TV Channel: Peacock. There will be no regular cable broadcast TV for Royal Rumble 2025. It is available as a PPV only package from some cable providers, or for much cheaper, you can sign up for Peacock at a steep discount and watch it live for just under $8.

Many people view professional wrestling with derision. They call it "fake," "staged" or "scripted" and decry it as inauthentic when compared to mainstream professional sports. But I just went to see my first wrestling ever at Netflix's "WWE Raw" in Atlanta this past Monday (Jan.

The premium live event is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. EST and will only be available to stream through Peacock. Fans can watch a replay of the event after it airs and they can also check out the pre-show, starting an hour before the PLE, and the live press conference immediately following it.

WWE made a groundbreaking move by shifting its broadcast home to Netflix starting January 6, 2025. However, Indian fans were unable to access WWE programming on Netflix due to existing media rights.

Netflix has taken a big stumble on the road to “Wrestlemania.” The streaming service has been the exclusive host of live episodes of “WWE Raw” for around a month now and has not experienced any major issues until now.

After technical issues marred Netflix’s first big live sports stream — last November’s Jake Paul/Mike Tyson “fight” — neither the streamer or its new partner WWE seemed too concerned. That event had a lot more viewers than anyone figured Raw would have when it began streaming weekly on Netflix last month as part of a multi-billion dollar deal with WWE,