Developing: WWE Not Giving the Talent Raises, Locker Room and Road Crew Furious

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WWE has confirmed that talents are banned from monetizing their Twitter and Instagram accounts by working with third parties.

Wrestling Inc exclusively reported on Monday that WWE was issuing “violations” to talent for tweets or Instagram posts that named any third party business, person, brand or charity. The violations begin with a warning, then a fine, and finally a talent suspension.

WWE is claiming ownership of talent Twitter and Instagram accounts via a clause in their contracts that gives WWE the exclusive use of their likeness. It was made clear to talents who have complained about the policy, that the current “flexibility” allowed in social media could be retracted by the company.

Our report was discussed on the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Radio. Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez gave an example of talent taking casual photos in front of a car or restaurant, stating that those would be punishable offenses if those brands were mentioned in the post. In an update, WWE has clarified the policy to F4Wonline.com and stated that those would not be punishable offenses unless the talent was making money from promoting those brands.

WWE stated that the new policy is no different from the recent policy on third party content through platforms such as Cameo and Twitch. For several months now WWE has not allowed talent to create unauthorized content through third party providers like Cameo and Twitch, but the ban had not specifically included Twitter and Instagram posts, until now.

WWE is going on the guise that the contractual ownership of the likeness of their performers includes all social media accounts, regardless of whether the accounts use the stage names or the real names of the talent.

This latest policy means WWE talents are potentially missing out on significant earnings. As noted before, a recent LoveUX study estimated that Lana earned $625,922 from 59 sponsored posts in 2020 ($10,608 per post), while Mandy Rose earned an estimated $490,104 from 71 sponsored posts in 2020 ($6,902 per post).

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You would think these muscle headed fukks would put the Xbox down and just say fukk this:camby:. But they are apart of the cult that is known as the wrestling business. Instead of "tweet tweet" they could be like "aight bet" and no sell NXT, Raw, and Smackdown by not showing up.

ESPECIALLY the boys in the back that forever getting shytted on, but needed for camera rolls, testing ropes, and other bullshyt that they will never get recognition for because "fukk em".
Breh we still have people paying to watch this shyt. Supporting and eveN DEFENDING this morally bankrupt company so of course these guys are gonna continue to collect money. I definitely dont agree with it but I understand it some.
 

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WWE has confirmed that talents are banned from monetizing their Twitter and Instagram accounts by working with third parties.

Wrestling Inc exclusively reported on Monday that WWE was issuing “violations” to talent for tweets or Instagram posts that named any third party business, person, brand or charity. The violations begin with a warning, then a fine, and finally a talent suspension.

WWE is claiming ownership of talent Twitter and Instagram accounts via a clause in their contracts that gives WWE the exclusive use of their likeness. It was made clear to talents who have complained about the policy, that the current “flexibility” allowed in social media could be retracted by the company.

Our report was discussed on the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Radio. Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez gave an example of talent taking casual photos in front of a car or restaurant, stating that those would be punishable offenses if those brands were mentioned in the post. In an update, WWE has clarified the policy to F4Wonline.com and stated that those would not be punishable offenses unless the talent was making money from promoting those brands.

WWE stated that the new policy is no different from the recent policy on third party content through platforms such as Cameo and Twitch. For several months now WWE has not allowed talent to create unauthorized content through third party providers like Cameo and Twitch, but the ban had not specifically included Twitter and Instagram posts, until now.

WWE is going on the guise that the contractual ownership of the likeness of their performers includes all social media accounts, regardless of whether the accounts use the stage names or the real names of the talent.

This latest policy means WWE talents are potentially missing out on significant earnings. As noted before, a recent LoveUX study estimated that Lana earned $625,922 from 59 sponsored posts in 2020 ($10,608 per post), while Mandy Rose earned an estimated $490,104 from 71 sponsored posts in 2020 ($6,902 per post).

Stay tuned for more.

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I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and say the contracts Lana and Mandy Rose signed are nowhere near the amount they made on the side. Probably could just remain permanently suspended and still cake off social media.
 

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I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and say the contracts Lana and Mandy Rose signed are nowhere near the amount they made on the side. Probably could just remain permanently suspended and still cake off social media.

most all WWE main roster talent are signed for at least $500k downside. Regardless though that’s seriously fukked up on WWE’s part. If they want to control every aspect of their rosters career decisions, then they need to hire them as real employees. Not independent contractors.

If Lana and Mandy made that type of money on the side just promoting products, imagine the money they would make doing OnlyFans as well (and not even being completely XXX, just R rated or so)... they would literally dwarf the money they make in WWE. It wouldn’t even be close.
 
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