Network Classics: Monday Night Raw - January 18, 1993

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports, Leisure, Wrestling

4.8 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "Network Classics," we relive episode #2 of Monday Night Raw from January 18, 1993! This episode of Raw will most be remembered for the Repo Man stealing Macho Man's hat (with Sean Mooney on the case), as well as the continued feud between Mr. Perfect and Ric Flair, which would lead to a "Loser Leaves Town" match the following week. Plus, Marty Jannetty and Tito Santana are in action, and much more!

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Network Classics, PTSM.
0:15.9	This is a new episode we've added to our weekly content,
0:22.7	the family of PTSDM,
0:24.6	and I've really been having a blast doing these.
0:27.5	The first one we did, we did Saturday night's main event,
0:29.1	and that was fun,
0:33.2	and then last week we did one on a Superstars episode, WWF Superstars.
0:37.6	And so this time out, we thought we'd do another episode of Raw. Now, if you remember, I already did a little watch-along for the first episode of Raw.
0:43.3	So for this edition, we're going to do the second episode, the number two show, the second one that took place of Raw, Monday Night Raw, at the Manhattan Center in New York City. And if you'll
0:56.6	recall back then, Monday Night Raw replaced Primetime Wrestling, which had been on the USA Network for
1:02.8	about eight years. And they wanted to do something new. And they came up with this concept
1:08.2	to do, they wanted to be really exciting. They wanted to be in a small venue, which the Manhattan Center didn't hold a lot of people.
1:16.2	So that they thought this would be, you know, a great, great new program that they would have.
1:21.9	And it really, I'm telling you from the first one, you could tell they had something special going on.
1:26.9	Because that little venue, it kind of took people back a little bit to the old studio shows.
1:33.7	But of course, they brought in, you know, the production techniques that the WWF had at the time
1:39.4	where they, you know, lit the whole audience and had all kinds of great graphics and music and it was it was exciting it
1:46.9	really right for the beginning now um then when they started it you know vince of course always trying
1:53.1	to do new things uh he brought in rob bartlett who was a comedian and he was uh did a local radio show uh back back in the day in new york city
2:03.9	and vince really liked this guy he was a personality that was on radio in new york and so he
2:08.9	brought him on along with randy savage and macho man randy savage was not really wrestling
2:14.1	that much at the time they were doing we were working some angles with them, but Randy was
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