Joey Ryan tweets about indie guys turning down WWE
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Vinny Lupton
Superstar
First of all, duck tales. I get $9 an album on Koch
Second, AJ Styles is not the norm for indie guys. He was on TV for years right? One example for a headline guy doesn't mean there all getting 100k+ a year. I've recognized dudes that are big on the internet working "regular" jobs, seent it with my own two eyes
Third, how many of his Indy bookings where he breaks some other midgets neck, are gonna pay royalties?
NJPW pays well.
Vinny Lupton
Superstar
We're talking about the Indies, stay focused breh. AJ is not the norm for indie guys
Vinny Lupton
Superstar
Furthermore AJ has no place in this thread since it's about guys turning down WWE and AJ himself said WWE never asked him to come in
good out there
So UnThotful
Superstar
accordint to one of the NXT divas mother that i work with. she gets paid roughly $800 a monthwell NXT guys [according to reports] don't make that much
Scottie Drippin
Should Never Mention Me
except top guys from the indies have/had been doing that fior ten years and finally got to the point after years of grinding that they made it. Top guys on the indies make six figures a year. Dudes are making anywhere from $500 to a couple thousand (AJ) a show, and can work a few places every week/weekend whenever they want to. On top of that? Merch. These dudes aren't getting pennies for every shirt they sell, they're getting dollars. They pay someone to design them, pay someone to press them, and after that everything is in their pocket. prowrestlingtees.com changed the game big time. As that site hardly takes a big cut at all but it opens up the indies as an internet marketplace with minimal hands in pockets.
And that's without taking NJPW into account. Look how much money Albert got because he wasn't leaving NJ unless WWE made it worth his while. NJ is big money, and you can STILL work a ton of indie dates. AJ and the Bucks are definitely caking now.
Long term? Bruh, WWE is a gamble. A roll of a dice. Not everyone is going to walk away from making over six figures to go to making about 20-25K a year on the gamble that they'll make it to the roster soon enough to start making money again.
Even someone like Trent Baretta said he was starting to make more on the indies (before he got hurt) than he was making in the WWE, and this was a dude that was on TV all the time.
Sounds about right them nikkas are getting paid to train
This is how Lance Storm "trained" Emma
BlackAchilles
Veteran
Honestly I'd rather be in NJPW right now if I were a wrestler
Arrogance.
King Novak of Melbourne, the First of His Name
With the age/wear and tear of the NJPW main event scene, they need more wrestlers to think like this.
The majority of that 500k wasn't even from the independent scene. It was from Japan.