10 Biggest Red Flags Waving In WWE Right Now

10. That Netflix Premiere

In one word: Oof. In 3,675 words: Big oof.

RAW's Netflix debut was a chance to inspire a new generation of grappling fans, as seen by Olympic sprinter Noah Lyles tweeting that it was his first ever time watching the WWE. Unfortunately, by the time RAW ended you wouldn't have blamed Noah if he wanted to run away from wrestling as fast as his gold medal winning legs could carry him.

This was simply a bad show. A painfully long, meandering miasma of uneven action, stretched out promos and inexplicable storytelling, it was as if RAW decided to enter the new era by celebrating the worst excesses of the old one. An utterly baffling situation, especially considering RAW was on something of a hot streak going in. Hell, last month's episode where the New Day broke up was, for this writer's money, the best episode of any wrestling show in 2024.

If WWE had started its life on Netflix with a show that came anywhere close to that one, they could have inspired countless new fans over the globe. As it is, it's hard to imagine anyone walking away from the Netflix debut thinking "Yes, I want to dedicate almost eight hours a week to watching this".

Yeah, about that number...