10 Things You Learn Binge Watching Every WWE Raw From 1994

10. Everything Feels So Small Time

Owen Hart 1994
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Taking Raw out of the quaint confines of New York's Manhattan Center was one of the best decisions the WWF made in 1993. They continued to tour into '94, but some of the buildings were absolutely atrocious on camera and it often looked like Vince McMahon's organisation had rolled into a local barn.

It's shocking to look back on today.

Raw came out looking like an indy fed's weekly, not a show engineered by the World Wrestling Federation. It was obvious that the company wasn't a hot ticket, and no amount of flashy new TV products could shift briefs to an audience who'd lost interest - only the hardcores remained.

Some of the arenas (if you could call them that) from 1994 didn't seem to be sold out either. There are loads of episodes on the Network that make Raw look more like an in-studio presentation of modern-day NWA... without the intention to look so old-fashioned.

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