Netflix VP of Sports on “WWE Is Everything We Could Have Hoped For And More”

Variety held a recent interview with Gabe Spitzer, Netflix Vice President of Sports. One of the topics discussed included Spizter’s thoughts about Netflix currently being very happy with their partnership with WWE and WWE’s performance on their service.

“It’s everything we could have hoped for and more. We knew going in that we’re not going to change WWE. It was more, how can we add to it in small ways, and that’s what we’ve seen so far.

[WWE’s] distribution has been pretty fragmented up to this point, and the hope was ‘Let’s combine the power of what you guys do with the power of what we do with our global distribution, and get our marketing teams together … and try to lift this.”

Spitzer also gave his thoughts about Netflix’s interest in acquring the media rights to the WWE Network should the rights for it become available in 2026.

“For us, it’s still early stages. We want things that are going to create global conversation. And I think with WWE, we already know they have that. … So we’ll continue to have conversations with the leagues that have rights coming up.”

WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque was also interviewed and gave his thoughts about the partnership with Netflix has been amazing for WWE.

“Netflix has been amazing, in every sense of the word. They are phenomenal partners. And we can’t say enough about WWE fans. They’ve shown up in full force, as passionate and engaged as ever.”