Below are a couple of top WWE news stories of the day, involving Triple H and Jacob Fatu.
• WWE Monday Night RAW will move to Netflix in January 2025. During an interview on The Pat McAfee Show, Chief Content Officer Triple H was asked about the changes that will come to WWE programming once RAW moves to Netflix.
Triple H said the show won’t have censorship issues on the streaming giant:
“We spend large chunks of our time, every day, when we’re not thinking about the business at hand now, we’re thinking about those moments. In the fall, as the shows shift around, and then once we get to Netflix. Netflix is a completely different animal. It’s a streaming service. How are commercials going to work? How are breaks going to work? What’s the length of time? What are the restrictions or not restrictions?
Being on Fox, if the crowd chants ‘holy sh*t’ or something worse, they take the audio (out). Sometimes, they take the picture and the audio out and it’s a black screen.
The Rock comes in and you can’t tell The Rock what to do. He does what he does. We won’t have those issues with Netflix. The ability to be live globally and be seen live everywhere is a game-changing moment. In many ways, that’s sort of where the world is heading; streaming services.
The NFL is sticking its toe in the water. NBA, every sport. It’s why this Netflix deal, for us, is so game-changing and everyone is going to be watching us in January, especially other sports, from the business side, they’re going to be watching to see what we do, what we do differently, and how it’s received.”
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• Jacob Fatu made his WWE debut this past Friday on SmackDown. He joined The Bloodline and single-handedly took out Randy Orton, Kevin Owens & Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes.
WWE filed to trademark “Samoan Werewolf”, which is going to be Jacob’s nickname in the company.
You can read the description below:
“Entertainment services, namely, wrestling exhibitions and performances by a professional wrestler and entertainer rendered and through broadcast media including television and radio, and via the internet or commercial online service; providing wrestling news and information via a global computer network; providing information in the fields of sports and entertainment via an online community portal;
Providing a website in the field of sports entertainment information; fan club services, namely, organizing sporting events in the field of wrestling for wrestling fan club members;
Organizing social entertainment events for entertainment purposes for wrestling fan club members; providing online newsletters in the fields of sports entertainment; online journals, namely blogs, in the field of sports entertainment.”
