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.)
(Originally written March 2015. Nitro was of course pre-empted for The Civil War, which is the documentary and not the real thing that pre-empts wrestling shows in 2021, so RAW is flying solo this time.)
The Smark Rant for Monday Night RAW – 03.04.96
The SmarK Rant for Monday Night RAW – 02.26.96
Taped from Cincinnati, OH
Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jerry Lawler
The SmarK Rant for Monday Night RAW – 02.12.96
(Originally written March 2015)
Live?…I think? from somewhere, I forget really. Later confirmed to be live from Cincinnati.
Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jerry Lawler
The SmarK Rant for Monday Night RAW – 02.05.96
(Originally written March 2015)
Taped from Stockton, CA.
Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jerry Lawler.
The SmarK Rant for WWF Monday Night RAW – 10.13.97
Technically I already did this episode as a part of WWE 24/7, but it’s been a long time and some pretty notable stuff happens.
TONIGHT: The Legion of Doom have vowed to win the tag team titles from the pig farmers or RETIRE! Too bad it couldn’t have been both.
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
The SmarK Rant for Monday Night RAW – 01.22.96
(Originally written sometime in December 2014)
Live from Stockton CA
Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jerry Lawler
The SmarK Rant for Monday Night RAW – 01.15.96
Taped from somewhere at the end of a cycle.
Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jerry Lawler
The SmarK Rant for Monday Night RAW – 01.08.96
Taped from wherever.
Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jerry Lawler
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
The SmarK Rant for WWF Monday Night RAW / WCW Monday Nitro – 12.18.95
FINALLY the horror of 1995 comes to a close.
The SmarK Rant for Monday Night RAW – 12.11.95
Taped from Richmond, VA
Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jerry Lawler
The SmarK Rant for Monday Night RAW – 12.04.95
Taped from Richmond, VA
Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jerry Lawler
The SmarK Rant for Monday Night RAW – 11.27.95
Taped from Richmond, VA
Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jerry Lawler
The SmarK Rant for WWF Monday Night RAW – 10.06.97
Vince McMahon opens the show, informing the crowd that Brian Pillman had died in his hotel room the night before, and we get a 10 bell salute with all the wrestlers on the stage. And unfortunately that would only be the beginning of the tragedies to befall the Hart Foundation.
Anyway, this is of course the night after Badd Blood and the beginning of the end of Bret Hart’s WWF career.
The SmarK Rant for Monday Night RAW – 11.20.95
LAST NIGHT! Diesel Power runs out of gas for good, as Bret Hart wins his third WWF title to put a merciful bullet in the reign of Kevin Nash.
LIVE from Richmond, VA!
Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jerry Lawler.
The SmarK Rant for Monday Night RAW – 11.13.95
Taped…again…from Brandon, MB. FOUR WEEKS from this shithole 2000 seat minor league hockey arena.
Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jerry Lawler
The SmarK Rant for Monday Night RAW – 11.06.95
Taped from wherever they’ve been for the past few weeks. Brandon, MB, I think it was.
Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Handsome Dok Hendrix.
The SmarK Rant for Monday Night RAW – 10.30.95
This is a special Halloween themed episode, which means EXTRA terrible puns.
Taped from Brandon, MB
Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jerry Lawler