Signs were there from the beginning, Netflix edited the first offering produced by its multi-billion dollar partnership with WWE, after all.
Still, we were a little surprised when the streaming company blurred Bron Breakker’s entire head to save us from seeing his bloody face in replays of Breakker’s cage match with Seth Rollins at Night of Champions earlier this month — especially because WWE didn’t seem to have any problem with it.
More confirmation that Netflix’s standards are stricter than even
the company some wrestling fans still mock for “going PG” comes on the replay version of the July 12 Raw.
For his appearance to kick off this past Monday’s show, Brock Lesnar wore a t-shirt that read, “Talk Sh*t, Get Hit”. Everyone knows what the asterisk is in place of, so we’d agree it might as well not even have been there. Netflix agreed, because they put a black bar over the whole word on replays:
Concerns over what someone might find offensive on serial drama where everything leads to violence and hardly anything ever gets resolved have always struck me as a bit silly, but thinking a blurred head or blockout out shirt makes Raw “fun for all ages” is nonsense.
But lots of things I think are nonsense are the norm nowadays, and I can’t get too worked up about this one. Annoying, but not something I’m thinking about too much at this point.
How about you? What’s your reaction to Netflix’s latest WWE edit?
