Contract and Free Agency Thread

[Cattle Mutilation]

In 5 years, we’ll have people wrestling that were kids when dynamite started and that dynamic will change a whole lot

I said the same thing in a wrestling Discord, even the same time frame - 5 years. Suspicious...

 

[dh86]

Hahahahahahahahhahahahahaha

 

[Reality Check]

And how exactly are they going to fit all those people on TV with the main roster they currently have, the NXT wrestlers that are going to go to the main rosters, and their developmental programs?

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

Hahahahahahahahhahahahahaha

the lack of self awareness

 

[dh86]

I said the same thing in a wrestling Discord, even the same time frame - 5 years. Suspicious...

It’s common sense.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Nick Khan forgetting why the term "he's in catering" exists

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

Hahahahahahahahhahahahahaha

Hikuleo been signed for damn near a year and hasn't gotten a single match.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

"We'd never bench anyone..."

 

[Reality Check]

Hikuleo been signed for damn near a year and hasn't gotten a single match.

Guessing Tanga Loa's injury might have thrown a wrench into those plans. His injury must have been worse than what they said it was since originally he was going to be out for 8-10 weeks, and he still isn't back yet.

 

[KFBF]

The discourse was that Mariah was one half of AEW's biggest women's story line and the point is that if we are being fair, it was mostly on the back of Toni Storm's work

How much credit do you give her? 15%? 20%?

Some people want to work WrestleMania and all the built in history of a 40-year tradition and others want to secure the bag and make sure their families are set.

Do we know how much Ricky got paid to go over there? I'm assuming the NXT money varies greatly depending on whether you're homegrown (probably getting lowballed) vs whether they're poaching you from the other company.

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

Even SRS calling them out on their bullshyt

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Do we know how much Ricky got paid to go over there? I'm assuming the NXT money varies greatly depending on whether you're homegrown (probably getting lowballed) vs whether they're poaching you from the other company.

It's been said that NXT has it's own pay scale which is significantly less than the main roster pay scale. I remember Apollo Crews talking about it. There's different "steps" to the pay scale like a lot of businesses have. It's not exactly dependent on time spent, in Apollo's case it was "merit based" and I remember him saying he got a decent raise pretty quickly.

When you move up to the main roster that's a different negotiation. Wrestlers coming in from AEW or Japan are probably working out their main roster contracts before they sign.

 

[dh86]

Hikuleo been signed for damn near a year and hasn't gotten a single match.

They signed sheamus nattie and nakamura all to new contracts for reasons lol

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

Where’s Alexa Bliss been since she re-signed?

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

It's been said that NXT has it's own pay scale which is significantly less than the main roster pay scale. I remember Apollo Crews talking about it. There's different "steps" to the pay scale like a lot of businesses have. It's not exactly dependent on time spent, in Apollo's case it was "merit based" and I remember him saying he got a decent raise pretty quickly.

When you move up to the main roster that's a different negotiation.

Some NXT talent get signed to main roster deals like Grace.

Dragon Lee got signed for somewhere between NXT going rate and main roster minimum.