10 Best Non-Attitude Era WWE RAW Moments
8. All Grown Up
Possibly a spurious inclusion—this quick-fire sight gag didn’t create a new star, nor instigate or an enhance a storyline—the sheer sight of Mae Young’s grown-up hand son was a stupendous only-in-WWE moment.
As Layla and AJ Lee conferred in their dressing room, some dork in an oversized hand outfit interrupted, with his dear, hilarious mother by his side. “Allow me to introduce myself: I’m Mae Young’s son,” he said. There was something so, so f*cking funny about this marriage of needless exposition and on-the-nose costuming.
Who else was it gonna be?!
It was such an absurd thing to see. Wrestling yields its own genre of comedy, tethered to the laws of its own, wild universe—but this was genuinely inspired, something as deranged and off-kilter as the best of Adult Swim’s surreal, late-night mindf*cks.
The hand, of course, was birthed during one of the less-celebrated RAW moments, one Gerald Brisco was not alone in being repulsed by. This affectionate send-up evoked the goofy, audacious brilliance at the core of WWE. It was reassuring; as long as the entity still exists, it is still capable of such idiosyncratic wonder.
An inspired moment in and of itself, this brief segment was emblematic of RAW 25’s tributary brilliance.