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The concept was introduced on the June 15, 2009 episode of WWE Raw by Donald Trump, who at the time was involved in an angle where he was the owner of the Raw franchise. On June 22, after having regained ownership of Raw, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon announced that Trump's initiative would go into effect on June 29, with the first star being ...
WWE Raw, also known as Monday Night Raw or simply Raw, is an American professional wrestling television program produced by WWE. It currently airs live every Monday at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on Netflix. The show features characters from the Raw brand, to which WWE wrestlers are assigned to work and perform.
The 2005 draft was held on the June 6 episode of Raw. The first draft lottery pick was then WWE Champion John Cena, thus moving the WWE Championship to Raw and having two titles on the brand. Eventually, then World Heavyweight Champion Batista was drafted to SmackDown! as the last draft pick, leaving only the WWE Championship on Raw.
Both sets of titles were hung separately above the ring and the match continued until both sets of titles were won. The Miz and R-Truth won the Raw Tag Team Championship while Theory and Waller won the SmackDown Tag Team Championship. On the April 19, 2024, episode of SmackDown, the title was renamed to WWE Tag Team Championship. [38] 32 #DIY
Jeri-Show (Big Show and Chris Jericho) July 26, 2009: Night of Champions: Philadelphia, PA: 1 (1, 2) 140: 139 Shortly after Edge and Chris Jericho won the title, Edge suffered a torn Achilles tendon, which required surgery and forced him to vacate his half of the championship. Jericho was allowed to keep his title and choose a new partner; he ...
The WWF also decided to run Raw as a live show more often to combat Nitro, with the normal schedule being one live Raw followed by a taped episode. On February 3, 1997, Raw went to a two-hour format, [1] to compete with the extra hour on Nitro, as an edgier, more hostile attitude was starting to come in full stream in the WWF.
The Monday Night Raw debut episode was a professional wrestling event that marked the debut of WWE's (then WWF) weekly WWE Raw television program. The event took place on January 11, 1993. [1] The show aired live on the USA Network, taking place at the Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center in New York City. [2]
Raw Homecoming was a television special that was broadcast live on October 3, 2005 on the USA Network. It was named as such because it was the first edition of WWE 's flagship show Monday Night Raw to air on the USA Network since 2000, after airing on Spike TV (currently known as the Paramount Network ) for the previous five years.