Max Dupri’s future in WWE remains unclear after he was removed from the Maximum Male Models. Last week on SmackDown, he was replaced by the Maxxine Dupri character played by former NXT wrestler Sofia Cromwell.
As previously reported, Dupri was said to have rubbed some people the wrong way and was unbooked at the last minute. Although Mace and Mansoor were on board with the storyline, Dupri had some reservations about things, and scripts were changed.
This was a storyline that Vince McMahon was fully behind because it was his idea. McMahon had worked with Dupri on his promo and how he should sound because McMahon did not want him to sound like his LA Knight character in NXT.
In the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer reported that Dupri being removed was a Vince call made “after one of the early segments of the deal when Vince blamed the segment being bad on his delivery of the lines, and apparently, he also spoke up about some of the scripting.”
With McMahon resigning and Triple H now in charge of creative, Dupri may resurface on television. For now, the belief is he’s out of this angle.
