10 HUGE WWE Raw 25 Predictions You Need To Know

3. Stunning Steve

Xavier Woods Stone Cold Steve Austin
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Stone Cold Steve Austin should close Monday Night Raw by delivering a Stunner to Vince McMahon.

Consider this; McMahon has no storyline he can logically interject himself into as he infamously did for Kevin Owens last year. Similarly, Stone Cold Steve Austin’s forays into the fold are almost always unnecessarily destructive - a WrestleMania stunner to Xavier Woods made The New Day member look a complete geek. Not as bad as Mohammad Hassan and Daivari did when ‘The Rattlesnake’ referred to them as “Sand People”, but still rather lame.

As if the relentless-but-earned rehashing of his many highlights don’t magnify it enough, Stone Cold Steve Austin was everything to Monday Night Raw. His character pumped blood through the company’s beating heart from late-1996 through to his 1999 surgery sabbatical, and he remained in every conversation for better and worse during his various tenures between 2000 and 2004.

He belongs centre stage in front of the type of crowd at Barclays he was drawing every single night in his pomp. And just like back then, he should be sharing that platform with his boss.

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