We’re back from summer vacation and returning to the Attitude Era with the July 13, 1998 edition of Raw Is War—and honestly, New Jersey welcomed us home with absolute chaos.

Shawn Michaels returns with a Lord Farquaad haircut and a seat at the commentary table, Kane and Mankind capture the Tag Team Championships, and The Rock’s star power becomes impossible to ignore. Meanwhile, Brawl for All continues to make us ask why there’s so little wrestling on our wrestling show.

But the question of the evening is simple: Are The Undertaker and Kane in cahoots? Stone Cold Steve Austin would also like an answer, especially before he has to team with The Undertaker at Fully Loaded.

Highlights include:

• Shawn Michaels returning to Raw—and immediately doing entirely too much on commentary
• Kane and Mankind becoming the new Tag Team Champions
• Stone Cold investigating some deeply suspicious brother behavior
• The Rock, Owen Hart, Triple H and X-Pac continuing the DX–Nation war
• X-Pac debuting the X-Factor
• Sable and Jacqueline serving looks, tension and an incoming bikini contest
• Val Venis debuting his latest “film” on the TitanTron, because apparently that was allowed
• Two rounds of Brawl for All reminding everyone why they came to see wrestling
• A chaotic main event featuring approximately the entire roster
• The word “cahoots” being used more times than any serious situation should permit

Cahoots: it’s the word of the week. Use it in a sentence.

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