As noted before, WWE is currently planning to change the content rating of their weekly WWE RAW shows from its current TV-PG rating to a TV-14 rating starting next week.
The Mat Men’s Pro Wrestling’s Andrew Zarian reported that his sources recently provided an update stating that his initial report of WWE RAW changing its content rating starting next week was not entirely correct.
Zarian reported that the source of confusion revolves around an internal memo sent earlier todayt within USA Network that listed a July 18th date for RAW’s ratings change. This memo reportedly had been sent prematurely and a date for the content ratings change for RAW has yet to be officially finalized.
This is a wild situation. There’s a lot happening behind the scenes
— Andrew Zarian (@AndrewZarian) July 14, 2022
WWE Raw won’t be going to TV-14 on July 18th but still in consideration for a later date.
Will go live tomorrow morning to break this down. https://t.co/F29mP8xCwy
There was a memo within USA Network that went out this morning regarding WWE Raw changing to TV-14 on July 18th.Apparently that was sent out prematurely and the day was not finalized.
— Andrew Zarian (@AndrewZarian) July 14, 2022
Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp reported that his sources confirmed Zarian’s report about the memo being sent prematurely and some confusion being caused internally over the matter.
I can confirm there were mixed signals given internally about this. https://t.co/33lbEc5YVH
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) July 14, 2022
Sapp also reported that his sources within WWE stated that they have not yet heard of changes being made for RAW’s television rating but this was something WWE officials had been looking into doing for their RAW branded shows.