WWE is trying out something new on YouTube by launching an official channel dedicated to The Undertaker.
The new channel opened up today and will host episodes of Undertaker’s Six Feet Under podcast. Along with that, WWE will upload past Undertaker matches and compilation videos featuring classic Undertaker footage.
WWE Head of Digital Steve Braband told entertainment outlet Variety that the new channel aims to further WWE’s goal of increasing its presence on YouTube and giving fans specialized content to watch.
“We’re going to treat it like how we’ve expanded our YouTube presence, with this one being unique having ‘Taker’s podcast as the centerpiece of the channel and surrounding archive content,” Braband said. “We’re really, really excited about it and think it’ll do well.”
Braband said WWE now has 15 official channels on YouTube, an increase from the four it had in 2024. Other new additions include dedicated pages for WCW and NXT.
“You have to create specialized viewing for fans on YouTube now,” Braband said. “We had four channels last year in 2024 on YouTube, and this year, in 2025 we have 14, about to be 15 with this ‘Taker channel.”
Undertaker’s Six Feet Under podcast originally existed outside of the WWE umbrella. It joined the WWE & Fanatics podcast network this summer with Michelle McCool replacing former co-host Matthew Lyda. New episodes of Six Feet Under will now premiere every other Wednesday.
In Washington, D.C. next month, WWE is holding a live taping of Six Feet Under at The Howard Theatre. The taping is set to begin at 8 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, December 12.
This week’s Six Feet Under episode saw Undertaker and McCool look back at some of Undertaker’s classic Survivor Series moments.
WWE is touting that Worlds Collide 2025 set a new YouTube record for the company.
Worlds Collide had the biggest live YouTube audience in WWE’s history, peaking at 764,389 viewers between the promotion’s English and Spanish-language channels. The show took place in Inglewood, California on Saturday afternoon and streamed on YouTube for free, featuring wrestlers from WWE, NXT, and Lucha Libre AAA.
Viewership peaked in the main event of the show with El Hijo del Vikingo defeating Chad Gable to retain the AAA Mega Championship.
The full Worlds Collide broadcast is available to watch on demand and currently has 2.9 million views on WWE’s main channel and 1.7 million views on the WWE Espanol channel.
This April, it was announced that WWE is acquiring Lucha Libre AAA with the deal expected to officially be finalized in the third quarter of 2025. AAA was founded in 1992 and is one of the two biggest wrestling promotions in Mexico. Worlds Collide served as a way to introduce the WWE audience to AAA’s roster, with Octagon Jr. even going on to compete at Money in the Bank later in the night. He unsuccessfully challenged Dominik Mysterio for the Intercontinental title.
AAA wrestler Mr. Iguana — who was hugely popular at Worlds Collide — also made an appearance in the crowd at Money in the Bank.
In yet another change for how fans can buy their pay-per-views, AEW has added both YouTube and PPV.com as methods in which they can purchase next month’s Dynasty.
The new methods are notable as Bleacher Report was previously the sole option for U.S. streaming buyers to purchase AEW PPVs. The Warner Bros. Discovery-owned brand is the domestic TV partner for AEW in a deal that expires at some point later this year. The renewal of those rights has been a hot topic, especially in how the PPVs will be packaged, or not packaged, as part of it.
During March’s Revolution, fans complained publicly about technical issues on Bleacher Report that forced them to miss portions of the first hour. In a first, the PPV was then made available for purchase on Triller for U.S. buyers roughly an hour after the main card started. Triller is an international streaming partner for AEW with both PPVs and the AEW Plus service.
Regardless of where it is purchased, the cost remains at $49.99 in the U.S. with no bundle options available.
As of this writing, AEW has not replied to a request for comment on the rationale for the changes.
On Friday, WWE announced that the company’s YouTube channel has surpassed 100 million subscribers. It’s only the 10th YouTube channel to ever reach the 100 million subscriber mark.
T-Series (261 million), Mr. Beast (243 million), CocoMelon (172 million), SET India (169 million), Kids Diana Show (120 million), Like Nastya (113 million), Vlad and Niki (113 million), PewDiePie (111 million), and Zee Music Company (105 million) are the nine channels with more subscribers than WWE.
“With more than 100 million subscribers and 81 billion lifetime views, WWE is the largest sports channel on YouTube and No. 10 overall,” WWE wrote. “The new subscriber total is more than the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL combined.”
In their announcement, WWE credited The Rock’s return for helping push them past 100 million subscribers:
The return of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has helped supercharge the channel’s subscriber total in recent months, highlighted by the WrestleMania XL Kickoff event in Las Vegas on Feb. 8, which added more than 100,000 subscribers in a day. Every segment featuring ‘The Rock’ since his surprise SmackDown return on Sept. 15, 2023, has drawn more than one million views. Prior to The Rock’s return to WWE television in September, the company was tracking to reach the 100 million subscriber milestone in late April.
Only the 10th channel globally to ever do so! Helluva milestone that deserves the well earned flowers of recognition
Hyped to see this growth, and much more exciting and expansive work is ahead of us.
Congratulations to our hardworking superstars, staff, and crew.
The jabroni beating, pie eating, trail blazing, eyebrow raising, downin’ Teremanas at the pubs, sayin’ f**k off you crybabies with a hundred million subs.
~ the people’s champ
The Rock is set to make his in-ring return at WrestleMania 40 next month. At night one of the event, he’ll team with Roman Reigns against Cody Rhodes & Seth Rollins.
Paul “Triple H” Levesque posted:
What an absolutely massive accomplishment. Huge thanks to all 100 MILLION members of the @WWEUniverse who have made @WWE’s @YouTube channel one of the 10 most-subscribed in the world. pic.twitter.com/1jAwQc8dAG
We’ve got a heavy-historical double-issue of the Wrestling Observer out this week. Our lead story looks at the career and final appearance of The Undertaker. We look at his famous matches, the WrestleMania streak, how long it’s been since he actually worked a full schedule, the dream match that did happen and why, and the one that never happened and why.
Also in this issue:
Survivor Series with match-by-match coverage, star ratings, poll results and interest level of the show.
The $39 million settlement of a lawsuit against WWE, the largest settlement of a lawsuit in pro wrestling history, why it was settled, testimony key witnesses were going to make, who sued, what the judge in the case said, crazy facts about the case, and testimony on what really happened in Saudi Arabia the day the WWE talent couldn’t get out of the country.
A story on the life of Bob Ryder, the start of TNA, the business numbers behind the start and how it got so deep in debt, what saved the company in 2005 and 2015 and Impact releases a statement on his death.
How Dana White is expecting a packed house for a UFC show sooner than you think and how that ties into what has been booked.
Major front office changes in WWE, and background of the decisions and people who are in and out, Xavier Woods and WWE negotiate a mainstream deal, NXT Takeover lineup notes, Lana documentary, Undertaker talks most famous matches and how Vince talked him into ending the streak, how WWE & AEW TV shows did this past week as compared to major sorts, U.K. Heritage Cup, former college football star has WWE interest, value of WWE stock right now and top ten most-watched shows on the WWE Network from last week.
Full coverage of UFC 255, details behind the show, match-by-match coverage and poll results.
The induction of Marc Ratner into the UFC Hall of Fame. We look at his background in boxing, his connection to pro wrestling, and his role in okaying an angle that literally changed the power structure of pro wrestling where Vince McMahon needed his approval. We look at why two different proposed dream match involving WWE stars didn’t happen as well as how Floyd Mayweather’s unbeaten streak stayed in tact due to a decision by Ratner as well as his role in making UFC treated as a sport, and how UFC was able to get Ratner to join the promotion.
2019 Business Year in review, with the biggest attendances, biggest PPV numbers, who headlined the most major shows, UFC business, WWE business and what Becky Lynch did in 2019 that no woman in the history of pro wrestling had ever come close to.
An updated list of the biggest drawing cards in pro wrestling history, comparing Jim Londos with Hulk Hogan, who Sam Muchnick said were the biggest draws ever, where Hogan ranked with Austin and Rock, and every annual attendance record from 1931 to the present and what record is likely never to be beaten.
NOAH’s Pro Wrestling Chronicle show and the Go Shiozaki ivs. Katsuhiko Nakajima main event.
A feature on the seven different Triple Crown award winners of the last 40 years, as well as those who came one step from doing so.
Stats for MVP, Most Outstanding, Best on interviews, Best Tag Team and others over the past 40 years as well as who seems to deserve more Hall of Fame consideration.
A feature on European villain Klaus Kauroff, who passed away this past week.
Television business, looking at stats not available elsewhere to get the deepest read into how shows are doing, what categories are doing well and how shows compare with previous weeks and one year ago.
Results of all the major pro wrestling events around the world over the past week.
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Vince McMahon on Pat Patterson’s passing: “Pat Patterson was more than the first Intercontinental Champion & father of the Royal Rumble Match. He helped lay the foundation for WWE as we know it. His mentorship shaped careers, his creativity sparked innovation and his friendship lifted spirits. Love you, Pat. We miss you.”
Sports Illustrated has an interview with Darby Allin on winning the TNT Championship.
Anthony Ogogo, a former Olympic bronze medal winner in boxing who is currently signed with AEW, challenged Jake Paul to a boxing match following his knockout win over NBA star Nate Robinson this past weekend. “I heard you think you’re a real boxer. LOL,” he wrote on Twitter. “I’d knock you spark out and I only have one good eye. 10x British Champ, Junior Olympic Champ, Junior World Champ, European medals aplenty, Olympic Medal. Let me know when you wanna play with the big boys.”
WWE has relaxed some of the vague rules regarding social media marketing put forth in the letter it sent to talent on Thursday.
At Raw today, it was clarified that talent will be able to maintain both YouTube and Twitch accounts, but would have to do so using their real names as opposed to their WWE ring names. They were told they would have to inform the company of YouTube and Twitch accounts using their real names.
Previously talent was told by people in the company that they could not market themselves with usage of their real names.
Nothing was made clear of exactly what won’t be allowed although the belief was that Cameo wouldn’t be allowed but we were told that was still super vague.
WWE had issued a statement on Saturday regarding talent third party deals: “Much like Disney and Warner Bros., WWE creates, promotes and invests in its intellectual property, i.e. the stage names of performers like The Fiend Bray Wyatt, Roman Reigns, Big E and Braun Strowman. It is the control and exploitation of these characters that allows WWE to drive revenue, which in turn enables the company to compensate performers at the highest levels in the sports entertainment industry. Notwithstanding the contractual language, it is imperative for the success of our company to protect our greatest assets and establish partnerships with third parties on a companywide basis, rather than at the individual level, which as a result will provide more value for all involved.”
