10 Forgotten WWE Experiments That Didn't Last
8. Raw’s ‘Blue Era’
Raw is red. The end.
Or, at least, that should be the case until the end of time. There are some things people shouldn't tamper with in the biz, and WWE's flagship being the same colour as blood/danger is certainly one of them. For example, can you imagine Monday nights being yellow? How about lime green? Well, back in 1995, the then-WWF decided to play around with a new colour scheme: Blue.
Someone let The Blue Meanie loose with a pot of paint around the place during one of the fed's most derided eras. Those who lived through the mid-90s 'New Generation' period have a bespoke fondness for everything it had to offer, but it was also undeniably crap at times. Sometimes, Raw was very visibly beaming to you from a high school gymnasium, and no amount of ICO PRO banners could hide it.
'The Blue Era' just didn't look right though, so it's no surprise that this only lasted a short time before the McMahon family went back to red. Vince must’ve liked the new paint job, right enough, because blue became SmackDown’s colour scheme in 1999. They'd park that for a while, to be fair. Hell, Superstars and Wrestling Challenge were 'B' and 'C' respectively behind Raw in '95, not Smackers.
Being honest, 'Blue Raw' was half-hearted anyway. The actual set, ring and everything else remained the same. It was only really some wrestle nameplates and a few flashing logos that changed. Some might even believe this was wrestling's very own Mandela Effect, but nope - it happened.