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Sean Mooney on WWE Raw's First Episode_ The Real Story Behind the Scenes

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports News, Sports, News, Wrestling

4.7797 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

WWE Raw first episode secrets are revealed as legendary broadcaster Sean Mooney breaks down behind-the-scenes stories from the debut episode of Monday Night Raw. On the Golden Era Podcast, Mooney shares what really happened backstage, why Raw was created, and how WWE changed television forever. A must-watch for fans of classic WWE, wrestling history, and the Golden Era.

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0:00.0

It's the golden age of w-w-e

0:04.0

larger than life of fantasy, snap in the rainfield history.

0:10.0

Welcome to the golden W.W.E.

0:16.0

Uncooked, uncut, uncensored.

0:18.0

We're talking about the first episode of Monday Night, Rob, right here on the Golden Era podcast with Shaw Mooney. How are you feeling? I'm feeling great. And this is one of my favorite subjects as we look back. It's so funny you mentioned that. I know that you were going to come out with the slogan, but I still, to this day day can't figure out uncooked.

0:38.9

I mean, I get uncut. Raw, right, raw?

0:40.8

Yeah, okay, I get it.

0:42.1

Put little food jokes in there.

0:43.4

Yeah, I was kind of thought like, okay, all right, I get the raw food.

0:48.5

Okay, but no.

0:51.0

Uncut.

0:51.8

Yeah.

0:52.2

Which, again, if you want to explain uncut, what is uncut? I would have thought like unreal. I don't know. I would have come up. Uncensored, I understand 100%, you know. Yeah. Yeah. But the rest, you're right. I think it was just someone came up with uncensored. It was like, we need two more words with un in the front. I'm telling. I see that in the in the meeting, you know, and somebody goes, I don't know, throwing stuff out. They're like, how about uncooked? And everybody's like, and then Vince like, I love it. Okay, yes. Okay. We do too, we do too, Vince. Yeah, we do too. Absolutely.

1:28.3

Yes.

1:29.3

Great idea.

1:30.3

Well, whiteboard on the back.

1:31.3

All right, what we're gonna do here?

1:32.3

Undertaker, no, we can't do that.

1:35.3

Yes, the first episode of Raw.

1:37.3

It's gonna be interesting topic today because for you, I imagine you were freezing outside,

1:42.3

but we'll get into all that in a minute.

1:49.3

This is the beginning of this, the flagship show they would talk about.

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