10 Years of Classic RAW Moments

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

I went with Jericho's Arrival. It gives me chills to this day. Cutting one of the best fucking promos in history with the Rock, didn't hurt as well.

[Guest EN090]

These aren't all the best moments but just some classic ones.

 

-The NEW DX forms the night after WM14 over a fallen Terry Funk/Cactus Jack

-Shane slaps Vince in the face

-Foley wins the WWF Title

-2001 ECW reformation

-DX invades WCW

-Austin/Tyson confrontation

-Tyson joins DX

-Mick Foley's B-Day party for The Rock

-Cactus Jack calls it quits (only to return as Mankind later that night) because of fans cheering for Austin

-Eric Bischoff arrives

-Austin breaks into Pillman's house with a gun

-X-Pac's debut and shoot promo on Hogan

-Austin driving the Zamboni into the arena

-Austin driving the beer truck into the arena

-Austin stuns McMahon for the first time

-Cactus Jack debuts at MSG

-Triple H ruins Test's and Steph's wedding

-Bret "The Midget" Hart returns to the WWE weeks after the Survivor Series 97 only to submit to HBK's sharpshooter again

-Nation parodies DX

-HBK collapses

-SID destroys HBK with three powerbombs

-New Age Outlaws throw Terry Funk/Cactus Jack off the stage

-Jerico's debut

-The Raw/Nitro simulcast

-Austin throws Paul Bearer into a sewer

-McMahon's training video for his Royal Rumble match with Austin

-McMahon arrests Austin the night afer WM14

-Austin holds McMahon hostage after McMahon fires him the nigh before

-Rock vs. Austin the night after Survivor Series 98

-HBK announces his return to the ring against HHH

-Bret Hart attacks McMahon after McMahon makes HBK the guest referee for SummerSlam 97

-Austin shatter Bret Hart's ankle with a chair

-Mick Foley announces a one-night return for WM15

-Bret turns heel against America

[Guest EN090]

I went with Jericho's Arrival. It gives me chills to this day. Cutting one of the best fucking promos in history with the Rock, didn't hurt as well.

 

I was their too. It was an awesome show.

[Guest RicFlairGlory]

Austin holding McMahon Hostage was quite easily the best RAW of that summer. Vince 3:16 says I just pissed my pants... that was a classic

[Guest geniusMoment]

On heat they just said that the special will be live from the world and that many past raw personalities will be there. So who do you guys think will show up?

Rob Bartlett

Savage

Heenan

Hogan

Mick

Who

[Guest RicFlairGlory]

Big Daddy Cool

[Guest fazzle]

Austin holding McMahon Hostage was quite easily the best RAW of that summer. Vince 3:16 says I just pissed my pants... that was a classic

You have GOT to be kidding me. That's easily one of my least favorite Stone Cold moments.

 

Anyways, I voted for Kid over Ramon. Sure, nowadays it's seen as "just X-Pac" and "clique politics" but back then, it was fucking awesome.

[Guest Olympic Slam]

I voted for "It Never Happened." However, the moment would still mean a lot more had Jericho not won the Undisputed Title.

[Guest Hogan Made Wrestling]

Austin vs. Tyson for sure, it was such a huge moment in wrestling history and unlike really anything else on RAW before or since.

 

After that, basically all of the Hart foundation stuff, and the stuff leading up to it, including:

 

-Bret goes berserk before WM after losing to Sid, and a wild brawl starts (including Vince).

-Shawn superkicks Bret in the wheelchair.

-Bret stops the Owen-Bulldog match and the Harts reunite.

-Austin attacks Bret in the ambulance.

-Michaels/Austin vs. Owen/Bulldog, plus the beatdown on Bret at the end.

-Hart anti-USA promos, particularly the one in Canada that drew enormous face pops.

[Secret Agent 0]

Since i really didn't follow wrestling all that closely until the summer of 99 i wonder something. I remember seeing Vince McMahon on Jay Leno once and they were promoting a Vince/Shane vs Austin for ownership of the WWF.

 

Did that ever happen and if so what was the results? Austin wins?? AND was that a RAW moment, because that just sounds like an Austin ran WWF would rock my vote.

[Guest CanadianChris]

On heat they just said that the special will be live from the world and that many past raw personalities will be there.

You goota be kidding me...and I just had a thought that someone over there would think of doing a retrospective, in this era of "season premieres" and "guest stars" on wrestling programs.

 

What's next? You guessed it...

 

"Tonight, on a very special RAW...the superstars hold an intervention for Jeff Hardy."

[Guest converge241]

I voted Mick winning the first world title

 

i loved the black wedding though..i got chills when They were stopping every face or corporate member..and then the glass hits at the last possible second

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

Since i really didn't follow wrestling all that closely until the summer of 99 i wonder something. I remember seeing Vince McMahon on Jay Leno once and they were promoting a Vince/Shane vs Austin for ownership of the WWF.

 

Did that ever happen and if so what was the results? Austin wins?? AND was that a RAW moment, because that just sounds like an Austin ran WWF would rock my vote.

Not a RAW moment. The actual match took place at KotR 99. It was a ladder match that involved a briefcase that held the "documents" that would allow the winner full ownership. Vince and Shane won, though after a nasty spot where Austin dropped the entrance set (stacked ladders) on them. There was supposed to be some kind of underlying angle, as someone lifted the briefcase just as Austin was about to win the match. In the Vince Russo era of WWF programming, however, it wasn't mentioned again. Surprise surprise. It didn't matter really. Steve went on to win the title the very next night.

 

I believe before that however, Austin was given power by Linda McMahon and even went as far as to Austinize Vince's actual office in WWF HQ. I didn't care for the angle as I hated Steve's character then.

[Guest Hogan Made Wrestling]

Austin pouring cement into Vince's convertible has to be up there.