10 Most Important Episodes Of WWE Raw In History
The 10 most important episodes in WWE Raw history
9. March 25, 2002
With WCW and ECW no longer in business and the bungled Invasion angle being done and dusted within six months, WWE were left with an inflated roster and no viable competition.
So they went ahead and made their own.
The March 25, 2002, episode of Raw was not a particularly good one. In fact, if you’re going by general storyline advancement and in-ring action, it was actually rather forgettable, if not outright terrible.
It was, however, for all its faults, historic, as it was the site of the first-ever WWE Draft.
Kayfabe co-owners Vince McMahon and Ric Flair assembled their crews for SmackDown and Raw respectively, kicking off the promotion’s brand split era.
There were some odd ones, no doubt – We still have no idea what McMahon was doing using three of his ten picks on Billy & Chuck, D-Von Dudley and Maven – but by the end of the night the landscape of WWE would be changed for the best part of the next decade.
Even though the original brand split ended in 2011, WWE have since gone back to the concept and the draft episodes of both Raw and SmackDown are now established tropes.
