With the introduction of the Titantron entrance screen in 1997, WWF / WWE wrestlers also had entrance videos made that would play along with the their entrance music.

When the WWE purchased both WCW and ECW in 2001, they also obtained the entire past video libraries of both productions and have released many past matches online and on home video.

Most recently the subject has been addressed in British film director Bernard Rose's film Snuff-Movie ( 2005 ), the Nimród Antal film Vacancy ( 2007 ) and also in the WWE film The Condemned ( 2007 ) and the Gregory Hoblit film Untraceable.

The band were also guest hosts on an episode of WWE Raw.

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ( doing business as WWE, Inc .; ) is an American publicly traded, privately controlled entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales.

The network is also known for having a relationship with WWE Raw.

LaPlace was also seen in various scenes of WWE Studios movie " Knucklehead ".

It also hosted WWE SummerSlam 2002, WWE Great American Bash July 20, 2008 and the WWE Fatal 4-Way June 20, 2010.

Fozzie also appeared alongside his fellow Muppets in the Halloween 2011 episode of WWE Raw, where he and Gonzo encountered Jack Swagger, Dolph Ziggler and Vickie Guerrero backstage.

Former WWE Women's Champion Amy Dumas also appears on the track.

Dwayne Douglas Johnson ( born May 2, 1972 ), also known by his ring name The Rock, and occasionally credited as Dwayne " The Rock " Johnson, is an American actor and professional wrestler who appears for WWE.

Paez also appeared in Mysterio's music video for his song from the WWE Originals album, " Crossing Borders.

" Tick Tick Boom " was also used in many different advertisements including: the 2007 season of the NFL Network, commercials for the CBS series Jericho, and the USA series Burn Notice, as well as the films Jumper ( 2008 ), MacGruber, and Get Smart, and was also the official theme song for WWE Survivor Series 2007.

In 2004, the WWE brought back the Great American Bash pay-per-view and also in 2009, released Starrcade: The Essential Collection as a three-disc DVD set.

He has also held the WWE Tag Team Championship a record-tying four times, and the WWE Intercontinental Championship twice.

He also held the WCW / WWE Cruiserweight Championship a record eight times ( five times in WCW, three in WWE ).

The following week, Mysterio defeated Miz to win his first ever WWE Championship, nine years to the day of his WWE debut, also becoming a three-time world champion.

WWE also produced " Rey Mysterio: The Biggest Little Man ", a three disc set featuring Rey's best matches.

It also hosted a live edition of WCW Monday Nitro on October 28, 1996 following WCW Halloween Havoc, a taped Smackdown / ECW on August 25, 2009, and on March 29, 2010, a live episode of RAW that saw Shawn Michaels give his farewell speech to the WWE the night after losing to The Undertaker in a Streak vs Career match at WrestleMania XXVI, and the July 1, 2011 edition of Friday Night SmackDown taped on the June 28, 2011 live episode of WWE NXT.

On December 18, 2006, Slaughter participated in a 30-Man Battle Royal for a chance to face John Cena in the main event for the WWE Championship, but he was eliminated from the match and did not get the title shot.

Gowen did not return to WWE television due to suffering an injury, and was later released from his WWE contract on February 4, 2004.

Although Raven did win his way back onto the Raw roster, he only had one match ( losing to Jeff Hardy in a Royal Rumble qualifier ) before being released from WWE the following week on January 20, 2003.

WWE chairman Vince McMahon said, " Even though the Denver Nuggets had a strong team this year and were projected to make the playoffs, obviously Nuggets and Pepsi Center owner Stan Kroenke did not have enough faith in his own team to hold the May 25 date for a potential playoff game.

Though WWE did not censor this segment themselves, it has since, up to the initiative of going PG.

The final episode of WWE RAW, aired July 31, 2006, although it did not end the relationship between TSN and WWE as the 2007 WWE Hall of Fame induction ceremony was aired on the network.

However, the nWo logo did inspire future t-shirt designs for later WWE talent, most famously by Randy Orton, who wore a t-shirt with his finishing move & initials " rKo " in the classic nWo logo design.

Lafontaine also did announcing for a few WWE Pay Per View events, as well as the " Don't Try This at Home " bumper.

As Guerrero begged Angle to nail him with the WWE Championship belt, Angle did so and raised title the belt over-head to show an example for their match Wrestlemania XX.

President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain recorded video messages for broadcast on the WWE to encourage the audience of WWE Raw to vote, and George W. Bush did a prerecorded video for the WWE's annual Tribute to the Troops show.

However, he did pick up one of his most memorable individual victories of his WWE career when he pinned Triple H on May 9, 2002 on Smackdown !.

As a result, WWE announced that he had been released from contract by request on January 9, although his contract did not technically end until April 5, preventing him from wrestling for other promotions.

She did, however, co-host The WWE Experience and act as a trainer on WWE Tough Enough.

She also served as a trainer on the third season of Tough Enough and did broadcasting duties at WWE events.

Originally, Warrior was asked to help with the production of the DVD, but as he refused to work with WWE ( citing he did not want to be associated with their promotion ), there has been some resulting animosity between Warrior and WWE over the Warrior claiming bias on the part of WWE.

The Hardys and Lita were not seen again until the Royal Rumble, because WWE did not have another storyline for their characters.

In 2010, Moody did voice over work as Paul Bearer for the game, WWE SmackDown vs.

The rivalry has intensified when Indians closer Chris Perez used WWE star John Cena's signature " You can't see me " hand gesture towards KC outfielder Jarrod Dyson after striking him out in a game on May 28, 2012.

The Duva's used to resemble tactics used by the World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) when promoting a card, once even going as far as selling a truck driver from New Jersey as a Prince from Zaire just to hype the show and sell tickets.

Turner, and later Time-Warner, owned WCW until 2001 when it was purchased by its primary competitor, the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ), now known as WWE.

He wrestled in Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) from 1995 to 1996 and World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) from 1996 to 2001, as Rey Misterio, Jr ./ Rey Mysterio, Jr. but dropped the " Junior " from his name when he began working for WWE in 2002.

Their feud ended at WWE Capitol Punishment when Punk beat Mysterio.

It aired 300 consecutive weeks of syndicated television before closing in April 2005, when the promoter, Bill Behrens, signed a deal to work as a television syndicator for WWE.

The angle continued at The Great American Bash in July, when Fox attempted to hand Edge the WWE Championship belt to use as weapon against Triple H, but was stopped by Guerrero.

Maritato appeared at a house show for WWE Raw, at Madison Square Garden on December 26, 2010, as a referee when the majority of referees could not make it to the arena due to blizzards and gale force winds ; this position expanded to televised events on February 1.

In March 2002, when the WWE Brand Extension was announced, Raven was drafted to Raw.

* A similar segment was shot in 2003, when WWE diva Nidia Guenard made an appearance at the Mansion during an episode of SmackDown, where she attempted to get past security in order to speak to Hefner.

In 2005, he completed WWE's version of the Triple Crown when he won the Intercontinental Championship, after already holding the WWF ( now WWE ) Championship, as well as the World Tag Team Championship, becoming the third man to win both the WCW and WWE Triple Crown ( after Bret Hart and Chris Benoit ).

After Raw, Flair left WWE when his contract expired on June 2, 2009.

Of the Kliq, Michaels and Waltman would serve in both groups, though Waltman was a member when both were in separate companies while Michaels was in the nWo when they formed in WWE ; Triple H was a member of DX while Nash and Hall performed with the nWo.

Bob Holly was also said to have been close to many of The Kliq as was Savio Vega who was paired up with Hall as a travel partner when he first arrived in the WWF, while Albert, Test and William Regal were all close friends with either X-Pac or Triple-H during their time with WWE.

The promotion folded in October 1999 when they signed contracts with WWE.

However, the WWE Raw program, which aired live, occasionally had been censored live for extremely violent scenes, or when female wrestlers or characters were assaulted by male wrestlers.

It was expected that in fall 2006, when TSN started airing the ESPN iteration of Monday Night Football ( as well as the NBC Sunday Night Football games ), that WWE RAW was expected to air on tape delay during the NFL season.

The ECW Championship was defended for the only time at a WrestleMania event, when Kane emerged as the new ECW Champion in a record 8 seconds, while Randy Orton retained the WWE Championship and The Undertaker won the World Heavyweight Championship for the second consecutive year, defeating Edge.

On December 7, 2009, Cuban acted as the guest host of WWE Raw, where he got revenge on Randy Orton for his attack on him at Survivor Series 2003, where he was the guest referee in his match against Kofi Kingston when he gave Kingston a fast count.

In addition, Haas won the last ever match on WWE Heat when the show ended on May 30, 2008.

After the championship season, he paid for replica WWE World Heavyweight Championship belts to be made for each of his teammates and presented them as gifts when the 2004 – 05 regular season started .< ref >