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Welcome back to another edition of RAW vs Nitro. Click here to read the last one if you missed it. Now, after 51 of these, I've kind of soured on the way I've written these, so this time I'm going to try something new. So with that out of the way, let's get into it, this is RAW vs Nitro #52. RAW RAW opens up this week with a video package hyping up tonight's main event of Stone Cold Steve Austin & Shawn Michaels, showcasing Austin's ruthlessness and Michaels recent challenges as WWF Champion. Austin ends the video by saying he's going to whip Michaels' ass before we get the RAW intro. Vader with Jim Cornette vs Phinneas Godwinn with Hillbilly Jim As a warm-up for his #1 contender's match at In Your House: Buried Alive against Sycho Sid, Vader takes on one half of the Godwinns in Phineas I. Godwinn. Before the match starts we get a shot of fan who is definitely not a plant with a sign that he was definitely not paid to hold up. Vade...

Anyone who's kept up with this series long enough knows that I usually wait until after a match wins Worst Match of the Year in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards. However, the reaction to this match was so negative when it happened (and the fact that someone commented on my last Worst in the World saying this match should be next) I figured there's no point in waiting until almost a year to get this out there. So here it is; the Undertaker vs Goldberg from Super Showdown 2019. Despite the fact that both men were over 50 at the time and that neither had wrestled in over seven months (Goldberg having not wrestled in two years), WWE trotted them out in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for their third show as part of their 10-year blood money  deal with the country's General Sports Authority. What resulted was a match so bad that Goldberg felt like he had to apologize for his performance afterward. But with that all out of the way, let's get to it. So, just like at Crown J...