After boxing match defeat against Regina Halmich: Stefan Raab announces streaming show

After his renewed defeat against former boxing world champion Regina Halmich (47), Stefan Raab (57) announced a new show on Saturday evening, September 14th, at around 11 p.m. While she emphasized after the third fight, “That was our last fight,” Raab let the cat out of the bag about his comeback: “I’ve decided I’m going to do shows again.” He then held a press conference, which was also broadcast live on RTL.

In it, he revealed the title of the weekly show, which had already been the subject of speculation in the media. “You won’t win the million here with Stefan Raab” is set to start on Wednesday, September 18th – at 8:10 p.m. on RTL+. Raab explained that the show will last 90 minutes and will contain everything “that I can do.” He promised competition, quizzes, commentary on the week’s events and music. Anyone can apply, and there will be a chance to win a million euros every week. The challenge: He is trying to prevent that. “The candidates have to do everything right. All the games, all the questions.” Elton (53) will also be there for the start.

Five-year contract with RTL

There is more planned, revealed Raab. He has teamed up with the Cologne broadcaster for five years. In a press release published at the same time by RTL, it said: “This is the beginning of a collaboration between RTL and Stefan Raab that will last at least five years. Plans include various sensational primetime shows that have been developed by Raab Entertainment and for which the multi-talented artist will appear in front of the camera again at the end of the year.” In an interview with Frauke Ludowig (60), Raab then revealed that he had been asked – and that he simply wanted to do entertainment again.

Since spring, the 57-year-old has proven that he knows how to create suspense as a media professional. Since the end of March, he has been using enigmatic clips to arouse curiosity about his TV comeback after almost ten years – and so viewers speculated until the very end about what exactly would await them on September 14th. At the end of 2015, Raab said goodbye to his active television career, and his last public appearance was at a trade fair in 2017.

There was speculation not only about Raab’s appearance, who now appeared to be trained and fit, but also about what he plans to do after the boxing match. In the clips he wore a cap with the words “NWSDWH” written on it, which caused a lot of speculation. On Saturday evening he revealed that it was originally supposed to be the abbreviation of the new show, but that the name had then been changed. He even painted the letters on the cap himself by hand.

Extensive review of Raab’s career

Before things finally got going in the ring at 10.30 p.m., viewers had to be patient. RTL celebrated the presenting legend in the three-hour live spectacle “The Clark Final Fight.” Several retrospectives recalled Raab’s funny and provocative actions on shows such as “Vivasion,” “TV Total,” spectacular events such as Wok World Championships and TV Total Diving, and his music projects from “Maschendrahtzaun” to the Eurovision Song Contest. Celebrities from Markus Lanz (55) to Udo Lindenberg (78) and Thomas Gottschalk (74) also paid tribute to Raab’s career in clips. Michael “Bully” Herbig (56) summed it up: “For the sake of entertainment, Stefan went where it hurt him.” Raab’s former show intern Elton (53), who moderated the evening, emphasized that “a person like that” is missing on TV these days. Commentator Frank Buschmann (59) said: “Let’s have more courage and more fun on TV again.” Probably a foretaste of Raab’s new show.

Only after two hours did Stefan Raab appear

Around 13,500 visitors watched the show in the PSD Bank Dome in Düsseldorf. Numerous TV celebrities also came, many from the RTL cosmos from “Bachelor” to “Let’s Dance”. The long-awaited entertainer was a long time coming. At 9:40 p.m. Frank Buschmann said he hoped that the 57-year-old would finally make an appearance soon. Shortly afterwards, the boxing ring floated down into the hall from above – which was celebrated as spectacular. “This is a first on German television and in boxing,” shouted the commentator. Then Regina Halmich walked in to the song “Justice for the Queen” by her friend Doro Pesch (60). At 10:10 p.m. Stefan Raab finally followed, walking down a long staircase, singing his new song “Pa aufs Maul” together with Sido and shortly afterwards proudly showing off his new muscles. In the ring he survived all six rounds, but Halmich was ahead on points.