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03-16-2006, 08:34 PM
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Re: WWE wrestlers salaries
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Wow, I thought they made A LOT less. I remember watching Beyond the Mat and had the impression that most were making 5 digits and the top guys about $500k. [/ QUOTE ] That movie was made a long time ago. Its entirely possible that was close true at the time. [/ QUOTE ] IIRC, that movie was made around 1999 which was when Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock were bringing in cash hand over fist and WWE was still competing with WCW. I would imagine salaries were actually higher then. [/ QUOTE ] the salaries were much higher, Bret Hart's 3 million a year contract with dubbya see dubbya is just one to look at. Rick Steiner, Kevin Nash, Booker T, Stevie Ray, Scott Steiner, Buff Bagwell, Sid Vicious, DDP, Ernest the Cat Miller, Hogan, Savage, and there were others that were getting paid over 1 million a year from Turner in WCW. Those were just off the top of my head. [/ QUOTE ] LOL, this is why WCW failed. Look at that list and tell me who on it is worth a million damn dollars. Hogan and Savage, that's it. Stevie Ray? Horrible wrestler, terrible personality. Ditto Buff Bagwell, Syd Vicious and the rest apart from Booker T. He is awesome but not worth $1M. 
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#72
03-16-2006, 08:35 PM
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Re: WWE wrestlers salaries
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[ QUOTE ] really don't think juicing really contributes to their health problems much. It's like a papercut. All those blows to the neck are killing them though. Benoit, Angle, Austin, Edge and many others have had vertebrae in their neck fused. They are basically risking paralysis every time they take a bump. Blading has little to do with it. [/ QUOTE ] I sometimes wonder why a lot of these guys do it. Especially the guys that work real hard to get to a level like the WWE and are paid peanuts. I would expect they all would all explain it as some kind of natural high they get from performing in a match on TV and in frong of thousands of people. [/ QUOTE ] they do it because we the fan demand it. If you look at the majority of wrestlers bodies from teh early 80s and before, they were much more realistic(which is not to say that there wasn't juicing, there has been roids in wrestling since the 60s, it just wasn't as prevelant). People wouldn't watch wrestling these days if guys had normal bodies. We are used to the roids, so it will be there for the rest of time in wrestling
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#73
03-16-2006, 08:38 PM
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Re: WWE wrestlers salaries
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] really don't think juicing really contributes to their health problems much. It's like a papercut. All those blows to the neck are killing them though. Benoit, Angle, Austin, Edge and many others have had vertebrae in their neck fused. They are basically risking paralysis every time they take a bump. Blading has little to do with it. [/ QUOTE ] I sometimes wonder why a lot of these guys do it. Especially the guys that work real hard to get to a level like the WWE and are paid peanuts. I would expect they all would all explain it as some kind of natural high they get from performing in a match on TV and in frong of thousands of people. [/ QUOTE ] they do it because we the fan demand it. If you look at the majority of wrestlers bodies from teh early 80s and before, they were much more realistic(which is not to say that there wasn't juicing, there has been roids in wrestling since the 60s, it just wasn't as prevelant). People wouldn't watch wrestling these days if guys had normal bodies. We are used to the roids, so it will be there for the rest of time in wrestling [/ QUOTE ] You know, when I read "juicing" in reference to wrestling, I still think of blading (cutting your forehead with a razor blade.) My post makes no sense with respect to steroids. They probably killed Eddie Guererro. I was not saying that steroids are like a papercut. Juicing used to mean blading.
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03-16-2006, 08:38 PM
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Re: WWE wrestlers salaries
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LOL, this is why WCW failed. Look at that list and tell me who on it is worth a million damn dollars. Hogan and Savage, that's it. Stevie Ray? Horrible wrestler, terrible personality. Ditto Buff Bagwell, Syd Vicious and the rest apart from Booker T. He is awesome but not worth $1M. [/ QUOTE ] I agree and disagree. WCW failed because turner lost control of being the program director for TNT, TBS, and CNN after the TW/AOL merger. If he had ever put someone in charge of WCW that knew wrestling Vince wouldn't have a fed right now. Ted could've spent til the cows came home and still not have put a dent in his insane fortune
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#75
03-16-2006, 08:39 PM
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Re: WWE wrestlers salaries
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Quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- really don't think juicing really contributes to their health problems much. It's like a papercut. All those blows to the neck are killing them though. Benoit, Angle, Austin, Edge and many others have had vertebrae in their neck fused. They are basically risking paralysis every time they take a bump. Blading has little to do with it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I sometimes wonder why a lot of these guys do it. Especially the guys that work real hard to get to a level like the WWE and are paid peanuts. I would expect they all would all explain it as some kind of natural high they get from performing in a match on TV and in frong of thousands of people. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- they do it because we the fan demand it. If you look at the majority of wrestlers bodies from teh early 80s and before, they were much more realistic(which is not to say that there wasn't juicing, there has been roids in wrestling since the 60s, it just wasn't as prevelant). People wouldn't watch wrestling these days if guys had normal bodies. We are used to the roids, so it will be there for the rest of time in wrestling [/ QUOTE ] I was talking about doing it as in doing wrestling in general but yeah you are definately right about the roids and the fan demand for it. Guess this just makes me appreciate a guy like Mick Foley who were able to create a character and a career that doesn't need the juice. But then again, in doing that he basically had to make a character that killed himself 2-3 times a week.
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#76
03-16-2006, 08:41 PM
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Re: WWE wrestlers salaries
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[ QUOTE ] LOL, this is why WCW failed. Look at that list and tell me who on it is worth a million damn dollars. Hogan and Savage, that's it. Stevie Ray? Horrible wrestler, terrible personality. Ditto Buff Bagwell, Syd Vicious and the rest apart from Booker T. He is awesome but not worth $1M. [/ QUOTE ] I agree and disagree. WCW failed because turner lost control of being the program director for TNT, TBS, and CNN after the TW/AOL merger. If he had ever put someone in charge of WCW that knew wrestling Vince wouldn't have a fed right now. Ted could've spent til the cows came home and still not have put a dent in his insane fortune [/ QUOTE ] Personally I think the Russo-Ferrera era killed it dead. I'm pretty sure this began before the merger, but I can look into it.
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#77
03-16-2006, 08:43 PM
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Re: WWE wrestlers salaries
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You know, when I read "juicing" in reference to wrestling, I still think of blading (cutting your forehead with a razor blade.) My post makes no sense with respect to steroids. They probably killed Eddie Guererro. I was not saying that steroids are like a papercut. Juicing used to mean blading. [/ QUOTE ] omg, yea, my bad completely. I was reading everything fast and assumed that it was about the roids. Gigging is no big deal. I did it once for a demonstration, it doesn't hurt and looks a ton worse then it really is. All it will do is cause scar tissue to build up if you do it a ton, just look at Dusty Rhodes' forehead. Actually, Wahoo McDaniel's forehead was so filled with scar tissue that one time in Philly he grabbed the blade to gig and it got stuck in the scar tissue. The athletic commissioner was sitting ringside and was so appaled at the time that PA banned blading for a period of time
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#78
03-16-2006, 08:46 PM
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Re: WWE wrestlers salaries
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You know, when I read "juicing" in reference to wrestling, I still think of blading (cutting your forehead with a razor blade.) My post makes no sense with respect to steroids. They probably killed Eddie Guererro. I was not saying that steroids are like a papercut. Juicing used to mean blading. [/ QUOTE ] I used to watch wrestling a lot and I didn't even pick up on that. I thought you were trying to say blading was some sort of wrestling term used as another name for roids. Ha
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03-16-2006, 08:48 PM
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Re: WWE wrestlers salaries
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] LOL, this is why WCW failed. Look at that list and tell me who on it is worth a million damn dollars. Hogan and Savage, that's it. Stevie Ray? Horrible wrestler, terrible personality. Ditto Buff Bagwell, Syd Vicious and the rest apart from Booker T. He is awesome but not worth $1M. [/ QUOTE ] I agree and disagree. WCW failed because turner lost control of being the program director for TNT, TBS, and CNN after the TW/AOL merger. If he had ever put someone in charge of WCW that knew wrestling Vince wouldn't have a fed right now. Ted could've spent til the cows came home and still not have put a dent in his insane fortune [/ QUOTE ] Personally I think the Russo-Ferrera era killed it dead. I'm pretty sure this began before the merger, but I can look into it. [/ QUOTE ] it nose dived the ratings for sure, but even at its crappiest in 99, WCW was still getting a better rating then it was back in 92 and 93. If Turner had never lost control of the television programming, we'd still have WCW. March 15, 2001 is a very sad day in wrestling history as that was the last time in 30 years that wrestling played on a turner network. It all started in 1970 with Georgia Championship wrestling then went onto Crockett Wrestling and then WCW(after Jim Crockett Jr sold his company to TUrner). BIll Watts had his mid south wrestling on there for a couple of years and Vince himself had the WWF on TBS or TNT for a period of time in 84
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03-16-2006, 08:49 PM
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Re: WWE wrestlers salaries
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[ QUOTE ] You know, when I read "juicing" in reference to wrestling, I still think of blading (cutting your forehead with a razor blade.) My post makes no sense with respect to steroids. They probably killed Eddie Guererro. I was not saying that steroids are like a papercut. Juicing used to mean blading. [/ QUOTE ] omg, yea, my bad completely. I was reading everything fast and assumed that it was about the roids. Gigging is no big deal. I did it once for a demonstration, it doesn't hurt and looks a ton worse then it really is. All it will do is cause scar tissue to build up if you do it a ton, just look at Dusty Rhodes' forehead. Actually, Wahoo McDaniel's forehead was so filled with scar tissue that one time in Philly he grabbed the blade to gig and it got stuck in the scar tissue. The athletic commissioner was sitting ringside and was so appaled at the time that PA banned blading for a period of time [/ QUOTE ] Haha, great story KDawg. Abdullah the Butcher has grooves in his forehead so deep that he can stick quarters into them. And does if you ask him to.
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