8 Things WWE Want You To Forget About The Raw After WrestleMania
7. Encore!
...which was certainly the case during the first ever post-WrestleMania Raw.
The 5 April 1993 edition of the not-yet-flagship show attempted to turn cynical booking into cynical profit by driving as many viewers to order an encore airing the following Monday night. Pay-per-view replays weren't available at the time, nor were they free.
"What a WrestleMania just last night, one of the greatest WrestleManias of all time," wailed Vince McMahon as the show kicked off. It dripped with insincerity - because it was b*llocks. Vince was delivering his sales pitch from the safety of a Raw television taping two weeks before the event itself.
"Now it's the present," Randy Savage lied, as the pair ran down the card with nary a further mention to the fact that Hulk Hogan had somehow won the WWE Title despite not even being in the main event.
The show continued in the same vein, with Savage and Vince in post-produced commentary making allusions to some of the show's happenings without any live or in-ring comments giving the game away.
WWE did respectable business with the replay orders too, broadly justifying the unsavoury tactics.