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Shane McMahon's name has come up in a story about a fraudulent deal to purchase Maxim magazine. The New York Post reports that convicted stock swindler Calvin Darden Jr. had put together an offer to buy the magazine but was arrested on Wednesday for lying to investors in raising money for the purchase. Darden Jr. made investors believe his wealthy father was going to buy the magazine and was trying to defraud McMahon out of $20 million.

Originally Posted by F4W While there's still no word if international star Prince Devitt has accepted WWE's offer, word is that the company offered him a deal to where he will spend just a short amount of time in NXT before going to the main roster. Some close to Devitt say that he will more than likely end up signing with WWE

Originally Posted by PWI Today will be looked back upon as one of the most historic dates in the history of professional wrestling as at the end of business today, Comcast's exclusivity to negotiate a new TV deal with WWE will end - setting off a chain of events that will tell the tale of the future of professional wrestling. Once WWE receives Comcast's new offer for keeping their broadcast partnership and exclusivity going forward, WWE can choose to sign the new deal or open the negotiations up for outside entities to bid on the WWE programming. As we've noted before, WWE smartly timed this so that all of their cable series - Raw, Smackdown, Total Divas, Main Event - as well as a potentially resurrected Saturday Morning Slam - are part of the negotiations, allowing WWE to move everything as one monster package, similar to what major sports leagues such as the NBA and NASCAR do with their programming partners. Several months back, Variety noted that WWE had reached out or had meetings with A&E, Disney, Viacom, 21st Century Fox and Discovery about potential broadcast partnerships. Comcast will have the chance to match any outside offers, according to reports in the NYC media, so even if another entity comes in with a big offer, they will have a chance to keep WWE under their umbrella. WWE intends to announce their new deal in April or May. Should programming need to move from Comcast to another partner, that would come in early October.

NBC Universal owns the current WWE license and Comcast itself owns NBC Universal but their cable division isn't the one in the negotiations. According to the Observer, there is very little real interest from other networks to buy the WWE tv deal because of the asking price being too huge.

Originally Posted by cagesideseats.com Remember last week when we mentioned that WWE officials are considering a third person on the level of the Ultimate Warrior and Jake Roberts? It turns out that the person in question is Scott Hall. It sounds as if this is likely to happen. Adding Hall, and likely Paul Bearer, will round out the individual inductions for the 2014 WWE Hall of Fame class. As always, the WrestleMania I main event tag team match is still being considered, but is said to be held up until Mr. T accepts the induction.