CM Punk took part in the RAW on Netflix Kickoff event, where he talked about how important Raw’s debut on Netflix is.
“I think historically, if you look at the landscape of professional wrestling, when it was territories and they were packing stadiums, like Shea Stadium and all that other stuff, but nobody ever thought this is going to be on cable television and then we did it. We just had a successful Saturday Night’s Main Event at a sold-out Nassau Coliseum. I look at that as a similar turning point … These hardcore fans are the lifeblood of the business. And what being on network television in the 80s for Saturday Night’s Main Event did to make new hardcore fans and attract new people to WWE, I look at Netflix as the same thing.”
“I think it’s going to be even bigger than any of us dream.”
Raw moves to Netflix on January 6th.
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