Crazy Wrestling Contract Demands You Won't Believe

[@moonrakerone]

Nash also secured a 400,000 dollar bonus because of the fake diesel thing. WCW had Nash on paper to be WCW talent. But when WWE announced Diesel was coming back, WCW panicked and offered Nash a one-time payment of $400,000 to be absolutely secured beyond a question of a doubt. He signed it on the spot, and when WWE revealed fake Diesel, WCW must've felt stupid.

[@masterofmagesccg]

lol. they got worked.

[@user-pq6mr6op3p]

Bullshit

[@The_Bigot]

They should’ve felt stupid in the first place for paying such a sorry ass wrestler that much money

[@chadthedad03]

@@The_Bigot But his appeal was never his wrestling. It was his size, promo, and overall "coolness".

[@stevegallo8483]

Since WWE did the same thing with the fake Razor Ramon, it wouldn't be surprising if WCW did the same with Scott Hall.

[@undertakerfanz628]

Nothing is more unreasonable than Triple H wanting creative control over a video game character🙄

[@Zander2021]

🙄🙄

[@nicholashurst780]

If I were the company I would have made that request about basically all the main eventers. Like show my top guys going over the midcarders in your magazines please lol

[@bwestacado9643]

He's one of the worst people in entertainment. Can't imagine how many careers he killed out of personal greed

[@bwestacado9643]

@@nicholashurst780 Lol if I was the programmer, I'd have made the entire trailer about HHH being punked

[@shanefoy3720]

This is a weak guy running this, really hhh asking for creative control on a video game on this list with all the rest, at least the game was a real worker for over 25 fckin years, kept on making his character relevant, why do you think he's in charge now he can do the job easily unlike shane, paul learnt every single part of the business he deserves everything he's got, he dosent put ppl over the same boring as fck shit I see punk fans have commented at least hhh acted and look the part not like punk, who is a punk no doubt about it

[@nicholashurst780]

Savage actually took a pay cut equal to his brother's salary for the first year of his deal. Plus Savage was free for WCW. The Slim Jim deal he came with covered over 100% of Savage's salary

[@jonathancoleman6482]

We’re you get that info

[@theultimatemale6820]

Did I hear this right? Triple H didn't want to look weak in a video game?! that was actually in a contract? We live in the asylum of the universe.

[@tlo65]

You do know actors have those type of shit in their contracts too right?

[@theultimatemale6820]

@@tlo65 Albert Einstein said "There are two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity". I totally agree with him.

[@kingbrahma5005]

Now looking back on it he never got beat up like that in career modes

[@DSchea]

He played attitude and was pissed

[@T-NUGGZ]

Yeah - the guy obviously has serious self-esteem issues…

[@humanipulationnation]

Hogans paychecks at the end are crazier than I ever imagined WCW was with money

[@nichhodge8503]

Only Brock Lesner seems to have crazy money contracts like Hulk Hogan. But if you take into inflation Hulk would be earning money that would put Brock’s pay packets to shame as Hogan was earning Brock’s wages back in the mid 90’s

[@nichhodge8503]

@Brian Babin I was born in 81 so you don’t have to tell me! It’s fashionable to slag off Hogan online now especially by younger wrestling fans who never saw Hogan in WCW let alone in the 80’s WWF. Hulk Hogan was my favourite wrestler until 1991 when the Undertaker became my favourite wrestler and him beating Hogan for the WWF Championship was the icing on the cake. I know Brock Lesner gets a lot of money but he never drew in crowds or got people watching wrestling like Hulk Hogan did and was worth every dollar he was paid. And come 96 Stone Cold Steve Austin had overtaken Undertaker as my favourite and with nWo I preferred Nash & Hall (I hated Diesel in WWF) over Hogan but it was Hogan as the 3rd man which was the catalyst for the biggest boom in wrestling making it “cool” to be a wrestling fan as well

[@justinroark88]

@Brian Babin wrestling is dead

[@kronos911]

@Brian Babin The golden age was the 80's boom and lasted longer than the 90's boom.

[@insanegamer4532]

​@@justinroark88 you're an idiot

[@1joshjosh1]

What Eric Bischoff didn't realize is guys like me that were 17 at the time didn't give two s**** about kiss.

[@trelomanga9009]

I was 9…I thought Kiss was the heaviest metal band (just by looking at mom’s album cover) and had high hopes for the Demon 😂🤦‍♂️

[@decem_sagittae]

Kiss always sucks

[@PlatinumRoseLady]

Eric Bischoff could afford to be generous - with someone else's money.

[@whoshotashleybabbitt4924]

Would have made an excellent head of state!

[@PlatinumRoseLady]

@@whoshotashleybabbitt4924 You aren't wrong, sadly.

[@chadrowland4670]

Nash was part of a booking committee not the only booker.

[@dukeahola]

And he's never been the head of creative, the last call was always Bischoff's.

[@thisguy_w0n]

@@dukeahola wasn't Nash in charge of booking when Bischoff was away from the company? Same with 1 or 2 other people like Ric Flair and Maybe Kevin Sullivan or Russo?

[@dukeahola]

@@thisguy_w0n Bischoff was replaced with Russo. Kevin Nash and DDP were just bookers in terms of suggesting ideas to the actual bookers. Like Chad said, they were part of the booking committee. But they didn't have a say in anything to be put in motion.

[@LongLiveRockAnRoll]

Eric Bischoff was extremely generous with someone else's money.

[@CraigWeir-q5v]

funniest thing about this video is Scott Hall making 19$ in merch in 99 haha

[@theceng]

Kevin Nash didn't book himself to beat Goldberg. You said yourself he became booker in 1999. He defeated Goldberg in 1998. Which is before he was booker

[@zlinedavid]

I second this. Nash didn’t get the book until late January 1999. So the streak ending, the Fingerpoke of Doom, etc, etc aren’t on him. His booking sucked as bad as Bischoff’s, but he didn’t just put himself on top.

[@northcliffe4lyfe]

Considering Warrior was an inarticulate promo guy, his handwriting is actually pretty good

[@AndreNDP]

Honestly, the WWF Bret deal wasn't that ridiculous. It was just a bit more than HBK and Undertaker were making per year, and that made sense as Bret was a longer term star than either of them. He would eventually have been phased into an office and standby role and paid more like 500k a year towards the end of that deal.

[@Stonewall29]

It was Shawn, who Vince had a crushed on, that got into Vince’s ear and had him push Bret out.

[@Appetite4Rose]

Bret was actually being paid $1.5 million in that deal, not the $1 million stated in this video, which was double what Shawn and Taker were on at the time ($750,000/year)... a lot would argue that Bret was still worth that money but given a combination of factors, including that other stars would soon demand that kind of money if Bret stayed, the difficult financial position WWF were in at the time (although they had passed the worst of it by the time they got rid of him), the lack of creative ideas they had for Bret going forwards (according to Bret, they were just going to have him lose to Shawn a lot), and Vince's preference for Shawn Michaels, who was 8 years younger than Bret so had more time left in his career, Vince decided to get rid of him... he probably banked on WCW not having any idea what to do with Bret so probably preferred losing him to WCW than Shawn, who would likely have fitted in well there with his real life friends Nash and Hall

[@crowfather0249]

It was Kiss in 1999. Kiss weren't even liked back when they were popular. How did Bischoff think that that was gonna get over?

[@wingedhussar1453]

Bischoof has always Ben stuck in his own mind.he clearly was a fan of kiss and like the out of touch guy he was he thought ppl were into them lol

[@nichhodge8503]

I’d like a brother who got me a job where I earn a few hundred thousand dollars for staying at home. Random Guy: “So how much do you earn a year Lanny?” Lanny: “A few $100,000” Random Guy: “What do you do to earn so much money?” Lanny: “I stay at home, watch tv or pretty much what I fancy doing that day”

[@melodyabcdefghijklmnopqrst1663]

They also pay with their own bodies... . Mostly. You have to think about they make money in high-risk positions. To their health. Whether you drive a formula one car or whether you wrestle your way up and down snakes & ladders... . If I had found a snake let loose and slithering wild in the male shower rooms without me having expert knowledge on snake handling, I would try to sneak into the ladies' showers... ...if they had any. In swimming trunks.

[@pricepostingandsaulposting849]

Another great video, its criminal that you havent got atleast 100k subs. You offer something the other wrestling channels dont... Something original and not recycled.

[@leighmeeks3529]

Great video keep more videos coming as I'm a big fan of these

[@melodyabcdefghijklmnopqrst1663]

I am sure a few people tried to negotiate for a "no snakes in the shower room -clause..." Back in the days... . It is unbelievable that the snake wasn't in its own safe compartment.

[@melodyabcdefghijklmnopqrst1663]

I mean the later yellow one looks still rather harmless... ...and adorable. (They still eat what they eat... . I feel horrible seeing buckets full of dead mice... . Snakes prefer their prey still warm and struggling... . They don't really like to feed best on cold mice.) Some of the Damien's must have been quite characters... . Would you like to shower with a reptile that shouts: 'I fed of Wrestlers before... . Don't come near me if you may have a low toxin allergy tolerance towards snake venom... .' I think the snake was the best anti-drug well-being policy... . People don't dare to pop a stronger than your average painkiller pill that much when they could be going to the hospital over a sudden additional snake bite...?

[@sithvsjedi9696]

As the old adage goes; if you don't ask you don't get I guess.

[@backup368]

Ralphus earned $78,000 a year while Nitro girls that debuted in 1999 & 2000 only made around $15,000 a year.

[@thehonesttruth8808]

Nitro girls just danced (badly). A dime a dozen

[@luisrizo8813]

@@thehonesttruth8808 And yet whose bare torsos were visible ?

[@ganglabesh]

i thought Jericho would pay him

[@heathennation9448]

Hogan got $20,000 just for wearing the NWO shirt lol

[@CraigWeir-q5v]

So ? Why do you have a profile pic on KZbin ''lol''

[@williamballard767]

No one’s talking about that in 1999, Scott Hall only sold $19 in merch??

[@luisrizo8813]

Lanny Poffo; $1 million for never having to work a day; GOAT deal.

[@SJxPVR]

Love your content bro

[@gaminglikeaproallthetime4563]

10:09 This is why wording and details matter 😂 Shit can't believe he got away with that.

[@zlinedavid]

Fuck yes, Good for Ralphus. $78K a year is the equivalent of $144K today. For a dude that was driving a truck, that was life changing money.

[@melianhoover1910]

For how long he stayed?

[@blacknapalm2131]

'Ralphus' was already working for WCW as a well paid roadie that helped set up their events. The $78K was a BONUS for his on screen character time that Jericho himself demanded for him :)

[@coleredmond8459]

Lmao no wonder Ralphus became a diva backstage 🤣 (according to jericho's book)

[@damonvalentino4723]

Lmao Ralphus

[@ProvingGroundsWrestling]

With how strongly Hulk Hogan was booked even by 1991, I'm surprised they didn't just make up an excuse for Warrior getting written off and have Hulk Hogan win what would have then been a three on one handicap match

[@masterofmagesccg]

damn. they boned Scott Hall out of his merch in 1999. and you know they was selling more than that! He brought that up in that Outsiders interview years ago. He was like, "How you got my phrase on your shirts and I aint getting paid." lol

[@stevegallo8483]

Surprised you missed WCW signing Ultimate Warrior. One of the stipulations that he had in his contract was for WCW to support his comic book. WCW agreed to it.

[@coleredmond8459]

Thought that was the wwf for his '96 contract? They even promoted the comic book on TV.

[@stevegallo8483]

@@coleredmond8459 Warrior did it in both WWF and WCW.

[@wingedhussar1453]

Hogan's contra t was crazy wtf

[@abudujana13]

Thanks for the video and interesting information, STUNNED BY WRESTLING

[@StunnedByWrestling]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@aysada]

Triple H a little insecure? What tipped you off? Was it the unnecessarily over muscled body compensating for the lack of (ahem) bulk in other places?

[@CraigWeir-q5v]

He still managed to have 3 kids with Steph so your obsession with his manhood is kinda weird. The fact you typed '' (ahem) '' just confirms that you're a weirdo.

[@wesleysteeleiv]

This is like John Tesh (of ETonight) in the 80s where they had to give him a wrestling figure for every episode he did.

[@zlinedavid]

“Lesnar was allegedly using performance enhancing drugs.” Spoiler: He was.

[@MrDeadsr]

That Hogan contract explains why he appeared at so many shows without wrestling. To cash that paycheck

[@melodyabcdefghijklmnopqrst1663]

It is like attendance rates at UK schools.

[@carlosriverajr6386]

Funny. He's clean till he starts talking to MMA. Then you hear what Conner says about the fighters in the UFC. Joins MMA. Fails Drug tests. Gets fired from WWE for failing drug tests. Then stays with MMA. Guess what? Gets fired from MM@ for what you say? Failed drug tests. Stays away from everything and returns to WWE. I think he may of failed twice more sense but over drugs that help you heal faster. All wrestlers say 350 can't do it without a little help. Still couldn't do it with Vince bankrolling some if not alot. Brock even said he fucked during this time and Vince still stuck with him. Personal, professional, financial, and emotional. If I'm not mistaken he said Vince was pretty much a 2nd father to him. His dad was his dad but Vince was a dad when it came to business. Helping with contracts and business deals. Not to spread himself to thin or take deals that he might not be able to for full. Brock likes Vince like Cena does. They all made each other money. Cena I think owes WWE 10 or 15% of everything that has his name attached to. Cena claims he don't care cause 1. They made his name that valuable and 2. They invested in him. It could of failed and they would owe if it blew up.

[@goodtim3s394]

Maaaan that HHH one for the video game, what a fragile ego...

[@nicholashurst780]

Hart's WWE contract averaged just over a million dollars a year for each of the years he would have been wrestling full time under the contract, but only the first 10 years were full time. Then came part time, finally a proto-legends job backstage/as a brand ambassador. But importantly his salary wouldn't go down at any point It was like 13 million total over 20 years

[@jonharrison9222]

Completely wrong. He would get around 750k for the first 3-5 years of the contract, which would reduce as he moved into a backstage role. The idea was to offer less money upfront than WCW but more over the long run and give Hart greater job security.

[@MRSTEEL15]

I need to hire Hogan's attorney!!

[@constablekennedy7705]

Back with another Certified Hood Classic ….. 🔥

[@albertross2456]

How did they not understand that kiss hasn't been popular for a lifetime?

[@julianponce1854]

“Nobody likes Kiss.. Paul Stanley doesn’t even like Kiss”

[@undertakerfanz628]

That's Eric Bischoff for you Albert

[@wingedhussar1453]

@@julianponce1854 Eric bischoof is an out of touch old guy thts why

[@marionlawless]

Kiss was probably my all time favorite band but that was a total misfire.

[@coleredmond8459]

Same with their paid appearance of megadeath lmaooo nobody cared.

[@daze1945]

In the instance of this video does "take home pay" mean net of all taxes or gross before tax? I'm in the UK so just wondering. 😀

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

No wonder WCW went out of business! They were flushing all that money 💰down the toilet 🚽!

[@christophercarpkey9382]

I don’t think it’s that sad that the genius was paid to stay home.

[@That90sShow]

Triple h what a mark!!

[@christophercarpkey9382]

He could have paid Bret hart they paid tyson a million bucks not too long after that. And they paid Shawn Michaels to stay home with his “bad back”until wcw folded then his back magically healed as soon as wcw was gone.

[@pushon10]

And I thought footballers were spoiled brats

[@JamesNelson-j4j]

hulk Hogan's WCW contract stated that he only wrestle matches at pay-per-views

[@leoh1191]

Bishoff was smart for signing hall and nash...

[@MicRossMusic]

I just realized I’m not subbed lol I been watching all day

[@abdulrahamshabazz4903]

Vince mcmahon screwed Bret.

[@danielmcdivitt3467]

Can already tell most of these will be in wcw late 90s lol

[@jlopez0710]

Hogans contract was wild

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

I hope with the big money Lanny Poffo got that he would be able to get himself a much better phone... 5:57

[@StunnedByWrestling]

😂

[@viccrown8188]

I remember when WCW brought in kiss. As a late teenager, me and my friends were like, “who?“. I mean we knew who they were but we didn’t understand why the hell you would bring a bunch of 50 year olds to a product that is geared towards our age group in the late 90s or early 2000s. Then they tried Master P, but it was already too late.

[@LorgSkyegon]

The problem with using Master P is that WCW skewed more towards white southerners. Not exactly the biggest consumers of rap music at the time.

[@viccrown8188]

@@LorgSkyegon that’s not true, the majority of the people that bought those records were young white people, respectfully. Demographics alone should tell us that. Especially back then the white population was over 60%. Black population was under 12.8%.

[@josephmiller9424]

Triple H it's good to be the son in law but no matter what he earned his spot after he ripped his quad

[@nichhodge8503]

What happened in Montreal in 97 with Bret Hart??? Someone will have to tell me as there’s nothing online about it

[@StunnedByWrestling]

Spoiler Bret screwed Bret

[@JennaLeigh]

@@StunnedByWrestling pssssh Vince Screwed Bret. #HitmanForLife

[@richardstahl7572]

This some crazy contracts No surprise about brock It seems like everyone made boat loads in wcw in those years

[@PrimevalDemon]

I think the eternal burying of Warrior in reference to the Terry wage equivalence is a shame. I do not like the man, but I don't like hogan equally, only fair they get paid the same since for mania they were cast similarly enough. As far as I would wish,both never would have met a cent.

[@pushon10]

Paul Heyman is one of the worst businessmen ever

[@pieluvr7362]

I had a contract but they denied my offer i was going to beat Hogan Warrior and Andre in a 4 man match but Andre Boss said who are You 👀🤠💪🏽

[@insanegamer4532]

Lies

[@sebastians.9821]

Damn, Hogan's deal is fucking insane

[@tims4502]

Didn’t Razor Ramon demand restaurants give him free meals? He didn’t take too kindly to waiters bringing him the check

[@bloodysabbath1984]

Where did you hear that?

[@tims4502]

@@bloodysabbath1984 kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3rNdZdugZaHZ5I Start at 0:54

[@KTHashi]

@@tims4502 🤣🤣🤣

[@kingbrahma5005]

Some of these contracts were stupid

[@maruku4445]

I don’t care what anyone says. Lanny Poffo got the best contract anyone could ask for. I wish I coulda had that contract.

[@hugocoria7053]

nothing is more senseless than triple h wanting creative control on himself for a video game

[@aidanthomas2510]

Lesnar didn't initally leave the UFC because of a failed test, it was because he'd had 12 inches of his colon removed due to diverticulitis. And when he lost back to back fights, one of which it was pretty obvious he was not himself in and the other because he was kicked literally in the area that had just been operated on, it was pretty obvious he wasn't going to be able to do it anymore. My personal belief though is that he had been talking to WWE before that last fight and knew he was probably going back, Vince had after all had Undertaker go to one of the fights to try and goad Brock into coming back, and when Brock was asked about it he played it off like they had an actual issue. The failed test came 5 years later in his last fight at UFC 200. And it wasn't because Dana was having none of it, in fact Brock was one of Dana's cash cows. USADA, which was UFC's drug test partner at the time, had a rule that you couldn't come back after an extended period unless you did 6 months of clean testing. But because Lesnar had been out for 5 years, they gave him an exemption to that rule. However, when Lesnar popped after the fight, that wasn't a good look and Mark Hunt, Brock's opponent, was and still is kicking up a stink about it. They did try getting him back, they wanted him to fight Daniel Cormier 2 years later. To the extent that they did a whole angle where Brock came into the octagon, talked some shit and shoved DC after he beat Stipe Miocic for the HW championship the second time. And there was a lot of talk that part of the reason Brock wasn't happy with how WM34 went, was because he wanted to drop the belt to Roman and go do that fight but Vince wouldn't let him. In fact from memory Paul Heyman was mentioning the UFC a lot in his promos during this time. Whether that's true or not I don't know, but either way it never eventuated.

[@Pharoh_95]

Karma hit old man Terry hard in the form of his divorce. All that money changed hands to his ex wife and he had to peddle his old old @$$ gimmick to Dixieland

[@Rysofly]

Really....Brock what? Sir. Then man won and left. Smh! The UFC didn't kick him out

[@zero1188]

I wonder why john cena contract is

[@ganglabesh]

i would of rather seen lanny main event starrade than brutus

[@ImMilkthedog]

So marrying Stephanie was part of a contract ??

[@dementedmindstate7063]

So many stupid mistakes buried WCW. No surprise whatsoever from Hogan 😂🤦🏽‍♂️

[@arrownoir]

Triple H still burying talent.

[@bloodysabbath1984]

Please elaborate

[@j_vasey]

Just got to this “since vince has retired” unfortunately this hasn't remained true the NXT spite train is back

[@mojorisin7371]

Sad thing is most of these athletes wasted the money on drugs, outlandish parties and stupid business decisions. Lesnar wouldn't stand a chance against a real clean man like Mark Henry. I hate when great athletes feel the need to take steroids when most don't need it and then act like they are natural freaks. You guys do what Mark Henry has done, drug free and then you can beat your poorly tattooed chest like your actually somebody ✌🏽♥️

[@joshthemediocre7824]

Were there any KISS fans still alive in 98-99? that band has always sucked and even being involved with them was stupid because they hadn't had a hit in 20 years..Anyone who grew up liking KISS doesn't have good taste in anything.

[@insanegamer4532]

Shut up

[@leroylawrence2773]

So technically the Montreal Screw job was brought about because Bret Hart was being difficult

[@drnastyful]

In a way, yes. The dark side of wrestling episode on the screwjob laid it out pretty well, i watched it a month ago so i may be fuzzy on all the details. Bret was supposed to be able to have creative control of how he left the company and his plan was to beat shawn in his home country then on raw give up the belt and vince really hated it and they couldn't come to an agreement so he just told hebner and michaels what was gonna happen and misled bret to think he was getting his way. I think if they could've hashed out the details it could've been smoother but I think bret was owed the finish he wanted after vince gave him an ok 20 year offer then went back on it. The fact he disrespected bret after all that loyalty really sucks but also bret was stubborn about montreal. I can see both sides but vince definitely screwed a difficult wrestler lol.

[@alanmacdonald1457]

i always believed nash saying he didnt book himself to beat goldberg....? you are making quite a statement here

[@StunnedByWrestling]

Thanks for pointing that out, I've made an edit to the video. Serves me right for trying to go from memory

[@alanmacdonald1457]

@@StunnedByWrestling fair play