Episode 338: Austin versus McMahon!
Grilling JR
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4.7 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
On this REMIX edition of Grilling JR, "The Voice of Wrestling",JR and Conrad take us back to April 13, 1998 — the night Stone Cold Steve Austin stepped into the ring with Vince McMahon for the very first time. That showdown sparked RAW’s victory over Nitro in the ratings after a historic 83-week run. JR shares all the behind-the-scenes details from this iconic night in wrestling history, only on Grilling JR!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Conrad Thompson, and you're listening to Grilling, JR. |
| 0:11.5 | The voice of wrestling. |
| 0:13.1 | Mr. Jim Ross. |
| 0:14.1 | Jim, how are you, man? |
| 0:15.3 | I'm freezing to death, Conrad, in Florida. |
| 0:17.5 | This ain't Florida weather I'm living in. |
| 0:20.2 | It's 60 |
| 0:20.8 | degrees and wind out of the north. |
| 0:24.4 | And it's funny watching what these |
| 0:26.0 | Floridians wear when it gets us to a little bit chilly. |
| 0:29.3 | Parkas, scars, gloves. |
| 0:32.9 | It's just amazing, but |
| 0:34.3 | it's cold here. Speaking of getting going, that's |
| 0:36.9 | what we're all about here on the program, talking about |
| 0:39.2 | the way wrestling used to be, wrestling nostalgia, and we're revisiting a real highlight in most |
| 0:46.0 | of our lives as wrestling fans. |
| 0:48.1 | The very first time we saw Vince McMahon and Stone Cold Steve Austin in the ring together. |
| 0:53.5 | It happened on this day, |
| 0:55.6 | 25 years ago, where else could it happen? But Philadelphia, April 13th, 1998, and just to sort of reset, |
| 1:06.0 | the show Monday Night Raw had been around for over five years at that point. But with Nitro coming around in 95, you got started to go back and forth, but once the NWO was a thing, they were firmly in the lead, not once, not twice, but 83 weeks in a row. Now, they had won and traded wins back and forth before that, but this streak had to be |
| 1:30.5 | a momentum shifter. |
| 1:32.6 | I mean, for so long, Vince McMahon and the WWF had been the high watermark in the industry. |
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