When Mike Tyson Shocked WWE and Joined D-Generation X: Today in Wrestling History

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

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🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Mike Tyson joins DX in WWE in one of the most shocking and historic moments in professional wrestling history. On this edition of Today in Wrestling History, we break down when boxing icon Mike Tyson appeared on WWE television and aligned himself with D-Generation X during the height of the Attitude Era.

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0:00.0	What's going on, wrestling fans? It's I, Steve Fall. Welcome back to Primetime with Sean Mooney.
0:05.5	On today's edition, we're talking about today in wrestling history on March 2, 1998.
0:14.0	It was episode of Monday Night Raw, and we were on the road to WrestleMania 14, live in the Fleet Center.
0:21.2	Yes, it was not a giant stadium.
0:23.8	It wasn't two nights.
0:25.3	The Fleet Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
0:29.0	Sean Michaels.
0:30.1	Stone Colise, Eve Austin.
0:31.7	What a match, right?
0:32.7	Well, they insert Mike Tyson into the fray, and now he's a special enforcer.
0:39.1	Now, on this episode of Raw, you can clearly tell that Shaw Michaels is not very happy.
0:44.7	Now, why isn't he happy?
0:46.7	Because just recently, Mike Tyson and Stone Cold Steve Austin had a face-to-face encounter in the ring,
0:54.5	shoving, there was money falling all over the floor from Mike Tyson's bodyguards.
0:59.2	Vince McMahon yelling, you ruined it!
1:01.5	You ruined it, God damn it, you ruined it.
1:04.8	Mike Tyson getting the double birds, the middle fingers from Stone Cold Steve Austin
1:09.7	and the shoving back and forth, that was all over.
1:12.5	ESPN, that was all over the news.
1:15.2	And that's the thing in today's world.
1:16.7	You have social media.
1:17.7	It's very simple to tell the world what's happening.
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