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The Genius
02-28-2007, 03:18 PM
So I remember a year ago someone got some leaked financial records from Stamford and everyone's salary and perks (airfaire, hotel) was listed. Obviously TNA is a much smaller promotion but I was wondering what kind of pay these guys are receiving? Is sting getting 500K+ a year? are midcard and jobbers getting paid per appearance?

Theo Dious
02-28-2007, 03:21 PM
Steiner gets paid in shots.
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Well someone had to say it.

Xero
02-28-2007, 04:26 PM
Kurt Angle gets paid in the blood of 1000 virgins.

Jeritron
02-28-2007, 04:29 PM
So I remember a year ago someone got some leaked financial records from Stamford and everyone's salary and perks (airfaire, hotel) was listed. Obviously TNA is a much smaller promotion but I was wondering what kind of pay these guys are receiving? Is sting getting 500K+ a year? are midcard and jobbers getting paid per appearance?

I'd like to see those WWE payrates. I've looked for them before but haven't found them. Do you have them?

Dorkchop
02-28-2007, 04:30 PM
I believe a lot of mid card guys in TNA are paid per appearance.

Destor
02-28-2007, 04:32 PM
Almost everyone in TNA gets paid per appeance. Only a hand full of wrestlers (their main event mostly,) have contracts.

The Ravishing One
02-28-2007, 05:48 PM
Isn't that why they're cramming everybody in an hour show?

Dorkchop
02-28-2007, 06:27 PM
I'm pretty sure, yes.

6to1
02-28-2007, 06:46 PM
yea thats why russo went off spike wanted all the wrestlers to be on every show. yea i saw last years wwe paychart some of the divas were making more then some of the tag team wrestlers.

Jeritron
02-28-2007, 06:48 PM
and that's why every wrestler in that lockeroom would rather be working a shitty gimmick and getting jobbed out on heat than main eventing TNA.
The almighty dollar.

Don't believe what Kurt says about it being the home of wrestling. Thats just his cover for leaving/being forced out of WWE. 98% of people in that goddamn lockeroom would take a WWE contract in a minute if they could.

Jeritron
02-28-2007, 06:49 PM
yea thats why russo went off spike wanted all the wrestlers to be on every show. yea i saw last years wwe paychart some of the divas were making more then some of the tag team wrestlers.

i want to see this paychart.

Loose Cannon
02-28-2007, 06:51 PM
if you're on camera for 10 seconds, you get $1000

30 seconds-1 minute $1500

1-5 minutes $2000

5-10 $2500

10 or more $5000

If your Jeff Jarret you get half of those guys's pay plus his million

If you're Kurt Angle you get paid in Gold.

Destor
02-28-2007, 06:58 PM
Isn't that why they're cramming everybody in an hour show?Thats what the dirt sheets are saying.

Blue Demon
02-28-2007, 07:02 PM
Kurt Angle gets paid in kazzoos.

Stickman
02-28-2007, 07:02 PM
yea thats why russo went off spike wanted all the wrestlers to be on every show. yea i saw last years wwe paychart some of the divas were making more then some of the tag team wrestlers.

Sadly some are more useful than tag team wrestlers.

Jeritron
02-28-2007, 07:04 PM
Sadly some are more useful than tag team wrestlers.

Absolutely. They entertain, if only for looks. And they have a division. This is more than tag teams can say.

6to1
02-28-2007, 08:05 PM
i want to see this paychart.
it is somewhere on this forum, it was posted sometime last year when kid kash still worked for the wwe i think he made about the least

Jeritron
02-28-2007, 08:08 PM
I don't know where to look. If anyone has any clue where it is I'd really like to see it. I'll rep whoever finds it to the moon

Pepsi Man
02-28-2007, 08:20 PM
http://www.tpww.net/forums/showthread.php?t=43183&highlight=rate+%22Kid+Kash%22+WWE

It was easy.

King Steve
02-28-2007, 08:25 PM
- Ashley Massaro: $131,000
- Batista: $813,000 (First class flight tickets paid for every week)
- Big Show: $1,000,000 (Base salary)
- Bob Holly: $217,000
- Booker T: $375,000
- Candice Michelle: $64,000
- Carlito: $319,000
- Chavo Guerrero: $206,000
- Chris Benoit: $488,000 (First class flight tickets paid for every week)
- Chris Masters: $253,000
- Christian $396,000
- Danny Basham: $130,000
- Doug Basham: $126,000
- Eddie Guerrero: $372,000
- Edge: $704,000
- Eugene: $189,000
- Funaki: $124,000
- Gene Snitsky: $292,000
- Gregory Helms: $277,000
- John Cena: $1,743,000 (First class flight tickets, hotel accommodations, and ground transportation paid for every week)
- John Layfield: $786,000 (Five star hotel accommodations paid for every week)
- Jerry Lawler: $204,000 (First class flight tickets, hotel accommodations, and ground transportation paid for every week)
- Jillian Hall: $52,000
- Joey Mercury: $134,000
- Johnny Nitro: $143,000
- Jonathan Coachman: $175,000
- Kane: $ 851,000 (First class flight tickets paid for every week)
- Ken Kennedy: $133,000
- Kid Kash: $62,000
- Kurt Angle: $1,023,000 (First class flight tickets paid for every week)
- Lance Cade: $118,000
- Lilian Garcia: $90,000
- Lita: $286,000
- Maria: $41,000
- Mark Henry: $300,000
- Matt Hardy: $322,000 (Missed over $70,000 of pay due to firing)
- Matt Striker: $43,000
- Melina: $155,000
- Mickie James: $72,000
- Nunzio: $186,000
- Orlando Jordan: $145,000
- Paul London: $177,000
- Psicosis: $122,000
- Randy Orton: $711,000 (First class flight tickets paid for every week)
- Rene Dupree: $289,000
- Rey Mysterio: $414,000
- Ric Flair: $508,000 (First class flight tickets paid for every week)
- Rob Conway: $186,000
- Rob Van Damn: $220,000 (Only received downside and royalties due to injury)
- Rosie: $105,000
- Shawn Michaels: $1,045,000 (First class flight tickets, hotel accommodations, and ground transportation paid for every week)
- Shelton Benjamin: $366,000
- Simon Dean: $132,000
- Stacy Keibler: $178,000 (Only downside paid during absence)
- Steven Richards: $94,000
- Torrie Wilson: $260,000
- Trevor Murdoch: $48,000
- Triple H: $2,013,000 (Allowed the personal use of company jet (10) times per year. First class flight tickets, hotel accommodations, and ground transportation paid for every week)
- Trish Stratus: $618,000 (Receives 20% of all Trish Stratus merchandise sold)
- Tyson Tomko: $127,000
- Undertaker: $1,811,000 (First class flight tickets, hotel accommodations, and ground transportation paid for every week)
- Val Venis: $210,000
- Victoria: $275,000
- Viscera: $130,000
- William Regal: $225,000

Obviously not updated but this was it.

Jeritron
02-28-2007, 08:28 PM
I wonder what Jericho was making.

The Genius
02-28-2007, 08:31 PM
seriously though, here kurt angle is said to be making a little over a million a year but do you think he gets half of that in TNA?

Xero
02-28-2007, 08:33 PM
seriously though, here kurt angle is said to be making a little over a million a year but do you think he gets half of that in TNA?
I thought Angle's deal WAS a million dollar deal like Sting's.

If Sting is making more than Angle that's bullshit.

The One
02-28-2007, 08:35 PM
Sting is $800,000/year.

I believe Kurt's is a million against % of merch or something like that...

Pepsi Man
02-28-2007, 08:40 PM
Honestly, the way I read that, that was only their earnings between October and February.

6to1
02-28-2007, 08:52 PM
i thought murdoch was the funny one he might as well go back to the indys

Theo Dious
02-28-2007, 09:04 PM
some of the divas were making more then some of the tag team wrestlers.

They pay by size of tits. That's why Flair gets so much. :shifty:

Funky Fly
03-01-2007, 04:58 AM
Some people are pretty bad at negotiating. Striker, Murdoch and Kash...

Corkscrewed
03-01-2007, 05:29 AM
Seriously... Striker's making as much as a regular teacher. :lol:

Hanso Amore
03-01-2007, 07:42 AM
That is from a time when Striker and Murdoch hadnt worked a full year, only a few months. That is not their yearly pay, its what they had been paid at that point. Soem guy that came in in September cant be expected to get as much paid out as a full year, even if his yearly is more.

52 weekly checks > 12

Read the old posts.

King Steve
03-01-2007, 07:46 AM
Torrie Wilson was overpaid. She's useless.

6to1
03-01-2007, 09:50 AM
well kashs proplem was he had just burned his bridge with tna the way he left and was on probation with the wwe thats why he did not make more. big show only made a mil a year so that list is what they made a year.

Stickman
03-01-2007, 03:04 PM
Undertaker is the second highest paid guy?