scoring the upset!

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Winner: TAKA Michinoku @ 5:48 [**1/2]

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The crowd cheered as TAKA Michinoku celebrated his win, Marc Mero getting up and swinging for Michinoku with a knockout punch, but Michinoku slid out of the ring! TAKA was going to the quarter-finals to face the winner of D-Lo Brown and Owen Hart as Mero kicked off in the ring with Jacqueline. The theme of Sable then hit as she came out, telling Jacqueline that she loved embarrassing her last night, and she'll do it again and again if she has to! Sable got an applause, Mero and Jacqueline looking angry.

Another image of Mr McMahon and Stone Cold Steve Austin getting ready was shown, and their epic WWF Championship match is coming up soon.

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The crowd cheered as Terry Funk was in the ring as we returned to the War Zone. Funk stated that he'd like to thank everybody for the support. He really does love everybody in the World Wrestling Federation, and professional wrestling. He risked his career, and if it was worth it for a piece of gold called the WWF European Championship, he can only say yes. He reminds us of his success in the double-cross ranch, the territorial system and how Funk was one of the icons. His runs in the WWF and ECW, but last night was it for him, Triple H is a talented athlete, but he really does think last night should have gone down differently. Nonetheless, he concludes by saying farewell to all of us, the fans here in Rosemont Horizon giving him a prideful round of applause.

Mr McMahon was on his way to the ring, and the WWF Championship main event was up next!

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This was the ultimate encounter, as the "Texas Rattlesnake" had been digging at Vince McMahon for so long, since last September when Austin first gave McMahon the Stunner live on RAW, this was about retribution for Vince. Ten long months of having Austin harass, humiliate and harm him for Vince to finally be able to hit Austin, and this all started when Vince applied to be referee in Austin's match with Kane last night at Over the Edge. Austin and McMahon locked up, the WWF Champion shoving McMahon down, and the two traded blows, Austin knocking McMahon down and stomping a mudhole in the Chairman's bunghole! The crowd were cheering him on, but suddenly the theme of D-Generation X hit and Austin tossed Vince over the top rope.

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Stone Cold Steve Austin threw the Chairman on the floor suspecting an attack from D-Generation X as a faction, and he stood motivated and waiting for them to arrive when suddenly Triple H slammed a steel chair into the spine of Steve Austin from behind! The WWF European Champion had came through the crowd to beat on Austin, as Triple H nailed a Pedigree on Stone Cold! The crowd booed as Jim Ross called Triple H the "Game". And what a game indeed. The War Zone went off the air.[/font][/center]

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-- Over the Edge: In Your House wasn't bad. It had five good matches and four under average matches. Two of those under average matches should have been better. The show opened up with a decent NWA North American Heavyweight Championship match between Jeff Jarrett and Al Snow which finally featured the debut of Dan Severn, a former UFC fighter. TAFKA Goldust cut a weird worked shoot style promo where he abandoned the gimmick of Goldust and called himself 'Dustin Runnels'. Jacqueline beat Sable in a T&A-appealed evening gown match in a waste of time segment. Owen Hart beat X-Pac in a solid match where Owen exposed X-Pac's leg problems. The Rock beat Faarooq in an anti-climatic match in their feud spanning the past three months. It should have been on television, their chemistries don't mesh well. In one of the greatest matches this year drama wise, The Undertaker met Mankind in an intense Hardcore match, Mankind unveiled by Mick Foley for this show. Justin Bradshaw beat Ken Shamrock by disqualification in an awkward WWF Intercontinental Championship match. Shamrock could not wrestle well with the cast on. The disqualification finish also made Shamrock look weak, intentionally getting himself disqualified to avoid his hand injury becoming aggravating is good, but the fans weren't caring for that. The New Age Outlaws won a clustered four-corner WWF Tag Team Championship match to build their ego more. Triple H beat Terry Funk in an emotional rollercoaster of a match to retain the WWF European Championship in a dramatic I Quit bout. It's a shame that Funk will not keep with being retired. Lastly, Kane beat Steve Austin by disqualification after Vince McMahon rang the bell on Austin and attacked him. The brawl with Undertaker and Kane and Vince beating up on Austin is basically build for King of the Ring, safe to say.

-- RAW is WAR was a stacked show this week. The roster has been suffering from overclogging if anything. With four weeks to set up the King of the Ring tournament, this week and next week's episodes of RAW will feature four qualifying matches each. It was pretty difficult to keep up with the tournament. X-Pac and Steve Blackman was a decent match that would have been better if Chyna wasn't involved; if she's going to get involved with wrestlers, she needs to learn how to act. Dan Severn and Faarooq was a random burial of a man who was given a potential push up until Over the Edge. Severn worked pretty quickly for a big man, but he is past his prime. TAKA Michinoku and Marc Mero was a decent match which would have been better in 1996 (Mero in shape and at top quality). And in an average match, Val Venis beat Dustin Runnels, potentially ending this short storyline. Wonder what is next for Dustin. The main storyline to this show was Steve Austin challenging Vince McMahon to a match, and the controversy of the authority figure in action. It was an intriguing segment at the start of the show, and Commissioner Slaughter's promo with Vince was simply intense. In other happenings, The Undertaker called Vince McMahon out in a worked shoot style promo, but got Paul Bearer. A no holds barred match was set up for next week, which surely will be much more entertaining than their matches at WrestleMania XIV, Unforgiven and RAW last month. In other noteworthy action, the New Age Outlaws gave Too Much a shot at them, but the bout ended when ECW's Balls Mahoney and Axl Rotten interfered attacking the champions. Don't expect quality matches from them. Jeff Jarrett and Owen Hart had a well-wrestled match up until the finish. Cornette's supposed 'Dynasty' are now being known as the 'South'. In addition, D-Lo Brown won the WWF Intercontinental Championship out of the blue from an injured Ken Shamrock thanks to Justin Bradshaw. Would have been much better for D-Lo to have won it cleanly. He deserves the title anyway. Terry Funk staged a retirement speech, saying his farewells. He'll be back on the independent circuit shortly. Lastly, Steve Austin and Vince McMahon went to a draw when Triple H assaulted Stone Cold from behind.

-- Jose Estrada and the Minis were released yesterday due to WWF management having nothing for them to do. There is no word on why they decided to keep Jesus Castillo and other Minis, Max Mini, El Torito and Tarantula. More releases are on the way apparently.

-- Jeff Hardy from the Hardy brothers in OMEGA Wrestling has been silently making a debut on WWF television on Shotgun Saturday, failing to defeat Gangrel and showing so much tenacity, he finally earns the affection of the fans. It should be interesting where this run goes.

-- In the injury report, Ken Shamrock will be out of action for a month to two months with his hand injury. It occurred when Justin Bradshaw was meant to injure Shamrock's hand during a beatdown weeks back, but accidentally legitimately fractured his hand. Shamrock has been in agony but still working house shows, but dropped the Intercontinental title to D-Lo Brown strictly for injury purposes.

-- The dirtsheets have wrapped their heads around a potential dropped storyline that was planned for King of the Ring, where Jim Cornette's South faction got into a war with a face Nation. This scenario was dropped when its plans collided with the King of the Ring tournament situation.

-- WWF RAW beat WCW Nitro this week with a 4.5 rating to a 3.7 rating. This is probably the bump from Over the Edge, as well as the big boasted main event.

-- The WWF has King of the Ring on 06/28/98. The current card involves:
- KOTR Finals
- KOTR Semi-Finals
- KOTR Semi-Finals

-- The WWF had Over the Edge: In Your House on 05/31/98. In results from the show:
- Jeff Jarrett def. Al Snow to retain the NWA North American Heavyweight title
- Jacuqeline def. Sable in an Evening Gown match
- Owen Hart def. X-Pac
- The Rock def. Faarooq
- Mankind def. The Undertaker in a Hardcore match
- Justin Bradshaw def. Ken Shamrock by DQ; Shamrock retains the WWF Intercontinental title
- The New Age Outlaws def. Kama Mustafa & Mark Henry, the Rock 'n' Roll Express & The Headbangers to retain the WWF Tag Team Championships
- Triple H def. Terry Funk to retain the WWF European Championship
- Kane def. Steve Austin by DQ; Austin retains the WWF title. Vince McMahon was the referee.

-- In results from RAW is WAR on 06/01/98:
- X-Pac def. Steve Blackman in a KOTR Qualifying match
- D-Lo Brown def. Ken Shamrock to win the WWF Intercontinental title
- The New Age Outlaws def. Too Much by DQ
- Owen Hart def. Jeff Jarrett
- Val Venis def. Dustin Runnels in a KOTR Qualifying match
- Dan Severn def. Faarooq in a KOTR Qualifying match
- TAKA Michinoku def. Marc Mero in a KOTR Qualifying match
- Steve Austin vs Vince McMahon for the WWF Championship; no contest

-- In results from Monday Nitro on 06/01/98:
- Yuji Nagata def. Silver King
- Ernest Miller def. Jerry Flynn
- Raven & Saturn def. Public Enemy
- Alex Wright def. Chavo Guerrero Jr
- Konnan def. Lenny Lane
- Fit Finley def. Eddie Guerrero to retain the WCW World Television title by DQ
- Chris Jericho def. Juventud Guerrera
- Chris Benoit def. Booker T in a Best of Seven match (2-2)
- Goldberg def. La Parka
- Lex Luger & Kevin Nash def. Hollywood Hogan & The Giant by DQ


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- X-Pac def. Steve Blackman
- Val Venis def. Dustin Runnels
- Dan Severn def. Faarooq
- TAKA Michinoku def. Marc Mero
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- Kane vs The Undertaker
- D-Lo Brown vs Owen Hart
- Jeff Jarrett vs Darren Drozdov
06/15/98 RAW
- Rock/Snow vs Kane/Taker
- Owen/D-Lo vs TAKA Michinoku
06/22/98 RAW
- Dan Severn vs Val Venis
- X-Pac vs Jarrett/Drozdov
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A ten bell salute with a graphic aired, showing the late, great Sylvester Ritter, who was better known to WWF fans as the Junkyard Dog; he passed away last Tuesday morning aged 47.
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This was expected to be a hot opening contest, as Al Snow and The Rock battled in the first of four King of the Ring tournament matches tonight, and the winner of this one will go to face the winner of The Undertaker and Kane next week on RAW is WAR. Al Snow put up a great fight against the leader of the Nation, Snow catching Rock off-guard in the early moments of this bout, Snow working over the neck of Rock and hitting some high-offense moves, Rock sliding out of the ring wisely, and Rock took advantage as he dodged a plancha to the outside made by Snow! Rock delivered some blows to Snow and worked over the shoulder of the insane Al Snow, Rock nailing the running shoulder breaker and just getting overconfident, Rock confident that he would put Al in his place quite easily from this point on. Snow fired back though, as he blocked the Rock Bottom and nailed the Snowplow, Al about to succeed and go for the win but Brian Christopher and Scott Taylor of Too Much were at ringside! They stole Head and ran up the ramp, Snow looking angry as he turned around to get the Rock Bottom, giving Rock the win!

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The crowd booed as The Rock celebrated his win, the "Brahma Bull" now into the quarter-final round of the King of the Ring tournament. Too Much stood on the rampway in laughter as Scott Taylor tossed Head back into the ring next to Al Snow.

A vignette aired, promoting the debut of the mysterious Edge. He will debut next Monday night on RAW is WAR!

-- Commercial Break --

We return to RAW as we were in the backstage area with the new WWF Intercontinental Champion, D-Lo Brown as Kevin Kelly was interviewing, asking D-Lo about last week. He says how many may consider what happened last week to be a fluke, but quite frankly, he doesn't care! He's sick and tired of having to fight his way to actually making progress here in the WWF. He is a member of the Nation, what a dominant faction they are. Him, Rock, Mark Henry and Kama Mustafa are four of the baddest in the World Wrestling Federation, and there is no denying that! D-Lo talked about how he knows that if he comes to having to face Rock in this King of the Ring tournament, it will be a competitive match, but what matters is the fact that tonight, he will be proving himself as a true champion against Owen Hart.

We go to Jim Ross and Michael Cole, as they promote what is still to come in this first hour of RAW, featuring comments from Triple H for what he did last week to Stone Cold Steve Austin; Yoshihiro Tajiri will defend the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship against Mr Aguila; Owen Hart and D-Lo Brown will compete in a King of the Ring Qualifying match, plus more!

We return to the Metro Centre as Val Venis is making his way to the ring, the "Big Valbowski" taking the microphone and introducing himself to the fans in attendance. He talks about how he's felt a rush for a long time now, right down to that nitty gritty! Venis talks about how he's in the next round of the King of the Ring tournament, and it's going to be three weeks until he's proclaimed the God among men. Because he already is the God among women, and he means that in a heterosexual way! Venis was quickly interrupted by the theme of Dan the "Beast" Severn as a nasty piece of work began to walk down the rampway.

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Val Venis was definitely in for a fight tonight against the "Beast", Dan Severn. Severn made his debut in the World Wrestling Federation nine days ago at Over the Edge aiding the NWA North American Heavyweight Champion, Jeff Jarrett in a title defense, and he then defeated Faarooq last week on RAW to advance into the King of the Ring tournament. These two men will face in the quarter-finals as well, but this was not to be a sanctioned King of the Ring tournament match. Venis tried to battle Severn with submissions and keep the "Beast" downed but the "Big Valbowski" found himself in trouble as Severn applied several submissions moves, basically trying to seperate the body functions of the "Big Valbowski"! The "Beast" tried to apply the Beast Choker but Venis somehow managed to fight it off, trying to go after the knee. But soon Jeff Jarrett jumped into the ring, randomly slamming the acoustic guitar of his into the knee of Val Venis!

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Val Venis was down as Jeff Jarrett stood over the "Big Valbowski", "Double J" grinning maliciously as Dan "the Beast" Severn got up, giving Venis a T-bone suplex. Jim Cornette cheered them on in their efforts, then saluting the crowd as his fabulous South faction had once again dominated here on RAW is WAR.

We see Triple H, the New Age Outlaws, Chyna and X-Pac arrive at the arena in the parking lot, and they seem quite confident, Triple H having something to say later on tonight regarding why he attacked Stone Cold Steve Austin!

-- Commercial Break --

We return to RAW as Gangrel was shown rising from under the stage on a platform full of candles and surrounded by flames. The Jackyl joined him as the combination stood in the dark, only the flames lighting them up. Jackyl talked holy about how he was going to bring us all a new oddity by the name of Edge! Jackyl talks about how for weeks we have heard about Edge...and so the second oddity is discovered! Jackyl then notes that he was also the man that raised Edge, and Edge should be grateful! He states that Darren Drozdov is another name that for some reason denies the claim of being his project. He made Drozdov what he was, from the NFL to the WWF. But his vanity is to be cheered by the fans and wear queer leather biker clothing instead of be superior to the cream of the crop here on the surface of the WWF. Jackyl promises change.

Mr McMahon arrived at the arena in the parking lot, stepping out of his limousine to be confronted by Commissioner Slaughter, Slaughter talking about how Vince planned to demoralise his own reputation as Chairman of the World Wrestling Federation tonight. McMahon told Slaughter not to push it, reminding him who Slaughter was talking to. Slaughter told McMahon that he still feels like he doesn't know Vince anymore. He's ego and power driven. That's not the prideful owner of the WWF he knew that destroyed the territory system in the 1980s.

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This situation had been building up on Shotgun Saturday Night as Yoshihiro Tajiri, who had safely claimed the leadership of Kai En Tai position, proved himself against Mr Aguila on both Shotgun as well as the Free 4-All prior to the Over the Edge pay-per-view, but Aguila was still poised to face Tajiri, and this was his opportunity. Yamaguchi at ringside popped Aguila's bubble though, as he distracted Aguila twice, Aguila getting tired of the interference, and he dropkicked him off the apron! Aguila went on a roll of hurricanranas, then setting up for the corkscrew moonsault just for Tajiri to get his knees up! Tajiri stalked Aguila, and the Buzzsaw Kick connected! Tajiri hooked the legs for the victory.

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Yoshihiro Tajiri celebrated his win to boos as TAKA Michinoku soon headed to ringside, and Michinoku grabbed Yamaguchi! TAKA shoved him down and dove at Tajiri, both men exchanging reversals of each other's move attempts! Michinoku seemed to still want the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship, but Tajiri decided not to return to the ring, instead Kai En Tai attacked Michinoku from behind! Shoichi Funaki, Dick Togo and Mens Teioh stood tall over Michinoku as Yamaguchi and Tajiri were amused.

Triple H was headed to the ring, and the leader of D-Generation X was not alone! They're up next.

-- Commercial Break --

We return to RAW as D-Generation X began to make their way down the rampway to a mixed reaction, Triple H garnering most heat from the crowd in Rockford, Triple H leading the New Age Outlaws out, X-Pac and Chyna slowly behind as Hunter stood in the ring and called himself the "Game". He mentioned about how he did what he did last week because he was the "Game". Triple H mentions how nobody will ever compare to him. He's been underestimated by the world. And D-Generation X are mere outcasts to many other WWF superstars. Road Dogg Jesse James claimed that it was nothing too personal, but Bad Ass Billy Gunn yelled that it was just a sign of being superior to everybody else! X-Pac talked about how DX joked about everybody and dominated everybody. Vince McMahon, or Brooklyn Brawler. Triple H noted that what happened last week was not a mere show of ego by DX. It was actually trying to avenge a loss that badly hurt DX last time around, reminding us of WrestleMania XIV and how Stone Cold Steve Austin took Shawn Michaels out of action and cost him to have back treatment instead of remaining in DX and a part of the World Wrestling Federation. Triple H says that it's all on Stone Cold's head, and everybody may want a shot at the "Texas Rattlesnake", but it's all about the WWF Championship! Hunter notes that it was awful having Shawn Michaels as WWF Champion, and how much he used to patronize and criticise his own team members. Gunn vowed that there'd be no more of this hopefully. Hunter talks about how Stone Cold Steve Austin is a cash pinata. He's filled with goodness, and he's just waiting to bash him open. Hunter talks about how he's hunting Austin down for the WWF Championship, and he honestly can't wait for King of the Ring, because the following man has handed him a WWF Championship opportunity! Mr McMahon walked out to the ring to a loud crowd of boos, the Chairman surrounded by security as McMahon asked Triple H how he was. Hunter talks about how he apologises for everything DX did to him, because the fact of the matter is, they just want the glory. Vince tells them to say no more; they struggled without Shawn Michaels, but tonight onwards, D-Generation X can count on the McMahon family for anything! McMahon talks about how Steve Austin is a moderate fighting champion, but he wants him to face a great specimen of talent and control, Triple H on June 28th at King of the Ring. And what he's going to do is hand DX these security guards because everybody knows that Stone Cold will try and jump his number one contender unfairly! The crowd booed as McMahon crotch chopped with DX, RAW going off the air.

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The opening video package to the War Zone aired, as we cut to the Rockford Metro Centre for the second hour of RAW is WAR! Jim Ross and Jerry the "King" Lawler introduce us to the show.

We return to the ring as the New Age Outlaws were in the ring without security, Billy Gunn talking about how they don't need security to beat these bozos up, but they're waiting with handcuffs if they want to mess. Road Dogg Jesse James talks about how last week they were attacked by another pair of ECW invaders, Balls Mahoney and Axl Rotten, and they are the most out of shape wrestlers they have ever seen! The New Age Outlaws joke about how they wanted a challenge to being the best team in the WWF, but being faced by hardcore fat freaks like supposedly "big" Balls and "angry" Axl is an insult to the WWF Tag Team Champions! Nonetheless, they vow to get this over with.

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The ECW invaders mixed it up with the WWF Tag Team Champions in a hardcore tag team match; all four men legal men and the first fall would have given us a decisive victor. The New Age Outlaws were caught off guard by the unorthodox stylings of Balls Mahoney and Axl Rotten as Rotten and Mahoney had steel chairs in their hands less than twenty seconds into it, immediately intimidating the WWF Tag Team Champions. Billy Gunn and Jesse James attempted to run away from the ECW tag team but Balls and Axl grabbed them and brought them back to the ring. Balls nailed a scoop slam piledriver known as the "Nutcracker Suite" on Road Dogg and went for the pinfall but Billy Gunn nailed Balls in the back of the head with the steel chair! Gunn nailed the FameAsser onto a chair and scored the victory.

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The New Age Outlaws celebrated their win to loud boos as Billy Gunn and Jesse James quickly slid out of the ring and getting out of here as WWF Tag Team Champions, Bad Ass and Road Dogg then met with a huge problem by the likes of ECW's Dudley Boyz! Buh Buh Ray, D-Von and Big Dick Dudley confronted the WWF Tag Team Champions, Buh Buh and D-Von attacking Billy and Jesse! D-Von took care of James as Buh Buh picked Billy Gunn up and gave him a massive powerbomb off of the edge of the stage ten feet to the floor through three tables! The fans chanted 'ECW' as ANOTHER tag team had arrived in the World Wrestling Federation from Extreme Championship Wrestling!

An advertisement aired, promoting the debut of a new WWF television show known as WWF Sunday Night HeAT; and it will air every Sunday night from 6PM Eastern on USA Network, beginning on Sunday, July 5th 1998!

-- Commercial Break --

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This was a hard-hitting match as expected, D-Lo Brown should not have been expecting a walk in the park, especially against a man by the likes of the "Black Hart", Owen. Owen Hart was poised to make it two King of the Ring victories after another, of course winning the 1994 King of the Ring tournament. Owen started off strong, making the new WWF Intercontinental Champion on the verge of losing, D-Lo somehow managing to fire back with some heavy lefts and rights, regaining momentum with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker. Brown worked over the "Black Hart" and his back, obviously perhaps to ensure himself that the Sharpshooter would not be applied. Brown soon decided that it was time to wrap the match up, D-Lo going for the Frog Splash but Owen moved! Owen set up the Sharpshooter just for Brown to kick him away, Brown headed for the Sky High perhaps but Owen ran back with a dropkick and Brown flew to the ringside area! Owen dove out of the ring with a plancha, Owen then being struck with the WWF Intercontinental Championship by D-Lo!

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The crowd booed as D-Lo Brown stood tall when suddenly Steve Blackman jogged to the ring, giving D-Lo the Martial Arts Kick! The "Lethal Weapon" signalled interest in the WWF Intercontinental Championship, as Blackman attended to Owen, Owen Hart now going to the quarter finals to face TAKA Michinoku!

In the backstage area we see Triple H with X-Pac and Chyna, the trio talking about how bad things had happened to the New Age Outlaws without security around them, and how they need to keep with security to avoid incident. The "Game" stood with X-Pac and Chyna behind security, X-Pac talking about how he needed to use the bathroom, Hunter telling a security guard to follow him in. The guard went in first, and the guard was heard in pain, then tossed out into a wall! D-Generation X high-tailed it as Stone Cold Steve Austin stepped into the corridor, pleased with himself!

-- Commercial Break --

Marc Mero was shown with Jacqueline in a backstage dressing room, Jacqueline and "Marvelous" Marc enjoying RAW is WAR tonight, Mero then asked by Jacqueline what he wants to see more than anything. Mero smiled, telling Jackie that he'd love to see Sable just being beaten in the middle of that ring, chained to Jacqueline and humiliated live. Jacqueline tells Mero that if that's his fantasy, then it will be fulfilled! She told Marc that she'd make it a deal, next Monday night on RAW is WAR!

We return to the War Zone as Jim Cornette was standing by with Jeff Jarrett, Cornette mentioning the recent domination on display by the South. He states how they've been getting more aggressive, because it's a damn fact that they are a bunch of the most underrated WWF superstars in the company today! Cornette tells us that 1998 is the year of "Double J", and it continues tonight when he starts the journey to winning the King of the Ring tournament!

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This was bound to start a riot as Jeff Jarrett, the NWA North American Heavyweight Champion fought the unique Darren Drozdov in the seventh qualifying match in the King of the Ring tournament, "Double J" seemingly wanting to get this match over and done with as soon as possible, but Drozdov did not allow it, Darren Drozdov with several shoulder blocks, in control of the NWA Champion with his mix of agility and power. Drozdov soon set up for the spear, but Jarrett kneed him right in the cranium! Jarrett stomped on Drozdov as the Mid-South Connection snuck up on the Disciples of the Apocalypse, Bob Holly and Bart Gunn in a brawl with Skull and 8-Ball! This distracted the official and Cornette got into the ring, slamming Drozdov with the NWA North American Heavyweight Championship! Jarrett nailed the Stroke and that was all she wrote!

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Jeff Jarrett celebrated his win before 8-Ball and Skull got into the ring, Skull trading blows with Jeff Jarrett! Darren Drozdov remained down and out of it as "Double J" bailed, Bart Gunn and Bob Holly attacking Skull and 8-Ball again! The Mid-South Connection started beating on Skull and 8-Ball, Dan the "Beast" Severn arriving and joining in on the beating by the South on the DOA before Faarooq hit the ring with a steel chair, the South choosing to bail from the ring! Faarooq attended to the DOA members as J.R. and the King hyped the main event; Undertaker and Kane in no holds barred, next!

An advertisement aired, promoting the King of the Ring; live on pay-per-view on Sunday, June 28th 1998 from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

-- Commercial Break --

We go to the parking lot where Triple H, X-Pac and Chyna were, D-Generation X with security as they headed for the DX limousine, Stone Cold Steve Austin out there as he took out three of the security guards! The WWF Champion got rid of them, as X-Pac dove at Austin, Austin shoving him off, Chyna also getting involved and it was three-on-one on the "Texas Rattlesnake"! Austin shoved Chyna out of the way and tossed X-Pac into a steel shutter, Triple H and Austin trading blows before Austin low blowed Hunter, opening the limousine door and laying Triple H out, then shoving him inside and slamming the door shut! Austin headed back to the arena, the security and DX laid out.

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Bound to be a barbaric main event, as the "Lord of Darkness" and the "Big Red Machine", the Brothers of Destruction mixed it up once again here on RAW is WAR. Kane and Undertaker traded blows in the center, Kane leading 'Taker to ringside where Kane attempted to put Undertaker down with a Tombstone Piledriver on the thin mat padding at ringside, Undertaker firing back and even laying Paul Bearer out! The "Phenom" wanted revenge for everything Bearer and Kane had done, without a doubt. Undertaker set up a Chokeslam on Kane but Kane grabbed 'Taker by the throat too, both men falling over the guard railing, and the match started to head into the crowd! Undertaker attempted the Tombstone onto bare concrete in the crowd, and later 'Taker nailed Old School off of a barricade in the audience, the "Deadman" soon nailing the Chokeslam onto technical equipment, Kane was down and out! Undertaker covered Kane in this anything goes battle, 'Taker lighting a match and he set Kane's arm on fire! Kane was screaming in agony as his arm was engulfed in a flame, headed to the backstage area!

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-- RAW is WAR was an alright show, although it was exposed by the packed nature of the fact we had to cram in four King of the Ring tournament matches with other storylines. The four matches were better than last week's episode of RAW anyways; Al Snow and The Rock had a good match as did Owen Hart and D-Lo Brown (although it didn't really do too much for the new WWF Intercontinental Champion they are building), The Undertaker and Kane was dramatic, but not that good and never given an actual finish (we're expecting a bye at this point, but we can never tell), Mankind returned and attacked Undertaker afterwards. Darren Drozdov and Jeff Jarrett was acceptable, but average. In other occurrences on the show, Axl Rotten and Balls Mahoney completed their task of putting ECW over in their entertaining rivalry with the New Age Outlaws (the 'best tag team in the promotion' being attacked by outsider tag teams is a brilliant concept, especially from ECW) in a dire hardcore tag team match. The Dudley Boyz debuted, Buh Buh Ray, D-Von and Big Dick destroying the Outlaws quickly. At least Dudleys/Outlaws will be better than Rotten and Mahoney/Outlaws. The South attacked Drozdov and the DOA just for Faarooq to make the save in a decent spot. I'm assuming there'll be an eight man tag team situation at King of the Ring. Val Venis and Dan Severn fought in a match that will take place in a tournament bout next week; sort've pointless. But the action was surprising; both meshed quite nicely. It was still an average match though. Mr Aguila and Yoshihiro Tajiri's match was decent, but Aguila is still green, learning and sloppy in the ring. In promos, the show involved Mr McMahon with some more tension with Commissioner Slaughter, and his siding with D-Generation X against Steve Austin was expected. Austin got payback on Hunter; it was an entertaining series of skits, but a Diet Cola version of Austin vs HBK.

-- As featured on RAW is WAR, Sylvester Ritter passed away last Tuesday morning after falling asleep at the wheel of his car coming home from his daughter's high-school graduation and crashing. Ritter was better known to WWF and NWA fans as the Junkyard Dog; perhaps one of the greatest WWF superstars never to win a WWF Championship, the JYD was loved by many in the 1980s.

-- As revealed on RAW is WAR, a vignette aired promoting Sunday Night HeAT as the WWF's new Sunday night television show on USA Network. It will hopefully help out the work flow of the stacked RAW episodes in recent weeks.

- ECW's relationship with the WWF will be ending in September, as Paul Heyman feels like they have benefited a lot from the past several months with the WWF. ECW has helped build WWF superstars as well as WWF make ECW wrestlers and ECW as a promotion more recognised. The storyline with ECW invaders and the New Age Outlaws is expected to end at SummerSlam, but it is receiving rave reviews.

-- Apparently the World Wrestling Federation have ordered construction on a Hell in a Cell...we can only assume to see Mankind vs The Undertaker in Hell in a Cell, which beating 'Taker vs Shawn Michaels from last October, will be nearly impossible.

-- WWF RAW beat WCW Nitro this week with a 4.26 rating to 4.12. Very even.

-- The WWF has King of the Ring on 06/28/98. The current card involves:
- Steve Austin vs Triple H for the WWF Championship
- KOTR Finals
- KOTR Semi-Finals
- KOTR Semi-Finals

-- In results from New Japan's Budokan Hall show on 06/05/98:
- Tatsumi Fujinami def. Shinya Hashimoto to retainthe IWGP title
- Masahiro Chono & Hiroyoshi Tenzan def. Shiro Koshinaka & Genichiro Tenryu to win the IWGP Tag Team titles
- Don Frye def. Yoshiaki Fujiwara
- Jushin Liger, El Samurai, Hayato Nanjyo, Kendo Ka Shin & Yuji Yasuraoka def. Koji Kanemoto, Shinjiro Otani, Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Masakazu Fukuda & Shiryu in an elimination tag team match

-- In results from RAW is WAR on 06/08/98:
- The Rock def. Al Snow in a KOTR Qualifying match
- Val Venis def. Dan Severn by DQ
- Yoshihiro Tajiri def. Mr Aguila to retain the WWF Light Heavyweight title
- The New Age Outlaws def. Axl Rotten & Balls Mahoney
- Owen Hart def. D-Lo Brown in a KOTR Qualifying match
- Jeff Jarrett def. Darren Drozdov in a KOTR Qualifying match
- The Undertaker vs Kane in a KOTR Qualifying No Holds Barred match.

-- In results from Monday Nitro on 06/08/98:
- Yuji Nagata def. Jerry Flynn
- Horace Boulder & Reese def. Juventud Guerrera & Hammer
- Eddie Guerrero def. Scott Putski by DQ
- Booker T def. Chris Benoit
- Fit Finley def. Norman Smiley to retain the WCW World Television title
- Dean Malenko def. Disco Inferno
- Goldberg def. Chavo Guerrero Jr

-- The King of the Ring tournament line-up currently consists of:
06/15/98 RAW
- The Rock vs The Undertaker/Kane
- Owen Hart vs TAKA Michinoku
06/22/98 RAW
- Dan Severn vs Val Venis
- X-Pac vs Jeff Jarrett
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- Rock/Taker vs Venis/Severn
- X-Pac/Jarrett vs Owen/TAKA
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Sorry for slacking off with replies lately. Nice tribute for JYD here. Rock advancing in the KOTR is best. I guess you're going with Too Much vs. Al Snow/Head. That ending to the match was amusing. Dan Severn versus Val Venis is a little random, since they are just going to wrestle again next week. I hope we get some JJ/Val Venis matches out of that finish. Edge will probably join Jackyl and co., but then Christian will debut and they'll kick out Jackyl to form The Brood. Droz has never interested me, really. Looks like Vince will fire Sgt. Slaughter soon. Yoshihiro Tajiri winning in what would be a decent match is good. Hopefully you put some meaning into the division other than Michinoku. Good DX/McMahon promo. Hopefully DX or Vince turns on one another after the Stone Cold/Triple H feud. Outlaws winning was the better move, of course. Dudley Boyz, with Big Dick? Awesome. Awesome spot with the power bomb, too. Ironic how they debut at the same exact time for the both of us. Yes, Sunday Night HeAT is a great way to showcase more talent rather than that terrible Shotgun Saturday Night show. D-Lo losing by DQ in his first match as champion just hurts him. Steve Blackman versus D-Lo Brown will be decent at best. Lmao at Austin in the bathroom, beating up the guard. I could completely see him doing that. Interested in the Mero/Jackie segment. I really hope JJ wins the IC (or European) by the end of the year. Jeff Jarrett with the win is best. Tbh, I could see the D.O.A. killing The Mid-South Connection. Dan Severn is great backup for them, though. Yay, Faarooq is doing something! Like the brawl between Austin and DX. Austin fighting them off is good. Great main event with Kane/Taker III. Taker setting Kane's arm on fire is crazy. I'm guessing Rock will get a bye, only to be defeated by Owen Hart in the finals. I could see Rock winning, though. Good close to the show with Mick Foley taking out Undertaker. Exciting show, with some interesting twists.