WWE Monday Night RAW Pro Wrestling. WWE Monday Night Raw. Airtime. 3 Hours per episode. Opening theme. WWE Raw sometimes stylized as RAW is a professional wrestling television program for World Wrestling Entertainment WWE that currently airs on the USA Network in the United States. The shows name was also used to refer to the Raw brand, in which WWE employees were assigned to work and perform on that program between 2. WWE Brand Extension. To celebrate WWE Networks threeyear anniversary, WWE. Its the definitive AtoZ. The other program and brand during that time was Smack. Down. The show originally debuted in the United States on the USA Network on January 1. It remained there until 2. Raw was moved to TNN, later known as Spike TV. In 2. 00. 5, the show was moved back to the USA Network. Since its launch in 1. Raw continues to air on Monday nights. Raw is generally seen as the companys flagship program due to its longer history, higher ratings, the fact its shows are live every week, and emphasis on pay per views. It is the longest running weekly episodic television show in US history. Next Episode of RAWCurrent champions. Championship. Universal Championship. Brock Lesnar. Goldberg. April 2, 2. 01. 7. Orlando, Florida. Wrestle. Mania 3. Intercontinental Championship. The Miz. Dean Ambrose. June 4, 2. 01. 7. Baltimore, Maryland. Extreme Rules. 16. Raw Tag Team Championship. The Bar Cesaro Sheamus. Ambrose Rollins. November 6, 2. Manchester, England. WWE Monday Night RAW7. Raw Womens Championship. Alexa Bliss. Sasha Banks. August 2. 8, 2. 01. Memphis, Tennessee. WWE Monday Night RAW7. Cruiserweight Championship. Enzo Amore. Kalisto. October 2. 2, 2. 01. Minneapolis, Minnesota. TLC Tables, Ladders, Chairs 2. Influx of Young Talent. Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens Payback May 1, 2016. Payback Highlights. Extreme Rules Match for the WWE Championship Roman Reigns vs. AJ Styles. Throughout its history, women have served in various onscreen roles in the American professional wrestling promotion WWE. In the 1990s, WWE then known as the World. WWE Diva foi um termo usado pela empresa de wrestling profissional WWE para referirse as suas wrestlers femininas. O termo aplicado para mulheres que atuam como. Founded in 2004, SEScoops provides daily coverage of the Professional Wrestling Sports Entertainment industry. News, Results, Editorials, Videos more from WWE. WWE Raw sometimes stylized as RAW is a professional wrestling television program for World. Show history. 19. Original format. Beginning as WWF Monday Night Raw, the program first aired on January 1. The show as presented would be barely recognizable to a viewer of todays programming as the WWF at the time was attempting to cater to a younger audience with cartoonish, one dimensional characters. It screened on the USA Network for one hour. Of the wrestlers featured on that occasion, only one is still actively wrestling with WWE The Undertaker. Mp3 Toolkit Serial Number. The original Raw broke new ground in televised professional wrestling. Traditionally, wrestling shows were taped on sound stages with small audiences or at large arena shows. WWE-Extreme-Rules-2015-1024x576.jpg' alt='Wwe Extreme Rules 2012 Matches Videos' title='Wwe Extreme Rules 2012 Matches Videos' />The Raw formula was very different than that of its predecessor, Prime Time Wrestling. Instead of taped matches, with studio voice overs and taped chat, Raw was a show shot to a live audience, with angles as they happened. The first episode featured Yokozuna defeating Koko B. Ware, The Steiner Brothers defeating The Executioners, WWF Intercontinental Champion. Shawn Michaels defeating Max Moon and The Undertaker defeating Damien Demento. The show also featured an interview with Razor Ramon. Raw originated from the Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center Studios, a small New York City theater, and aired live each week. The combination of an intimate venue and live action proved highly successful. However, the weekly live schedule proved to be a financial drain on the WWF, and taped shows began airing every other week. From early 1. 99. September 1. 99. 9, Raw was shown live on one Monday and then the next day Tuesday next Mondays Raw was taped. This meant that Raw was live one week and taped the next. The storylines and characters during the early years of Raw still had a healthy dose of the old Federation gimmick heavy style. For instance, events occurred such as Irwin R. Schyster tearing up Tatankas headdress, the various Undertaker sightings in mid 1. Duke The Dumpster Droese, Doink the Clown, or Bob Spark Plugg Holly. Raw, uniquely in its day, covered the unexpected, exciting moments, a prelude to the Attitude Era, in which it coined Raw as Uncut, Uncensored, Uncooked. Some of those moments include Razor Ramon losing a match unexpectedly to The Kid or Marty Jannetty beating Shawn Michaels to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship. Raw also was the first WWF television program of any kind to show footage of Lex Luger bodyslamming Yokozuna at the USS Intrepid. Vince Mc. Mahon, Rob Bartlett and Macho Man Randy Savage served as the original hosts of Raw. Sean Mooney conducted the interviews and Bobby The Brain Heenan also helped contribute. On April 1. 9, 1. Rob Bartlett made his final appearance on the program. He was dropped from the broadcasting team and was replaced by Bobby Heenan the following week, who remained until December 6, 1. Gorilla Monsoon kicked him out of the WWF. In reality, this was a storyline between Monsoon and his close friend Heenan, who decided to leave the World Wrestling Federation in order to lighten his travel schedule and because he didnt want to take a 5. After about a year, Raw moved out of the Manhattan Center and traveled to various regular Federation venues in the United States. The Monday Night Wars and Raw is War. In 1. 99. 5, World Championship Wrestling WCW began airing its new wrestling show, WCW Monday Nitro, live each week on TNT. Raw and Nitro went head to head for the first time on September 1. Due to Raws taping schedule on several occasions, WCW Vice President Eric Bischoff, who also worked as an on air personality, would frequently give away the results of WWFs taped Raw shows on the live WCW show. Some fans also looked at Raw taping results on the steadily growing Internet as a result, this caused the ratings of the taped Raw episodes to be lower. Until September 1. WWF Raw broadcast live every other week to save costs, but ratings and pay per view buy rate increased, allowing them to justify doing a weekly live show. At the start of the ratings war in 1. Raw and Nitro exchanged victories over each other in a closely contested rivalry. Beginning in mid 1. Wo angle, Monday Nitro started a ratings win streak that lasted for 8. April 1. 3, 1. 99. On February 3, 1. Monday Night Raw went to a two hour format, as the Attitude Era was starting to come in full stream in the WWF. In an attempt to break the momentum of what had turned into ratings domination by WCWs competing Monday Nitro, Extreme Championship Wrestling ECW was brought in as Jerry Lawler challenged ECW on February 1. In an episode where Raw returned to the Manhattan Center, the challenge answered on the following weeks show with Taz, Mikey Whipwreck, Sabu, Tommy Dreamer, D Von Dudley, and The Sandman. ECW owner Paul Heyman did a call in interview on Raw the week after that. Throughout 1. 99. Rawand WWF programming. Memorable moments included Bret Hart cursing profanely at the crowd after losing a Steel Cage match, with commentators apologizing for his foul behavior, before he proceeds in major brawls with Sid, The Undertaker, Steve Austin, and briefly Shawn Michaels. Some of the most notable moments cites the profusely intense feud with The Hart Foundation against Michaels and Austin, which saw Raw develop a memorable episode in which Michaels and Austin beat The British Bulldog and Owen Hart for the WWF Tag Team Championship, and during their post match attack on Michaels, Austin physically charged a disabled Bret Hart to ward them off. Other events saw the new black street gang Nation of Domination formed, and Michaels D Generation X racial graffiti storyline designed to implicate Bret Harts The Hart Foundation, and the XXX Files series. On March 1. 0, 1. Monday Night Raw officially became Raw is WarWar Zone. The March 1. 7, 1. Bret HartVince Mc.