Netflix Swaps Out Explicit Chants in WrestleMania 40 Replay

WrestleMania 40 was packed with unforgettable moments, but if you’re rewatching it on Netflix, you’re getting a cleaner, edited version—and fans have caught one edit that’s impossible to ignore.

During night one’s insane six-team ladder match, the crowd at Lincoln Financial Field erupted with “Holy sht”* chants following some jaw-dropping spots—like Grayson Waller getting powerbombed onto a ladder and Tyler Bate taking a brutal air raid crash off another. But on the Netflix version of the show, those raw reactions were nowhere to be heard. Instead, viewers were treated to a very out-of-place “This is awesome” chant that wasn’t actually chanted by the crowd at that time.

The audio edit was clearly aimed at scrubbing profanity from the replay, replacing real-time, emotion-fueled chants with a PG-friendly track that doesn’t match what actually went down.

This isn’t an isolated change, either. During recent shows on WWE’s European tour, loud “Fck you Cena”* chants were muted, and Solo Sikoa’s accidental F-bomb on SmackDown also vanished from the on-demand version. It’s becoming more obvious that WWE is making a strong effort to maintain their family-friendly image—even on a streaming platform like Netflix, where uncensored content is the norm.

For a company that built its biggest moments on unpredictability and authentic fan reactions, these edits are rubbing a lot of people the wrong way.