WWE signed a big money deal with Netflix to air Raw on the streaming service in January in addition to the WWE Network moving there as well for international fans. It was agreed upon years before that Netflix would also air a Vince McMahon docuseries.
Ahead of the docuseries’s release on Wednesday, McMahon released a rare statement, noting that “a lot has been misrepresented” in the document. He said that Janel Grant’s lawsuit is based on an affair he ended. Grant’s lawyer, Ann Callis, also issued a statement.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted that there were people in Netflix who were trepidatious about doing business with WWE before the Grand lawsuit.
Meltzer said, “If you remember, the deal with Netflix was signed a couple of days before the Janel Grant lawsuit was filed. It was not like this was behind the scenes, this deal that was everybody was drinking champagne about. I mean, there were people on Netflix that were not high on this deal, but they signed it. You know, they went with it, but there were people who were trepidatious about getting into business with WWE. And I think that if this lawsuit had been filed a month earlier…once the deal was signed, and they were all excited and been announced. I mean, didn’t back off because Vince was gone. You know, it’s like, you got to remember that the lawsuits filed, they signed the deal, it’s announced a couple days later. The lawsuits filed a day or two later, Vince is gone. So if Vince had stayed, would they have stayed with the deal? Who the hell knows.”
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