WWE & FOX Sports Latin America Strike Partnership

MEXICO CITY: FOX Sports Latin America has signed a five-year agreement to make WWE programming available on various FOX Sports and FOX Premium platforms across the region.

The multi-channel pact covers Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela, among other countries. The partnership will offer more than 480 hours of original WWE content per year.

Starting October 6, FOX Sports will feature a live broadcast of WWE’s flagship program Monday Night Raw. Additional original WWE programming, including SmackDown, Main Event, NXT and WWE Vintage Collection, will be shown on a weekly basis on FOX Sports, FOX Sports 2 and the regional digital platform, FOX Play, while WWE’s pay-per-view specials will be available via FOX’s Premium offers in Latin America and on FOX Play in Brazil.

"We are very excited to build this new strategic partnership with a leading global entertainment brand such as WWE,” said Francisco Pazmino, the senior VP of programming and acquisitions at FOX Sports Latin America. “No doubt this long-term partnership will give us the opportunity to continue to strengthen our content lineup, offering our fans in the region a strong and consistent weekly schedule of WWE programming through our portfolio of channels.”

"The combination of WWE’s passionate fan base across Latin America plus FOX’s extensive distribution channels in the region will prove to be mutually beneficial,” added Gerrit Meier, the executive VP of international at WWE. “This important partnership will allow us to engage audiences of all ages with compelling family sports entertainment programming and further grow the WWE fan base.”