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Former WWE talent Drake Maverick is back with World Wrestling Entertainment, PWInsider.com can confirm.
Maverick, real name James Curtin, is now working behind the scenes for the Raw Creative Team. We are told Curtin started 3-4 weeks ago.

Curtin was originally signed by the company for the 205 Live brand back in 2017, appearing as the General Manager for the brand as well as a short-term manager for the Authors of Pain on the Raw brand. During his run on the Raw brand as Maverick, Curtin used his own, actual wedding to Renee Michelle as a backdrop for a WWE 24/7 Championship angle. He held the 24/7 title seven times before being released in 2020. At the time, Maverick released an emotional promo on social media that got the audience massively behind him, leading to the company signing him once again for the WWE NXT brand. He was cut again in November 2021 as part of budget cuts for the company.

Under his old ring name Rockstar Spud, Curtin was the first-ever winner of Impact Wrestling's British reality competition series British Bootcamp, had been used as a wrestler, personality and even ring announcer over the course of his run with that company from 2012 through 2017.
 
SportsByRo said:
Former WWE talent Drake Maverick is back with World Wrestling Entertainment, PWInsider.com can confirm.
Maverick, real name James Curtin, is now working behind the scenes for the Raw Creative Team. We are told Curtin started 3-4 weeks ago.

Curtin was originally signed by the company for the 205 Live brand back in 2017, appearing as the General Manager for the brand as well as a short-term manager for the Authors of Pain on the Raw brand. During his run on the Raw brand as Maverick, Curtin used his own, actual wedding to Renee Michelle as a backdrop for a WWE 24/7 Championship angle. He held the 24/7 title seven times before being released in 2020. At the time, Maverick released an emotional promo on social media that got the audience massively behind him, leading to the company signing him once again for the WWE NXT brand. He was cut again in November 2021 as part of budget cuts for the company.

Under his old ring name Rockstar Spud, Curtin was the first-ever winner of Impact Wrestling's British reality competition series British Bootcamp, had been used as a wrestler, personality and even ring announcer over the course of his run with that company from 2012 through 2017.
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Dude just a glutton for punishment, next budget cuts he's right back out the door
 
Based Dave 96 said:
Booker basically said Naomi is good athletically(sp?) but she needs work in the other areas of wrestling.
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“‘Naomi deserves a chance.’ They can go to hell with all these hashtags I’m tired of hearing about them. Don’t nobody ‘deserve’ a chance. You have to earn a chance and your spot on the roster, this is not some kind of movement just to pull somebody up just because. I hate to say this because I like Naomi, but as far as the business goes, you get it on your merit alone. There is no buddy system. ‘Well, such and such has a buddy and that’s why they’re doing it.’ That might be true, but life is not fair. Sometimes, you have to make your own breaks and rise to the occasion when no one else thought you could. It may not happen overnight. No one expected me to become a six-time champ, but my persistence of going out there and performing better than all of those suckas in the locker room, and they knew it, and the fans saw something different.

“That’s why I say #NaomiDeservesBetter, I don’t think it serves her any purpose, people advocating for her in that way. The way that needs to be put out there is her advocating for herself and performing at a high level. When you do that, you cannot be denied. No one will ever say you were given anything. If it happened tomorrow, someone blessed Naomi with the World Championship, trust me, it would not feel like she did it on her own. I never would have wanted the World Title if it was given to me that way. Naomi is perhaps more athletic than every female in that locker room, but psychology and working are two different things. If I had my hands on her for one month, Naomi would look at this business a totally different way.”

This was when they had her losing to Lacey Evans back to back too
 
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