{"id":129293,"date":"2025-01-04T02:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T07:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=129293"},"modified":"2025-01-04T02:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T07:36:07","slug":"preview-wwe-raw-1-6-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/01\/04\/preview-wwe-raw-1-6-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: WWE Raw on Netflix Premiere (1\/6\/25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WWE Raw makes its premiere on Netflix this week, marking the first time a WWE show has streamed live on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>The magnitude of this event cannot be overhyped. A whopping 282.7 million people subscribe to Netflix globally.<\/p>\n<p>The average number of viewers on the USA Network for WWE Raw in Q4 of 2024 was 1.5M. As a result of all the potential new eyes on its product, WWE has loaded a card with its biggest stars. Roman Reigns, Cody Rhodes, John Cena, CM Punk, Seth Rollins, Logan Paul, Liv Morgan, Rhea Ripley, Drew McIntyre and Jey Uso are all booked to appear.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s our full preview of the WWE Raw on Netflix premiere on January 6, 2025. WWE Raw <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/search?q=wwe%20raw&amp;jbv=81788927\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">streams live on Netflix<\/a> at 8\/7c from the Intuit Dome in California.<\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Match Card WWE Raw (1\/6\/25)<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">CM Punk vs. Seth Rollins <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Women&#8217;s World Championship: Liv Morgan vs. Rhea Ripley <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Tribal Combat: Roman Reigns vs. Solo <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sikoa<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Drew McIntyre vs. Jey Uso <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">John <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Cena<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Farewell Tour Begins<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WWE Raw on Netflix: A New Sound<\/h3>\n<p>Aside from the match card &#8211; which we will dissect in a moment &#8211; there&#8217;s lots to be excited about outside the ring on the WWE Raw on Netflix premiere episode.<\/p>\n<p>Rapper Travis Scott will perform live at the Intuit Dome where he will debut the brand new WWE Raw theme song. Scott has 58M followers on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>20 years ago, John Cena made a name for himself with his entertaining rapper gimmick. Two decades and 16 championship reigns later, Cena will make the first stop on his <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/07\/07\/john-cena-announces-retirement-wwe-farewell-tour-for-2025\/\" target=\"_self\">Retirement Tour. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Owens would make a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/10\/24\/john-cena-farewell-wwe-tour\/\" target=\"_self\">fantastic former foe to try and ruin Cena&#8217;s moment.<\/a> Undisputed WWE Champion Rhodes or World Heavyweight Champion Gunther may also look to tackle the problem of Cena eying a 17th championship run head-on.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Cole and Pat McAfee will return to provide commentary and analysis. Joe Tessitore and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/01\/01\/possible-in-ring-return-wwe-wade-barrett\/\" target=\"_self\">Wade Barrett<\/a> have been the broadcast team on WWE Raw since the late summer. They will host the post-show for the WWE Raw on Netflix premiere.<\/p>\n<p>Alicia Taylor also moves over from WWE SmackDown to announce WWE Raw.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWERaw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WWERaw<\/a> on <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USANetwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@USANetwork<\/a>, it\u2019s been a pleasure! <\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t wait to see what\u2019s in store next week on the <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/netflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@netflix<\/a> debut. <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelCole?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MichaelCole<\/a> &amp; <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatMcAfeeShow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@PatMcAfeeShow<\/a>, you\u2019re up \ud83d\udc4a\ud83c\udffb<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeTessESPN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JoeTessESPN<\/a> &amp; I will see you on the Raw debut post-show \ud83c\udf7b <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5xTcvXC4Bv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/5xTcvXC4Bv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stu Bennett (@StuBennett) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StuBennett\/status\/1874154796426682462?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 31, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Match Card<\/h3>\n<h4>The Bloodline Saga Continues<\/h4>\n<p>Matches years in the making will come to a head on the biggest stage WWE has ever created.<\/p>\n<p>At Clash At The Castle 2022, Roman Reigns faced Drew McIntyre with his cousins Jimmy and Jey Uso banned from ringside. Reigns won the match when Solo Sikoa debuted as his new enforcer.<\/p>\n<p>Sikoa was loyal to Reigns for two years. But when Reigns lost the Undisputed WWE Championship to Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania 40, Sikoa saw his chance to move up the food chain.<\/p>\n<p>Sikoa brutally attacked Reigns and brought his own enforcers Jacob Fatu, Tama Tonga and Tonga Loa to WWE. A war between the two bloodlines has kept us entertained over the end of 2024. Now, Reigns and Sikoa meet in Tribal Combat to decide who is the true Head of the Table.<\/p>\n<p>This creates a perfect opportunity for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/01\/03\/wwe-raw-on-netflix-is-the-rock-returning\/\" target=\"_self\">The Rock to return to the WWE<\/a> and show where his allegiances lie among his warring family?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, McIntyre still can&#8217;t forgive Jey Uso for his role in stopping him from winning the championship from Reigns all those years ago. McIntyre is on a one-man mission to hurt anyone who has stood by Reigns. He defeated Sami Zayn twice in December and is now moving on to Jey Uso.<\/p>\n<h4>Seth Rollins And CM Punk: A Decade of Bad Blood<\/h4>\n<p>In 2012, CM Punk brought in The Shield to act as hired mercenaries. Reigns, Seth Rollins, and Dean Ambrose made up the group. Two years later, Punk walked away from the WWE and proceeded to throw dirt at the company.<\/p>\n<p>Rollins strapped the company to his back and nearly broke it trying to keep the company on top of the industry. Punk worked for AEW where he further tried to hurt the WWE.<\/p>\n<p>When CM Punk left AEW and returned to WWE in late 2023, Rollins was irate. An injury at the 2024 Royal Rumble and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/10\/08\/cm-punk-wwe-feud-drew-mcintyre\/\" target=\"_self\">subsequent trilogy of matches with McIntyre<\/a> delayed things with Rollins until now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/12\/17\/wwe-raw-netflix-cm-punk-seth-rollins\/\" target=\"_self\">Seth Rollins vs. CM Punk<\/a> is set to be the most physical and intense match on the card.<\/p>\n<h4>Two Top Women Meet Again<\/h4>\n<p>Liv Morgan spent the entirety of 2024 trying to get revenge on Rhea Ripley who injured her and forced her to sit at home for the second half of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>A well-tossed chair by Morgan forced Ripley to vacate the Women&#8217;s World Championship in April. The make things worse, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/05\/27\/andnew-liv-morgan-needs-more-than-revenge\/\" target=\"_self\">Morgan won the title from Becky Lynch<\/a> in Ripley&#8217;s absence. She also got her claws into Dominik Mysterio and The Judgement Day &#8211; the group who had been fiercely loyal to Ripley.<\/p>\n<p>With her former allies in her corner, Morgan has got the better of Ripley time and time again in 2024. Both women have vowed to start 2025 by putting an end to the feud that has engrossed 2024.<\/p>\n<p>This match will decide a clear leader of the women&#8217;s division during WWE Raw on Netflix. WWE&#8217;s biggest female stars of all time &#8211; Becky Lynch and Charlotte &#8211; could see the climax of this match as the perfect moment to return from their respective hiatuses.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rhea Ripley and Liv Morgan set the scene for Raw on Netflix Premiere: Raw highlights, Dec. 30, 2024\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hRPEfQZmAwU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/h3>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Header photo \u2013 WWE \u2013 Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. 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The magnitude of this event cannot be overhyped. A whopping 282.7 million people subscribe to Netflix globally. The average number of viewers on the USA Network for WWE Raw in Q4 of 2024 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3852,"featured_media":129318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2192,25,4,3],"tags":[140,165,217,3041,77,76,8343],"class_list":["post-129293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wrestling","category-raw","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-cm-punk","tag-john-cena","tag-liv-morgan","tag-rhea-ripley","tag-roman-reigns","tag-seth-rollins","tag-solo-sikoa"],"modified_by":"Michael Joseph Sugue, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129319,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129293\/revisions\/129319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}