Beginning as WWF Monday Night Raw, the program first aired on January 11, 1993 on the USA Network for one hour. Raw was a show shot to a live audience, with angles as they happened. The original Raw broke new ground in televised professional wrestling. The first episode featured Yokozuna defeating Koko B. Ware, The Steiner Brothers defeating The Executioners, WWF Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels defeating Max Moon and The Undertaker defeating Damien Demento. Traditionally, wrestling shows were taped on sound stages with small audiences or at large arena shows. The Raw formula was very different than that of its predecessor, Prime Time Wrestling.

WWE Raw, sometimes written as WWE RAW, is the Monday night professional wrestling television program for World Wrestling Entertainment and is the primary broadcast of the Raw brand. Raw's current General Manager is Mike Adamle. WWE Raw is generally seen as WWE's flagship program over its sister programs, SmackDown and ECW, due to its longer history and the way it was promoted.

RAW currently airs live on USA Network and Sundays on Telemundo in the United States, and in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland on Sky Sports 3. It also currently broadcasts on tape delay in Canada on The Score and Global Quebec, in Australia on FOX8, in Portugal on SIC Radical, in Germany on Premiere (pay television network), in Italy on Sky Italia, in Belgium.

The fans in Salt Lake City were privy to a short-lived return of WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair, who was all business in coming to the defense of his friend, Shawn Michaels and offering to meet Y2J in the parking lot. Todd Grisham caught up with Flair after he got ejected from the building per orders of Mr. McMahon.