Mike Awesome

The following is the payroll for TNA wrestlers for the year 2008. All wrestlers are provided with airfare, accommodation and ground transport for house shows and ppv's held outside TNA studios in Orlando, Florida.In addition to their salary all wrestlers get 20% of profits of their merchandise sold, 1% of profits of the house shows and ppv's they participated in, and an annual bonus declared for wrestlers.


i think that wwe does not pay for hotel and airfare for even wrestlers like orton.

Fisha695

WWE Pays/Books the flights, rental cars and hotels.

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Mike Awesome

i dont think they do if they did they would say shelton had airfare like taker and hhh

- Shelton Benjamin: $366,000
- Simon Dean: $132,000
- Stacy Keibler: $178,000 (Only downside paid during absence)
- Steven Richards: $94,000
- Torrie Wilson: $260,000
- Trevor Murdoch: $48,000
- Triple H: $2,013,000 (Allowed the personal use of company jet (10) times per year. First class flight tickets, hotel accommodations, and ground transportation paid for every week)
- Trish Stratus: $618,000 (Receives 20% of all Trish Stratus merchandise sold)
- Tyson Tomko: $127,000
- Undertaker: $1,811,000 (First class flight tickets, hotel accommodations, and ground transportation paid for every week)

Fisha695

No they just don't fly first class. It has been noted before that WWE pays/books all flights, and the hotels and the rental cars. Hell WWE pretty much shuts down the hotels for the day when the wrestlers are there.

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darrkzerow

Actually WWE doesn't pay anything. Wrestlers have to book their own hotels, cars, plains, ect ect. Along with doctors, surgery's. Vince doesn't give them the health care they should. Wrestlers, pay them selfs if they want a health care or not. Watch this.

YouTube - Pro Wrestling Backstage Footage -- Mini Documentary # 2

Listen to what Vampiro said.

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Fisha695

Wrestlers are independent contractors no different the plumber that comes to your house. You don't pay his health insurance so why would anybody expect anybody else to pay independent contractors health care.

As far as the whole union issue that is brought up in there, Unions, especially sports unions are the worst thing to happen to this world.

Who is the dude in the vid with the beard, he looks really familar

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darrkzerow

No clue. Sorry. I think it's important for wrestlers to have the "union" because since they have the most to get injured.

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Fisha695

If they are not smart enough to save/budget their money to get their own health inssurance then that is their fault.

Now I fully feel that WWE/TNA should have sports Psychologist and drug/alcohol abuse counselors on the road all the time with an open door policy so whenever a superstar any anybody from the WWE/TNA wants to/needs to talk to them they can. But as far as health insurance, that should be on the wrestler and not the company. They got into wrestling knowing that it was going to be a physical sport and knowing that you are easily replaced. So it's not like they got into it and then one day BAM they figured out that they didn't have health insurance.

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Mike Awesome

dude are you seroius. now not making fun of wrestlers but there not usually the smartest guys in the world. So smart ass if you were say evan bourne who busts his ass every night and goes home and is dead tired and hurting do you think he really have time/want to do their health insurance. Now you are probably some huge mark who thinks that you know every thing about the buissness but you dont know shit. so dude just shut up

Fisha695

No I'm not some huge mark and in all seriousness if wrestling would disappear tomorrow oh well It wouldn't bother me.

You do realize that there are things called Agents, Managers, and Accountants that are not only around to manage your money so you don't have to, but go to years of school to become certified.

Like I said if a wrestler is too stupid to not take the proper steps to correctly budget their money then it is nobodies fault but their own that they can not afford certain things.

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