Post by HMARK Center on Sept 17, 2010 21:01:44 GMT -5
A quick payday? You show up for a quick match at a taping, then go off to do your WWE duties. If they were true IC's, WWE couldn't prevent that, and while it might harm their relationship, it's still enough to make someone wary about what they entrust their contractors to do.
It all depends on how the contracts would be structured, and even then IC's have at least some rights in regards of their schedule and jobs worked, and that'd make me wary of how much of a push I'd be willing to give them before either scaling back or making them full employees.
But you wouldn't though, because there would be no duties to go back to. The idea that if this happened you'd have John Morrison appearing on Raw Monday and Johnny Hennigan appearing on Impact on Thursday is ridiculous.
I could see maybe workers being allowed to work independant dates when not being used by the WWE. However, why is this being put forward as a good thing?
If the WWE gives it's workers time off, does anyone seriously think any of them bar the very well paid will just sit at home? No. They've got families to feed and so they'll be off working independant dates.
People act like the only reason these people spend 300 days a year (or whatever) on the road because Vince is forcing them too. No, it's because wrestlings all they can do and they need to make a living. If it's not a WWE House show, it'll be RoH or whatever.
You think any other wrestling company works the schedule WWE wrestlers do?
There's not a single wrestling company that's ever run the kind of schedule WWE does. Its never existed, especially not any company that not only runs an insane number of dates, but runs them internationally.
These guys wouldn't be able to work upwards of 300 dates because there aren't any other companies that run that often.