Date: January 11th As mentioned before, the WWF wanted to change the game with Monday Night Raw. Gone were the days of completely pre-recorded action, with commentators recording their parts from a studio somewhere, and a sterile crowd atmosphere. Raw ushered in the era of live programming, and it was full of vibrant colors, louder crowds and more in-your-face visuals that were a staple of the 1990's. The WWF was moving away from "old school" wrestling and moving right into the "new school". It was a big risk for Vince McMahon. It's not like early-1993 WWF was making money hand over fist. Let's just say Raw would have been a failure, with people deciding they didn't want to watch something so different than they were used to. What would that have done for the company? Vince made his living taking big, calculated risks and having them pay off. Luckily for him, Raw has clearly paid off for him, and helped to make him a billionaire at one point. Even in the early stages of the show, when they weren't exactly giving fans five-star matches on a weekly basis, it was still must-see television that you just had to watch every week, just to see what would happen next. It's exactly what the WWF wanted it to be, and it happened right off the bat.
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