LA Knight came to the main roster from NXT in April 2023 and was repackaged as Max Dupri, an agent for models.
Mace and Mansoor were his first two clients with the act debuting on television in July 2022. Max Dupri did not last long as the leader of the Maximum Male Models as his sister, Maxxine Dupri was introduced by the end of the month.
Sofia Cromwell ended up playing, and still plays, Maxxine Dupri.
Speaking on Twitch, Mace and Mansoor commented on the origin of Maxxine Dupri and revealed that Tiffany Stratton nearly got the role.
Mace: LA Knight doesn't get invited to the show.
Mansoor: I'm pretty sure it's the same day we were all supposed to fly to the show. Knight got told 'you're not traveling' and we were like 'oh shit.'
Mace: That was the day they made the Maxxine Twitter, which we thought was a role play.
Mansoor: We thought it was fake.
Mace: They followed us and we got a text, 'follow back the Maxxine Twitter account.'
Mansoor: Maxxine Dupri was a character that existed before the person playing it right now started playing it. Maxxine Dupri, as a concept, was created that day. Knight saw that and was like, 'that's it, guys.' You know what's funny. Maxxine Dupri character gets created on Twitter and says, 'I'm Max's sister and I'm running the Maximum Male Model website.' We're all looking at that like, 'Okay.' A week after that, they tease the debut of Maxxine Dupri. 'Maxxine Drupe will come out with the Maximum Male Models.' I swear to God, when I heard that, I looked at LA, we looked at each other at the same time, 'It's going to be you in a dress, isn't it?' He's like, 'It's going to be me in a dress.'
Mace: I 100% thought it was. We didn't know what they had planned. We thought, 'It's gotta be Max in a dress.'
Mansoor: Poor LA. He was really trying and for whatever reason, they were harping on this Max Dupri thing. We thought it was a way to punish him. Obviously, didn't happen, it was not the case, just something we were thinking about. Are we allowed to say who it was almost going to be?
Mace: I don't know. I don't know what we can do.
Mansoor: Can we say who it was almost going to be? Okay, we heard Maxxine Dupri was going to be Tiffany Stratton. We heard that was very close to happening until the last minute.
Mace: They did not decide until the day before. It was the day before travel. Sidney [Sofia] found out and had to go pack.
Mansoor: There is your big scoop. Everybody pray I don't get an angry phone call.
Maxxine previously revealed that she found out on the Thursday before WWE SmackDown that she got the role of Maxxine. You can find her comments on learning she would be playing the role by clicking here.
Stratton would find success on her own in NXT as a former NXT Women's Championship.
Mace and Mansoor were released by WWE on September 21. You can find their comments on their release by clicking here.
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