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Happy 20th birthday, Monday Night Raw

Monday January 14, 2013 4:20 PM By Alfonso Castillo

Alberto Del Rio flips over the top of

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I was in my mid-teens back when I first heard about this new television show WWE was producing. Having grown up watching most of my wrestling on weekends while the sun was still out, the idea of a weekly show on Monday night was novel to say the least.

And on January 11, 1993, the first episode of Monday Night Raw aired. Twenty years later, Raw has achieved the distinction of the most-watched...

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