Corey Graves Makes WWE Speed Commentary Return on 1/22 WWE Speed Show
As noted before, WWE commentator Corey Graves made his return to WWEs NXT brand’s commentary team for Tuesday’s NXT show. Prior to his return, Graves had been pulled from last week’s NXT and WWE Speed shows over issues believed to be related to recent comments he made on Twitter about his frustrations over being removed from his main roster commentary job.
Wednesday’s taped WWE Speed show on Twitter featured Graves making his return as the commentator for Speed. WWE Main Event and former NXT LVL Up lead commentator Blake Howard had filled in for Graves for last week’s show.
TODAY on #WWESpeed!@SuperChrisSabin faces @GraysonWWE for a spot in the #WWESpeed Semifinals! Who ya got? 🔥 pic.twitter.com/Zzu8psiQNP
— WWE (@WWE) January 22, 2025
Netflix CEO Comments on Being “Super Thrilled” with WWE RAW’s Strong Start on Netflix
Netflix held an investors meeting on Wednesday to discuss the results from their fiscal 2024 fourth quarter results. One of the topics discussed included Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos giving his thoughts about WWE RAW’s recent move to their service and being super thrilled with the strong success of RAW’s start on their service.
“WWE is off to a great start. Our first week, we drew about 5 million views, which is about two times the audience that Monday Night Raw was getting on linear television, pretty consistent with how we modeled it, how we’d hoped to build the audience for the league.
We also saw that the non live viewing, so in the day after the live event, our viewing grew by 25%, mostly outside of the US time zones. So this is a new viewing in the UK and Canada, Mexico, Australia, Brazil, particularly big markets. So we’re really thrilled to see how that’s going so far.
In the US, our viewing of Monday Night Raw was as big as the Monday Night Raw viewing has been in 5 years. So we’re super thrilled about how that’s going and how that’s coming out. Again, just not to be overly repetitive, but we are not we’re going to be mindful of the bottom line and it’s really important that those economics do work and that the big league sports, full league, full season economics are very hard to make work. And so for us, we want to be able to bring value to the sport like we have to date with WWE certainly, but have we like we have with the NFL too, where we were basically able to bring a big audience, a young audience, a more global audience than linear television, but that has to be reflected in the deal as well.
All these years that WWE has been on television, very successful. Good example about the kind of X factor that is Netflix, we did a press day to kind of introduce the press to the sport because the press didn’t pay much attention to it — to the sport until it got to Netflix. So they basically — we had a huge attendance of reporters from all over the world who were learning what this game, what this is about. So to me, I think that’s the first step of the X factor that is Netflix for that sport, and people will see that applied.”
Source: Investing.com
Jordynne Graces Expired TNA Contract & Expected to Join WWE Status Update
As noted before, Jordynne Grace’s contract with TNA Wrestling is currently set to expire this month. Grace’s match against Tessa Blanchard at this past Sunday’s TNA Genesis 2025 event in Garland, Texas was her final match and night in the company. Grace is currently expected to be joining WWE once her contract expires.
PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that while Grace had visited WWE’s Performance Center on Tuesday, she is currently not expected to be at the PC for the remainder of this week.
Johnson reported that TNA removed Grace’s profile from their official roster page on their website on Tuesday.
In regards to WWE, Johnson reported that those spoken to stated that the current belief within WWE’s creative is that Grace will be competing in this year’s Women’s Royal Rumble match.