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RAW is generally seen as the companyвЂ™s 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 promoted by WWE to be the longest running weekly episodic television show in US history.Д«eginning as WWF Monday Night Raw, the program first aired on January 11, 1993. The show as presented would be barely recognizable to a viewer of todayвЂ™s 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 two are still actively wrestling with WWE: The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels.

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The original RAW broke new ground in televised professional wrestling. #Wwe raw burn it to the ground professional Traditionally, wrestling shows were taped on sound stages with small audiences or at large arena shows. 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. Fuji on the very first episode of Monday Night Raw 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 1994 to September 1999, RAW was shown live on one Monday and then the next day (Tuesday) next MondayвЂ™s 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 вЂњgimmick-heavyвЂќ style. For instance, events occurred such as Irwin R. WWF Monday Night Raw logo (January 11, 1993-March 3, 1997) Schyster tearing up TatankaвЂ™s headdress, the various вЂњUndertaker sightingsвЂќ in mid-1994 and characters like Duke вЂњThe DumpsterвЂќ Droese, Doink the Clown, or Bob вЂњSpark PluggвЂќ Holly. RAW, uniquely in its day, covered the unexpected, exciting moments, a prelude to вЂњthe Attitude EraвЂќ, in which it coined Raw as вЂњUncut, Uncensored, Uncooked.вЂќ 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 McMahon, Rob Bartlett and вЂњMacho ManвЂќ Randy Savage served as the original hosts of RAW.

Sean Mooney conducted the interviews and Bobby вЂњThe BrainвЂќ Heenan also helped contribute. On April 19, 1993, Rob Bartlett made his final appearance on the program. #Wwe raw burn it to the ground professional.