Netflix’s WWE Monday Night Raw Debut Draws Double The Viewership

[@EricaLashaa]

I had to help sign my granny up for a Netflix subscription because she wasn’t about to miss her Monday night Raw

[@toxin7883]

Beautiful.

[@vaporx5555]

The same for my Pops and Uncle

[@MacamTV]

As a lifetime wrestling fan, it makes me feel proud knowing my favorite show is getting great mainstream showcase in netflix 🔥

[@johngleason1776]

I never thought WWE would crack 3 million views again. As someone who was too young for the Attitude Era this has been the best run I've ever seen WWE go on.

[@Youtube_Street_Drifter]

Yeah the Attitude Era there was about 15 to 20 million every Monday Night beating even Monday Night Football ratings which was considered impossible at that time

[@Ruben-so7pu]

Triple H has been doing a great job, he made wrestling cool again.

[@Shockkings0714]

It was always cool. He made is safe and corporate, as shown in that horrible Raw. Shawn is a better booker as shown by the NXT that followed it up

[@Shockkings0714]

It was always cool. He made is safe and corporate, as shown in that horrible Raw. Shawn is a better booker as shown by the NXT that followed it up

[@jaehparrk]

wrestling is way of life its a sport like nfl

[@Seldz1]

Nah he didnt

[@Ruben-so7pu]

@@Shockkings0714 so edgy lol.

[@afrodesiac8064]

This is millions of views every week. Netflix will be more than satisfied with this.

[@anthonycampos8057]

Not if you're Hogan

[@sgtcrack]

They weren't booing Hulk Hogan they were booing Terry Bollea and poor Jimmy Harr just caught strays for standing next to him

[@tmac731]

They really brought out Hogan to promote American beer which is the same company he fired a black woman just for being black smfh

[@thequackpackattack9250]

Huh? Hogan fired a black chick?

[@tmac731]

@ yes look it up

[@thequackpackattack9250]

@@tmac731 Wild. She is a baddie too. Ugh HH is just the worst. Selfish and small minded. Its embarrassing that he was my childhood hero.

[@kenbozu1]

Jessie Ventura must've been having the feels when the crowd was booing Hogan.

[@anthonycampos8057]

As well as Bret Hart

[@austinewing397]

Just wait till Monday …. ZERO MIEDO

[@gkfamprimadonny4387]

The viewership is gonna go wayyyy up, that’s just first night live numbers. You can stream that first episode forever now. It’s literally on streaming. Every episode will be on there streaming going forward so people can watch it days later

[@pedromartinez-xt7ye]

4.9 million. And it's also not in 90 different countries yet.

[@beezig]

I've been a WWE fan since the mid 80s and right now is the most exciting time to be a fan. I agree with earlier comments, Mondays show wasn't a good reflection of what has been happening recently, they rolled out some big hitters, but going forward on Netflix is going to be one hell of a ride!!

[@yugiblox3274]

Uuum lol it’s a good time to be a fan but don’t act like this is better than the attitude era. Recency bias is crazy

[@proudestmonkey815]

More wrestling content from Campea would delight me

[@PowerPackers90]

Its funny watching this clip due to how mixed the reaction of Raw got from us diehard wrestling fans. Like the Rock at the start. He flushed 10 months of a pretty hot storyline down the drain for zero reason.

[@drexeldragon1723]

Yea, I'm a big fan and that show wasn't that good. Way too much of WWE blowing themselves and Netflix plus a bunch of ads and celebrity cameos out the ass. Four matches on a three-hour show.

[@Shockkings0714]

Even casual fans around me didn't like that awful corporate show

[@Shockkings0714]

Even casual fans around me didn't like that awful corporate show

[@hotcoldman77]

It was really terrible

[@83442handle]

Thank you Jungle Boy for making this all happen with the CM Punk main event! 🥰🥰🥰

[@liamhemstock2286]

As a lifelong wrestling fan. The company has been on fire since Vince left, it’s been brilliant and Punk has been a highlight of Raw and Gunther has been the best in ring worker in the company. That being said….the show as incredibly disappointing. It was very safe and predictable. I also don’t think it was a good way to say “this is what WWE is all about” because the previous months worth of Raw were much more good flowing and structured and showed the current roster better. Hulk Hogan being booed was brilliant and deserved. Rock forgot he was a heel. If you want tk get into WWE, watch next weeks show. It’ll give you a better look at what the company actually is weekly and they building to the Rumble and WrestleMaina so it’s the most exciting time to start

[@rustiouk760]

This was about people that hadn't watch wrestling for years. Over next few weeks it will get back to how it's been, which is pretty much as good as wrestling ever has been.

[@liamhemstock2286]

@ I completely get that but I think just showing the show as is, is enough because like you said it’s been great. You don’t need Hogan constant praising of the execs. Just give us a good wrestling show with recap promos for new fans coming in.

[@Zak-qh5tb]

@@rustiouk760 Read the comment by @IsaiasMGPalafox below. This was WWEs chance to hook new fans and that comment sums up all my non-wrestling/casual friends reaction. It was a nothing show. Whats the relationship between Taker and Rhea? The crowd made the lame Hogan beer promotion segment interesting by booing him. Instead of bringing legends for pointless segments, incorporate them in storyline. Have Ric Flair in a segment with John Cena about the 17th World title. Have Goldberg and Bron Breakker stand face to face. A segment where Rey Mysterio talks Pentas debut and how hes different to any previous luchadors in WWE

[@isaacmartinez6904]

My brother was very happy that Raw was shown in Netflix. He had a blast.

[@TyrannosavageRekt]

What you've also got to remember with the international audience, is that not as many of them will be watching live because of the time difference. I'm a UK fan, and for me it either starts at midnight, or 1am, for a lot of timezones across Europe it's even later. On a Monday night. Most of us have work the next day, and that's a long time to be awake, and not a lot of time to have to sleep. I'll occasionally stay up to watch it live if I don't have work the next day, or if for some reason I couldn't sleep, but mostly I'd catch up the following evening. Also, in the UK you needed to have Sky Sports to watch (or I think TNT Sports most recently?), which means spending £50-£60 a month. A lot of people (especially in the key age demographic) can't afford that, so most stream it illegally online. But most of them probably have Netflix already, which is only £11.99 a month even at one of the higher rates. Their catch-up figures will be much larger.

[@gronagor]

In many countries, WWE still contracts with local broadcasters. It is not available on Netflix everywhere.

[@datkiddtho]

it’s been a damn good time to be a wrestling fan

[@Ghost-27X]

I think the ads should only pop up in between matches

[@TrypleD]

Netflix expands to live programing market, with WWE an awesome demo to advertisers. WWE expanded their base that week, not just on Netflix but also NXT & Smackdown

[@theboringgamer74]

WWE on Netflix is awesome if you live in Australia, $8 AUD for all shows and PLE is great value

[@The_Cold_Slither]

Matches don’t stop at the arena during commercials. I believe commercial time is baked into the match. They usually go to PiP or go to break when the heel starts going on the offensive. And the Hulk Hogan booing? 👨🏾‍🍳 💋 It was beautiful.

[@TyrannosavageRekt]

I think it's happened a few times when there have been empty arenas for different reasons, but in front of a live audience, yeah the action continues.

[@LateNiteAlum]

The numbers can also be contributed to RAW’s biggest competitor annually from September through January which is the NFL. There weren’t any games on that night because the season ended.

[@cobrakaicrew84]

John . . . You need to talk wrestling more !!!!

[@eduardotorres6108]

Haven't watch in years & i thought it was ok. I still hate seeing ads while wrestlers are in the ring as well.

[@anthonycampos8057]

Alot of people tuned in to see Hogan get booed.

[@chad53773]

Not to mention replays. And old content. From a Canadian viewer, Netflix is a great deal for a wrestling fan.

[@misterranksz3950]

I have been watching John campea for like 10 years and he never mentionee raw 😂😂😂

[@brinardtalks]

I was shocked to see the title which is why I clicked too 😂😂

[@isaiahcamble]

He spoke about there PPVs going to peacock a few years ago

[@hotcoldman77]

He was at WrestleMania 39 and was mad pissed Cody lost lol

[@Pacitti_Club]

WWE wouldn't bring a lot of views as compared to other shows, it's main role is to control churn.

[@jpshikigami]

Hulk deserved every bit of that

[@SavageLandMedia]

Four matches in three hours was tough. It was 85% spectacle and ads, and 15% wrestling, which will not have me tuning in every week if it remains that way. I was just so bored by 9:30. I appreciate what they did, but is this WWE or Dancing with the Stars?

[@Jpfield99]

That is what I didn't like only 4 matches. But they were longer matches that are usually on raw. They wanted to make the first show on Netflix like a special event. Hopefully more matches into the coming weeks.

[@fidelitycreate]

Sorry, I'm not happy because I just want to watch the back catalogue. Imagine my disappointment when I loaded the Raw and Smackdown vaults only to find 2/3rds of the catalogue is missing. I don't know why this is so. They've had over 11 months to get this ready. Very disappointing. But if I didn't know better I would say they did this deliberately to get you to watch the current WWE over the old WWF

[@XavIsOnline]

With business it's never an accident. Dupont sold what they knew was poison to the whole world for generations and never saw justice for it. Every living thing on earth is saturated in microplastics. All water sources are compromised-- and privatised. It's never an accident. Our owners are incentivized to do bad things because 'generate capital growth at any cost' is not the recipe for a world designed around our better natures. It's a world that runs on evil and bleeds itself dry at an astonishing speed. So yeah them taking off content that was making less than 100x what it cost to host on servers and either selling it to you piecemeal again or sitting on half a century of history forever rather than release to the public (what incentive? Value that isnt monetary? Ha!) is probably not a coincidence. Streaming services erase shows and movies FOREVER just to get tiny tax breaks. And again, these people killed the world. There is no limit and you should always assume the worst because it's almost always the case.

[@deathsdoor07]

I wonder how much they made in ads.

[@desmondjohnson4686]

You have to remember they talking live numbers same night. Not a show on Netflix that has days of viewerships

[@drevandamva]

Give it a month. Wwe always makes a big splash

[@SupaNatural28]

That's only the 1st week. This coming monday will give you the real number going forward.

[@JT_801]

The last few years have been amazing for wrestling fans. I've watched the matches and hogan get booed 4 times.

[@pedromartinez-xt7ye]

Don't know what that guy is talking about. They furthered the punk story and bloodline story

[@kgthakid2911]

I don’t think Ray even knows what he’s saying half the time.

[@pedromartinez-xt7ye]

@kgthakid2911 clearly

[@johnbrown2114]

Pentagon debuting next week is going to draw I think. Week 2 will be a success just because fans have been waiting for him.

[@TheGameBelt646]

Reigns, Cena, Punk are draws. Penta is an indie darling and is not a draw. People don’t know who he is outside of the inner wrestling circle.

[@afrannishofanmade]

Best thing was Our Childhood Superstar Wrestler John Cena's speech 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@trioajo]

its bigger than just raw and the paperviews, the rest of the world outside the US gets Raw, Smackdown and NXT on Netflix with no ads

[@puma12345ace]

Not everywhere. I'm from germany and I had to watch it via VPN cause they have other tv deals here

[@JoeArnold333]

No, only raw is netflix, Smackdown is on USA Network, NXT is on The CW, and WWE ppvs are exclusively on Peacock for now since their rights deal is up sometime this year so Peacock could lose those

[@trioajo]

@@JoeArnold333 thats why i said outside the USA. Here in Mexico you get all 3 shows live on netflix and when the show went on ad-break i was still watching the match or they were interviewing talent backstage

[@darrylcooper2587]

@@JoeArnold333I’m in the UK and we have Smackdown, NXT and all PPV’s, plus the back catalogue of all those as well (all wrestlemania’s, all royal rumbles, every raw, etc). NXT’s New Years Evil was live on it too. Plus when Raw went to commercial, we saw the action continue.

[@Acecapital1]

Be interesting global audience re-watching figures within a week, it could be huge

[@Zak-qh5tb]

Still missing huge markets like Japan, India, Germany, Philippines due to local broadcasting deals. Can expect massive numbers when those markets get WWE on Netflix

[@clarkspacewayne2672]

When they go to commercial during a match, the match is still happening in the arena.

[@israelruiz8706]

They have been advertising it and it was a show more dedicated to classic fans. So the main thing will be how they will keep it up

[@miqbal141]

Raw was awesome on Netflix.

[@ChefRigo]

I was there and it was AMAZING!!!

[@bobbysolorio1904]

RAW IS NETFLIX!!!!

[@Roderickhefley]

Peacock deleted the old RAW episodes 😢

[@peter-xy5ro]

I watched it here in the uk. It started at 1am til 4am here. I can't watch every live event due to the time but I think alot of repeat viewings and weekly views as a whole will be good for wwe on netflix Instead of watching live on the night. Also here in the uk we are also having Smackdown live on netflix.

[@Monkeyboy76]

Not just Raw and Smackdown here in the UK we're also getting nxt and all ples for free with our Netflix subscription

[@peter-xy5ro]

@Monkeyboy76 I've also looked at netflix us compared to the uk and at the moment the uk have a lot more wwe content from all the wrestlemanias etc.

[@arlopear7136]

We'll see if this big bump is sustainable though. When WWE Friday Night SmackDown made its debut on Fox network television that show drew 4 million viewers which are numbers the WWE hasn't seen in ages! They never got there again for the rest of their run on Fox yet still averaged around 2 million. Wrestling is a entertainment's side show & the curiosity factor when they debut always seems to draw people in at first. If you look at SmackDown you had 2 million people watch that debut episode & basically say, "this is dumb, I'm out"! We'll see if there's a drop-off next Monday or if the audience even grows. If there is a drop-off I don't see it being huge, infact you may get a new audience of people tuning in because they heard of Hulk Hogan being booed mercilessly by the live WWE crowd & will want to see if anything crazy like that happens again. We'll see

[@ljirishpride]

I watched it and it reminded me why I no longer watch. Matches don't flow like they used to. The wrestlers seem unsure of the next move.

[@Pamps10]

Great move for wwe I loved here in the uk

[@jynthejedi]

They will struggle with international numbers for Raw unfortunately bc of the time difference. Raw airs at 1am here in the UK, most people aren’t gonna tune in, most won’t even know it’s on. Friday night Smackdown might be where they get that viewership boom internationally.

[@DrSprigs]

Sure for Live numbers they'd have known that going in but its Netflix so they'll still get the numbers watching cause you can just watch it the next day.

[@jynthejedi]

Agreed but since the topic only referred to the debut live numbers, Ofcourse they’ll have more views throughout the week on the vods.

[@DrSprigs]

@@jynthejedi yeah i know but i just don't think the live numbers internationally really matter to them tbh BT payed for WWE and where getting around 20thousand live 😂

[@jynthejedi]

The whole point of the Netflix deal is for the international market tho.. especially for events like Royal Rumble coming up. Otherwise Triple H wouldn’t be talking about international audiences in all his promos

[@DrSprigs]

@@jynthejedi yeah but not live though no ones expecting people to sit up to 4am. All Netflix care about is the overall numbers and subscriptions. Also it's only started in US, Uk , Canada and one more i can't remember the full roll out hasn't even happened yet internationally.

[@josemaiz1651]

And hogan got booed

[@Budwiseirwin]

Ray never misses

[@ronaldroberts9555]

Netflix has shows that do great numbers that they produce. This was a licensing in which they can bank on a million people a week at minimum…don’t understand the comparison to shows. This is great for Netflix

[@Zak-qh5tb]

A million viewers a week is too easy for WWE and Netflix

[@Madferit91]

CM Punk is a draw

[@j3rzyboy]

I enjoyed it

[@joshf6201]

They are business partners with the real American beer so that’s why they are promoting it.

[@philipcohen7192]

Hulk hogan wishes he wasn’t booked for the show

[@oldfaithful4112]

They better improve nxt on Netflix in Canada the matches were very good but the breaks they had were unbearable because they still showing it on the cw in the us it was just 3:30 minutes of crap I would rather watch regular commercials also the same on raw the breaks were annoying.

[@jeromelevesque3721]

I stopped watching it live. I finished it the next day, there were no adds.

[@Clapstick77]

I don’t agree with this assessment. They brought out the Rock who is not a normal performer. This number won’t last.

[@toren2099]

Have u seen how big wwe has been for the past 3 years rock did not help at all

[@QuarantinedCapricorn]

But nobody knew the rock was going to be there until they watched it, so you can’t really argue that it was the rock that drew them

[@Clapstick77]

@ yes many of us did. He said it himself on Sunday.

[@Clapstick77]

@@toren2099 then that wouldn’t make sense that the numbers doubled from the last 3 years. Has to be one or the other. The numbers were big and they rolled out the Rock right away.

[@QuarantinedCapricorn]

@@Clapstick77 Nobody that already planned to watch it because they were wrestling fans knew that the rock would be there, though.

[@PennyBling]

Hulk Hogan bit was apart of the skit

[@clarkspacewayne2672]

Him getting boo’d out of the building wasn’t part of the skit

[@lazzi2462]

As a 90s kid, I was a hardcore WWE fan growing up, but eventually that phase went away. However, I watch the highlights whenever they end up on my feed, watch some PPVs with friends sometimes, & go see it live every now & then when they're in my city. The wrestlers nowadays just aren't as interesting, & performance wise, they aren't that good imo. Watching it now, you catch them messing up a lot, & you're like "Ahhh, that didn't look smooth at all." Cody Rhodes is such a boring champion. The women are a lot more technical than they were back then, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are good, they're very hard to watch imo. Idk how to explain it, but it's like they're too careful or just aren't capable enough to do the moves they're doing. I went to Smackdown a few months ago, & they made the main event a women's match. Probably the worst main event I've ever seen. Lol

[@jupton198828]

Im sure they are promoting Hogans beer because of money.

[@anthonycampos8057]

BOO

[@Ridwan_Ali2]

Raw was great first week I don't know if everyone going be regular viewer

[@pablito818]

it was good for wrestling fans.. 👍🏼

[@BradBask3]

It's too bad that's the show they decided to put on with all those people watching. I don't see a lot of them sticking around for next week unfortunately.

[@Zak-qh5tb]

Show needed more R Truth

[@samlesueur]

Someone give the rock his flowers, bro made this all happen

[@dacollector8995]

It didnt feel like I was watching Raw it felt like I was watching a Pay per view not sure if thats a good or bad thing lol

[@Trunks7500]

👍

[@MrBiglou35]

I don't know what show you were watching 😂

[@SwaggaJonez1]

I loved it !!!

[@epicclosing6661]

The powe effect of the best in the world 🌎 cm punk

[@kaetha1]

Nobody wanted to see hogan everyone who has been following wrestling knows he’s a piece of crap

[@JasonBebopp343]

Has come 10 years too late as its not something I watch anymore

[@smashworlds7642]

You're missing on some good shit.

[@geoffbache9897]

It is better with vince not there anymore

[@MichelleNghi]

MAMI 😍🥰😊

[@simonakoumoufouda502]

Charlotte no Alexa Bliss Becky

[@Tizzo1982]

I’m just glad they have classic episodes of Raw. The stuff I grew up with

[@BJahoda]

They barely have anything from the old catalog, missing 2002 till 2022 for some reason

[@ericdxfan511]

​@@BJahoda Maybe it's on Peacock still

[@IsaiasMGPalafox]

I didn’t watch WWE for maybe over a decade til they had their 30th Anniversary episode of Raw a couple years ago. I tuned in to watch that, n was bored af the entire 3 hours. 😂 Maybe it’s because I was out of touch. Maybe I wasn’t invested in the same storylines they recycle every 3-5 years. Happy that they found new success on Netflix, but wrestling isn’t for me anymore.

[@XavIsOnline]

They just need to stop with these bizarre self-congratulatory ceremonies that have nothing to do with the thing they're selling. It's like the CEO coming out to the front of walmart and stopping traffic to announce how much money they're giving him and thank the board of executives for signing his checks. Embarrassingly gratuitous and totally irrelevant. And increasingly bizarre to shove in the face of an increasingly poor and restless populace.

[@Zak-qh5tb]

@@XavIsOnline They messed that show up if that was aimed at lapsed/non wrestling fans. They were bored af with that corporate mess of a show. Pointless legend appearances. Should have had a Ric Flair John Cena segment about 17th world title. Goldberg Bron Breakker face off. A segment where Rey Mysterio talks Pentas debut and how hes different to any previous luchadors in WWE

[@Gareth-dq3lg]

Netflix fan boy

[@williamhazlett6724]

the next shows wont be this good i think we all know it

[@tamilselvam]

No you don't. Get a job

[@bryanc1984]

I used to be a huge WWE fan in the early 2000s, and their quality went on a very steady decline starting when they went PG. I'm glad some fans think it's at an all-time high, but they permanently lost my viewership after they decided to enter into a business relationship with Saudi Arabia.

[@hotcoldman77]

Lmaooo keep crying

[@callum1327]

That’s fair reason to stop watching but the product is the best it’s ever been tbh

[@XavIsOnline]

Don't know why that guy would side with apathy towards atrocity so proudly (pretty embarrasing) but I will say the world runs on blood and it's also ending and we, the workers herded to and fro on a global strip mine owned by a handful of billionaires, are completely helpless both individually and collectively to affect either fact at this point, so you may as well just enjoy the show. On your slave-made tv, in your slave-made clothes, sipping drinks by corporations that have commited genocides, while you cozy up with loved ones in these increasingly unseasonable winters. Saving the world was our grandparents job, and they failed. Try not to think about it.

[@bryanmanuelbaes7871]

Ethical consumption is such a myth

[@yugiblox3274]

It ain’t that serious

[@tonyg76]

Too bad. Terrible show

[@BigBrianBruce]

I wish they went somewhere else what a waste of my subscription

[@fishcarcass5561]

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