WWE: WWE RAW Reportedly to Go Back as Three-Hour Show on Netflix, Jimmy Uso Injury Update, More News

Sep 10, 2024

WWE RAW Reportedly to Go Back as a Three-Hour Show on Netflix

As noted before, WWE announced during Monday’s WWE RAW show that their RAW series will be returning to a two-hour format for shows starting on October 7th and through the end of this year.

Dave Meltzer reported in a recent episode of the Wrestling Observer Radio that his sources stated that WWE RAW will be returning to its three-hour format for shows once it moves to Netflix.

Meltzer reported that the reason for WWE dropping its third hour for RAW shows for this Fall was due to it being a USA Network decision and not a WWE decision.

Jimmy Uso Injury Status Update

As noted before, Jimmy Uso has been out of action from WWE since this past April due to an undisclosed injury.

A recent episode of the Rikishi Fatu Off The Top Rope podcast featured WWE Hall of Famer and co-host Rikishi providing an update on his son Jimmy’s recovery from his injury.

“Jimmy’s doing fine. I think at any given moment, hopefully that Jimmy will be ready to come back, to be able to do what he loves. I’m sure he misses the fans, and I’m sure you all miss Jimmy. He’s doing great. He’s got some time to be able to rest the body, rest the mind. He’s ready to go, so hopefully we’re able to see Jimmy soon.
He’s recharged. 17 years, these boys have been in there. 17 years non-stop. Of course, within 17 years, there’s injuries. But we’re taught to keep going. So for him and his brother Jey, they’ve been dominating tag team competition for a minute. The beautiful thing about [being in a] tag team is that one is hurt, the other can do most of the work just to get by. So for him to finally kind of get a break and kind of sit back and recharge a lot of the broken bones, and do a lot of therapy, whether you need it or not, daily massages, just shut down everything, shut down media, shut down personal appearances, shut down taking bumps in the ring, shut down traveling, shut everything down, and just to be able to look in your living room and look at what’s most important in your life, your family and your kids, that does the body and the mind tremendously good. It recharges your mind, your body, and your soul. He’s been out a couple months, so if you’ve been off, I can imagine he’s itching to get back too. I’m sure that he’s happy to take time off, but I’m sure, speaking from a wrestler, man, we don’t know how to sit at home, man. All we know is to get out there and grind, be it in professional wrestling or our own business.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

WWE News & Notes

As noted before, Monday’s WWE RAW show featured WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart making a special appearance. The Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer reported in Sunday’s Daily Update that the reason for Hart’s appearance was due to it being his last ever wrestling appearance at the Saddledome because the venue will be getting torn down soon.

WWE recently released one new video to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. This new video was a singles match of Adam Pearce vs. Diamond Dallas Page from Ultimate Pro Wrestling’s Destruction In The Desert event in 2004.

Reality of Wrestling recently announced that WWE NXT talent Josh Briggs will be making an appearance for the company at their Gold Rush event on September 14th in Texas City, Texas.

WhatsOnDisneyPlus.com reported that replays of WWE’s SmackDown shows will no longer being airing on Hulu the next day. It was reported that Hulu’s deal with WWE to air replays of SmackDown show ended this past Fruday when FOX’s television deal with WWE also ended. It was reported that SmackDown shows replays will now be airing the next day on Peacock going forward.

In a recent interview with the Ring The Belle podcast, Rhea Ripley gave her thoughts about the online criticism she received following her stinkface spot to Nia Jax at a WWE Live Event this past March. Ripley stated “Shut up. Shut up. Honestly, like, it’s real funny because I get criticism for every single little thing that I do. But you see the men doing this and you’re like, yeah, that looks cool, amazing. Tiffany Stratton does this the other week and they’re like, oh my god, I love you, Tiffany. Oh my God, you’re so sexy, please do that to me. But when I do it, there’s a problem? Why? You’re just mad that I’m popular, that’s why.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with Johnny Resendiz, UFC President Dana White gave his thoughts about WWE experimenting with new camera angles for their shows and revealed that UFC’s production team has had a lot of influence over this new direction. White stated “Don’t you find that weird that we got involved in WWE not too long ago and now they’re experimenting with that? [Laughs]. Our production team has a lot of influence over what’s going on.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with The Wrestling Classic podcast, Lyra Valkyria gave her thoughts about her current goals for her WWE main roster career. Valkyria stated “We’ve got the Women’s Speed Tournament coming up, so obviously I’d love to go all the way in that and to be the first Women’s Speed Champion. That would be really cool. To get some gold on the main roster, that’s gotta be it, right, to main event Raw, to win a title, it’s all hopefully ahead of me.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

WWE recently announced three new matches for the card of their WWE Live Event house show on October 16th in Manchester, England: