9 Ways WWE Raw Broke GOOD Ratings Records 20 Years Ago
6. Most-Viewed Post-WrestleMania Raw (EVER) - March 29th 1999
Unlike the equivalent go-home editions of Raw across 1999 and 2000, the fallout from 'The Ragin' Climax' remains the all-time record-holder for post-WrestleMania editions of the flagship.
The wheels of WWE were re-oiled and raring to go on a night that saw The Rock find new focus for his final month as a heel, Stone Cold Steve Austin begin a quest to reclaim his Smoking Skull belt, and Shane McMahon tacitly take control of The Corporation as father Vince expressed greater concern over the safety of daughter Stephanie.
As with almost every entry in this list, if a lot of it sounds like bullsh*t, it's because it was, but it was fertiliser with the aroma of a rosegarden in comparison to the stench watfting over from Nitro.
Posting an enormous (and now entirely unfathomable) 6.5, the show defeated 2000's edition by 0.1, but 2001's (the night after Steve Austin's jaw-dropping heel turn) by a bigger margin. The 5.7 figure earned for the Raw after arguably the greatest WrestleMania of all time was in keeping with sliding trends, but WWE was an even grander organisation by then - 1999's building blocks were crafting that very monolith.