In an interview for the Greg & The Morning Buzz radio show this week, Paul “Triple H” Levesque talked about the audience Netflix drew for the Netflix boxing event featuring Mike Tyson and Jake Paul in the main event.
That Tyson fight this past week did 60-something million viewers live. What people don’t get — that’s households. Multiply that times three on average, that’s the amount of people that were watching.
WWE’s chief content officer was asked if the streaming issues for the fight, which frustrated a great number of fans on social media, were a concern for the company as Raw prepares to debut for the platform in January:
Look, I don’t want to flex about it, but it was buffering on my end because I was on a plane watching it. So the buffering was expected on my side,” WWE’s Chief Content Officer said. “We were flying back from TV watching the fight and the signal was a little wonky. And I thought, ‘Well, we’re 40,000 feet in the air, it should be.’ But then sort of seeing it online of everybody saying it was buffering.
Look, you start putting 60 million households all at once on a streaming service. Put it this way, if our first night buffers and they come and say it was 60-70 million households watching, I’ll be okay with the buffering.
WWE Raw’s debut on Netflix takes place January 6, 2025 from the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California.
Source: F4WOnline