by WWE recently signed a multi-year deal with Netflix for WWE RAW Streaming rights. WWE in its press release noted that Netflix will start streaming WWE RAW from January 2025 in USA.
“Beginning in January 2025, Netflix will be the exclusive new home of Raw in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Latin America, among other territories, with additional countries and regions to be added over time. Likewise, as part of the agreement, Netflix will also become the home for all WWE shows and specials outside the U.S. as available, inclusive of Raw and WWE’s other weekly shows – SmackDown and NXT – as well as the company’s Premium Live Events, including WrestleMania, SummerSlam and Royal Rumble.”
Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio is reporting that WWE Network would be discontinued at the end of 2024.
“In March 2026, when the Peacock deal ends, the US aspect of it, which one would think Netflix would want given that Netflix is going to take over that everywhere else in the world, but pretty much the United States and I think wherever else, they’ve already signed it.
But for most of the world, they’re going to be taking over the WWE Network. The WWE Network itself that exists outside the United States, that will be folding at the end of the year and Netflix will pick up the content. So a lot of people have asked will they pick up all the content? All the archives? I don’t know. But they will be the sole source of that, the archival content of all the old territories and all the old stuff that was on the old WWE Network.
That will move to Netflix outside the United States in January. And when the Peacock deal is up, if Netflix were to get that, that’d be interesting to see how much more they would pay. Obviously, it’s a $200 million deal per year deal right now. So that’s the next deal that’s coming up.”(H/T: Inside The Ropes)
