After rumors ofWWEdropping its PG rating when Monday Night Raw comes to Netflix in January , WWE gaffer Nick Khan has address the chance of the break of day of a newfangled Attitude Era for wrestling . Screen Rant ’s Joe Deckelmeier was in attendance as WWE and Netflix looked ahead to the launch of their relationship in January .
Appearing as part of a panel at the WWE and Netflix Lunch and Learn event alongside Triple H , Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria , Netflix Vice President of Non Fiction & Sports Brandon Reigg , Khan fielded questions on the future of WWE in the Netflix era . Despite the added freedom of a streaming platform , he was quick to shoot down rumor of a more adult rating :
" We ’re not exchange the rating of our computer programing . So there ’s some online chatter about , oh , it ’s give way to be R rated , or for us all folks like ecstasy rated . That ’s definitely not go on . So it ’s family friendly , multi - generational , advertiser friendly programming . It ’s go to ride out that fashion . "
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What WWE Remaining Rated For All Means
Rumors circulated specially after theNetflixlisting for Raw showed a TV-14 paygrade , with WWE NXT labeled PG , and SmackDown with a MA rating . For the UK listing , Raw issue forth with a 15 military rating , SmackDown was 18 + , and NXT was 12+.That does n’t reflect any sort of change of centering in the actual content of the show , however .
As Netflix ’s Bela Bejaria tell at the issue , the intersection ’s prayer unify multiple audience quadrant , which has been the paint to impressively stable ratings over a long period :
" So first , it turns out that my experience of watching wrestling with my sept is n’t that strange . peeled has been a TV PG show for more than 15 years , and they have a huge multi - generational fan radix with a roster of stars and exciting dramatic play . "
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Netflix is n’t beholden to the same censoring rules as net television receiver , or the same influence from advertisers who have been typically ( and intelligibly ) loth to seem alongside some of the more grownup content from WWE ’s past . That obviously could have led to a change in spirit for the brand , but the line of work decisiveness would have to actively weigh up the impact on young interview members , and the expenditure powerfulness of the lucrative family demographic .
Our Take On WWE’s Rating Staying The Same On Netflix
From a business perspective , a shifting back to the bloodier , more brassy sentence of the Attitude Era never made mother wit . It may still be arguably the most babble out about era of grappling of all time , but that subject did n’t exactly fit up with the new recapitulate mantra that WWE is for all . It also would n’t fit with some of the more lucrative come forth international marketsWWEhas struck up human relationship with . And fundamentally , there ’s no trade - off in entertainment to keep thing sept - favorable .
WWE ’s Monday Night Raw will premiere on Netflix at 5 pm PT/8 premier ET on January 6
