Pat McAfee Signs Multi-Year Extension With WWE
McAfee and WWE continue their relationship.
Pat McAfee, current SmackDown color commentator, and part-time wrestler, has signed a new deal to extend his WWE run. The length of the extension was not confirmed.
Pat McAfee Signs Multiyear Extension With WWE
07/07/2022
STAMFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– WWE (NYSE: WWE) today announced that Pat McAfee has signed a multiyear extension with WWE.
Since April 2021, McAfee has served as an analyst, alongside Michael Cole, for Friday Night SmackDown at 8 pm ET live each week on FOX.
The new pact will see McAfee entertaining the WWE Universe for years to come.
Earlier this year, McAfee delighted fans and lit up social media with a WrestleMania debut for the ages at AT&T Stadium in Dallas when battling Theory, Mr. McMahon, and even getting stunned by Stone Cold Steve Austin.
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Pat McAfee has wrestled several times in NXT, and this year WrestleMania, he wrestled Austin Theory and Vince McMahon. At SummerSlam, he will face Baron Corbin. Learn more about that here.
