Posted on 4/01/126 by Colin Vassallo
The WWE Network is officially dead and buried, now
worldwide.
While the original WWE Network went dark in the majority of
the world at the end of 2024 just as WWE officially moved to
Netflix outside the United States, the service was kept in
operation for a few countries who still did not receive
Netflix in their location due to local TV media rights.
Austria, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa,
and Switzerland were the last countries who still had access
to the service until yesterday. All apart from South Africa
and Sub-Saharan Africa will now be getting the library and
the premium live events on Netflix effective immediately.
Other WWE weekly TV broadcasts in Austria, Germany, and
Switzerland will remain on their current local TV deals.
South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa are stuck with their
local television deals and will not get anything on Netflix
for now.
The Network launched in the United States in February 24,
2014, offering a staggering amount of content from the whole
WWE video library including pay-per-views for just $9.99 a
month.
The worldwide rollout of the Network started in July of that
year and took almost two years to finally reach almost every
corner of the world. In fact, the Network operated in 186
countries, with the biggest omissions being China and
Russia, where the service was deactivated in 2022 after the
invasion of Ukraine.