New Year's Revolution (2005)
The 2005 New Year's Revolution was the inaugural New Year's Revolution professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was held exclusively for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw brand division. It took place on January 9, 2005, at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and was WWE's first pay-per-view event held in Puerto Rico and Latin America—it was the only WWE pay-per-view event held in Puerto Rico until Backlash on May 6, 2023. Tickets for this event sold out in less than a month, marking one of the fastest-selling events in the short history of the venue.
Promotional poster featuring Batista
The event was held at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Kane, who faced Gene Snitsky at New Year's Revolution.
Trish Stratus won the WWE Women's Championship at New Year's Revolution
Raw is a brand of the American professional wrestling promotion WWE that was established on March 25, 2002. Brands are divisions of WWE's roster where wrestlers are assigned to perform on a weekly basis when a brand extension is in effect. Wrestlers assigned to Raw primarily appear on the brand's weekly television program, Monday Night Raw, also referred to simply as Raw. It is one of WWE's two main brands, along with SmackDown, collectively referred to as WWE's main roster. The brand was discontinued between August 2011 and July 2016.
Eric Bischoff was the first Raw General Manager.
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