Below are some top WWE news stories of the day, involving Triple H and RAW.
• Before it was announced that RAW will be moving to Netflix in 2025, there were rumors that WWE was discussing the idea of moving RAW off Mondays, to avoid competing with Monday Night Football.
During an interview on the SI Media podcast, Triple H confirmed that there were discussions about moving RAW to another night, but in the end, WWE management decided that it was best to stay on Monday nights.
Here’s what HHH said about this decision:
“One of the things working best in WWE with the team of Nick (Khan), Lee Fitting, and many others, we’re all looking at what is the best way to do it. Forget what we have and what’s on the table. Let’s look at it with fresh eyes and say, ‘If we were building this ground up, what would we do and how would we do it?’ Take all the things we know and factor in the whys and hows.
Monday night was contemplated. Is that a move off of Monday? Is it stay on Monday? It’s also a 30-plus-year tradition. You have to factor that in. Plus, the business model and everything else.
I’m a big believer that you can work around all of those things. We weighed all of it out, as we always do, with the partners and ourselves, and we determined what was best and what was best was staying on Monday.
You can move and understand the global nature of WWE and Netflix. Yes, Monday is NFL, but that is not a factor in a lot of the world. There were a lot of factors heavily weighed.”
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• The Rock and John Cena are confirmed to return on RAW’s Netflix premiere this Monday. Another name could return tomorrow night – Stephanie McMahon.
Here’s what Triple H said about Stephanie’s WWE status during an interview on the SI Media podcast:
“I would love Steph back. Here’s the thing with her. She stepped away and our kids are at an age where we have one in college, and over the next four years, the rest will be in college. We have three girls.
It’s a very formidable time and a time for her where she’s really enjoying having some down time. She’s busy, she still has a lot of passions and pediatric cancer is a big thing for her; she’s doing some stuff.
She’s still up to speed on a lot of the stuff we’re doing and clearly has her takes and opinions on things. It’s wonderful when she can be around. She will always have a passion for this.
Whether she decides to come in and do some stuff, I think she weighs that on her mind all the time. It’s the, ‘I want to do that, but I have given up all this time with my kids that I’ll never get back.’ She’s enjoying her time with them very much, so giving that up would be a tough push right now.
You’ll see her around. Maybe at Netflix.”
