For international WWE Network fans the move to Netflix could be the end of an era.
Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer has revealed how the shift will go.
“All the current shows obviously will be on every single week. This is international, not United States, United States is only Raw. All the pay-per-views are going to be on Netflix,” he began.
Meltzer then delivered some disappointing news.
“As far as your archives, there will be some but very little. On January 1, when everything starts, they’re gonna have about roughly 40 pay-per-views, will be the only thing up. Just intermittent – some recent, some years ago but 40-ish pay-per-views, dating back to the Wrestling Classic and Tuesday in Texas, Rock Bottom, there’ll be Royal Rumbles and WrestleManias of course, Hell in a Cell, the Invasion pay-per-view, Evolution pay-per-view, the all-women’s show. Some of the ECW pay-per-views – December to Dismembers going to be up there,” he said. “I think they just blinded themselves and threw darts at a wall…because it’s not like they picked the best pay-per-views, or recent, or anything. Clash at the Castle’s going to be on.”
Meltzer then went on to break some disappointing news for some fans.
“When it starts on Netflix there will be 40 pay-per-views. There’ll be no WCW, no Mid-Atlantic Wrestling, no Mid-South Wrestling, World Class Wrestling. None of that taped library stuff. Which, people didn’t really watch a lot of it, so that’s what happened but there will be a few WrestleManias,” he revealed.
He then discussed the roll-out plan for the rest of the Network content.
“There will be a second run of pay-per-views that will be released February 7 I believe, a couple of pay-per-views – Stomping Grounds, Vengeance, Insurrextion, Night of Champions, Armageddon, not too many and then on the 31st, there will be some more pay-per-views. Netflix will be slowly rolling out WWE pay-per-views and some archives of WWE programming. There will not be any programming from any other promotions on Netflix, at least for the first four to five months.”
