Triple H Reveals If He’s Worried About WWE Streaming On Netflix
The WWE boss man Triple H had an interesting response when asked about potential streaming issues when Raw heads to Netflix.
There are just six more episodes of WWE Raw on USA Network before the longest-running WWE television show heads to Netflix. That January 6th episode of Raw on Netflix will emanate from the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles.
While Netflix is a streaming giant with over 230 million worldwide subscribers, there were buffering issues for some users during the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight earlier this month. That led to concerns from WWE fans who are worried that when they tune into Raw on January 6th, they might not be able to see the show due to buffering issues.
The Paul-Tyson fight reportedly had over 60 million viewers, which is a massive number that shows the power of Netflix and why it was smart to run a fight on a platform where fans didn’t have to pay more money to watch it.
Paul “Triple H” Levesque is WWE’s Chief Content Officer in charge of the creative direction of the company, among other things.
During an appearance on Greg and the Morning Buzz, Triple H made it clear that he would be fine with buffering issues if the audience for Raw was significantly high.
“I don’t want to flex about it, but it was buffering on my end because I was on a plane watching it. The buffering was expected on my side. We were flying back from TV watching the fight and the signal was wonky. I thought, ‘We’re 40,000 feet in the air, it should be.’
Then, seeing it online of everybody saying it was buffering. You start putting 60 million households all at once on a streaming service, if our first night buffers and they come and say there were 60-70 million households watching, I’ll be good with the buffering.”
In addition to Raw, fans in international markets like the United Kingdom, Canada, and other places will also watch Smackdown, NXT, and WWE PLEs on Netflix, in addition to Raw.
Triple H Does Not Cater The WWE Product To Himself
When former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon was running the company, many people complained about how the show would cater to what Vince liked rather than what the broader audience cared to see.
Triple H recently spoke about how the WWE product that he puts on television is not about what he wants. It’s about what the fans want.
“Nobody actually texts me during the show because they know I’m not going to answer, for the most part. It’s interesting the different points of view. I know guys across many different generations, and I think there are some older performers that look at the way kids perform today and they say, ‘They’re just not doing it right. They don’t need to do all this.’
I get that, but it’s the way kids consume it today. There is a saying about when things start to leave you in life. The first thing to go is music. How many people, as you see them get older, ‘Music today sucks. Back in my day, that’s when they made good music. People put their heart and their soul into it and there was real emotion there.’ No, you’re just old, dude.
Yeah, the stuff was great in your generation and you learned it a certain way, but the kids today learn it a different way, and what they see and what they think is cool, then that’s what you need to give them. I can’t control that.
I learned this 30 years the hard way. It is in no way shape or form about what I want. It’s about what they want. If it becomes about what I want, then the show will die. It is about what they want and that overall big picture.”
Considering how much WWE is thriving over the last two years of the “Triple H Era” of the company, clearly The Game is making the right call in terms of who he caters the product to.