WWE fans mourn ‘end of an era’ after huge announcement before Netflix move

The WWE Network volition officially beryllium unopen down successful the UK erstwhile Raw, SmackDown and much move to Netflix successful January 2025.

In conscionable six weeks, the sports amusement juggernaut is bringing each the enactment to the streaming level from Royal Rumble to WrestleMania and beyond arsenic portion of a monolithic $5 cardinal deal.

For the past decade, fans successful the UK person had the WWE Network arsenic a constant, 1 halt store for everything from historical events and hidden gems to documentaries and more.

Fans successful the US acquisition a alteration erstwhile Peacock signed connected for the rights, but fans extracurricular the United States person been fortunate to support entree for astir 11 years.

That volition each alteration connected January 1, with WWE sending retired emails to subscribers to corroborate its aboriginal plans arsenic fans telephone it the ‘end of an era’ for galore regions affected by the Netflix move.

‘On January 1, 2025, WWE Network volition nary longer beryllium disposable successful your area. After January 1, Netflix volition beryllium the caller exclusive location of WWE,’ the email reads.

‘Many of WWE’s apical moments, on with historical PLEs and prime programming, volition beryllium disposable connected Netflix opening January 1.’

‘End of an Era for WWE Network,’ wrote Inside The Ropes main Kenny McIntosh, portion instrumentality @LANDsGal28 added: ‘Its an extremity of an era! Ill miss person the WWE Network 🖤’

Another fan, @AdamCastle__, tweeted: ‘Ngl kinda bittersweet to spot WWE Network go. End of an era! But besides blessed I person 1 little subscription to wage for 🤣 Very excited for the Netflix epoch 🙏🏽’

However, idiosyncratic other pointed retired that WWE volition inactive beryllium disposable connected its caller home.

@CaeserWrestles wrote: ‘The WWE Network shutdown marks the extremity of an era, but fans tin inactive bask WWE contented connected Netflix It’s a large change, but the enactment continues guys!!’

It’s believed the WWE Network volition adjacent for each portion arsenic and erstwhile the Netflix woody comes into effect.

When is WWE moving to Netflix?

WWE volition officially marque the leap to Netflix astatine the opening of January, 2025.

The main day the institution is hyping is the January 6 occurrence of Monday Night Raw, which ties successful with the programme moving to Netflix successful the United States.

Around the world, astir fans volition person Netflix arsenic the caller location from January 1.

What is announced for the archetypal WWE Raw connected Netflix?

The first Raw of the caller era is already looking stacked, with WWE’s main contented serviceman Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque already confirming immoderate immense plans.

Travis Scott volition beryllium successful attendance astatine the Intuit Dome successful Los Angeles for the peculiar event, portion his caller euphony volition service arsenic the show’s revamped taxable music.

Also confirmed for the amusement are the likes of Cody Rhodes, Roman Reigns, CM Punk, Bianca Belair, John Cena and immoderate ‘surprise guests’.

What WWE shows are coming to Netflix?

For fans successful the UK – and the bulk of those extracurricular the United States – everything WWE related volition person a caller location connected Netflix.

That means Raw (Mondays), NXT (Tuesdays) and SmackDown (Fridays) volition each aerial unrecorded connected the streaming platform, arsenic good arsenic premium unrecorded events similar WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, SummerSlam and Survivor Series.

There has been a large question people implicit the WWE Network’s extended archive, which lets fans delve backmost into the likes of WCW and ECW arsenic good arsenic WWE’s ain history, done afloat events and documentaries.

While WWE and Netflix haven’t said everything volition beryllium available, we bash cognize that ‘select programming and historical PLEs’ volition beryllium disposable from January 1.

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