10 Things You Learn Rewatching The First Ever WWE Raw Episode

5. McMahon Referred To Programming As The ‘WWF Network’

Before Monday Night Raw was introduced in early-1993, it was WWF Superstars that acted as the promotion's flagship weekly. The tide would quickly change, but the WWF did initially use Raw's debut as a vehicle to push their Saturday morning show.

Towards the end of the first Raw, footage was shown of Kamala's babyface turn from days before, but it's not the actual segment itself that provides the most interesting thing of note here. No, it was McMahon's terminology before cutting to Kamala, Kim-Chee, Slick and others on Superstars. By referring to the WWF's library of programming as the 'WWF Network', Vince was sowing the seeds for what was to come years later.

Nowadays, the WWE Network is that in-house 'channel' McMahon clearly always wanted. As far back as 1993 however, the WWF were seemingly happy to pretend that shows like Raw, Superstars, Mania and Wrestling Challenge existed on a specific Network, rather than across a number of different stations.