Brock Lesnar and The Undertaker are two WWE stars you could see on Māori Television.

Māori Television is bringing WWE professional wrestling to New Zealand TV with Te Reo Māori.

The broadcaster will screen WWE's flagship Raw and Smackdown programmes – the first time they've been on free-to-air television in New Zealand.

From February 24, a one-hour version of Raw will screen at 7.30pm on Saturdays, and a one-hour version of Smackdown will screen at 7.30pm on Sundays.

WWE WWE star Sasha Banks is another star coming to Māori Television.

A Te Reo Māori version of Raw will screen at 9pm on Mondays.

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A Māori Television spokesperson said the network was "thrilled" to be carrying the programmes, and had enlisted experts to help incorporate Māori language into the shows.

"All Māori Television WWE content will feature New Zealand's indigenous language as a component and we have engaged with some of the finest te reo Māori experts in the land to weave reo and tikanga into all platforms of broadcasts."

WWE wrestling stars include Brock Lesnar, John Cena, Sasha Banks and The Usos.

While this is the first time WWE has screened in New Zealand, we have had the organisation's content before when it went by the name WWF. The name changed in 2002.

In the late 1980s, WWF was taken off New Zealand screens because of public outcry against the show's violence.

Sky 5 picked up the coverage about 19 years ago and now shows Raw, Smackdown and Main Event.