It’s the granddaddy of them all! Sort. It’s pretty much a one-match Wrestlemania this time around, with Bret Hart taking on Steve Austin in the legendary submission match. Daniel and Matt break down all the glory, including how glad we are that it isn’t an I Quit Match, how fighting in the crowd was still very novel, and how hard the commentators push the famed double-turn. Elsewhere on the show, the main event gets interrupted several times, maybe for its own good. So check out a very non-Wrestlemania-feeling Wrestlemania! It’s the only one we got!

It’s the Raw before Wrestlemania 13, and our guy Bret Hart is in a steel cage match against Sycho Sid for the WWF Championship, which adds a lot of *~*intrigue*~* as Steve Austin and the Undertaker try to help their Wrestlemania opponents! Also, we get a fairly historic Bret Hart rant afterward, and Will and Matt discuss (and decide) on who in the WWF is ‘daddy’.

This week, we go to the battlefield, as Monday Night Raw becomes Raw is War. It’s the 200th episode of the show (though it’s never remarked upon), and the visual look of the show has taken a big step forward, with another piece of the Attitude Era snapping into place. But is there more to the show than several jobber matches and an unnecessary debate? Matt and Joel look the show up and down and break it down for you.

BONUS MATCH: Bret Hart vs. Diesel, In Your House: Rage In A Cage, February 18, 1996

We get international on the podcast, as the first ever European Champion is crowned in Berlin, Germany, in one heckuva match. Also, Bret Hart opens the show against HHH, and Steve Austin calls in from the good ol’ US of A with some complaints about air travel. Matt and Daniel cross the Atlantic to talk about all the action and break it all down!

Raw gets EXTREME when the Paul Heyman’s hardcore fanatics stream into the Manhattan Center on a night where most of the WWF roster is overseas. Vince McMahon promises and delivers a big surprise, a significant Attitude Era mainstay pops up in the front row, and an all-time classic tribute video debuts. Matt and Will jump through proverbial flaming tables to bring it all to you!

BONUS MATCH: Bret Hart vs. Terry Funk, Terry Funk Presents Wrestle Fest, 1997

Bret Hart is the WWF Champion, but he has no time to waste, because he’s got to defend the belt against Sycho Sid! He’ll try to stave off the big Arkansan at the beginning of the show, then the middle, then at the end, but that damn Texas Rattlesnake, Steve Austin, is causing a ruckus. Also, a very famous tag team is on the show a couple years before they became stars, and Jerry Lawler starts an extreme feud. Join Kris and Matt as they cover the fallout from Final Four!

The WWF Championship is up for grabs in a star-studded and chaotic main event, pitting four top superstars against each other for the recently-forfeited title. Also, the tag titles are defended by feuding champions, and Jerry Lawler insinuates something horrible and hilarious about Rocky Maivia’s deceased family members. Join Matt and Will for a real one-match PPV, if there ever was one!

It’s like Raw, but on a Thursday! But actually, this is an historically significant show, with Shawn Michaels forfeiting the WWF Championship just before the Final Four PPV on the weekend, due to smile-loss-related reasons (and maybe a knee injury). Also, Rocky Maivia goes for his first bite of championship gold, and the four guys who are now vying for the WWF Championship on Sunday run into each other. Join Matt and Daniel for a fun (and for one San Antonian, emotional) Raw on a Thursday.

It’s time for Royal Rumble Raw, but conspicuously absent from the show: the Royal Rumble. But what we do have is a stadium full of people in Toronto, and two title matches! Join Matt and Will for the first two hour Raw and the last ‘normal’ Raw of 1997, before things go haywire next week.

BONUS MATCH: Bret Hart vs. Chris Benoit, Mayhem 1999

A week after his big WWF Championship win, Shawn Michaels is finally back on Raw, and he’s going to confront several of the men involved in the Final Four match at the next In Your House PPV. Also, Ahmed Johnson is wandering around backstage with a 2x4, and Joel and Matt question the stopping power of a Heart Punch.

BONUS MATCH: Bret Hart vs. Ric Flair, Souled Out 1998