”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, 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.”
The launch of the network is probably the thing that rekindled my love of wrestling after completely falling out of love with WWE around 2003, getting in to TNA in early 2008, and then having my heart broken all over again when Hogan turned up a few years later.
The day it launched in the UK, me and my housemate at the time signed up. The archive was insane, and going back and watching old episodes of ECW TV and matches - like every Rey vs Psicosis - I hadn’t seen since I got them off kazaa back in the day was awesome.
When NXT got gud around the time that local geordie Neville was tag champ, then the cruiserweight classic, and peak black and gold, it became the first must see weekly wrestling programming me and him had watched in a very long time.
Without the launch of the network in 2014 I would never have got back in to wrestling, and in turn wouldn’t have been watching WhatCulture videos when they launched WCPW and did their first shows a literal 5 minute walk from our flat. Which in turn would have meant I never fell head first in to BritWres, etc etc etc.
It’s weird to think I’m going to miss a content streaming platform, but it looks like I’m going to.
i urge everyone to get yt-dlp and archive as much old wrestling content as you can find because wwe buying up all the footage and locking it up forever is good for no one.
I recommend doing this for everything period but I’m a data hoarder who runs a 30TB media server so I’m a bit biased lol.
so does this mean all the wrestling content will be gone? or is it going to netflix
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.”
…is all we know atm really. Seems like it’ll all be on Netflix, tho.
i hope so. me and my gf have been watching raw, ecw, and wcw in order and it would suck to have to stop that. we just finished 1997 world war 3 a week ago
