John Cena Says WWE-Netflix Deal Is ‘Good for Everybody,’ Congratulates Dwayne Johnson on TKO Board News: ‘That Warms My Heart’
variety.comEllise Shafer John Cena is in full support of WWE’s recent pact with Netflix to stream “Monday Night Raw” on the platform starting in 2025.
At the world premiere of his new movie “Argylle” in London, Cena told Variety that the deal is “good for everybody” and congratulated fellow wrestler Dwayne Johnson — with whom he feuded in the 2010s — on joining the board of WWE parent TKO. “That’s great for WWE, that’s obviously great for TKO.
It came in tandem with an announcement that Dwayne Johnson is now on the board of TKO and he’s going to be more involved with WWE — that warms my heart,” Cena said. “I think it’s great for Netflix because WWE will get global exposure and it will help Netflix in all of its markets.
WWE’s been around the world forever, so Netflix immediately gets a global property that they don’t have to air U.S.-only or Canada-only, they can put it everywhere.
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