WWE Originals: Difference between revisions

'''Nicknames:''' "What the World is Watching", "WWF in the Sky"

'''Logo:''' A silver-gray, three-dimensional WWF logo with no details flies across a landscape of rivers and mountains. It rises up, and the background is now an orange and purple sky. Lightning strikes the logo, adding the silver details, first to the first "W", then the second, and finally the "F".

'''Variant:''' Starting in 1989, the logo became static, lasting only for two seconds. No music plays here.

'''FX/SFX:''' More CGI-like animation, the landscape, and flying logo.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A guitar-driven, more imposing hard rock instrumental. An announcer says "The WWF; what the world is watching!" The voiceover was done by the WWF's interview man at the time, "Mean" Gene Okerlund. Howard Finkel, the WWF's ring announcer, also did the voiceover at one time, when Okerlund temporarily left the company.

'''Music/Sounds Variant:''' Sometimes, a different rock tune is used, and the same announcer says "The World Wrestling Federation... what the world is watching!". This is probably a WWE Classics on Demand invention, to cover up the spiel including the then-forbidden "WWF" initials and possibly uncleared music.

'''Availability:''' Was used for WWF shows at the time, both syndicated and on USA Network, as well as WWF pay-per-views. You may still see it on some old tapes.