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The 11th of January 1993 is when the first ever Raw is War, Ed Live, if you can believe

it.

If you tune in on peacock or the WWE network when they take the adverts out, you can

get through the whole thing in 45 minutes, or as today it is 3 hours.

This is quite fascinating to watch though because these days WWE is so obsessed with being

slick and polished to having crazy production values, as back in the early 90s, it kind

of looks like I put it together.

It is also absolutely not the show that it would morph into all these years later, so

I was sitting around and thought to myself, why don't I take the retrofist of power and

give the good bits and up and the bad bits and down for the first ever episode of Raw?

Who is the first person we ever see on WWE Raw, I give you a minute, da da da da da da

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