10 things you might not know about Monday Night Raw

Published Jan 18, 2018 12:10 GMT

Vince McMahon vs Steve Austin was one of Raw's greatest feuds

#7 Over 1,200 episodes

Raw's 1,000th episode featured a D-Generation X reunion

They don’t call Monday Night Raw the longest-running weekly episodic television show in US history for nothing. Since it began on 11 January 1993, there have been 1,287 episodes of Raw (as of the time of writing – 18 January 2018).

The first episode was one-hour long and featured The Undertaker and Damien Demento in a short main event – a stark contrast to today’s Raw, which lasts three hours and often finishes with the longest match of the show.

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About the author

Danny Hart has been one of the most active writers at Sportskeeda since he began working for the WWE section of the site in October 2017.

Danny currently writes around 100 articles per month about WWE. Before joining Sportskeeda, he worked for seven years as a writer and editor for the football website Goal.com. He also reported live from Premier League stadiums around England.

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Edited by Shruti Sadbhav