WWE Raw – pro-wrestling’s hottest weekly present – will solely be accessible on Netflix from subsequent 12 months.
The programme has been proven on broadcast TV world wide for 31 years.
But bosses of TKO – the corporate fashioned when WWE merged with UFC – have introduced that Raw will likely be unique to streaming from subsequent January.
Viewers outdoors the US may even be capable of watch all weekly WWE reveals and stay occasions on the service.
The firm stated that would come with pay-per-view specials together with WrestleMania, SummerSlam and Royal Rumble.
It stated the deal would have an effect on followers within the USA, Canada, UK and Latin America first, earlier than being expanded to different nations later.
WWE Raw is normally broadcast stay, has aired 1,600 episodes because it first launched and is a must-watch for followers seeking to sustain with the most recent wrestling storylines.
Bosses declare it brings in 17.5m viewers every week within the US, and that WWE boasts 1 billion followers throughout varied social media platforms.
Nick Khan, WWE President, stated: “We believe Netflix, as one of the world’s leading entertainment brands, is the ideal long-term home for Raw’s live, loyal, and ever-growing fan base.”
The firm additionally introduced that famous person wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne Johnson had joined TKO as a director.
As a part of that association, he’s now the proprietor of The Rock trademark.
The in-ring title has adopted the star since he moved into movie work, however remained property of the WWE.
“Being on the TKO Board of Directors, and taking full ownership of my name, ‘The Rock’, is not only unprecedented, but incredibly inspiring as my crazy life is coming full circle,” he stated in a press release.
His announcement has reignited rumours of a return to the ring after a shock look on Raw earlier this month.
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24 October 2023
![An artist at the Grevin Museum paints the waxwork model of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. The artist is a white woman with short grey hair down to her chin. She wears dark rimmed glasses and a white shirt and poses holding a small paint brush up to the waxwork's face. The waxwork depicts a bald Dwayne Johnson and is dressed in a light blue polo shirt. It is modelled with folded arms painted with swirling tribal patterned tattoos showing off the wrestler's biceps. The waxwork looks lifelike and the skin tone has been darkened after earlier being criticised for being incorrect.]()
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