Wrestling Thread 4: The Ruethless Aggression Era • Page 582

Get that $$$

 

That rubs me the wrong way

 

That's no different than what a lot of celebs at cons charge, it's his first really big appearance outside of WWE. No problem with it at all, if people want to pay, let em

 

I get the large booking fee, but forcing life long fans to pay way over twice of what anyone else is charging, idk. I get it but it's kinda fucked.

 

Eh, it's the same price to meet Becky Lynch at axxess. People will pay, so let them pay. The booking fee is actually more insane to me, but also, of the people pay, they pay

 

Wwe is charging people 190 to meet Ronda so

 

I paid like 40 bucks to meet HBK and get his autograph in the late 90s, it was well worth it

 

Yeah I mean there's the theory there are a ton of people that can't afford it and you could make more with a lower price. Guess it's the industry standard, I know I wouldn't pay anywhere close to that to shake the Undertakers hand.

 

I met KO at a Hot Topic and it only cost me the price of a shirt.

 

And Jericho cost me one of his books. I bought two and he was so damn appreciative.

 

I don't think I'd ever care to pay to meet a wrestler. I've takes to guys like Riddle, Keith Lee, and Walter at OTT. But even my favourite guys I wouldn't pay to meet them or get an autograph or the like

 

It makes sense for axxess to charge 150 bucks to meet Becky Lynch just like it makes sense for the Barclays center to charge me 20 dollars to eat a few fuckin chicken tenders.

 

Barclays food is disgusting.

 

Has anyone seen Atlantas new football stadium concession prices?!?!?

 

Dave talked about this on the Observer today. Its really fucking weird. The audience keeps laughing about guys getting sexually assaulted by their bosses. The 90's were fucking awful.

 

Vince was insane for agreeing to go on this show. Holy fuck he gets eviscerated.

 

One of the guys starts a sentence "The leader of the midget group, Lord Middlebrook..."

 

Holy shit, I would love to hear this.

 

They had a bunch of starrcast on fite tv last year. Wonder if they'll do it again, would watch this

 

I think I remember a few years back someone saying that they don’t get a cut from the paid axxess signings. Don’t know if that’s true or not. So at least taker is gettin his money

 

Just become a journalist, then you guys could get paid to meet Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks, Bayley, Daniel Bryan, the Bella Twins, John Cena, Cesaro, Seth Rollins, Jinder Mahal, Roman Reigns, the New Day, Ric Flair, Goldberg, and become lifelong friends with all of them!



















j/k, me and Jinder aren't lifelong friends and I'm lowkey John Cena's mortal enemy

 

Dave said that Undertaker isn't as well off financially as people think. Gotta make those bucks when you can.

 

I don't think any of the big stars from his era are as well-off as people might think, aside from guys like Rock and Austin who were able to parlay careers in the mainstream. Taker's whole career has been WWE, and with that comes A LOT of expenses. All those years of travel, hotel rooms, rental cars, etc etc etc ain't cheap. I'm assuming based off his size, he was probably one of the guys who opted to get their own bus with a driver, which is another big expense. Then figure in medical (I've always been curious if WWE pays for these surgeries people have to have or not). Also, he probably had to pay a lot back in taxes as an independent contractor. Don't think dude is really struggling, especially compared to 95% of the world, but I don't think he walked away from the business with fuck you money, nor enough money in the bank (heh) to live off of for the lifestyle he has probably come accustomed to.

 

I mean a bunch of his websites say he is worth around 17 mil, I have no idea how accurate or what that means for someone in his position but, I don't think he's goin hungry.


I get it though, make whatever you can when you can because you never know when it's going to come to a stop. Luckily for Taker he can milk this shit at conventions no matter how many new hips he needs.

 

@Nick what time is the OTT show?