10 Craziest Things That Ever Happened After WWE Raw Went Off The Air
8. Up In Flames
A p*ssed off Vince McMahon had deemed his own stooges Gerald Brisco, Pat Patterson and Sgt Slaughter worthy of 'paying hard times' at the climax of the November 2nd 1998 edition of Monday Night Raw, but his fury would contribute to some thrilling post-show visuals just minutes later when he revealed the true nature of his supposedly weakened state.
'The Chairman' was taking the moniker all-too-literally that Autumn after a dark allegiance with The Undertaker and Kane turned south and his injuries were exacerbated by a famous hospital assault from Stone Cold Steve Austin. Pushed around figuratively and literally, he'd been ostensibly turned on by his son and felt abandoned by everybody close to him.
All roads led to a steel cage brawl featuring the entire cast of characters that closed the show, headlined by Kane's pyro engulfing the structure. Raw went off the air in typical chaos, but Austin's post-match abuse of 'The Brothers Of Destruction' extended to the fallen gaffer. Vince - as it would turn out on pay-per-view two weeks later - could use his legs after all, and walked right into a pair of Stone Cold Stunners just for the live crowd. McMahon was typically perfect selling the after-effects, including the theft and comical destruction of his motorised wheelchair, with his unaired raging facials used constantly in tributary Attitude Era video packages.