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Triple H responds to rumours of 'X-rated' WWE reboot as mega Netflix debut looms for wrestling giant
WWE legend Triple H has responded to rumours that the wrestling juggernaut could return to it's X-rated heyday when it makes the jump to Netflix.
The flagship 'Monday Night Raw' series is set to join the streaming giant in a $5billion deal with a dazzling live debut set for January 6, 2025. The launch will be live from the Intuit Dome in California with all WWE programming in the UK to be made available via the streaming platform. It means the adrenaline-fuelled show will leave linear TV for the first time since its 1993 launch.
The 1990s was a golden era for the WWE, then referred to as WWF, which was far more edgy and violent than today's offering. This was known as the Attitude Era and saw all-time records for wrestling on TV on a weekly basis. Fans could not get enough of its bloody battles and sexualised content and marked the rise of many legends including The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Undertaker.
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Paul “Triple H” Levesque, now WWE chief content officer, was also among those superstars and he met with the US press this week along with WWE president/chief revenue officer Nick Khan and Netflix execs to lay out their plans for the sports entertainment franchise. The Cerebral Assassin was asked if WWE would return to the X-rated Attitude Era.
“It’s a safe place for families, for kids, for everybody, to be able to view the programming,” Levesque said. “That will not change.”
Khan added that he’s seen speculation that being on a streamer will allow “Raw” to push the content boundaries more, but said there’s no reason to believe it: “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. It’s a family friendly, multi-generational, advertiser-friendly programming. It’s going to stay that way.”
According to Khan, the January Netflix premiere show at the Intuit Dome has “already broken our United States arena ticket record". Regarding any concerns over buffering during live streams, Levesque said: “I’ll just say, if it blinks a couple of times and we do 60 million, I’m good with that.”
