Hello my friends and welcome to yet another episode of Retro Ups and Downs with me, Simon

Miller, and for the frequent viewers, you're like, Simon, why the hell are you sat down?

Well it's quite hard to stand at the moment because I have to have a little bit of surgery

this week so don't worry about it, don't worry about me, don't cry for me Argentina,

instead let's go into the past and talk about old wrestling because we were on the highway

to hell in the summer of 1998 where at Summerslam the undertaker was going to take old stone

cold Steve Austin for the WWF title and just to let you know where I was at this juncture

I was a terrified child because I didn't really know what wrestling was at this particular

time and I was such a big rattlesnake fan I was like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh he's going

to lose to the point when he did stand the undertaker and he won I jumped off my seat and

celebrated which was not the best idea in the world because I told my mother I was sick

that day in order to get the day off school so I could watch Summerslam 98.

I'm a fool.

It's also meant I was a trial and tested world wrestling federation fan and even though

every now and then I would flick over to WCW to see what the hell they were doing and

feel guilty that I did do it thank goodness I didn't watch whole episodes as you are

about to find out today that's why it will blow your mind at the August 31st 2008 episode

of Nitro was the highest rated Nitro ever with a rating of 6.01 which meant at the time

in the United States of America it was the most watched wrestling show on cable ever and

there are some caveats really come so that's statistics well but the fact that's even

in the conversation is mad and a huge reason for this was that on this night WF Raw didn't

air but my gosh you think somebody at World Championship wrestling would have gone we

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