10 Things You Learn From Rewatching LAST Time WWE Raw Lost In Ratings War
10. It Was On The Back Of Vince Wetting Himself
People can often lambast the Attitude Era as being a time when the quality of wrestling was often neglected in favour of putting more of a spotlight on promos and outlandish antics. While that is true, so many of those promos and outlandish segments were ridiculously entertaining.
In a landscape filled with memorable moments, one of the most beloved of that period was Vince McMahon p*ssing his pants on live TV after 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin pulled a gun on his boss.
When revisiting the last time in history that Raw lost out in the ratings to a wrestling rival, it's a little jarring to immediately realise that this ratings loss came the week after McMahon micturated under the watch of the Texas Rattlesnake.
The October 26, 1998 Raw opens with a wheelchair-bound Vince promising revenge on an Austin who's fighting to win his job back, and it's only then that the penny drops that this episode of the company's flagship show aired directly after one of the most famous segments of the Attitude Era.
One would assume that a segment as iconic as the gun-toting Austin and p*ss-pants Vince would have seen a guaranteed Raw ratings win the following week. Instead, WWE was on the losing side of its back-and-forth battle with WCW on that night.