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The SmarK Rant for WWF Monday Night RAW – 04.24.00

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The SmarK Rant for WWF Monday Night RAW – 04.24.00

OK then!  It’s time for a random Patreon request, in this case someone wanting the go-home show for Backlash 2000, which I can easily accommodate.  I had been kind of doing the 2000 shows again off and on but lost interest a while ago.  And hey, if you’d like to become a Patron and earn the ability to influence my reviewing decisions, head on over to the PATREON OF DOOM at https://www.patreon.com/blogofdoom and check it out.

Live from Raleigh, NC

Your hosts are JR & The King

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The SmarK Rant for WWF Monday Night RAW – 04.08.96

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The SmarK Rant for Monday Night RAW – 04.08.96

(Sorry my friends, but as I noted in Tommy’s Dynamite review last night, TSN bumped Dynamite to another channel and so my DVR didn’t record it and I have to wait for them to put it up on the website later today.  So instead it’s the 96 RAW repost this morning!  And there’s not even a Nitro this week in history.  I feel like I’ve let you all down.) 

Taped from San Bernadino, CA

Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Mr. Perfect

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Mike Reviews – WWF Monday Night Raw 17th March 1997

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Hello You!

Seeing as we’re approaching WrestleMania later in the month, I decided to go back and review the go-home show for WrestleMania 13, seeing as it features quite a famous show closing moment. Mania 13 isn’t always well regarded, but it’s got a couple of good matches buried in amongst the early 97 malaise, along with an excellent match between Bret Hart and Steve Austin. I’ve actually reviewed it before and you can read what I thought if you like by clicking right HERE.

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The SmarK Rant for WWF Monday Night RAW – 03.11.96

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The SmarK Rant for Monday Night RAW – 03.11.96

Content warning this week?  WTF?  Also, I unlocked an achievement for watching a bunch of episodes of RAW on the Network.  It’s an eventful show and I haven’t even started it yet!  (Oh man, back when I was still watching the Network on TV screens instead of just on my computer all the time.  Now I don’t even bother with the various app versions of it.)  

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The SmarK Rant for WWF Monday Night RAW – 01.29.96

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The SmarK Rant for Monday Night RAW – 01.29.96

(Originally written December 2014.  And while normally I delete my assorted ramblings from the time, oh man did I ever remember this one…)

Woke up at 2:00AM this morning feeling like my wife was punching me in the kidneys, and while that was not something that would out of the ordinary, it was not her in this case.  Three hours later in the ER, I discovered that I’ve reached the special age where I start getting into troubles like kidney stones.  And they fucking HURT.  Like someone squeezing your nut until you want to puke on the floor.  (Addendum from 2020:  About a month after the stones, I had complications with a bladder infection that was caused by the aftermath of passing them, and JESUS CHRIST do you not want to deal with that, either.  Thankfully both were a one-time deal because I never want to go through either one again.)  

Still better than watching RAW these days, though.  (Still as true as ever.)  

Taped from Stockton, CA

Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jerry Lawler

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The SmarK Rant for WWF Monday Night RAW – 01.01.96

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The SmarK Rant for WWF Monday Night RAW – 01.01.96

Here’s a fun fact:  This show didn’t get added to the WWE Network until WAY after the fact for some reason.  So I never had a chance to do it when I was working through the RAW shows originally.  I actually went to repost the show for this morning to go with the last Observer Flashback and realized it was missing, and then checked and discovered I had never watched it!  In fact I don’t think I’ve ever watched this episode, period.  So this is totally fresh content for you, although Nitro is gonna be a repost, sorry.

Yes, it’s THE RAW BOWL!  The stepdaddy of the mack daddy of them all!

Taped from Newark, DE

Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jerry Lawler

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