10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 1994

6. Vince McMahon Used Monday Night Raw To Toast His Not Guilty Verdict

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On August 1st, Monday Night Raw was all the way live and Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon contested one of the best WWE matches of the year as if to remind viewers of how the New Generation marketing campaign did have a grain of truth even if it predominantly existed to separate the company from Hulk Hogan and WCW.

Worked at a killer pace between the Kliq mates ahead of Ramon and Diesel's Intercontinental Championship match at SummerSlam 1994, the match was fundamentally everything great about the company distilled. The commentary across the night was...not.

Obviously deliriously happy to have been found Not Guilty the charges brought against him by the United States government (specifically, the two counts of distributing steroids and one of conspiracy to distribute steroids), Vince McMahon was back on commentary and in a fantastic mood. Though it wasn't in keeping with his on-screen persona to gloat, he had no problem with colour analyst Randy Savage doing that for him.

"Welcome back Vince McMahon!" Savage bellowed, before later adding that Razor would annihiliate Shawn just like Vince did the US government, "One, two, three! Not guilty!" It was the start of multiple references to trials, and injustices against innocent people and even extended to McMahon's defence team getting name-checked on air.

At one point, McMahon chuckled and exclaimed to a giddy Savage "you're on a rare form tonight", almost as if he wasn't feeding the Macho Man the lines himself.

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