On Wednesday, WWE announced that their PLE's will stream exclusively on ESPN in 2026 in The United States. On August 21st, ESPN is launching a new app called ESPN Direct- To-Consumer. It will feature everything ESPN has to offer from channels and services and WWE PLE's will be streaming on this app.

There became a lot of confusion quickly, esp. as it was announced that this new app will cost $29.99 a month. Currently, WWE PLE's are on Peacock app until the end of 2025. Peacock's cheapest version of the app is $7.99. ESPN DTC is three times more then Peacock and fans got upset that they will have to pay such an increase.

The $29.99 will only be for NEW ESPN users. We broke down how much a year new users to ESPN will have to pay to watch WWE Raw and PLE's through Netflix and ESPN DTC. We have comments from TKO COO Mark Shapiro, WWE COO Triple H and more.

Less than 24 hours after the WWE-ESPN announcement, Peacock announced that it is increases their prices for their app.

TKO Owns UFC and WWE. UFC is on ESPN+ for PPV's. With UFC you have to pay for the app and pay an additional $70 to watch the UFC PPV, so our question to you the fans, how long do you think until WWE starts doing the same thing?

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