WWE RAW often goes live without being fully written

WWE RAW, the company’s flagship show and one of the longest-running episodic series’ on American television, apparently often goes on the air without being fully written.

The Monday night show has been a part of WWE TV and the landmark show since it first aired in January 1993 on USA Network. Since then the show has had 1513 episodes, and won a fabled ratings war in the late 1990s against Turner Broadcasting.

Renee Paquette served as a personality on WWE TV between 2012 and 2020, featuring on RAW both as a backstage interviewer and as an announcer. She also hosted pre-shows and post-shows like RAW Talk. On a recent episode of her Throwing Down with Renee and Miesha podcast, Paquette noted that RAW often went on the air without a finished running order during her tenure.

“There is times that I’ve gone on the air with Monday Night RAW and the show is not written. It is full being re-done, we don’t know what’s happening. So creative can most certainly change. It happens very often, also the production doesn’t get out until 3pm, and thats on a good day, that’s when things are running smoothly.” Paquette said

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What happened on WWE RAW this week?

This week’s edition of WWE RAW featured an appearance from SmackDown stars The Usos and Sami Zayn.

It also featured a match between Cody Rhodes and The Miz which was interrupted by Seth Freakin’ Rollins, an empassioned Riddle promo, and Alexa Bliss scoring a pinfall victory over her former tag team partner Nikki A.S.H.

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Edge’s Judgement Day also featured on the show, which was headlined by a Becky Lynch vs Asuka match, which saw Lynch earn a RAW Women’s Title match at Hell In A Cell.

Fans will doubtless be excited to see where WWE decides to go with their creative choices. You can read more about WWE RAW by clicking here.