by Logan Scisco - Vince McMahon saying that Steve Austin winning the WWF championship would be a corporate nightmare on last week’s show is replayed.  Austin will have a rebuttal tonight! - We are really due for a new RAW opening because the original video has some guys like Sid in it that are no longer part of the company.  To compensate, the company is having to splice in lots of recent footage. - Jim Ross and Michael Cole are doing commentary and they are taped from Tucson, Arizona.  This is the go home show for WrestleMania XIV.

by Logan Scisco We kick off our next round of reviews by covering the 1998 season of Monday Night Raw.  1998 is when the WWF finally turned the Monday Night Wars in its favor and began the process of grinding WCW to dust (assisted by poor WCW booking patterns and the AOL-Time Warner merger).  The year saw the creation of new stars, the continuation of a more mature product, and Steve Austin solidify himself as one of the greatest WWF stars of all-time.  I’ve also decided to modify my rating style for this set of reviews.  I don’t like doing star ratings for TV events because of the length of the matches, so when I review the pay-per-views I’ll revert to the star rating, but for the TV shows I’m going to do an average point system.  If a match or lengthy interview segment is worthwhile, it will receive a point.  Otherwise, it won’t.  I hope that this can better clarify the good and bad elements of a show.  If everyone hates it I can revert t...

As you may already know Eric Bischoff prides himself more as a television producer than a wrestling promoter. The seeds of such thought were planted back in the summer of 1993 during his first year as Executive Producer/Vice-President of WCW.