Netflix has just come off the top rope with a major move in the pro wrestling streaming world. The streamer and WWE have expanded their partnership by making the platform the official home of WWE’s library in the United States.
Effective immediately, Netflix subscribers can stream the wrestling promotion’s catalog of Premium Live Events (before September 2025), including the Big Four of WrestleMania, SummerSlam, Royal Rumble, and Survivor Series. Beyond the PLEs, the wrestling giant’s original programming, award-winning documentaries, and other favorites are available to stream on demand.
The addition of WWE’s library builds on Netflix becoming the home for Monday Night Raw back in 2025. Since the show’s arrival, it has been among the streamer’s Top 10 shows, and Netflix has gained a growing slate of WWE originals and docs, including the Hard Knocks-like behind-the-scenes series WWE Unreal. The recent expansion has made Netflix a one-stop place for big shows, backstage stories, and weekly Raw episodes for fans.
Over the past year, WWE’s recent rights shuffle has shaken up rival services. Peacock, which previously carried a swath of WWE programming, recently lost some WWE content as licensing windows ended last month. With the wrestling rights landscape in flux, Peacock secured exclusive rights to select WWE events until 2029. However, for live PLE events, which also formerly aired on Peacock, ESPN snagged those shortly after the launch of their standalone ESPN streaming service.
By expanding the rights of their current partnership, Netflix just made an aggressive power move in the streaming wars. An Ampere Analysis study found that Netflix’s WWE partnership is reducing subscriber churn and helping growth. The action inside and outside of the squared circle is keeping eyeballs on the streamer while providing content stability that more than 300 million subscribers crave.
In addition to adding the library, Netflix and WWE have been cross-pollinating fandoms. This past Monday, on the anniversary show of the wrestling show’s streaming debut, Netflix’s Stranger Things and WWE staged a crossover night on Raw in a creative stunt that pulled mainstream pop-culture heat into the ring and kept the buzz high. Fans can expect more of those crossover moments now that Netflix controls more of WWE’s back catalog.
To keep interest between live events, the trailer for the second season of WWE Unreal was released yesterday, building up hype for Netflix’s behind-the-scenes content. Unreal Season 2 premieres on January 20, exclusively on the platform.
Streaming wrestling on Netflix requires no prior ringside knowledge, giving cord cutters an easy entry point while competitors lose pieces of the WWE puzzle. For wrestling fans, Netflix is now cementing itself as one of the most convenient places to binge both the big moves on Monday nights and the story behind them. The latest rights expansion can attract casual viewers, with the crossover stunts and documentary storytelling being an easy entry point.