On May 12, 1997 WWF’s Monday Night Raw aired from the Bob Carpenter Center in Newark, Delaware. In May 1997, ECW "invaded" the WWF’s Monday Night Raw television show, drawing the ire of color commentator Jerry "The King" Lawler. Lawler then promised he would show up at an ECW show in order to gain revenge, and when he did show up, he had ECW mainstays Rob Van Dam (who turned heel) and Sabu with him. Lawler began to call Rob Van Dam “Mr. Monday Night” on an episode of RAW which became a moniker t