10 Things You Learn Binge Watching Every WWE Raw From 1997

8. Some Of The WWF's Production Was Horrible

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Eric Bischoff regularly claims on his '83 Weeks' podcast that WWE has always been at the forefront of production techniques, and that his WCW group found it difficult to compete despite being owned by a television company. 1997 says otherwise, Eric.

There are several episodes of Raw from '97 that look awful.

The 3 February edition taped at the SkyDome in Toronto, for example, is grainier than a bowl of Shreddies. Camera quality is seriously poor, and that makes watching the program a real chore. Then, on 3 March, the WWF hit up Germany for another pre-taped effort that looked like it was filmed using a 2002 flip phone.

Both editions, whilst international, were inexcusably amateurish. The WWF would clean that up by the end of 1997. Indeed, Raw started to have much higher production overall by the time they switched up the set and went live more often.

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