The thing I personally am most upset about is the disappearance of my favorite WWE Network feature: the ability to jump to a particular match. It’s not the end of the world, but it will take some getting used to. Instead, you have to search for “SummerSlam,” which brings up the SummerSlam series page, and you'll find the 2001 edition under Season 14, Episode 1. Searching for “SummerSlam 2001” will bring up zero results. This makes searching for particular PPVs a bit tricky. Every recurring PPV is identified as part of a single-episode “season.” For example, this year’s Royal Rumble was the 33rd edition of the event, so it’s on Peacock as Royal Rumble, Season 33, Episode 1. There is also an issue with how PPVs are categorized. But in the intermediate period between WWE Network’s shutdown and SummerSlam, fans may be without some of their favorite broadcasts.
For its part, WWE promises to have its full archive up on Peacock by this year’s SummerSlam. ( Twitter user has done a good job compiling a list of which shows have and have not made the transition to Peacock.) For now, fans can watch anything that hasn’t been moved over yet on the old WWE Network app, and we’ll see how the library expands before the network app is shuttered. While the catalog of main-roster WWE PPVs is nearly complete, only the seven most recent NXT TakeOver specials are up on Peacock. The Peacock archive of episodes of SmackDown and NXT only goes back to 2019, while old episodes of Raw are available dating back to 2008. Not even all of WWE’s relatively recent programming has made the transition. Numerous WCW and ECW PPVs have been added, but not WCW Monday Nitro, for example. The most glaring issue that the new service has is the absence of tons of content that was previously available on the WWE Network but has not yet been uploaded to Peacock.