20 Must See Moments From The 100 New RAW Episodes Added To WWE Network
1. WWF Becomes WWE - 06/05/02
Many will surely disagree with this at the top of the list, but for fans of a certain generation this was a monumental moment. For years we had grown up with the World Wrestling Federation, the WWF. Like the sun, the moon and the stars, the WWF was going to be around forever.
Of course, nothing lasts forever. In 2002 the World Wrestling Federation lost a lawsuit in the UK against the damn panda-lovin' World Wide Fund for Nature, and instead of going through further legal wrangling the decision was made to drop the F. The WWF became the WWE, and everything changed forever.
Wrestling hadn't been about wrestling for a long time, but the addition of 'Entertainment' into the company name indicated something of an abandonment of it. Sports Entertainment it was, and an entire profession was belittled. It took a lot of time to get used to. Many non-fans of the same generation are still ignorant to the change, referring to it still as the WWF.
The episode itself holds nothing too impressive, but for a fan born in the 1980s the first RAW of the post-WWF era will always be a landmark moment.