Nick Khan addresses whether WWE Raw will move nights on Netflix

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Nick Khan has commented on if WWE Raw will remain on Monday nights in the long-term. 

Khan appeared on The Pat McAfee show on Tuesday to talk about WWE’s new deal with Netflix. During the discussion, Khan mentioned that the current idea is for Raw to remain on Mondays but they are open to the idea of it moving nights. 

Khan said:

At this moment in time, it remains Monday Night Raw but keep in mind, we’ve got 10 and a half months until this deal’s up and running so we’re looking at what you’re looking at and what everyone else is looking at. You have a proliferation of gambling with Monday Night Football. You have an enhanced Disney package, better games, all credit to Jimmy Pitaro (ESPN President), the Bobfather as Pat you and I call him, you coined that term, Bob Iger (Disney CEO) and all the other good folks at Disney.

You’ve got the Manningcast. This year, it was on ABC and ESPN Monday Night Football. You got last season the playoff game that they got I believe was Tom Brady at the Cowboys, the season before, whatever that was. You also have the college national championship, football and hoops on Mondays. So, you’ve got a lot of Mondays where there is stiff competition. 

With that said, even against Alabama/Michigan and the Washington/Texas game a few weeks ago, Monday Night Raw did a 0.6 in the 18 to 49 demo, which is a massive rating against big competition. If we stay on Monday’s, it’ll work, if we move to a different day, we think it’ll work too. 

Our own Dave Meltzer has an article up on the site analysing the WWE to Netflix deal. The special preview of this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter is here. 

The Rock has also been doing media interviews in the wake of WWE’s deal with Netflix. He told ESPN’s First Take that a match between him and Roman Reigns could possible produce the biggest WrestleMania of all time.