SpikeTV bodyslams the WWE on the way out the door
It was SpikeTV vs World Wresting Entertainment CEO Vince McMahon in a best of 3 falls match on Monday night, and SpikeTV got the 3rd and final pin.
The WWE’s RAW wrestling show ended its run on SpikeTV monday night, and will be moving to the USA Network on October 3rd. RAW, which is aired live, opened with the flamboyant McMahon announcing to the crowd that this was the last episode of RAW to appear on SpikeTV, and that starting on October 3rd, Raw would be carried by USA.
Shrewd move Vince, but his attempt to get in some free advertising backfired when Spike censored the portion of the speech where he mentioned moving to USA. Apparently WWE’s production staff caught wind of this, because later in the show the announcers mentioned RAW going to the USA network so frequently that Spike couldn’t censor them.
Spike had the last laugh, when they aired commercials for their ‘Ultimate Fight Night’ programming, which will replace RAW, as being “real fights” with “no scripts”. The real question is, was Spike already planning on running these ads as a parting shot at the WWE, or did they add them on the fly in response to the WWE’s attempted slight?
Odds are it was the former. To add insult to injury for the WWE, Monday Night Football, which airs opposite RAW on ABC, was opened by former WWE champ The Rock.


