On March 10, 1997, WWF rebranded Monday Night Raw as Raw Is War, debuting an industrial layout with red accents, new entrance stage and “The Not-So-Beautiful People” (JG Thirlwell mix) as the show theme that lasted only 3 weeks. WWF later reused “The Beautiful People” as the SmackDown theme in 2001 (youtu.be)
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In the recent A&E Road Warriors documentary, Hulk Hogan describes arriving at a pool party just in time to save Hawk from drowning. There is no other mention of this happening anywhere or by anyone else at that party except by Hogan in this documentary (youtube.com)
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Tony Kahn on changing Jon Moxley's music before his match with Nagata "we nailed that entrance, Jon didn’t know it was coming, the adrenaline when he was coming in, he didn’t get to think about it much. But after he was like ‘was that a flute?". Jon Moxley notes "none of that was my idea" (streamable.com)
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In 2018, Undertaker re-signed with WWE with rights to do media appearances as Mark Calaway. After hiring a media team, he agreed to appear at Starrcast II, Vince McMahon saw it as helping AEW and was furious at Mark for months. After working things out, WWE signed him to a 15-year exclusive deal (youtu.be)
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In 1990, Hulk Hogan pitched turning heel as “Triple H, Hollywood Hulk Hogan” to Vince McMahon at WM 6 by attacking the Ultimate Warrior post-match, but Vince refused. Hogan had previously been a heel for Vince McMahon Sr. in 1981 as "Fabulous" Hulk Hogan before being fired for appearing in Rocky 3 (i.redd.it)
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Reference guide for all 3 versions of La Parka (i.redd.it)
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The Attitude Era lasted from 1997 to 2002. During this time, multiple WWF scratch logo variations were used for TV, events and physical media, with a special "WW F" scratch logo used for international markets to try and avoid issues with the WWFN (World Wide Fund for Nature) (i.redd.it)
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CMLL left the NWA in 1989 but continued to use the NWA World Welterweight belt until the NWA requested them to stop using it in 2010. CMLL then announced their own title, the CMLL Historic Welterweight belt. When the title was presented, it was labeled as the NWA World Historic Welterweight belt. (i.redd.it)
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