WWE made history by debuting Monday Night Raw on Netflix in January 2025, attracting 2.4 million viewers globally, exceeding cable ratings. Fans praised the enhanced production quality and reduced ad breaks.

The premiere episode of WWE RAW on Netflix lasted three hours, while this week’s show ran for just over two-and-a-half hours.

A few months after WWE had the first two-hour Raw in over a decade, the company shifted back to the three-hour format for the Netflix debut. However, it’s never been made explicitly clear if this will be the standard moving forward or an outlier.

The Chadster previews tonight's WWE Raw on Netflix!  Will CM Punk become champ? Is a certain former AEW star debuting? Tune in or lose your fan cred! 

With the move of Monday Night Raw to Netflix, WWE executives believed it would be able to expand its viewership globally. One show in and the results indicate a big day for the show's debut on the streaming service.

The streaming premiere of “Monday Night Raw” marks a confident step forward in the Big Red N's march into live TV territory

Netflix touts the viewership of WWE RAW. The January 13th episode of WWE RAW was the first edition of the show following the Netflix premiere. Per Netflix’s website, Monday’s episode of RAW is ranked fourth in global shows.

This week's Raw was a vast improvement over last week's episode in terms of match quality and storytelling, getting right back into the flow we've grown accustomed to since Triple

WWE has ebbed and flowed constantly throughout its existence. We had the huge popularity of the lewd and crude Attitude Era, the toned down yet still biting Ruthless Aggression times, and finally the PG period that saw many hardened fans,