By Gavin Boyle
Netflix and the WWE have expanded their partnership as Netflix becomes the home of the entire WWE library, including live events from before September 2025 and the organization’s original programming.
“Beginning immediately, Netflix is the new U.S. home for WWE’s library of Premium Live Events including WrestleMania, SummerSlam and Royal Rumble, as well as award-winning documentaries and original programming,” the WWE announced.
While Netflix has been the home of most of WWE’s live events since January 2025, much of the organization’s other content has been housed elsewhere. Most of the library lived on Peacock and some events were still unavailable through Netflix, including WrestleMania.
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WWE fans, who have flocked to the streamer since it began streaming live wrestling events, will eagerly welcome Netflix including the rest of the organization’s content. Its first live event, WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW, reached 2.6 million households — more than doubling its previous reach when it was on network television — and has only continued to grow from there.
“WWE is off to a great start. Our first week, we drew about 5 millions views, which is about two times the audience that MONDAY NIGHT RAW was betting on linear television,” Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos previously said about the WWE’s success on Netflix. “Not to be overly repetitive, but we are going to be mindful of the bottom line and it’s really important that these economics do work and that the big league sports, full league, full season economics are very hard to make work.”
Meanwhile, professional wrestling has undergone a major transformation as it has emphasized family-friendly storylines, over the excessive, violent shows the sport was once known for.
“There [was] some online chatter about how it’s going to be ‘R’ rated or, for us old folks, ‘X’ rated. That’s definitely not happening,” WWE president Nick Khan said in December of 2024 just before the organization made its Netflix debut. “It’s a family friendly, multi-generational, advertiser-friendly programming. It’s going to stay that way.”
“It’s a safe place for families, for kids, for everybody, to be able to view the programming. That will not change,” added WWE chief content officer Nick “Triple H” Levesque.
This commitment to family-friendly programming is very encouraging given that many in the industry push their content the other way, alienating audiences. This approach has undoubtedly contributed to the sport’s growing success, and now that audiences have access to the entirety of the WWE through Netflix, will allow fans to engage with these uplifting stories through a streaming service they likely already subscribe to.
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