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In an update on today's story, it's not tough to see why the UpUpDownDown crew thinks Xavier Woods was getting a raw deal.

We're told that Xavier Woods sees little to no additional money at all from UpUpDownDown, and his hosting, G4, UpUpDownDown is all applied towards his downside guarantee. This was said to have been the case for the rest of the regular cast as well. We're told Woods had decided to hold out from creating content until he got a deal for it, which shocked many people involved, as they assumed that not only did he have one in place, but assumed that he was doing well from it. As it turns out, we're told that in relation to gaming, those close to the situation believe he's "not seen an extra dime" from the channel he grew to 2.27 million subscribers.

To clarify an error, WWE has always owned UpUpDownDown. At no point did Xavier Woods own it, and we're told it even took a long time to green light the project in general. Several WWE sources indicated that the members of UpUpDownDown all felt a sense of loyalty to Xavier Woods for putting them on the platform and pushing for their presences. 

WWE sources that we've spoken with indicated there's no heat on Woods on the booking side of things, and noted his King of the Ring win and program with Roman Reigns has taken place while the hold out happened. Virtually everyone we spoke to within the company has taken Woods' side on the matter. 

Comments

Anonymous

Why would anyone ever take the chance of creating something like this under WWE's purview ever again? This is outrageous. Hopefully this serves as a future lesson to talent on these types of things. Unreal.

Justin Kranites

because he used their networking to make it larger. Its a double edge sword. However this is a lot of nothing. Fascinating though

Anonymous

I knew he never owned it but I thought he would at least get a little something for growing it to over 2 million subscribers. That means all that money the channel got from different sponsors just went to WWE, smh

TorchCrawler

WWE contracts are disgusting. How is it legal for a company to say, "oh, you have a side hustle? Well you have to show me those paystubs and whatever you make there, we'll just subtract that from your paycheck. You do the exact same amount of work for us (possibly more, even!) but we get to pay you less, sound good?!?"

Joel Wood

It wasn’t a side hustle. WWE always owned the channel. Woods just operated it under the WWE banner. It’s not like he owned it for years and WWE just took from him

JB

I don’t understand why they would take the chance on souring relations with a member of arguably the top faction of all time (and potentially the rest of the members) over what is basically a pure profit area for wwe even if they give woods a bigger cut (knowing how much less they would get if he stops doing UUDD altogether)

Elaquent

Hey Sean, does this mean that Sasha banks, for example, doesn’t actually make extra for appearing on the mandalorian, it just goes to her downside? I can’t believe wwe keeps getting away with that scam

Anonymous

This combined with cutting all those people the day they announced record profits is like a closed door on my time watching WWE. Their productions are better quality than AEW…but in a year of hyper inflation and companies laying off people around the country…why would I want to support WWE when all I can think about them is how greedy they are. At some point we gotta tell ourselves that “hey-I know it’s not the talents fault…but my eyes and wallet just won’t support a company like that”

Anonymous

My guess is WWE allowed her to go. Disney probably paid her directly. I heard she wasn’t in the next season.

Anonymous

These lucrative TV deals-can they be sustainable when the ratings (Raw) continue to drop? Like ESPN…they overpaid for content and they’ve had to fire a lot of high quality people. Lots of rumors Disney has to shed them as an entity because of the expense of it. There’s other issues too, but it’s just an example. I loved Crown Jewel-but hearing how they treat Woods and Stephanie comparing them to Marvel-while they cut 18 people after they tell the world they made $250+M? No thanks. It’s tone deaf.

Brian Bayless

Wow, I assume what he makes in merchandise has to make it worth it staying. Or at least I hope.

Michael Adams

I don't understand why WWE gets to put the G4 hosting money against his WWE earnings. Isn't G4 separate from UUDD and WWE? And under his real name? I haven't seen a second of it, but I thought they introduced him on the G4 reunion special with a name other than Xavier Woods.

Anonymous

Welp, that just made me unsubscribe from UUDD. Had no idea it was owned completely by WWE.

Anonymous

Do you know if this has any relation to new day’s podcast not having new episodes currently? They haven’t had any new episodes since September 27.

Anonymous

Yes, they'll likely always be lucrative. Raw has declining ratings, but still pretty good compared to the current TV landscape.

Scott George

Who cares at this point. Woods has more money than he ever dreamed of having with WWE. Start you own channel with your real name. Problem solved.

Anonymous

Woods just revealed live on G4 that he is no longer producing UUDD.