15 Worst Moments Of The WWE Pandemic Era

15. 3:16 Day

It might seem harsh to bash a moment from the very first episode of the Pandemic Era, but considering that “Stone Cold” Steve Austin himself has said he hated this promo, it’s fair game.

Raw emanated from the empty WWE Performance Center on March 16, 2020, which was declared 3:16 Day in honor of Austin. The Rattlesnake was called upon to cut a promo about what 3:16 Day meant. Originally, the entire deal would have taken place in front of thousands of fans, but instead, it played literally to a bunch of empty chairs, with Byron Saxton the Man-Child acting as the audience.

The result was a painful segment that saw Stone Cold read off a series of cue cards before eventually hitting the requisite Stunner on Saxton. It was bad enough that Austin later acknowledged that he tried multiple times to get Vince McMahon to change it, to no avail.

This cringy moment showed that WWE was going to be slow to adjust to the changing times.