8 Reasons Why Today's WWE Raw Is WCW In Disguise

8. Production

Starting with matters outside of the ring, let’s talk about the production of Raw.

Slowly but surely, and what is admittedly most likely a total coincidence, Raw’s production has been borrowing certain elements that were once a staple of WCW.

For starters, today an episode of Raw lasts for three trudging hours, much like WCW Monday Nitro did between 1997 and ‘99. And trudging really is the keyword there. Plus, the show employs an unnecessarily cumbersome three-man commentary team, which invariably means guys are competing to get a word in edgeways rather than focussing on putting over the action at hand. And to make matters worse, that three-man team is stationed way up on the entranceway instead of the usual position at ringside, so they're not even truly immersed in the matches they're calling.

All in all, it makes for a fairly WCW-esque landscape, but in fairness, it likely isn’t by design. Besides, Vince McMahon and the production team probably weren't even watching WCW at the time, what with being busy running their own show, so how could they be accused of ripping it off?