Edited Version of WWE Raw Coming to SyFy Friday Nights

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By Wrestling Observer Staff | @WONF4W | May 20, 2016 12:49 pm
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In an interesting move, SyFy announced Friday that WWE Raw is coming to the network. Well, a version of it anyway.

A two-hour airing of the show will air in Smackdown's former timeslot on SyFy from 8-10 PM EST. It's assumed that this will be what was previously just the Hulu version of Raw, and bring more WWE saturation to the Universal family of networks. Airing some wrestling content on the network could be an indicator that they want to keep some wrestling fans tuned into it, or to see how well a two hour version fares in the ratings compared to the first-run three hour version. It also could be SyFy looking for a time fill that pulls some sort of rating.

With Raw's ratings constantly in question on a weekly basis, is this the answer on how to engage lapsed fans that want a shorter, better version of RAW every week? As always, the numbers will tell the story.

We'll have more on this on the Friday edition of Wrestling Observer Live.