Nic Nemeth said WWE’ talents can over their allocated time and affect everyone else’s matches and segments as a result. He said his ability to adapt to things on the fly is probably why he had a job with the promotion for so long, but noted it was frustrating when things like that happened.

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“You’re like, ‘Aw, man. We’re going to a pay-per-view and we got 90 seconds? Alright, cut my entrance, cut out all my stuff,'” he said. “Now, I don’t know. Do you have that? Like, ‘Oh, hey. Sorry. Sheamus went 10 minutes over, but don’t worry about it because we’re on Netflix. We’re going to do a two hour and 20 minute show instead of two hours and 10 minutes.’ You go, ‘Oh, okay, cool.'”

Nemeth said that if Netflix does not have commercial breaks during “Raw,” the art of switching around a match will be lost. He also compared a hypothetical two-and-a-half-hour show on Netflix without commercials to “Raw” on TV with ad breaks in its current three-hour broadcast. Nemeth said the hypothetical show would be comparable to a “four-hour ‘Raw,'” so he’s curious to see how it goes.

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The WWE-Netflix deal is reportedly set for 10 years and worth $5 billion. “Raw” will be broadcast on the streaming platform in North America, Latin America, and the United Kingdom, with more countries to be added in the future. WWE President Nick Khan commented on negotiating with Netflix, noting that the streaming company didn’t play around and was willing to negotiate.

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