Paul E offers Vince an announcing job at ECW, which would have made for some classic television. Lash Huffman wouldn’t do much of anything). Distracted, Stevie gets rolled up by Guido for a two-count, gets dropkicked, then gets erroneously labeled by Vince as “Stevie Ray” (one half of Harlem Heat who would later wrestle in the WWF as… oh, sorry. Raven (who not only would later wrestle for both WCW and WWF, but was a mainstay of Raw in 19 as Johnny Polo, even beating Marty Jannetty in a match) appears in the aisle way, marking the first of many times that an ECW World Champion would appear on a Monday night wrestling show. This may mark the only time in the history of business that a company's selling loads of merchandise is used as an insult by the competition. Lawler calls the bWo a “rip-off,” getting another laugh from Vince, who says the men in blue have nothing to do with the “clothing line” known as nWo.
Maybe Vinnie Mac thinks he can re-package Richards as the third Razor Ramon. Big Stevie Cool tells Jerry Lawler, “We’re taking over,” eliciting a hardy chuckle from Vince McMahon. “Yeah, Paul E!” says a fan in the front row, grabbing Heyman’s shoulder. Paul Heyman joins the announce table, marking the only time he and Jerry Lawler would commentate together. “Well, they may have some of that, too,” says McMahon. Upon seeing Meanie imitate Scott Hall’s Razor pose, Lawler suggests they change their name to the BO.
The bWo, consisting of Stevie Richards, The Blue Meanie, Nova (who wrestled as Mike Bucci on early Raws and would later wrestle as Simon Dean in WWE), and 7-11 (co-founder of Ring of Honor and star of a Perverted Justice sting operation, Rob Feinstein), then arrive. Paul Heyman, who is holding a flip-phone instead of his standard earl-90s brick-phone, introduces Little Guido (later known in WWE as Nunzio) of the Full-Blooded Italians (a faction later joined by Freddie Joe Floyd). Paul E gets on the mic and says King’s challenge has been accepted before an ECW chant breaks out. The Eliminators consist of Perry Saturn (best known as one of The Radicalz who would jump from WCW to the WWF) and John Kronus (best known as Perry Saturn’s tag team partner). The announcers plug the upcoming Sugar Ray Leonard- Hector Camacho fight on pay-per-view before The Eliminators hop the railing and deliver Total Elimination to a ring attendant. As Bradshaw and Freddie Mercury celebrate, The Godwinns argue with and slop the referee, leading Mike Chioda to flop around on the pretty blue mats that line the outside of the ring.
Phineas manages to get his foot on the rope, but the referee does not see it, resulting in a win for the New Blackjacks. Bradshaw delivers a clothesline to Phineas, a Devastating Maneuver (#1), allowing Windham (whose hair loss is now pretty obvious now that he’s no longer blonde) to pin the hillbilly. “ABC Network said Ken Shamrock was ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Man,’ says Lawler, “so it’s just natural he and I would hang out together.” Lawler may be referring to those posters of him hanging up in middle schools across Memphis. Ken Shamrock of the UFC is picked out in the crowd, with whom Jerry Lawler claims to be old friends. In the front row, a fan holds up the first “Die Rocky” sign, a placard of comparable historical significance to the first “Austin 3:16” shirt spotted on television way back at In Your House, eight days prior (and seven months after Stone Cold coined the phrase). Meanwhile, Vince promises a “great big surprise” later tonight, as well as an arm-wrestling match between Marlena and Sunny. Early on in the match, Phineas Godwinn executes a head scissors in the corner, pulling Windham onto the ropes, where he struggles comically to fall to the outside of the ring. As the cowboy tag team rushes in to battle the hillbillies, the letters, “ECW” are visible from the balcony. Making their Raw debut are the New Blackjacks, made up of Barry Windham and Bradshaw, both now sporting jet-black hair and mustaches.