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The WWE's Premiere on Netflix

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🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Last year, Netflix reportedly spent more than $5 billion for a 10 year rights agreement with the WWE. Last night was the first chapter for viewers. (00:14) Nick Sciple and Ricky Mulvey discuss - The buzz around Monday Night Raw’s debut on Netflix. - What’s allowed in Tribal Combat and why wrestlers don’t respect the boundaries of an announcer's table. - The new “100% margin” opportunities for the WWE. - Why TKO Group Holdings is one of Nick’s largest personal stock investments. Then, (17:58) Alison Southwick and Robert Brokamp discuss some fundamental ways to prepare your portfolio for 2025. Companies discussed: TKO, NFLX Sign up for Stock Advisor and access our members only podcast Stock Advisor Roundtable at www.fool.com/signup Host: “The Cincinnati Cobra” Ricky Mulvey Guests: “Cash Money” Nick Sciple, Alison “Swagger” Southwick, “Hulk Bro-gan” Robert Brokamp Producer: “The Virginia Kid” Mary Long Engineer: Rick “The Answer” Engdahl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

In tribal combat, there are no rules.

0:07.4

You're listening to Motley Full Money.

0:13.6

I'm Ricky Mulvey, joined today by Nick Seippled.

0:16.5

Nick, I got a different level of excitement in my voice because we are now a Monday Night Raw recap show here on Motley Full Money. Appreciate you being here.

0:25.7

Great to be here with you, Rick. And we've got lots of friends in the industry on YouTube and other other platforms.

0:31.6

Happy to join the international wrestling community.

0:34.6

So last night, the former heavyweight champion of cable made its streaming premiere.

0:39.4

Monday Night, Rob, moved to Netflix. We've known about this for about a year now, but last night

0:43.8

was the first broadcast. What did you think? What'd you think of the premiere? What'd you think

0:49.3

of the broadcast? It was a massive TV event. It really felt that way. Stars in the crowd from Macaulay Culkin to Vanessa Hudgens to Travis Scott, not to mention that the biggest wrestling stars in the world, John Sina, the Rock, Roman Raines, Solo, So it really felt like a big WrestleMania event. And that's, I think, the way the WWE treated it. You have this first

1:13.1

launch on Netflix, this one of the biggest cable TV shows of all time, now moving to streaming,

1:20.1

really a monumental moment when you think about how people consume media, but also think about

1:25.3

lots of new first-time viewers in the U.S. tuning into Monday

1:29.5

Night Raw because it's on Netflix, because it's at the top of the banner, but more importantly,

1:33.9

around the world. Netflix is the leading streaming provider in countries like India and the

1:38.7

Middle East and Latin America, and these are countries that already have an interest in wrestling,

1:43.9

but haven't had access to the content previously because this has mostly been on U.S. cable TV channels. So I think a really monumental moment for Netflix, too.

1:54.0

Again, continuing to move under these live TV events after their Christmas Day event in the Paul Tyson fight. This is going to happen

2:01.9

every week now. So in a way, this is just another episode of Monday Night Raw, but I think it represents

2:06.1

a transition of how we consume media and really how Netflix is trying to bring in customers.

2:11.9

I mean, it was another episode, but they brought in the superstars. You were seeing John Cena,

2:16.7

you were seeing Dwayne the Rock Johnson, both of whom did not wrestle. Nick, I don't watch a lot of professional

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