Raw vs Nitro "Reliving The War": Episode 140 - June 29th 1998

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Reliving The War takes an in-depth look at the WWF vs WCW "Monday Night War" era of pro wrestling. Week by week every episode of Raw and Nitro gets covered (including every match and every promo) to find out which show was really the best.
This week on Nitro WCW promote the upcoming matches for the Bash at the Beach PPV where Karl Malone & DDP take on Hulk Hogan & Dennis Rodman. Kevin Greene is back again this week to promote his appearance at the pay per view, and also In tonight’s show Glacier takes on Goldberg.
Over on WWF Raw It’s the night after the King of the Ring '98 and we have a new WWF Champion. Stone Cold Steve Austin isn't happy about how his First Blood main event match went down at the PPV, so tonight he issues a challenge to Kane for a rematch. The WWF also begin their Brawl for All tournament this week.
00:00 - Intro
01:10 - DDP & Karl Malone’s 18 Wheeler
02:00 - Kevin Greene Promo / Kanyon vs Horace
03:05 - Stevie Ray promo / Eddie Guerrero vs Little Dragon
04:31 - The Giant vs Sumo Fuji and Judo Suwa
05:28 - Hollywood Hogan Promo
06:16 - WWF Title Presentation / Sting & Luger vs Bulldog & Neidhart
09:55 - Drozd vs Steve Regal / Saturn vs Reese
13:11 - Ken Shamrock Promo / El Vampiro vs Brad Armstrong
15:21 - Alex & Disco vs Magnum & Nobunaga
18:28 - Brawl for All - Blackman vs Mero
21:47 - Kane & Mankind interview
22:12 - Val Venis vs Dick Togo / Ultimo Dragon vs Dean Malenko
24:16 - Harlem Heat vs Chris Benoit & Steve McMichael
25:39 - Owen vs Shamrock vs HHH
27:13 - Undertaker Promo & nWo Later with Scott Steiner
29:33 - Mark Canterbury vs Bradshaw / Booker T promo
32:47 - LOD 2000 Promo / Goldberg vs Glacier
35:07 - Kane vs Steve Austin / Hogan & Bischoff Promo
39:11 - Final Scores / Credits
#WWF #WCW #nWo

[@deandredukes95]

Even though Austin was the Top Guy, I wish Kane had a longer reign with the championship

[@danielainger8666]

Yeah Kane champion for 1 night was always shitty too me.

[@eddie9244]

Right maybe lose it at fully loaded or give taker a run with it at summerslam 98

[@zitofan4life]

@@eddie9244same

[@Cis-Stem_Failure]

If that happened, we'd be reliving how the WWE lost the Monday night wars.

[@cfairfax85]

Yea..I always felt it would've been cool to see Austin and taker chase Kane as champion. At least for 3-4 months.

[@jamesbounds]

That Alex Wright and Disco Inferno combo song is pretty sweet.

[@carloshill]

I'm still shocked how mick Foley was able to walk let alone being able to still play apart in that king of the ring 1998 wwf title match and still shows up to do his job the next night on raw.

[@mrassassinscreedfan1]

Even crazier to my knowledge he was never addicted to painkillers either

[@martynodonnell]

It’s all fake and they know how to land…it was obviously CGI.

[@clintonyoung6982]

I'm amazed he's not in a wheel chair today. Or junior seau'd himself or Benoit'd his fa....nevermind.

[@daa589]

😭

[@ih7729]

You seem easily shocked and more easily confused, Sherlock. Aren’t you happy about playing internet comment boy.

[@jasonmccrank4981]

Bret's ring post Figure Four is insane. Absolutely one of my favourite moves of all time.

[@Bama20512]

How Mick Foley was able to walk again was amazing

[@D_McGeezacks]

Foley is a tank. A crazy, beautiful tank

[@rmoore2nd619]

A lot of people forget he came back out to interfere in the Kane/Austin match too

[@KidGravityBeyond]

“Foley is God”

[@roccojamison89gooker51]

At least Russo showed some mercy in not asking Mick Foley to participate in the Brawl For All.

[@TDW2364]

It’ll catch up to him.

[@theOneOnlyTed]

Alex Wright and Disco Inferno was something that just felt right when I saw it

[@TheSerpentsEye]

It's really sad to see Bulldog and Anvil in this period. Davey looks puffy and undefined, and Neidhart straight looks like he's been hitting the pipe. I can rest easy knowing that the Davy Boy Smith chinlocks will live on forever in our hearts. (harts?)

[@sickofitall8486]

The Mondays after a PPV really made me respect the work the men and women put in in the wrestling business. Some of them would take incredible punishment to put on a great show, and then be back out there the next night. Respect 👊🏻

[@Carlitonsp1]

I love the Steve Blackman shoot comment on how he (allegedly) got the rules of the Brawl 4 All changed. Apparently when they explained the rules, Steve mentioned that under the rules it was okay to kick people's knee caps. The rules were changed afterwards.

[@lexkanyima2195]

Why did Russo changed it ?

[@ajrider96]

I like how you really went in depth with the brawl for all with the points when you could just called it as it was.

[@daa589]

The notepad is hilarious

[@JM1993951]

@@daa589 “Lex Luger Rulz” and “Shut up Road Dogg” 😂

[@shenanitims4006]

Wrestling Bios takes the Brawl for All more serious than the WWE did.

[@FerraristDX]

15:53 Oh my god, the greatest segment in the history of reliving the war. Saturday Wright Disco and Steve Mufuggin Blackman on the same segment. This show is over, it can't be topped.

[@michaelhoule2134]

god I love steve mufuggin blackman, he was a beast back in the day. dont eff with mufugging blackman

[@mols89]

My phone is melting from this.

[@jim1242]

was just missing too cold scroprio..

[@richarddowdjr.6461]

We all just splooged but not on Hogan. That wasn't us

[@paulsmith9786]

Raw still wins somehow

[@LittleMan27]

Next week is a must-see for both RAW & Nitro

[@binks2413]

I've been waiting since the beginning of this series to say I WAS THERE ON RAW! Love this series

[@scotteous]

That’s awesome!

[@CrunchetySmack]

It's Amazing watching all of these RLW Ep. I can't believe how long it has been since watching all of this in real time and a teenager and yet it feels like it was so much more recently remembering so many small things that went on.

[@mulvihillmatt]

I got to say that for the Raw after the Montreal Screwjob. It’s a cool feeling!

[@freakshowfilmfestival3591]

I worked the one after Stone Cold came down to the ring in the Detroit Red Wings Zamboni, so I can't wait for my turn. 😁 I think it's the one where Vince is in the Hospital and Mick visits him until Stone Cold attacks Vince.

[@CrunchetySmack]

@@freakshowfilmfestival3591 Bedpan McMahon

[@dustman820]

The moment I have been looking forward to the most on RtW had arrived. Alex Wright teaming up with Disco Inferno in WCW. Even AKI, who made the N64 WCW video games at this time knew what a big deal this was as they had the in game models of Alex and Disco dancing in the intro of WCW/nWo Revenge later in the year.

[@jiovanysoltero923]

Boogie knights rule!!

[@19seandel78]

Alex Wright and Disco Inferno teaming up and dancing had me hollering in laughter. And then when Tokyo Magnum joined in...

[@bazookajoe6133]

WCW missed a massive opportunity there.

[@TheSpanishAnnounceTable]

License to print money.

[@boombringer4078]

Bret is awesome, "you wanna ax me a question?" haha! I was in stitches! Love it!!

[@gumdeo]

Great moment.

[@tafua_a]

Bret was always a stickler for grammar. "It's you and I! You know what 'you and I' is? That's good grammar, they don't know anything about that in Memphis!"

[@gezeo750]

I love that you're playing the Brawl For All music during those segments. Another awesome episode as always. Looking forward to the next!

[@chocolateface4885]

That DDT sell by Val venis at 23:41 was ace

[@marcusgray2910]

After watching KOTR this series is just gonna get BETTER!! Idk how that’s possible but god I love this series

[@zacharyscott6779]

For the longest time I always thought Kane wasn't supposed to win, or the ending was messed up. To lose the title right back the following evening I thought really hurt his character even if it was against SCSA.

[@thebigbop5866]

Yeah but it helped build an "anything can happen" feeling to the show, which brought more viewers in and brought lapsed viewers back.

[@marcespinoza6068]

They should have had their rematch at the next PPV, giving it away for free was stupid.

[@thebigbop5866]

​@@marcespinoza6068 Ridiculous take

[@justinperry8445]

he should've had it atleast until the next ppv

[@thebigbop5866]

@@justinperry8445 You're draining the soul of everyone involved with that kind of talk

[@VortexTheShark]

"War does not determine who is right, only who is left" - Bertrand Russel In that case, leeeeeets get ready for the Monday Night Wars!

[@greenkoopa]

That could not fit this specific thing any more perfectly 😂

[@VortexTheShark]

@@greenkoopa I've had this exact quote sitting in my back pocket for 3 days ever since I saw it 😂

[@notgarybrown]

Saturday Wright Fever proves that the wrong company won.

[@VortexTheShark]

@@notgarybrown absolutely

[@at0micwerew0lf]

Good one Vortex, feggin’ good one!! 🍺⚡️🍺

[@jeyfromnowhere]

That DDT from Togo to Venis looked amazing.

[@mikem10481]

Seriously, you should put a list on Spotify of all your remixes of all your music. I'd follow it.

[@camschuster5947]

The inbound semi truck with Page and Karl might be the most WCW southern Wrasslin thing ever! Miss these times! Thanks for taking me back every Thursday WB!

[@davidworden4470]

You are soo right it was hard to believe the decline in the hart family in 1 year it was so hard watching Davey boy Smith in his later years

[@josephmotter3400]

As a 7 year old I didn’t realize how many of these big moments went ahead to ahead at a time when there wasn’t dvr and streaming services and you actually had to make a choice of which to tune into. It’s also great to see all the build up to the biggest moments that get talked about and remembered because being 7 at the time that’s all I could remember until this series. Thank you Wrestling Bios for you passion and dedication to the history of the business you are greatly appreciated

[@evilkep7390]

Not really. You'd watch raw live and then the nitro replay later that night.

[@flynnzone70]

As someone who experienced bits and pieces of the Attitude Era through WWE '13 and 2K16, it's fun seeing RTW reach the moments that were in those games

[@stevenmonster]

Saturns Death Valley Driver was always amazing. Extra amazing on this big fellow Reese.

[@chocolateface4885]

On the YET-TAY!!!

[@micahhill4786]

5:48 This sound reminds me of the late 90s and early 2000s where you are watching a channel and all of a sudden your tv went black and gravy and that terrible noise come out.😂😂 Sounds like static noise

[@tyote]

Dustin Runnels as a Waylon Mercy style "Christian" heel would have actually been pretty cool.

[@Jennifer_Lewis_Beach_Living]

That Saturday Wright Fever - Disco Fever mashup was A-MA-ZING. After seeing Mrs Yamaguchi in the audience, my next thought was, “in a few weeks, our great host is going to have to cover THAT skit, and I’m here for it.”

[@linkvagar2336]

Kanyon was one of the most underrated wrestlers ever. Such a great seller!

[@evilkep7390]

Kanyon was also the head wrestling advisor and coordinator for ready to rumble

[@MidwestMachete]

Brawl For All, if it wasn't used for petty reasons, is a neat idea. If you have it just be a normal pro wrestling tournament where you have all the toughest guys in the midcard scene that haven't quite made it to main event or are just midcard for life fighting each other for a boatload of money and a shot at the WWF Title.

[@AmazingGuy13]

It's crazy how so many important things happened in a short amount of time

[@jreed7125]

2:55 I always loved how Kanyon sold the evenflo DDT. Just absolutely spiked himself everytime without protection from his knees

[@amyfox3461]

Absolutely cannot WAIT for the Saturday Wright Disco merch 🕺🏼🕺🏼

[@mrmoose6619]

Welcome to Thursday Afternoon Jericho (aka Reliving the War), the best wrestling show on the KZbin.

[@XKTwentyFive]

Gonna be honest: back then, I loved the Brawl for All.

[@dallas5339]

Thursday is the absolute best day of the week with wrestling bios

[@scottaznavourian3720]

Owens face when hunter wants in the match is like 'here we go again"

[@mrrida503]

"My God.. this is NOT a drill". There was so much swag and swank emanating from the screen on my lap-top, it over heated, started smoking, caught fire, and shorted out like a droid from Star Wars. I think it's only fair that Wrestling Bios, Alex Wright, and Disco Inferno all put in to get my computer fixed.

[@mr83]

I just want to say thank you from taking my problems away, I was in tunnel vision and I saw this, you made me smile

[@zlinedavid]

This starts my favorite part of the Attitude era. The Highway to Hell through the Deadly Game and winding up at Rock/Austin I.

[@num1Jaysta]

HEY! Don't forget Mankind winning the title.

[@zlinedavid]

@@num1Jaysta Same era, but this time is what kicked it off.

[@posterboylegacy6214]

Another solid episode of "Reliving the War" (Still, I must say the countdown reminder: 90 days on Reliving the War time until you review the PPV I went to LIVE! In Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, WWF BREAKDOWN) Next week is going to be a fun review and I'm just gonna say this: That Hollywood Hulk Hogan isn't going to have to worry about DDP or Karl Malone next week in Atlanta! And I'll keep it at that :)

[@MarvelousIggy]

The amount of meme material each episode alone makes this show worth watching each week. Great writing and can't wait for the next one.

[@JoeAriminvm]

Saturday Wright Disco custom theme was absolutely 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@wanabee]

Saturday wright disco!!! The mashup is going to be my wedding song.

[@BrolyChan]

One thing this series has done that I really like is go into detail for stuff that already has a consensus built around them and lets us see how it plays out week to week. The whole NWO saga, Austin's rise to the top, etc. Now we're at the brawl for All, something that gets immediately dismissed by fans even if they never seen it. As true as that might be, we have a chance now to see it play out and try to mine some good out of this garbage pile. One thing I'm definitely looking forward to is the final match, it was your old video that got me to check it out and I was definitely entertained by seeing Bradshaw's face before Bart Gunn killed him.

[@Insomniaaron]

It's Thursday night. You know what that means! Reliving the War is back on KZbin. Should be a doozy this week.

[@THEBODYPRACTICE]

My Thursday is now complete. Don’t ask me how my weekend was, I’ll tell you next Thursday. Thanks for delivering the goods on the best series on KZbin Ryan!

[@brianstokes6110]

Yes!! I absolutely just love this series so much!

[@Biffo316]

Alex Wright and Disco Inferno was the tag team we never knew we needed.. You can guarantee Vince would have loved this in the early 2010s. Rumour has it Hogan was offered a similar gimmick but he replied "that doesn't work for me brother" and that's how the nwo was born

[@KaiMoya420]

This was such an interesting time for me as an 8 year old kid. I just started watching wrestling because of the Mike Tyson Austin thing and Stone Cold was the coolest thing in the world to me. The brawl for all and just everything else that was going on confused the hell out of me to what wrestling is.

[@drdeans_the2nd]

This moment right here ( 33:37 ) pretty much cemented the end of the L.O.D. the abrupt music change captures that perfectly!

[@darrylcalhoun6315]

“ McMichaels is unsure of which way to fall after taking a forearm “ 😂🤣😂🤣💀 goated commentary

[@ainnocent]

Once you said Sunny was gone, for some reason, I remembered how big of a deal she was when this series first starting. She was the IT female from 95-later 96. Once 97 rolled around, her role diminished, but she was def a RTW MVP in the early days.

[@lexkanyima2195]

She was fired and something happend in the summer of 1997

[@mikeharless4596]

I can remember how exciting all this was when I was a kid.. Great shot of nostalgia, as always, brother 😁

[@JohnSuave]

I can never hate on Vampiro as he's 1 of only 2 pro wrestlers from my hometown(and the only one who ever made it to TV). It'll be fun to watch his WCW run again even though I remember being bummed about his booking after a while. Go Ian!!

[@devious187]

The way WWF did LOD makes me wanna get drunk and jump off the top of the TitanTron

[@RockyandAustin337]

I came to realize that one of the MAIN Reason that they had Goldberg vs Hogan on Nitro at the Atlanta Georgia just one week before Bash at the Beach Is because Eric wanting to counter attack on the Stone Cold vs Kane WWF title match which Austin won and drew in Huge ratings that night when he won it back.

[@AussieDragoon]

Love the new opening, but it needs more Davey Boy. We can't forget our roots.

[@jaysteinhauer9562]

Nice dig at Malone at the end 😆

[@BlessedAreTheCheesemakers]

was wondering if the elephant in the room was going to be acknowledged...

[@paqman8749]

WrestlingBios you take care sir, you are a KZbin treasure.

[@CrunchetySmack]

How the Front Row didn't have someone or two lose and eye from the Dancing Fools is remarkable, and Mike Tenay is a Bratwurst Bandit on the Barbecue... Indeed. And We Need "Dripman Hart"

[@samuelaarredondo397]

I also enjoyed the Brawl for All as a kid, it was the surprise from my step-dad "Oh, they're really hitting each other". He was hooked after that. (Wholesome bond) But now, I'm strictly here to also creep on Mrs. Yamaguchi-san

[@derekborba2644]

Let's go folks

[@NearFallGaming]

Greatest KZbin series available.

[@hectorlumbagoCringe]

Facts

[@daveyadict_]

The brawl for all? I see this ending perfectly

[@lawrencemcstephens308]

Gotta love the Hogan snap sound, haha! I like how you re-used it later when McMahon names Kane champ!

[@timrobinson6573]

This series is amazing. Truly my favorite thing on KZbin right now. Imagine if WWE woke up and partnered with you and you had access to their video library instead of using still shots.

[@ainnocent]

That'd be a waste imo He'd be so censored, and he'd have to present WWE in a biased way. This series is awesome because there is 0 bias or censorship to any of it.

[@Hypno_BPM]

imagine WWE finally reaches out to him right after he finishes the Monday Night Wars and they’re all like “okay now do it again with access to our library” 😂

[@IowaContact]

Your never ending undying hatred for Chilly McFreeze is what gets me through the week.

[@neilcoatham]

Yes I love it when episodes are uploaded before 8pm get to watch them before work ☺️

[@ItsShaz1]

Time for another episode of Reliving the War and that means some Saturday Wright Fever!

[@Klontruppe]

With the beginning of the Brawl For All tournament we are now fully at the point where we will learn for the remainder of this series why Jim Cornette is still too nice when talking about Vince Russo.

[@num1Jaysta]

And this was before he broke his back

[@TheDrFunkenstein]

Thank you all your videos man! I watch this at the house and I even got my gf interested in wrestling because of this series. Great stuff I’m glad your finally getting recognized and your just due.

[@kiereanm3254]

I honestly love the mental image of Kane being a role model to little girls and boys everywhere

[@yourfavoritemexican5841]

Disco Inferno and Alex Wright, we've all been waiting for that match to happen 🤣🤣

[@steveremington8992]

1:10-DDP and the Mailman in a 18 wheeler with stolen goods 😂😂😂

[@AmazingGuy13]

Brawl for All, Vampiro, and Regal debuts wow

[@GloryToGodAlways316]

Heck yeah. Been waiting eagerly for this week's episode to drop

[@albertthewisecrow]

Next week’s episode will be epic! Great work wrestlingbios

[@frankpidanichii239]

Oh I can't wait for your takes on brawl for all!! Didn't think Thursday could get better!!!

[@clepunk]

I was at this Raw. It was amazing live.

[@jamesbaker6006]

Hardest working man in wrestling KZbin, I respect you Bio-man.

[@BblastedD]

I hope this series goes till the end of WCW in 2001.

[@FunkSwaggMusiK]

The Monday Night War was from 1995 to 2001 so safe to assume hes going till 2001

[@EfrainFragoso]

The booty man gave it to hogan before heading out 😂😂

[@apa123APA]

Regal making faces like those chinlocks about to tear the ring in two, hot damn.

[@rmoore2nd619]

I had to keep playing back the Alex and Disco part. Too funny 😂

[@firewalker1372]

That hogan “bone breaking” sound effect is going to come in handy for future videos 😂. Kind of like the Bret Heart “Shut Up!” And the famous Brawforall. Yikes!

[@lbandjcfan54]

Next week is THAT Nation/DX segment and Goldberg's peak

[@liamstevenson4413]

Austin was absolutely massive in 98 💪🏼

[@MosestheGrey]

BANG!!!!! That's the only clip you need from now on.

[@briantneary2248]

I was 15 when this was going on. Truly, a wild time in wrestling history

[@mattlewis8889]

I vote we call Dancing Fools something else. I'm going with Disco Bratwurst.

[@aethelwulf20001]

Great review as always. Thanks for the entertainment. I always thought the comment about memory loss was a reference to the dematerialisation codes being wiped by the timelords. Could be wrong though.

[@luciahaskins3170]

This was a great episode.

[@TheUrbanAdvocate]

Unpopular opinion about the Brawl For All, but I remember enjoying it when I was younger. I always wondered how many wrestlers could actually fight. Looking back at it, the fights were weak. But in 98, I rocked with it.

[@SiReTV8929]

Even though Kane was only WWE Champion for 24 hours, beating Austin around this period was a good sign Vince was giving you a push... He already had everything else going for him as a character, being associated with The Undertaker and Mick Foley were just great. And, THAT Hogan soundbite is priceless!!! 😆😆😆

[@sjbremixes]

this is sick, been wanting to see something like this for years, both shows as epic as eachother

[@gingerbreadman5506]

I've been watching all these reliving the war, and every time Alex wright's promo comes on it takes me out everytime that bratwurst line is to funny😂