Molly Qerim Leaving First Take And ESPN

[Astroslik]

Molly made a bad financial decision

 

[King Poetic]

I always said she had no other options to go to that will pay her that easy first take /espn money

 

[jdubnyce]

A step down
And
She's still using her ESPN head shot?
Take a new pic

 

[Rev]

One time thing?

Na this is an announcement for today's premiere broadcast with CBS/Paramount and going forward. They have another card on 2/1 and will have multiple throughout the year.

This is the new Dana White/TKO boxing company. Let's see where it goes.

 

[EBK String]

This is clearly a downgrade of what she was doing on FT and I highly doubt her salary is even close to around the 500k she was making on there

She made a terrible career move as I don’t see her making around the 500k she was making ever again

She was probably laid off and allowed to make it seem like she resigned.

 

[EzekelRAGE]

She was probably laid off and allowed to make it seem like she resigned.

Basically it was reported things went like this:
Contract negotiations started. ESPN had a price(500k iirc), she wanted more.
Neither side would budge so she agreed to see out the end of her contract(was a few months left) and that would be it.
It leaks that ESPN not renewing her contract and this her last year.
Molly doesnt like that was leaked by whoever at ESPN and immediately quit.

Now here we are.

 

[No Hook]

She was probably laid off and allowed to make it seem like she resigned.

I don’t think so. I think she was being problematic/emotional behind the scenes due to her being lowballed and someone from ESPN leaked that she was leaving at the end of the year which she got mad and decided to resign. I also think she was mad at Stephen A for not going to bat for her in negotiations

Molly seems like a nice woman but she also seems a lil off and delusional. I can see why Jalen was the one that filed for divorce

 

[Pegasus Jackson]

Zuffa is a retarded name

 

[Red Money]

Molly made a bad financial decision

First Take is five days per week...they wasn't going to give her 500k for 3-4 days per week.

I don't know her situation...but having more free time with a occasional/part time gig ain't bad

 

[CHICAGO]

She was probably laid off and allowed to make it seem like she resigned.

Basically it was reported things went like this:
Contract negotiations started. ESPN had a price(500k iirc), she wanted more.
Neither side would budge so she agreed to see out the end of her contract(was a few months left) and that would be it.
It leaks that ESPN not renewing her contract and this her last year.
Molly doesnt like that was leaked by whoever at ESPN and immediately quit.

Now here we are.

I don’t think so. I think she was being problematic/emotional behind the scenes due to her being lowballed and someone from ESPN leaked that she was leaving at the end of the year which she got mad and decided to resign. I also think she was mad at Stephen A for not going to bat for her in negotiations

Molly seems like a nice woman but she also seems a lil off and delusional. I can see why Jalen was the one that filed for divorce

NAH THE MOST RECENT UPDATE CAME
FROM MAD DOG RUSSO....
WE WERE ALL WRONG ABOUT
THE MONEY STUFF

MOLLY WAS GETTING SENT
TO SPORTS CENTER AT THE
END OF THE YEAR
AND SHE SAW THAT AS A
DEMOTION...

ONCE IT LEAKED THAT SHE
WOULD BE LEAVING THE SHOW
SHE FELT EMBARRASSED
AND LEFT THE NETWORK COMPLETELY



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[No Hook]

NAH THE MOST RECENT UPDATE CAME
FROM MAD DOG RUSSO....
WE WERE ALL WRONG ABOUT
THE MONEY STUFF

MOLLY WAS GETTING SENT
TO SPORTS CENTER AT THE
END OF THE YEAR
AND SHE SAW THAT AS A
DEMOTION...

ONCE IT LEAKED THAT SHE
WOULD BE LEAVING THE SHOW
SHE FELT EMBARRASSED
AND LEFT THE NETWORK COMPLETELY



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None of what Russo said was actual facts

He was speculating just like everyone else

 

[CHICAGO]

None of what Russo said was actual facts

He was speculating just like everyone else

DUDE RUSSO WORKS ON FIRST TAKE.
IF HE SAID MOLLY WAS GETTING
BOOTED FROM THE SHOW THATS A FACT.

THE ONLY THING HE SPECULATED
ABOUT WAS HER POSSIBLY FEELING
EMBARRASSED AS THE REASON
SHE QUIT INSTANTLY


​

 

[duckbutta]

A step down
And
She's still using her ESPN head shot?
Take a new pic

New pic would be her with the knowing she not getting that espn money.

 

[FlyBoy718]

NAH THE MOST RECENT UPDATE CAME
FROM MAD DOG RUSSO....
WE WERE ALL WRONG ABOUT
THE MONEY STUFF

MOLLY WAS GETTING SENT
TO SPORTS CENTER AT THE
END OF THE YEAR
AND SHE SAW THAT AS A
DEMOTION...

ONCE IT LEAKED THAT SHE
WOULD BE LEAVING THE SHOW
SHE FELT EMBARRASSED
AND LEFT THE NETWORK COMPLETELY



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He said this on his Sirius radio show? I'm surprised he would even broach the subject given he's still on the show weekly.

She clearly overvalued her contributions to the show. 500K wasn't bad for working a few hours a day talking sports, even if she was being "demoted" to Sports Center. Shorty a real bozo but I blame SA for gassing her up.

 

[EzekelRAGE]

He said this on his Sirius radio show? I'm surprised he would even broach the subject given he's still on the show weekly.

She clearly overvalued her contributions to the show. 500K wasn't bad for working a few hours a day talking sports, even if she was being "demoted" to Sports Center. Shorty a real bozo but I blame SA for gassing her up.

Wasn't on his Sirius show, it was on someone else's podcast/show from Sports Illustrated.

Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo believes Molly Qerim felt 'embarrassed' by looming ESPN demotion

Chris "Mad Dog" Russo believes ESPN embarrassed Molly Qerim by demoting her and then letting the news leak early.

awfulannouncing.com

“I think they probably wanted to move her around a little bit and try something different,” Russo said.

“Not that the ratings were bad, it’s just the nature of the beast. You’re on air forever, they like to make a change for making a change’s sake. I think they wanted to keep Molly with the network, and I don’t know if Molly wanted to do that. Because I think Molly probably looked at as, ‘If I’m not going to do First Take, I don’t want to do SportsCenter.’ So she probably felt that that would be a demotion, I would assume.”

Russo said he got a heads-up from Stephen A. Smith that Qerim would be leaving, and later spoke with Qerim about her exit.
The longtime radio host understands why Qerim would have had hard feelings returning to air after the news was out.

“I think she precipitated it. … I think, probably, she felt embarrassed,” Russo explained. “I didn’t talk to her about the specifics of why she decided as soon as it was in the Sports Business Journal, but that’s what I’m thinking. That she probably would have felt embarrassed if the world would have thought she was a lame duck and she was still doing the show.”