WWE Premium Live Events currently live on Peacock with fans getting live PLEs along with the WWE archive, along with the entire Peacock library, for up to $9.99 a month.
UFC and ESPN offer a slightly similar model with certain UFC events streaming as part of a normal ESPN+ subscription, but major UFC pay-per-views costing an additional $79.99 on top of the subscription fee.
When asked by Andrew Marchand and John Ourand on the Marchand & Ourand Sports Media Podcast if WWE would consider a similar model to ESPN and UFC, WWE President Nick Khan replied, "We're open to conversations. If NBCU came to us and said, 'We'll take you from where you're at now to 5X for Peacock, but we need to charge an upcharge,' we'd have to take a hard look at that. Most importantly, we don't want to price out our fans. If you look at the pricing of WrestleMania, the floor seats are the highest priced floor seats we've ever had. They sold out in a second. For folks like that two of you [Ourand & Marchand], we're going to charge you and charge you as well as we can. For folks that don't have that disposable income, our upper deck, we kept those at $25. Could we increase it to $30 or $35? Sure, but what does that actually do, revenue wise? It's small ones and twos. We like it at $25 for the upper deck, we like the price point for ringside, both nights sold out."
Before WWE signed a deal with Peacock, WWE Network offered Premium Live Events as part of its package.
Elsewhere during the conversation, Khan discussed Pat McAfee's current WWE status. Fans can find his full comments by clicking here.
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