Interesting Facts and Figures For Raw’s 20th Anniversary Celebration

January 12, 2013

WWE sent out a press release this past weekend hyping the big 20th Anniversary episode of WWE Raw. The email had fun facts and figures to think about for everyone, showing how far the show has come since January 11, 1993.

– Since 1993, Raw has served 169 tons of meat, 51 tons of potatoes, and 8,000 cases of vegetables and 500,000 cookies to their Superstars, Divas, and crew members.

– New York City has held the most Monday Night Raw events with 27. Second is Cleveland with 18, and Boston is tied with Atlanta and Chicago with 17.

-12 Production trucks, 8 crew buses, 5 talent buses, 2 television trucks, 1 satellite truck, and 1 generator truck are used each and every week to broadcast a WWE Raw show.

-WWE has traveled over 700,000 miles in North America alone during their 20 year journey to each city for WWE Raw shows. This calculates the 52 week a year travel, and all of the cities they have traveled to and from for Monday Night Raw.

– WWE Monday Night Raw has aired 1,024 episodes and 2,089 broadcast hours.

– Raw has been viewed 4 billion times over the past 20 years in the United States.

-Stone Cold Steve Austin has won the World Championship most on Raw, at 3 times. The Rock and Triple H are second with 2.

Josh controls most of the creative writing and ideas for the show on a weekly basis, as well as an on-air talent.

Aside from working with WrestleZone, Isenberg began his career in Broadcast Journalism interning at ESPN and worked with CBS Radio for three years. He has also had the opportunity to interview some of the best athletes and performers alive, including Andrew McCutchen, Ben Roethlisberger, Chris Jericho, Billy Gunn, Karl Anderson, Matt Hardy, Steven Strasburg and others.

Currently, Josh Isenberg works for Major League Baseball in their Advanced Media Productions. He grew up in Pittsburgh and went to Point Park University, which is where Chair Shot Reality is filmed each week.

His life outside of his obsession with wrestling include being a savant for Seinfeld, NFL, NBA, MLB and many television shows. He also has an undying love for musicals, which includes many shows he was a part of in high school. Some of his favorite wrestling moments can be linked to such superstars as Edge, The Rock, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels and The Great Khali.