Those watching tonight’s WWE Money in the Bank event on Peacock might have thought they had returned to the days of AOL, RealPlayer and dial-up modems.
Just as the Men’s Money in the Bank ladder match was about to start the feed began to sputter and lag making the show unwatchable Sunday night.
Angry fans flooded Twitter to express their disappointment.
@peacockTV@WWE what’s happening with mitb why can we only see every other two seconds
— finnfan619 (@stucky619) July 19, 2021
Annnnnd #Peacock is crashing right before the biggest match of the night.
Heel turn. pic.twitter.com/ojhcJgXxIW
— Christian Audi (@TheEpicAudi) July 19, 2021
@WWE you made a bad decision switching to @peacockTV can’t even watch the money in the bank it’s soooo laggy!!!😡🤬😡🤬
— ToriLou Kilcrease (@ToriLouQueen) July 19, 2021
Why have PPVs on peacock. 2nd month in a row it messed up. #wwe. Do better. #WWEMITB
— Lisa Green (@LisaGre02863884) July 19, 2021
@peacockTV have you tried unplugging for ten seconds to see if that helps? #MITB
— Kelly (@kjones121716) July 19, 2021
Fans missed a large portion of the men’s Money in the Bank match as the Peacock interface doesn’t have a rewind feature and some couldn’t restart the feed at all to resume watching the event. All viewers could do to watch the parts they missed was to restart the entire event if they could get the feed working again.
The WWE Network’s move to Peacock has fallen under criticism for not only streaming issues but also many past WWE events have been censored, edited and removed from the service.
Peacock is owned by Comcast under the NBCUniversal brand.
