Wrestling shows debuting on new platforms typically start high before dropping off over the next few weeks, eventually settling into a regular viewership range. Raw's decline has tapered off in recent weeks, with the show falling by decreasing margins each week, suggesting this is close to happening.

Audio would also drop whenever these glitches occurred. The problems never caused the live feed to drop entirely — this wasn’t anything like the messy Jake Paul / Mike Tyson stream — but they were still a source of frustration for fans eager to see the fallout from Saturday’s Royal Rumble event.

Raw was all about the aftermath of a thrilling and quite surprising Royal Rumble, with an eye towards building up Elimination Chamber. There was even a main event directly tied to both, as CM Punk took on Sami Zayn for the chance to qualify for the Elimination Chamber match,

Netflix has taken a big stumble on the road to “Wrestlemania.” The streaming service has been the exclusive host of live episodes of “WWE Raw” for around a month now and has not experienced any major issues until now.

After technical issues marred Netflix’s first big live sports stream — last November’s Jake Paul/Mike Tyson “fight” — neither the streamer or its new partner WWE seemed too concerned. That event had a lot more viewers than anyone figured Raw would have when it began streaming weekly on Netflix last month as part of a multi-billion dollar deal with WWE,

The WWE pocketed a cool $5 billion from Netflix in the deal with the streaming service. But wrestling fans were wary of the move, as Netflix's early forays into the live sports genre had come with mixed results.