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It has been known by many names, including: (taken from The IMDB)
RAW has a Sunday sister show titled WWE Sunday Night HEAT, which is also aired on Spike TV at 7pm EST.
RAW has previously been aired on USA Network. Any other channels that have shown RAW are unknown.
Was previously not live, but after pressure from WCW's Monday Nitro, the WWF started presenting RAW live every week. However, RAW’s sister show, Smackdown, has yet to be shown live.
In early to mid 2002, World Wrestling Entertainment underwent something they called the “Brand Extension”. In a nutshell, this meant that the two WWE Television shows (RAW and Smackdown) would become competition for each other. This came about when the then WWF purchased their two biggest competitors, WCW and ECW.
The Brand Extension would bring about a change like nothing the WWF/WWE has seen before. Wrestlers would become “show exclusive”, wrestling for their specific show only. This at the time excluded the champions as originally, the WWF/WWE titles would be defended on both shows. However, in later 2002, Brock Lesnar, the at the time WWE World Champion, refused to defend the title on RAW, causing the title the become Smackdown exclusive. Following that, both shows then got their own exclusive titles. The current RAW titles are listed below.
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|Title Notes:
|Current Champion(s)
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|World Heavyweight Title 1
|Triple H (Paul Levesque)
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|World Tag Team Title 2
|Booker T (Booker Huffman) and Rob Van Dam (Rob Szatkowski)
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|Women's World Title 3
|Molly Holly (Noreen Greenwald)
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|Intercontinental Heavyweight Title 4
|Randy Orton
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1: This was originally the WCW World Heavyweight Title. Reintroduced by Eric Bischoff when the originally WWE World Title became Smackdown exclusive.
1: Triple H (Paul Levesque) defeated Goldberg (Bill Goldberg) at Armageddon 2003. Kane (Glenn Jacobs) was also involved in the match.
http://www.wwe.com – The Official World Wrestling Entertainment websiteShow History
As of February 2004, the official title is WWE Monday Night RAW. The Brand Extension
The Current RAW Titles
2: These are the original WWE Tag Team Titles.
3: This is the original WWE Women's World Title.
4: The original WWE Intercontinental title; was at one time discontinued, but was reintroduced by Stone Cold Steve AustinRecent Happenings:
2: Booker T (Booker Huffman) and Rob Van Dam (Rob Szatkowski) defeated Ric Flair and Batista (Dave Batista) on Monday Night RAW (February 16, 2004).
3: Molly Holly (Noreen Greenwald) defeated Gail Kim on Monday Night RAW (August 28, 2003).
4: Randy Orton defeated Rob Van Dam (Rob Szatkowski) at Armageddon 2003.RAW Superstars
Current RAW Superstars
Current RAW Announcers
Current RAW General Manager(s)
Current RAW “Sheriff”
Previous General Managers / "Owners"
Former RAW Superstars
(Brand Extension-wise only)
External Links:
http://raw.wwe.com – The Official WWE RAW website