WWE 2025 PLE Viewerships Revealed: Royal Rumble BEATS WrestleMania 41 (WWE News)
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Royal Rumble 2025 is WWE's most-watched PLE of the year so far, besting both nights of WrestleMania 41.
This is per Netflix via its recently-released What We Watched report. The streaming platform, which broadcasts PLEs internationally as part of its media rights deal with WWE, states that Royal Rumble 2025 was the most-watched with 3 million global views and Night of Champions the least with 1 million.
What We Watched listed the following viewerships:
Royal Rumble 2025: 3 million.
Elimination Chamber 2025: 1.9 million.
WrestleMania 41 Saturday: 2.4 million.
WrestleMania 41 Sunday: 2.8 million.
Backlash 2025: 1.5 million.
Money in the Bank 2025: 1.6 million.
Night of Champions 2025: 1 million.
These numbers do not include viewers in the United States, as Peacock, rather than Netflix, still streams WWE PLEs domestically.
The numbers above were measured from 1 January to 30 June. Night of Champions' figures may therefore be skewed, as the Riyadh, Saudi Arabia premium live event aired on 28 June, meaning its global audience is comprised of just two days of data. Typically, Netflix calculates its global viewership over seven days, publishing weekly top tens via its Tudum website every Tuesday.
WWE and Netflix commenced their broadcasting partnership at the start of 2025, beginning with the 6 January episode of Raw. This show remains WWE's most-watched on the platform with a bumper 6.9 million global viewers. Between January and June, Raw's lowest global audience, according to the What We Watched report, was 2.7 million on 23 June.
Raw broadcasts on Netflix internationally and in the United States. SmackDown and NXT both stream internationally, while airing on USA Network and The CW in the US respectively.