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WWE's exclusive window to negotiate media rights with only NBCU and FOX has officiailly ended.

The window with FOX ended several weeks ago. As of this week, the window with Comcast's NBCU also ended.

What this is means is that it's now game on - WWE can negotiate with anyone beyond those entities, including Apple, Disney, Amazon, etc, in seeking to secure a new media rights deal for WWE programming in the United States for Raw, Smackdown and WWE NXT.

NXT's current deal with the USA Network ends this Fall, around September.

Raw and Smackdown's current deals with USA and FOX, respectively, end at the end of 2023.

We will see where the roulette wheel ends, but it's anyone's game now.
 
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At 435 days, Roman Reigns has passed CM Punk on the list of longest WWE Championship title reigns ever and now sits sixth all-time. And while The Tribal Chief is also days away from having the fifth-longest world title run in WWE history, he now joins Pedro Morales, Hulk Hogan, Bob Backlund, and Bruno Sammartino as the men to hold WWE’s most historic championship the longest.

Reigns began his fourth WWE title run after beating Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 38 in 2022 to unify WWE’s two world titles and become the Undisputed Universal Champion. Recently, Reigns celebrated one thousand days as the Universal Champion and was gifted a new title belt to represent his two magnificent trophies.
 
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At 435 days, Roman Reigns has passed CM Punk on the list of longest WWE Championship title reigns ever and now sits sixth all-time. And while The Tribal Chief is also days away from having the fifth-longest world title run in WWE history, he now joins Pedro Morales, Hulk Hogan, Bob Backlund, and Bruno Sammartino as the men to hold WWE’s most historic championship the longest.

Reigns began his fourth WWE title run after beating Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 38 in 2022 to unify WWE’s two world titles and become the Undisputed Universal Champion. Recently, Reigns celebrated one thousand days as the Universal Champion and was gifted a new title belt to represent his two magnificent trophies.
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Maximum Male Models could be….minimizing their modeling?!?

Fightful has learned that Mansoor and Mace may be repackaged, with details few and far between as to what that means. Their time on the WWE roster as a team has been tumultuous. First, Max Dupri was put with the team because Vince McMahon hadn’t seen him as an in-ring talent, then rechristened LA Knight because Triple H and his regime saw star potential in him. Maxxine Dupri was effectively pulled from MMM and put with Chad Gable and Otis full-time. Interestingly enough, Maxxine was booked for a recent WWE party as a part of Maximum Male Models.

Those that we’ve heard from within WWE creative said that McMahon was originally high on Maximum Male Models, but didn’t want them to be “flamboyant.” That course was corrected under Triple H, who encouraged that. However, since Vince McMahon’s return, that has been scaled back significantly, as has their usage in general.

The duo worked numerous WWE live events in the spring, but have only wrestled on TV in tournaments and battle royals.
 
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