WWE RAW Ditches Violent Material for ‘Family-Friendly’ Programming
By Movieguide® Contributor
Fans know WWE RAW for its violent and profane content, but as the show transitions to a new spot on Netflix, execs say it will leave the excessive material behind.
“While fans had hoped the new streaming platform would offer more leeway to push the boundaries on storylines and even profanity, WWE president Nick Khan and chief content officer Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque say that WWE RAW will maintain its ‘TV-PG’ content rating,” TV Line reported.
“There’s some online chatter about how it’s going to be ‘R’ rated or, for us old folks, ‘X’ rated. That’s definitely not happening,” Khan said. “It’s a family friendly, multi-generational, advertiser-friendly programming. It’s going to stay that way.”
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“It’s a safe place for families, for kids, for everybody, to be able to view the programming. That will not change,” added Levesque.
The WWE event will make its Netflix debut from the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, and ticket sales already prove that family-friendly content wins. Sales have “already broken our United States arena ticket record, and that is in six weeks from now, and it’s not even close to being sold out,” Khan said. “What are the components for that? It’s Netflix. People are excited for this show,” Khan said.
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Despite concerns about Netflix’s live event capabilities after the Jake Paul/Mike Tyson fight last month, the streamer is confident it can hold its own for WWE RAW.
“Whenever we do any live events, obviously, we want it to go very smoothly for every single one of our members,” Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria said. “That’s really important, I think, also to put it in perspective: It was 65 million concurrent streamers. The scale was very big, which is great. There was a lot of interest in it. When you test and push something to 65 million [streams] at the same time… you can’t learn these things until you do them.
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