Stephanie McMahon ‘TOUTS’ Monday Night Raw uprooting Squid Game as the #1 TV show on Netflix’s Top 10 chart
The former joint CEO and Chairwoman of WWE, Stephanie McMahon, was in attendance for the Netflix premiere of Raw in Los Angeles.
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WWE aired its first episode of Raw on Netflix this Monday. The company had been hyping its move to the OTT platform for months. It was even hailed as a WrestleMania-adjacent show in the prelude. And safe to say, it has paid dividends for WWE. As per FlixPatrol, Raw unlocked a new milestone as it pipped Squid Game to become the #1 TV show on Netflix on January 7.
A stat that fascinating couldn’t keep Stephanie McMahon from publicly touting her excitement. She quoted an article from Forbes on X that highlighted WWE Raw’s coup over the South Korean series. The flagship show of WWE was the highest-viewed program in the US, Canada, and Ecuador on Tuesday. Conceding a drop of three spots in the United States, Raw was placed at #4 on Wednesday.
Brandon Thurston of WrestleNomics revealed that Raw is eligible to be listed on Netflix’s official weekly top 10 rankings. The fans will get to see the cumulative viewing figures for Raw if it ends up in the weekly top 10 features, which will be released at the beginning of next week.
Otherwise, Netflix doesn’t plan on separately revealing the metrics for its WWE program. As far as the actual show is concerned, a lot went down. A ton of WWE legends, including The Rock, John Cena, and The Undertaker, showed up, let alone Hulk Hogan, who was booed out of the building.
Other happenings saw Roman Reigns regaining custody of the Ula Fala, beating Solo Sikoa. Rhea Ripley became the new Women’s World Champion. In the main event, CM Punk overcame a resilient Seth Rollins. The overall presentation of the event was up a notch with state-of-the-art facilities at the Intuit Dome.
What did the fans make of Raw’s debut on Netflix?
The Netflix premiere of Raw was famously billed by WWE as one of the biggest shows they’ve ever done. Forged on hyperbolic promises, the company milked out the largest arena gate in its history as over 17,000 fans were on hand. But the show turned out to be an outright disappointment.
The fanbase is apparently irked by the underwhelming storyline advances if there were any. In particular, whatever went down between The Rock and Cody Rhodes was deemed egregious. Instead of picking it up where he left off with the Undisputed WWE Champion, The Great One was playing around with Rhodes.
Rock gave Cody his flowers for carrying WWE on his back for the past year and even chugged shots of tequila with him on Instagram. Fans were baffled to see them break character the way they did. The following night on NXT, the Black Adam star addressed the criticism around it.
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