WWE Raw 1/8/24 Review | REWIND-A-RAW

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Originally published at WWE Raw 1/8/24 Review | REWIND-A-RAW - POST Wrestling | WWE AEW NXT NJPW Podcasts, News, Reviews

John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE Raw with Cody Rhodes taking on Shinsuke Nakamura. Plus, CM Punk confronts Drew McIntyre and R-Truth explains his history with the Judgment Day.

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Also: Katana Chance & Kayden Carter defend the women’s tag titles against Chelsea Green & Piper Niven, The Miz faces JD McDonagh, and Finn Balor vs. Tommaso Ciampa.

In news: John Ourand of SBJ predicts WWE Raw & TKO media rights, SmackDown and Rampage post strong numbers, and a crazy schedule coming up this weekend.

 

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On the conversation of RAW rights…
Amazon Prime has nearly 160M subscribers in the US.
USA networks is in roughly 70M homes.

I think Amazon, like other streamers, definitely is the safe bet.

Keeping SmackDown on linear TV and experimenting with RAW on streaming.

There’s a reason why AEW’s new deal is taking as much time, because WBD wants to include all the streaming rights. Since it’s such a big piece of the puzzle going to the future.

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Go to a streaming service (one I already pay for!) and end the weekly ratings talk. I’m in!

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Hell of an effort from Jim Hard Bog and the Wolverines last night.

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It’s so weird, there are so many analysts out there who still say cable is more lucrative than streaming even though more people are cutting the cord now than ever in flocks.

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I won’t pretend to know more than people who analyze this stuff for a living. But they say cable is more lucrative than streaming because it has been historically. Eventually that tide is going to turn.

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Amazon and Apple specifically aren’t in the television business only. And because of that, that can spend a ton on content creation, and it’s a drop in the bucket of their overall budgets.

Amazon going in on live sports makes sense, since they’re trying to grow their footprint in streaming.

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