WWE News: The Undertaker explains why WWE Raw revolutionized the wrestling business
Prior to 1993, wrestling’s broadcast style was very different than it is today, with no promotion offering a live, serialized weekly show with quality free-to-air.
Matches until the WWF created RAW. The Undertaker, undisputed legend of wrestling and protagonist of the main event.
The first episode of RAW, spoke about the importance that this format had in the business, and stated that it was something revolutionary.
These were his words at the WWE conference in the last edition of Comic-Con: We had no idea that this was about to revolutionize the wrestling industry.
The then-called WWF used to do three weeks of television taped three days in a row, and then we would go out on tours. At that point… let me see.
If I can be politically correct; we always worked with ‘extras’. They used to be called jobbers. If you are an ex-jobber, don’t be woke and don’t cancel me.
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You can’t, but go ahead and try (laughs). That’s how business was. Then Monday Night RAW came along, and we were going to be live every Monday night.
And that really changed the landscape of the wrestling business. You were never going to have Undertaker against anyone in.
A ‘development’ match again. It became a necessity to have top guys against other top guys every Monday night, because you need an audience.
If you had a live show, you would have to put on the best you had. Probably one of the best things that has happened to wrestling in the modern era.
Going live on Monday Night RAW.” Today, RAW is still broadcast live almost thirty years later, and it is one of the most emblematic.
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Long-lived programs in the history of world television, but at the time, it was a big change with respect to the business model that was carried out,
