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WWE‘s first Raw on Netfix opened with an awe-inspiring promo narrated by Triple H, before Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson cut an opening promo celebrating the launch of the new partnership in front of a record-breaking crowd of more than 17,000. As The Rock walked to the ring, he paused to greet commentators Michael Cole and Pat McAfee, and Netflix briefly cut the audio.

The reason was immediately obvious: a visibly excited Johnson hyped up Cole and McAfee saying “let’s f*cking go!”, as the crowd matched his energy.

Later in the same promo, The Rock got away with dropping a “bullsh*t” without the audio dropping, but clearly, even on Netflix, the Standards and Practices department still has lines that can’t be crossed. Oddly, that sits at odds with what Triple H seemed to promise on The Pat McAfee Show back in June 2024, when he said censorship would not be an issue on Netflix:

Right now, just as an example of us being on Fox, if the crowd chants ‘Holy sh**,’ or something much worse, they just take that audio. Sometimes they take the picture and the audio off, and it’s just black screen… We won’t have those issues with Netflix. The ability to be live globally, the ability to have everything seen all at once everywhere, it’s a game-changing moment.

Ironically, of course, McAfee’s line of questioning about censorship was prompted by The Rock’s return earlier in 2024 that led to a now infamous social media tirade aimed at the network’s Standards and Practices department:

Standards and Practices though, they push the button. They push the button because they want to control The Rock. Just like they push the buttons like they want to control the people. But you can’t control The Rock, you can’t control the people, and The Rock is the People’s Champion.

It might be prudent to expect Johnson to respond to the censorship again, given Netflix chose not to edit out the very obvious “f*ck you, Solo!” chants that greeted Solo Sikoa’s arrival to ringside.

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