The 25th anniversary of Monday Night Raw® will emanate from Barclays Center and Manhattan Center in New York City on Monday, January 22, 2018, and air live on USA Network at 8PM ET. In Canada, the show will air live on Sportsnet 360.
WWE Superstars from both Monday Night Raw and SmackDown® Live will be at Barclays Center, while the event at Manhattan Center, the site of the first episode of Raw, will feature both WWE Superstars competing, and special appearances by WWE Legends Undertaker®, Shawn Michaels® and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin®, amongst others. VIP packages, including a meet and greet with a WWE Legend, will be available for fans at Manhattan Center.
“We look forward to celebrating this unmatched milestone with our fans around the world, but 25 years only marks the beginning of WWE surprising, delighting and entertaining generations to come,” said WWE Chairman & CEO Vince McMahon.
Monday Night Raw debuted on January 11, 1993 from the Manhattan Center, and since that time, has been broadcast from iconic venues around the world. Raw is the longest-running, weekly episodic program in U.S. primetime TV history and is one of the most-watched, regularly scheduled programs on cable, airing live every Monday night on USA. Each week, it is rated one of the most socially active shows and continues to be a “must-stop” for celebrities to reach WWE’s TV audience and its more than 825 million social media followers. Raw has aired more original episodes than some of the most popular television series of all time, including The Simpsons, Gunsmoke, Lassie and Monday Night Football.
In its 25-year history, Raw has also helped launch the careers of pop-culture icons including Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, Undertaker, Triple H, John Cena and The Bella Twins.
WWE Legends slated to make an appearance at RAW 25 include:
- Stone Cold Steve Austin
- The Undertaker
- Ric Flair
- “Million Dollar Man” Ted Dibiase
- Mark Henry
- Christian
- Trish Stratus
- Michelle McCool
- X-Pac
- Road Dogg
- Billy Gunn
- Scott Hall
- Jerry Lawler
- Jim Ross
- Dudley Boyz
- Booker T
- Boogeyman
- “Mean” Gene Okerlund
- John Laurinaitis
- The Godfather
- Brother Love
- John Cena
- The Bella Twins
- JBL
- Ron Simmons
- Teddy Long
- Sgt. Slaughter
- Harvey Whippleman
