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WWE Raw Crown Jewel go-home episode viewership revealed

Posted on by Josh Nason

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Viewership for the October 6 episode of WWE Raw on Netflix was not tied with the lowest of all time, but wasn’t that much higher either.

In new data released by the streaming giant Tuesday, the October 6 show generated 2.4 million global views and 4.8 million global hours viewed.

The global views are up 100,000 from the past two weeks’ record low of 2.3 million while the global hours viewed were the show’s highest since the September 15 episode’s 5.3 million.

The show was the go-home before this past weekend’s Crown Jewel in Perth, Australia, and featured Roman Reigns opening the broadcast, Becky Lynch in non-title action, and appearances by CM Punk, LA Knight, and Jey Uso.

It also faced primetime sports competition domestically from both the NFL (over 22 million viewers for their Monday Night Football game) and the Major League Baseball playoffs (Los Angeles vs. Philadelphia).

The show began at its normal time of 8 PM Eastern following several weeks of 7 PM kickoffs.

Dave Meltzer has his thoughts for subscribers here.

Raw Viewership Details:

  • The episode ranked ninth globally and sixth in the United States. It was also in the top ten for Canada, Bolivia, and Trindad and Tobago.
  • The listed 1:57 run time was up four minutes from the prior week.
  • The average for the last ten weeks decreased to 2.58 million global views and 5.12 million global hours viewed.

Last 10 weeks of WWE Raw on Netflix ratings/viewership:

Episode dateGlobal ViewsGlobal Hours
October 3, 20242.4 million4.8 million
September 29, 20252.3 million4.5 million
September 22, 20252.3 million4.5 million
September 15, 20252.6 million5.3 million
September 8, 20252.6 million5.1 million
September 1, 20252.4 million5.2 million
August 25, 20252.6 million5.0 million
August 18, 20252.8 million5.4 million
August 11, 20252.8 million5.3 million
August 4, 20253.0 million6.1 million
Average for last 10 weeks:2.58 million5.12 million

Netflix first half viewership report reveals interesting WWE statistics

Posted on by Josh Nason

Netflix released viewing statistics for the first half of 2025 on Friday, showing what viewers watched worldwide for over 7500 shows and specials.

That, of course, includes WWE programming for the first time ever. With WWE’s deal with the streaming giant kicking off in January, the report displayed information for 161 different entries ranging from weekly episodes of Raw (worldwide), SmackDown (not in the U.S.) and NXT (also not in the U.S.) in addition to several PLEs (not in the U.S.) and archived shows (worldwide).

Netflix specifically mentioned WWE in the initial release, noting WWE content has more than 280 million viewing hours in the first half of the year. They also noted that two-thirds of their members are outside the U.S.

Global Views

Raw dominated the top 23 WWE entries with all episodes in their top 32, highlighted by the show’s January kickoff with 6.9 million views.

Somewhat surprisingly, the first non-Raw show listed was January’s Royal Rumble with three million views, beating out both the second night of WrestleMania 41 (2.8 million) and night one (2.4 million views). One reason that could be: the Rumble was the first-ever PLE to be made available on Netflix.

Elimination Chamber (1.9 million), Money in the Bank (1.6 million) and Night of Champions (1 million) followed closely behind while SmackDown dominated spots 33 through 57 followed by several NXT PLEs, NXT TV, and WWE archive content.

The critically acclaimed limited series Adolescence nabbed the top spot with 144.8 million views with the Raw debut ranking at 261st on the overall list.

Global Hours Watched

The aforementioned Raw debut topped their rankings with a whopping 20 million hours viewed followed by the Royal Rumble (13.3 million), the second night of WrestleMania 41 (10.2 million), two episodes of Raw (9.6 million), and the first night of WrestleMania 41 (9.6 million).

Raw episodes dominated the rest of their own top 30 with the exceptions of Elimination Chamber (6.7 million) and Money in the Bank (5.2 million). There was a big drop from that PLE to Night of Champions (2.8 million).

By comparison, the second season of Squid Game was no. 1 with 840,300,000 viewing hours while the first Netflix edition of Raw ranked 868th overall.

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Domestically, SmackDown remains on USA Network for the next few years while WWE’s contract with Peacock for both PLEs and archive content expires in March 2026.

WWE Raw on Netflix June 2 viewership up from previous week

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

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The following is an excerpt from a subscriber exclusive article available here.

The 6/2 WWE Raw on Netflix — the go-home edition for Money in the Bank — was up from the previous week’s record-low with Netflix claiming 5.0 million viewer hours and 2.7 million global views.

According to Netflix, the May 26th show did 4.8 million viewer hours and 2.6 million global views.

Doing that math, you get that they are now figuring almost nobody is watching the show live, which, of course, is ridiculous.

Using those numbers, with the idea of not being able to figure people who watch twice (a prime issue with streaming vs. Nielsen comparisons which favor streaming numbers having an advantage in an equal playing field) and using Netflix’s internal live vs. delayed viewing numbers (a figure significantly lower than they have said publicly), you get 2,296,000 total views as an average which would be estimated to be 3,132,000 worldwide viewers over the course of the full week.

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WWE Raw on Netflix viewership for April 28 declines from previous week

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

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Viewership for the 4/28 episode of WWE Raw on Netflix was down as expected from the previous show directly after WrestleMania 41 but still ahead of most of the shows leading into WrestleMania.

This would be consistent with usual patterns. The week after WrestleMania is usually big, the week after that remains above average, and the third week ends up at average levels and then starts to hit the lowest non-football numbers of the year as the NBA playoffs deepen.

Netflix listed the show as having 5.8 million hours of viewing and three million global viewers. The April 21st edition was listed at 8.7 million hours of viewing and 3.6 million global viewers.

That means they considered viewing of one hour and 55 minutes as the full show, which was two hours and 34 minutes live and one hour 51 minutes if not watching live. This indicates almost nobody watched live while Netflix has always claimed it’s 80 percent live. Even going with 70 percent live, this would average 2,554,000 homes worldwide and 3,226,000 viewers being very generous on the viewer total.

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