Revisiting WWF RAW 1998 The Austin Era Has Begun, X-Pac & New Age Outlaws Join DX, The Rock Becomes Nation of Domination Leader

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🗓️ 27 July 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

March 30th, 1998 WWF Monday Night RAW is one of the most important episodes in history. Following the massive WrestleMania 14 where Stone Cold Steve Austin defeated Shawn Michaels to become WWF Champion. The Austin Era has begun! Mr. McMahon opens the show and gives Stone Cold a brand new WWF Championship belt. He tells Austin he can do things the easy way or the hard way. Mr. McMahon receives the Stone Cold Stunner courtesy of the rattlesnake. This prompts Vince McMahon to call the local police and have Steve Austin arrested. Also, The Rock and The Nation of Domination turn on Farooq and kick him out of the group. The Rock is the new leader. Plus, Triple H says Shawn Michaels dropped the ball with D-Generation X and that he will pick it back up. 123 Kid makes his return to the WWF from WCW now known as X-Pac and joins DX. And in the main event cage match, the New Age Outlaws join the DX army!

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0:00.0	The boys are back in town. Welcome to the Deadlot podcast episode number
0:07.6	308. That's a fucking fucked up number. We're gonna be talking about Raw from
0:13.9	March 30th, 1998, where Kane comes out and cuts a promo on the stage while they steal cages.
0:23.0	No.
0:23.4	I mean, that does.
0:24.3	I mean, it does happen.
0:25.4	You do, you're not lying, but that's not why we watched it.
0:28.5	We didn't watch it because Kane got the promo.
0:31.0	Kane doesn't even cut the promo.
0:32.4	He's just there for one.
0:33.9	We're watching this.
0:34.8	Of course, because this is the raw after.
0:54.6	The Midnight Express. No. I mean, they're here as well. I don't know if they were on... They were probably on many. They were probably in the 15-teamble. This was the raw after WrestleMania 14. It was the shift, the change of the guard. Steve Austin's the champion. A lot of big moments.
0:55.9	Pete Rose, come on.
0:56.5	The jackal.
0:59.3	The jackal is probably there as well.
1:04.0	This is the raw after WrestleMania 14, a big event here. A lot going on in this episode as well.
1:06.9	Well, you know what?
1:08.5	How about we do something we've never done before? We've done it before. We're going to do it again. Johnny reads the Deadlock updates. Oh my God, let's do something we do sometimes. Few times. We've done it. All right. Well, now it's time for the Deadlock updates. And you know what? Let's update you on all the lovely things going on uh with deadlock not only the podcast but deadlock pro wrestling right now
1:32.1	on the patreon that's patreon dot com slash deadlock pw watch excuse you are you fucking hitting the bomb
1:37.5	what are you relaxing?
1:42.0	yeah man go ahead and continue all right, up about now on the Patreon. That's, watch this. A new watch this is up. Takamichinoku versus Great Saske or whatever you want to pronounce their names in the WFF in 1997. They have a match at WVF in your house. Canadian Stampede, uh, 1997. That's up. $5 and above tier on the Patreon right now. An exciting match, I'd have to say, James. I enjoyed it. I did. I did think it was cool too. Yeah, I mean, and it was their debut actually in the WWF, which we found out halfway through the episode. So don't get mad when we're talking about them as if they were that fucking. Speaking of Patreon, also up on the Patreon or soon to be up on the Patreon in the $10
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