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.
"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.
The company is currently putting all its streaming eggs in the Netflix basket and recently announced that it was permanently shutting down the WWE Network as of January 1, 2025.
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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.
This partnership will also bring all of WWE's weekly programming—including Monday Night RAW, Friday Night SmackDown, and NXT—as well as major Premium Live Events (PLEs) like WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, and SummerSlam to Netflix.
In addition, WWE's extensive archive of classic shows and iconic matches will be available to stream on Netflix starting in 2025.
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