[1998-07-20-WWF-Raw] Steve Austin vs Kane & Mankind (Handicap)

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Not entirely sure why Austin is subbing for Undertaker but I'm sure it was explained in an in-between segment. Undertaker ends up showing up with a chair after Austin is worked over by both guys for a few minutes, and stands in the corner. Undertaker hits Kane with a chair for the DQ, but it's done in a way where it looks like he was about to hit Austin. Austin hits him for good measure. This is how you present a top babyface. Great stuff.

[soup23]

Austin gets a huge pop of course coming out. Taker runs down halfway through this with a chair and we get the predictable finish of him swinging a chair and hitting Kane but its possible he could have been aiming for AUstin. Austin doesn't take any chance and kills both Mankind and Taker with chairs to end the show. This was pretty simple but highly effective stuff to go into the PPV (*1/4)

[PeteF3]

'Taker apparently walked out of the building rather than face Kane & Mankind, so Vince swapped Austin in for him, just because he could. Pretty straightforward stuff here, and fairly predictable at that. I'll sure as hell take it over the stuff we got with Kaientai and Sable, though. Fully Loaded seems like a pretty minor PPV but the long build to SummerSlam is in full force.

[TravJ1979]

Good segment to build the PPV.