How much money Peacock allegedly offered to keep WWE premium live events

This week, it was announced that WWE premium live events will be moving from Peacock to ESPN’s new streaming service in 2026. According to Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline.com and John Ourand, Peacock had the right to match ESPN’s $325 million offer to keep the WWE PLE shows.

While speaking on Wrestling Observer Live, Bryan Alvarez said the following in regards to what happened…

“Peacock did make an offer, and I guess the offer was allegedly in the neighborhood of about $275 million a year. WWE wanted more, obviously, and they ended up getting the $325 million, which is why they went to ESPN over Peacock. Obviously, if Peacock had offered $400 million a year, they would have stayed, but they didn’t.

Apparently, they were also potentially shopping around WrestleMania as a separate deal. For example, they might have been willing to stay with Peacock but give ESPN WrestleMania for a set amount per year. That was something that was discussed, but they ended up going all in with ESPN.”