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Boomer & Gio

Big ESPN Deals; Boone & Mendoza Talk After Losses; Giants, Jets Camps; More Jerry Jones (Hour 2)

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

Sports, News

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

ESPN secures non-exclusive WWE and NFL media deals, hires Katie Feeney for social media, recalling past challenges with Katie Nolan. C-Lo updates on Yankees' loss to Rangers and Mets' loss to Guardians, with comments from Aaron Boone and Carlos Mendoza. Brian Daboll and Aaron Glenn discuss camp realities, while Jerry Jones addresses the Micah Parsons situation. The NFL bans smelling salts, upsetting George Kittle; Gio mentions Russell Wilson's good scent.

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0:00.0

It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN. Hi, I'm pouring in Geo coming to you live. The Bill Ford Tough Studio on the fan and CBS Sports Network. Course open with the Mets and Yankees struggles. We'll get to your calls on that 8888-0-1019. If you have them, could Aaron Boone actually be in trouble? I don't think so this year. He'll be in trouble at the end of the year for sure.

0:22.4

But during the season and during this last month,

0:25.6

plus I would be very shocked to see that.

0:28.2

I did see some, you know, breaking media news this morning, though.

0:31.4

And this is something that we have talked about recently

0:34.4

because we had a bunch of the wrestlers in come through here with

0:38.8

BT and sound, Evan and Tiki.

0:41.1

And then you had Peter Schwartz put the Summer Slam results in his 5am update the other day,

0:47.1

playing sound and highlights of that, which was, which was interesting.

0:51.6

And everything was over here at MetLife Stadium.

0:53.4

But so have a ESPN spending more money, acquiring rights?

0:58.5

ESPN inks five-year deal with WWE's live premium events, including WrestleMania and Royal Rumble.

1:07.0

And they're going to be paying an average of 325 million per year for five years,

1:13.6

according to people familiar with the matter.

1:16.0

So that is a massive amount of money that's not exclusive because they still have a deal

1:21.0

WWE with Peacock and USA Network and also Netflix.

1:26.1

But as far as the big ones,

1:29.0

WrestleMania and Royal Rumble, ESPN,

1:30.7

will be putting them on their direct-to-consumer service starting in

1:34.2

26.

1:35.0

Yeah, I'll tell you, this is a race to get live content.

1:40.3

Yeah.

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