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Netflix Censors Blood Again During WWE RAW

Netflix pixelated blood during the Usos' beatdown by Royce Keys and OTM on this week's taped RAW from Cleveland.

Netflix Censors Blood Again During WWE RAW

Netflix’s broadcast of Monday Night RAW this week once again featured noticeable edits to bloody content. Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso were the ones affected this time, following a brutal beatdown at the hands of Royce Keys and OTM.

The episode was taped in advance on Friday, August 28, at the Rocket Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. The show opened with Jimmy and Jey pulling up backstage in a car, only to be immediately jumped by Keys, Bronco Nima, and Lucien Price.

The attack left both brothers bloodied. Jimmy took the hardest shot of the segment when he was thrown into the vehicle’s windshield. Jacob Fatu showed up shortly afterward with a steel pipe, sending the trio running.

Netflix viewers, however, didn’t get the full picture. The bloody portions of the segment were pixelated, and at one point, nearly all of Jey Uso’s face was blurred out.

This is far from the first time Netflix has made these kinds of edits. At Night of Champions, Bron Breakker’s bloodied face was also blurred in the Netflix replay, and the platform replaced a “Holy s**t” chant from the crowd. More recently, blood around Royce Keys’ mouth after his Street Fight against Jacob Fatu was censored as well.

RAW remains rated TV-PG on Netflix in the United States. Neither WWE nor Netflix has officially addressed whether that rating is directly responsible for the ongoing blood-related edits.