Thought this would be a good idea for a thread, hope the mods do as well.
Recently, I've been watching old Raw is War episodes from that era. I started at January 1998, and am one show into February. A few observations:
- I can't believe I'm saying this, but some of the matches are just weird, to pointless. There seems to be a lot of squash matches, I guess is what I'm saying.
- Mike Tyson just recently made his debut, and I know it was a huge deal and everything, but I feel like they almost spent too much time on it. I swear after every match it was, "Look at what happened last week between Austin and Tyson." Now, of course it's a good idea to promote the main event to the max, but I felt like it was too much.
- Austin was massively over. Of course we all know that, but re-watching his segments and matches, he had the crowd in the palm of his hand.
- The build to Undertaker vs. Kane is fantastic. Man, how far Kane has fallen. Removing his mask was a terrible idea.
- Tag division: LoD ruled, I hate the DoA, the Nation of Domination is very underrated. Should be mentioned in the list of great factions, imo. Also enjoying Terry Funk and Mick Foley.
- HHH and HBK were very entertaining.
Thoughts on any of this? Some of it may be "Captain Obvious" knowledge, but I was young during this era and am having fun reliving some of this stuff, while some other stuff has me scratching my head. Hopefully, this can get some discussion going on a great era in wrestling.