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Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman address WWE potentially “pushing the envelope” more on Netflix

Aaron Rift

While appearing at Bloomberg’s Power Players event, Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman discussed WWE potentially “pushing the envelope” more once RAW moves to Netflix…

Reigns: “If we allow Paul to do Hall of Fame speeches non-stop, we’ll definitely push that envelope. But for me, I don’t know. I have always enjoyed the challenges of being PG and no offense to our predecessors and the people who came before us and the ratings that they revolved around, but to me, it’s a, it’s more challenging to be able to tell these stories. It also allows you a broader audience to connect to which I just really feel like. It’s always the goal. We want to reach as many people as possible. And I think there’s a fine limit to when you can cross that threshold where you push people off from the product. So I think there’s a nice, there’s going to be a nice little range there that we can play with. And, push the envelope in certain senses. But I think we need to stick to our values and the morals that we’ve set in place in the culture that we have now.”

Heyman: “It’s all storyline dependent also. What does the story call for? There are stories on our show that call for a kiss at the end. There are stories on our show that call for a punch at the end. There are stories on our show that calls for a level of aggression that transcends into violence. So it really is storyline dependent. What is the intensity? What is the purpose? What is the theme of the story that we’re trying to tell?” (quotes courtesy of PWInsider.com)