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By Nathan Kamal
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Paul "Triple H" Levesque, the retired two-time Royal Rumble winner and current WWE Chief Content Officer, has dismissed worries that Raw will crash Netflix will it lands on the platform in January.
Levesque recently appeared on "Greg and the Morning Buzz" and gave his opinion on the chances that the massively popular Raw program might overwhelm Netflix's viewing bandwidth, potentially causing the same technical problems that frustrated viewers during the recent Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul fight.
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Put simply, Levesque actually welcomes buffering delays if it means that WWE is so popular on Netflix that it is stressing its technical abilities.
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"Seeing [the Tyson-Paul fight] online of everybody saying it was buffering," The former WWE Champion stated. "You start putting 60 million households all at once on a streaming service, if our first-night buffers and they come and say there were 60-70 million households watching, I'll be good with the buffering."
Amusingly, Levesque also revealed that he personally had a specific reason why the fight was delayed for him.
"I don't want to flex about it, but it was buffering on my end because I was on a plane watching it," said the wrestler. "The buffering was expected on my side. We were flying back from TV watching the fight and the signal was wonky. I thought, 'We're 40,000 feet in the air, it should be.'"
The Chief Content Officer's relaxed attitude toward the potential of technical glitches on Netflix is consistent with reports from WWE since the fight, which seems to relish the idea that they might be so popular as to potentially crash a platform.
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The first live episode of Monday Night RAW will debut on Netflix on January 6, 2025. The episode is expected to feature some of WWE's biggest stars, including John Cena, Undisputed WWE Champion The American Nightmare Cody Rhodes, Roman Reigns, CM Punk, Bianca Belair, and many others, with special guests like Travis Scott.
While Raw is moving to Netflix, other WWE programs will be featured elsewhere. Friday Night SmackDown will be on the USA Network, NXT will be on the CW, and premium live events (PLEs) will remain on Peacock.
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Correction 11/26/2024, 8:20 pm ET: The article previously claimed that all WWE Live shows were transferring to Netflix. This is not true. In the United States, SmackDown will be on USA and NXT will be on CW. All PLEs will remain on the Peacock streaming service. The article was edited to reflect that.
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