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=== Professional wrestling ===
USA Network is also the home of the professional wrestling company [[WWE]]. WWE (formerly WWF) has had a longstanding relationship with USA Network going back to 1977 when broadcasts of Madison Square Garden events would air on USA Network. The first weekly WWE show on USA Network debuted on September 4, 1983, with ''[[WWF All American Wrestling]]''. ''[[WWF Prime Time Wrestling]]'' broadcast on USA Network from 1985 to 1993 until it was superseded by WWE's flagship cable program ''[[WWE Raw|Raw]]''. The series originally aired on USA Network from its debut in January 1993 (when the promotion was known as the World Wrestling Federation) until the series moved to [[Paramount Network#The National Network, the New TNN, and professional wrestling (2000–2003)|TNN]] in September 2000, before returning to USA Network in October 2005. 

On January 7, 2016, WWE's second flagship program ''[[WWE SmackDown|SmackDown]]'' moved to USA Network from [[Syfy]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |title='WWE SmackDown' moves to USA Network |url=https://ew.com/article/2015/04/07/usa-network-wwe-smackdown/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190823002339/https://ew.com/article/2015/04/07/usa-network-wwe-smackdown/ |archive-date=August 23, 2019 |access-date=November 26, 2019 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}}</ref> In 2018, USA Network renewed its rights to ''Raw'' for five additional years, but lost the rights for ''SmackDown'' to [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] beginning in October 2019. In August 2019, WWE announced that its tertiary weekly program ''[[WWE NXT]]'' would return to USA Network on September 18, 2019, airing on Wednesday nights in a two-hour live format.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Littleton |first=Cynthia |date=August 20, 2019 |title=WWE's 'NXT' Moves to USA Network as Wrestling Competition Heats Up |url=https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/wwe-nxt-usa-network-deal-1203307413/ |access-date=August 20, 2019 |website=Variety}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Swift |first=Andy |date=June 26, 2018 |title=WWE SmackDown Officially Moving to Fox as USA Renews Monday Night Raw |url=https://tvline.com/2018/06/26/wwe-smackdown-moving-fox-2019-monday-night-raw-renewed-usa/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415074832/https://tvline.com/2018/06/26/wwe-smackdown-moving-fox-2019-monday-night-raw-renewed-usa/ |archive-date=April 15, 2021 |access-date=November 26, 2019 |website=TVLine |language=en}}</ref>

In September 2023, it was announced that ''SmackDown'' would return to USA in 2024 under a five-year deal with NBCUniversal, which would also include a slate of four annual primetime specials on NBC per-year.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Otterson |first=Joe |date=2023-09-21 |title=WWE's 'Smackdown' to Move From Fox to USA Network in New Rights Deal |url=https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/wwes-smackdown-usa-network-2024-1235730831/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922042349/https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/wwes-smackdown-usa-network-2024-1235730831/ |archive-date=September 22, 2023 |access-date=2023-09-22 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> In November 2023, it was then announced that ''NXT'' would move to [[The CW]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Porter |first=Rick |date=2023-11-07 |title='WWE NXT' Moving to The CW From USA in 2024 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/wwe-nxt-leaving-usa-for-the-cw-1235638788/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107221756/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/wwe-nxt-leaving-usa-for-the-cw-1235638788/ |archive-date=November 7, 2023 |access-date=2023-11-07 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref> and in January 2024 it was announced that ''Raw'' would move to [[Netflix]] in 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hayes |first=Dade |date=2024-01-23 |title=Netflix Gets In The Ring, Locking Up WWE's 'Monday Night Raw' In 10-Year, $5B-Plus Deal For Longtime TV Staple |url=https://deadline.com/2024/01/netflix-wwe-monday-night-raw-streaming-tv-1235801673/ |access-date=2024-01-23 |work=Deadline}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Sherman |first1=Alex |last2=Pramuk |first2=Jacob |date=2024-01-23 |title=Netflix to stream WWE's Raw starting next year in its biggest jump into live entertainment |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/23/netflix-to-stream-wwes-raw-starting-next-year.html |access-date=2024-01-23 |work=CNBC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Otterson |first=Joe |date=2024-01-23 |title=Netflix, WWE Strike Deal to Move 'Monday Night Raw' to Streamer Beginning in 2025 for $500 Million per Year |url=https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/netflix-wwe-monday-night-raw-deal-january-2025-1235882820/ |access-date=2024-01-23 |work=Variety}}</ref>