WrestleMania 40 was packed with unforgettable moments, but if youre rewatching it on Netflix, youre getting a cleaner, edited versionand fans have caught one edit thats impossible to ignore.
During night ones insane six-team ladder match, the crowd at Lincoln Financial Field erupted with Holy sht* chants following some jaw-dropping spotslike Grayson Waller getting powerbombed onto a ladder and Tyler Bate taking a brutal air raid crash off another. But on the Netflix version of the show, those raw reactions were nowhere to be heard. Instead, viewers were treated to a very out-of-place This is awesome chant that wasnt actually chanted by the crowd at that time.
The audio edit was clearly aimed at scrubbing profanity from the replay, replacing real-time, emotion-fueled chants with a PG-friendly track that doesnt match what actually went down.
This isnt an isolated change, either. During recent shows on WWEs European tour, loud Fck you Cena* chants were muted, and Solo Sikoas accidental F-bomb on SmackDown also vanished from the on-demand version. Its becoming more obvious that WWE is making a strong effort to maintain their family-friendly imageeven on a streaming platform like Netflix, where uncensored content is the norm.
For a company that built its biggest moments on unpredictability and authentic fan reactions, these edits are rubbing a lot of people the wrong way.
Do you think WWE should leave crowd reactions untouched, or is this just the new era of streaming censorship? Please share your thoughts and feedback in the comment section below.
