22 years ago tonight, Shawn made his first appearance on WWF TV since WM 14 on Raw. Raw took place at the Meadowlands so I was lucky enough to be able to go see it in person.
I remember earlier that day in the afternoon on the sites that existed back then, it leaked out that Shawn was going to be on Raw later that night. Since I was going, I was so excited to read this. He hadn't been on TV since he lost to Austin at WM 14. So, to know I was going to see him in person that night and see him in anyway since March was exciting.
I remember like 15 mins or so before the show started, they dimmed the lights and were showing video packages on the jumbo-trons in the arena. And when the lights came back on a few mins before the show started, you could see that Shawn's pyro was now in the ring because they were all lined up right next to eachother, which is how his pyro goes off from right to left and back to right. So, a few of us in our section knew Shawn was gonna kick off the show.
It was pretty awesome, because he got four different pops on that entrance. First, when his music hit. Then, a few seconds later when he comes out onto the ramp. Third, when he enters the ring and does his spin around that he always does. And fourth, when he does his pose when the pyro goes off.
The only part I was disappointed in was that we didn't get a promo and he went right to the commentary booth. But being that he wasn't coming back anytime soon, I can see why they didn't have him get our hopes up. This was also the same night Jason Sensation did all of his imitations and did Bret Hart, and Shawn said, "Who in the hell is that? Some mid-carder?" :LOL:
Here are two gifs of his entrance. In the first one, he blows a kiss to the crowd because he's happy to be back. And in the second one, you can clearly read his lips when he's standing on the second turnbuckle, takes his sunglasses off, looks into the crowd, and says "I MISSED YA!"