{"id":13685,"date":"2023-07-01T09:12:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T09:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=13685"},"modified":"2023-07-01T09:12:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T09:12:44","slug":"pat-mcafee-provides-update-on-wwe-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=13685","title":{"rendered":"Pat McAfee provides update on WWE return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- tml-version=\"2\" --><\/p>\n<p>Pat McAfee says his relationship with WWE is stronger than ever.&#xA0;<\/p>\n<p>Aside from appearances at The Royal Rumble and WrestleMania 39, McAfee has been gone from the company since leaving for ESPN College Gameday last September.&#xA0;<\/p>\n<phoenix-exco-player block-on-gdpr-vendor-consent=\"excoplayer\" block-on-gdpr-purpose-consent=\"content\/personalized,advertising\/basic,advertising\/personalized,storage\" block-on-ccpa-reject data-channel-key=\"www.f4wonline.com\" data-player-id=\"26c6b387-11b9-4769-bae9-b897d8450584\"><\/phoenix-exco-player>\n<p>During a recent appearance on the SI Media podcast, McAfee told host Jimmy Traina that he&apos;s still in contact with WWE executives and they are working on his potential return.&#xA0;<\/p>\n<p>McAfee said:<\/p>\n<blockquote tml-render-layout=\"inline\" class=\"m-blockquote l-inline\">\n<p><em>Myself, Michael Cole, Nick Khan, Kevin Dunn, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Vincent Kennedy McMahon, we&apos;re all still very much in contact with each other.&#xA0;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McAfee continued to say that both Khan and McMahon gave him advice when he was negotiating his new deal with ESPN.&#xA0;<\/p>\n<p>He continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote tml-render-layout=\"inline\" class=\"m-blockquote l-inline\">\n<p><em>My relationship with the WWE, I don&apos;t want to say stronger than it&apos;s ever been, but actually stronger than it&apos;s ever been and we are all very much talking about how I get back in the Universe because I love it. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We talked about this earlier, I love it, I think I&apos;m good at it, I think I&apos;m supposed to be in there, I understand why people are doing things, I think that&apos;s why commentating was a good spot for me alongside Michael Cole, the greatest of all time.&#xA0;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Getting to get stunned by &quot;Stone Cold&quot; Steve Austin. I lived out dream after dream after dream over there, I love that place, our relationship is very strong.&#xA0;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.isoccertracksuit.com\/france.html' title='France soccer tracksuit'>France soccer tracksuit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>We&apos;re working, we&apos;re all trying to figure it out.&#xA0;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McAfee announced last month that he&apos;s signed a deal to bring The Pat McAfee Show to ESPN. Beginning this fall, his show will air on ESPN&apos;s cable channels, YouTube channel, and ESPN+.&#xA0;<\/p>\n<p>The NY Post reported that McAfee&apos;s deal with the network is for five years and $85 million. When reached for comment, McAfee would neither confirm nor deny those numbers, saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote tml-render-layout=\"inline\" class=\"m-blockquote l-inline\">\n<p>&#x201C;Interesting number,&#x201D; McAfee told NY Post over direct messages on Twitter. &#x201C;I don&#x2019;t talk about the business side of it all, the actual numbers and such.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat McAfee says his relationship with WWE is stronger than ever.&#xA0; Aside from appearances at The Royal Rumble and WrestleMania 39, McAfee has been gone from the company since leaving for ESPN College Gameday last September.&#xA0; During a recent appearance on the SI Media podcast, McAfee told host Jimmy Traina that he&apos;s still in contact &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=13685\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pat McAfee provides update on WWE return&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}