Monday Night Raw – October 26, 1998: Austin Is Back Despite Never Leaving

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Date: October 26, 1998
Location: Kohl Center, Madison, Wisconsin
Attendance: 10,220
Commentators: Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler

European Title: X-Pac vs. Steve Blackman

Vince is talking to his lawyers again and says they wrote the document so they can break it.

Darren Drozdov vs. The Rock

Hawk gets left behind again.

Austin has been advised not to say anything tonight. “We” will have a statement later on though.

Vince yells some more, talking about a contract and opportunities.

Kane vs. Gangrel

Post break Shane is leaving and Austin throws him a beer.

Tiger Ali Singh vs. Godfather

Oddities vs. Kai En Tai

Marc Mero vs. Goldust

Goldust takes him down with a clothesline to start and pounds away in the corner. He hits a slingshot belly to back suplex for two but Mero gets in a low blow while Jackie offers a distraction. Goldust comes back and hits Shattered Dreams for the quick DQ. Not much here.

Mankind is confident that he and Snow can win the titles tonight. They argue over whose prop is dumber.

Tag Titles: New Age Outlaws vs. Al Snow/Mankind

Double arm DDT looks to set up Socko but Billy breaks it up. The challengers fight over Head but no one swings it. Billy and Mankind go to the floor as Snow hits the Snow Plow on Dogg. The challengers argue over whether to use Socko or Head for the pin and it lets Roadie roll Snow up to retain.

Rating: D. This was another boring match in a long running series of them over the last two weeks. The ending was the usual swerve as one team was dominating and the other wound up winning on a fluke. Then again that could be the case for almost every Outlaws match for a long stretch of time.

Snow has Socko and Mankind has Head until they trade back.

Ken Shamrock vs. Steve Austin

The Stooges all get Stunners to end the show.

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