Roman Reigns believes that WWE RAW moving to Netflix will open up some room for pushing the envelope. However, he thinks WWE should stick to the values and morals they have set.
Speaking during a recent appearance at Bloomberg Power Players New York, Reigns called the Netflix/WWE deal the biggest of all time. (H/t Andrew Thompson of POST Wrestling for the transcription)
“I think this is the biggest deal of all-time to be honest,” Roman Reigns said. “But the thing that changes the whole landscape for us is that we’ve been on linear television for decades now and we’ve been the leader of that, episodically. So to take our program and to put it on a streaming network like Netflix, it’s just unheard of.
“I mean, to go all the way back through our history to see where we are now and the growth that we’ve had, really since 2020? When the world was upside down has just really been amazing so, it’s a big opportunity for us to not only showcase our product but just what we mastered with live television.”
Roman Reigns On WWE Pushing The Envelope
Roman Reigns was also asked whether he thinks WWE RAW will become edgier due to its new home on Netflix. While the company has been a bit looser with its strict PG rating over the past few months, Reigns still thinks the company shouldn’t stray too far from their values.
“If we allow Paul to do Hall of Fame speeches non-stop, we’ll definitely push that envelope but for me, I don’t know,” Roman Reigns said. “I’ve always enjoyed the challenges of being P.G., and no offense to our predecessors and the people who came before us and the ratings that they revolved around. But to me, it’s more challenging to be able to tell these stories and then it also allows you a broader audience to connect to, which I just really feel like is always the goal.
“We wanna reach as many people as possible and I think there’s a fine limit to when you can kind of cross that threshold to where you push people off from the product. So, I think there’s gonna be a nice little range there that we can play with and push the envelope in certain senses but I think we need to stick to our values and kind of the morals we’ve set in place and the culture that we have now.”
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