This Monday RAW is celebrating airing for 25 Years! To mark this huge milestone everyone here at SLTD has decided to get together to give our thoughts on what has been our stand out moment of RAW for the last 25 years.
Below are our favourite moments, has yours been included? Let us know in the comments below!
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@TittyFroster (It’s Wrestling)
One of my all-time favourite RAW moments was the time Vince was in the hospital because he had his ankle “broken” by steel steps. While in the hospital, the doctor comes in and it’s Stone Cold. He attacked Vince. He shoved some kind of tube in his ass and hit him with a metal bedpan. Then Mick comes in with balloons and a female clown. The whole segment was just hilarious. I wish they’d do more like that on RAW, maybe one day they will.
@BigMatchSully (Monster Match Sully )
The Trial of Eric Bischoff! I’m a young-un here at SLTD, so my initial viewing of wrestling started in the early 2000’s, in the era of a Bishoff running RAW. The whole time, Bischoff was a dastardly heel, who’d do anything to get his way and the way of his ‘favourites’. Therefore when it came to the trial fo Eric Bischoff, I was over the moon to see the former face of WCW get his comeuppance.
Every single segment was enjoyable, be it Mr Socko talking to Maria Kanellis or Vince whipping out an Ashley Simpson joke, the whole ‘Trial of Eric Bishoff’ is one of the best. To cap it all off, one of the memories of wrestling I have, that for some reason will stay with me forever comes from the final segment. Watching Mr McMahon dump Bischoff in the back of a garbage truck!
@JoshMorrell (Wrestling World)
My favourite Raw moment has to be when, now WWE Hall of Famer, Kurt Angle drove a milk truck to spoil the Alliance’s parade when they were participating in Steve Austin Appreciation Night, it gave my feelings a boost when I saw it on the repeats that the WWF gave Sky at the time, this moment was, in my opinion, one of the only shining lights of the Alliance story arc!
@callumowen98 (Facebook Manager)
This is by far the toughest group post I think we’ve had to do, for 25 years there have been numerous great moments in Raw history and just picking one is no easy task. However, after changing my mind a few times, I’ve finally been able to pick my favourite Raw moment. It occurred on the post Summerslam edition of Raw in 2015 and it was the return of Sting. Now even though he wasn’t in his prime when he came to WWE and the fact he lost in his debut match at Wrestlemania 31, I still gasped in shock when Sting replaced the supposed Seth Rollins statue and was unveiled to the excitement of the Brooklyn crowd and me sat in my living room watching Raw. I have always been a Rollins fan, but for the first time in a while, I was cheering for the guy who was attacking him. And even though the end of this feud concluded in the sad circumstances of Sting getting injured, I’ll never forget the start of it and it really was iconic.
@bpwpodcast (Best Pro Wrestling Podcast)
My favourite Monday Night Raw moment was “The Kid” upsetting Razor Ramon. It was May 17th, 1993, the first year of Raw. “The Kid” made his debut two weeks earlier as the “Kamikaze Kid.” To the rest of the world, he was just another jobber, there to put over Doink the Clown. But to me, he was a sign of hope. I, like Sean Waltman, was a tall, skinny kid aspiring for wrestling superstardom. I had seen Waltman wrestle in person at a local bar. It was the Lightning Kid vs Jerry Lynn falls count anywhere! So seeing a local guy make it to the “Big Time” was pretty cool, even if he was a jobber. Week two the “Cannonball Kid” enhances Mr Hughes. In retrospect, it was brilliant to have him use a different name each week. It made him stand out as a job guy. Finally, on the third week of his WWF career, The Kid moonsaulted his way into legend when he pinned Razor Ramon and became the 123 Kid. The crowd and the viewers at home were all shocked. The announcers, Razor and The Kid himself all acted shocked themselves. This proved that truly anything can happen on Monday Night Raw and a new star was born.
@TomRobinson5199 (Armbar Analysis)
My favourite RAW moments actually stems from just the more intense moments in RAW’s history. When I first started watching WWE, Shawn Michaels and Triple H had an awesome big brawl on RAW which led to the announcement of Hell in a Cell which, for a long time, was my favourite RAW moment ever. Taker and Brock brawling on RAW in 2015 also came close to beating that but I think 2017 actually gave me a new greatest RAW moment of all time. My greatest RAW moment of all time was Braun Strowman MASSACARING Roman Reigns 8 days after WrestleMania 33. This was the mother of all beatdowns. This was unlike any segment I’ve seen from WWE in decades. It was a beating like no other that Roman sold for and sold for as the Monster Among Men imposed his will.
@Tybo_SLTD (Tybo Talks)
My favourite moment has to be when the Undertaker returned just before Wrestlemania 27, and before he could say a work Triple H’s music hit. No one had seen either of them for months. The reason I love this moment so much is that there is not a single word spoken for over ten minutes. No commentary, no promos, nothing except two legends and true Hall of Famers in the ring. With nothing but a glance at the huge Wrestlemania sign and a glance back to each other, the match was made. When you are the calibre of Undertaker and Triple H, that’s all it takes to make history.
@kieranthekiz (UKayfabe)
The Miz cashes in Money In The Bank to become WWE World Heavyweight Champion.
Did anyone think he would become the champion? I felt like the only one that believed in him from day one. He worked his heart out tirelessly for years, and a surprise Money In The Bank win got people wondering, could he win the big one? Could the man dubbed the Marty Jannetty of the Miz/Morrison tag team win the ultimate prize in WWE? Then on November 22nd, 2010 all questions were answered.
As a fan of Miz since the days of him stumbling his lines as Diva Search host, I couldn’t believe when he ran down to the ring following then-champion Randy Orton’s match. He then cashed in on a tired Orton and a new era was born, the era of awesome.
Angry Miz girl pulled her face, the crowd were in shock and the internet fans complained in their thousands.
Credit to him, every single day as champion he got better and better and proved his worth, and as a longtime ‘Mizfit’ this moment will live with me forever. Even if he never becomes WWE champion again, nobody can ever take this moment away from either him or me.
There are our favourite moments, but what are yours? Let us know below in the comments section.
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