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That's why my Miz comparison was not meant as a slight.. MJF could be the next Miz which means he'd be a multi millionaire. But his height could cost him so it's not a given that he'd do well.
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That's why my Miz comparison was not meant as a slight.. MJF could be the next Miz which means he'd be a multi millionaire. But his height could cost him so it's not a given that he'd do well.
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I don't feel like he would have quite the same passion that makes his promos so believable if he's neutered with a scripted promo.
I think he would get treated well initially if Cody has pull by the time MJF potentially gets there. Things may change with AEW talents' perceptions of WWE if Cody's aura starts to fall off in WWE. He doesn't exactly have the size that Vince likes to push at 5-11. I mean AJ Styles is 5-11, but MJF is no AJ Styles. And AJ Styles isn't far removed from being in one of the dumbest tag teams with that worthless paperweight Omos.
I also think it's more as likely he gets treated like most every other WWE talent, he may have a run where he gets booked and treated like a favored son, but most of the time he's going to treated like a second or third-rate talent jobbing out to whatever the franchise talent of the day is or being booked to challenge or win meaningless titles like IC and 24/7.
That’s crazy, Mark Henry and Christian getting paid 4 times as much as mjf?
Yeah I’d be upset too honestly
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This is wcw style
Take the old wwe talent and
Lose fresh talent to wwe
Take the old wwe talent and
Lose fresh talent to wwe
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Sounds cap. if Wade actually has the contract info then why not say it? Why not say Henry has signed a 3-year deal worth $3M or whatever? The truth is that wrestling contracts usually only come to light when there's a lawsuit
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I wish this stuff was public knowledge like it is with sports.
Mark Henry is making top dollar to say “It’s time for the main event.”
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Is Roode one of the few not angling to go to no damn AEW? My man like long as Vince keep getting me my check…Thinking they getting the Cody treatment, getting the Bobby Roode treatment.
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Mark Henry is making top dollar to say “It’s time for the main event.”
He's primarily a coach. Not sure if he does anything else off camera or not
You mean to tell me names people know are getting paid more than a person nobody outside the aew audience knows?
Thanks breh. The article from their site has a lot more of the Keller quotes. I compiled them, some interesting tidbits.
“the way it was portrayed to us is MJF was in no place to be in public. He was in a bad place. And so it just seemed if not mutually agreed upon [it was] pretty obvious to everybody that it would be good for him to not make a public appearance yesterday. So that kind of got things rolling…I’ve been learning stuff behind the scenes off record and on background for a while and pieced together some more details as this story went along. This weekend was circled, I was told, as a weekend that people in AEW were hoping that Tony and MJF could sit down and hash out their differences. There was just hope that cooler heads would prevail.
Tony Khan on social media can come across sometimes as defensive. But his demeanor otherwise, at least from anything anybody’s seen that I’ve talked to is pretty calm, cool, collected…MJF is a little different. MJF gets really worked up. And by all accounts, he’s been so worked up that he just became sort of withdrawn and bitter to observers and people who have been around him or observed him at Dynamite lately.
A key source in AEW though indicates Tony Khan wasn’t all that upset about the situation. It was just something he felt he needed to bring up to MJF, like, ‘Hey, don’t do that next time…’ Now, other sources indicate that the conversation didn’t go well, because from there, it veered into MJF expressing his bitterness over his contract status, and that it was a breaking point in their relationship. MJF has since made it clear that he’s unhappy that he wasn’t given an early contract renegotiation offer.
MJF signed an original starter contract with AEW that was in the range of probably dozens of other early signees who have been with AEW ever since. Some have been cut, some have stayed in the lower cards, some have moved to the mid-card, a couple maybe moved to the upper card. Nobody’s moved higher than MJF, among those on those starter deals. And by a starter deal, a very broad loose range is like $40,000 to $70,000. Like, you can make a living but you know, it’s a starter deal. And some might not even be making $40,000. And I know there’s some people who are just on a per date basis. But this was among the people who started signing starter contracts, people without a lot of leverage and any national TV exposure. And Tony was at a point where he’s handing out a bunch of contracts and wanted to see who would be good and who wouldn’t be, you know, who we wanted to stick with and who we wouldn’t. And so a lot of money goes out to a lot of people when you get that starter contract. And the idea for Tony is, you know, when they come to the ones who deserve it, will get a raise.
By the way, MJF was given a raise once since he signed with AEW. So he’s making substantially more than the starter contract, like hundreds of thousands of dollars but it is modest compared to the contracts of more than a half a dozen free agent signings AEW has made over the past year…Christian, Mark Henry, Malakai Black, Adam Cole, Bryan Danielson, CM Punk. There’s six right there. And I know I’m leaving off a few more…All of them are making more than MJF right now. Like I’m told that with confidence. So yes, he got a substantial raise percentage-wise, but it’s modest compared to the contracts of more than half a dozen free agents just in the last year that AEW paid, including wrestlers nowhere near his stature as a top tier main event star and ratings draw. I think everybody would agree Bryan Danielson and CM Punk deserve more than MJF. You would argue Adam Cole should probably be in the ballpark. And if he’s paid more, it’s not like a huge deal but MJF has been way more valuable to AEW than Adam Cole…if you look at Christian, Malakai Black, Mark Henry… I mean, he’s obviously worth more and has been worth more to the company, and he’s just not getting paid near what they’re getting paid in, in most cases, actually many cases. In many cases, those wrestlers are getting paid four or five times more than him…So, you know, MJF is by all accounts is kind of fuming over this.
He felt that his work, his professionalism, his rapport and friendship with Tony Khan would have led to Tony renegotiating his deal, when there was about two years left. And by the time January 1 2022 came around, yes, he got a new contract and a raise…But MJF was thinking, ‘Hey, come on, Tony, approach me, get me on the level of some of these people that you keep bringing in. I’m doing great work, and I’m drawing great ratings.’ And when Tony didn’t do that MJF the way he handled it was to get very angry privately and then it kind of exploded. And I think Tony was caught off guard by how angry MJF was getting…””
MJF and Tony Khan were really close as recently as late last year. MJF was one of those wrestlers Khan would have long phone conversations with about ideas for storylines and matches. At some point, that relationship fractured and the real reason might be as simple as MJF feeling disrespected that Tony didn’t approach him with the new contract offer sooner. It’s possible something else triggered or amplified this the situation but that hasn’t been even hinted at in reports elsewhere or from our sources, but some people are wondering that – is there something else we don’t know about?”
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He honestly should have gotten a raise much earlier if he was initially on that starter salary. Now I have no idea how much that raise was but hes kinda earned another one just off him doing well in the ratings for his segments. MJF is a young cat too so hes obviously gonna have less patience
Guess we'll hear something about how the meeting went yesterday. Khan needs to hold onto some of the pillar talent (Jade and MJF in particular, who I feel are probably still gonna go to WWE just to test the waters)
He honestly should have gotten a raise much earlier if he was initially on that starter salary. Now I have no idea how much that raise was but hes kinda earned another one just off him doing well in the ratings for his segments. MJF is a young cat too so hes obviously gonna have less patience
Guess we'll hear something about how the meeting went yesterday. Khan needs to hold onto some of the pillar talent (Jade and MJF in particular, who I feel are probably still gonna go to WWE just to test the waters)
