If WWE had a pension system

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Which would be technically paid for by the wrestlers at 10% of paychecks. WWE would initially give their entire roster a 12% raise to prevent people from pay cuts but new wrestlers wouldn't get the raise and they would still pay 10% of their salary to the pension pot.

The pension pot is then distributed to all former living WWE wrestlers/widows of dead wrestlers, based on total number of WWE matches. Being in the Hall of Fame counts as 1000 matches (2x inductees get 2000, etc.), and being under a current Legends deal adds another 1000 matches.

Let's say the pension pot is $1,000,000 in a month and there are 1,000 people eligible for the pension, and the average is 1,000 matches per person. That means all former WWE talent would get $1 for every match they ever had in WWE, no matter their age. So someone like Enzo Amore, with 406 WWE matches in his career, would get $406 that month.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Why would I give a pension plan to independent contactors pal? f*** them, it’s my money!

[DASH 243✅]

I think they have it but call it legends deal.

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

They have a pension, that’s essentially what a Legends contract is. We get to make figures and put you in WWE 2K20, you get a paycheque for sitting at home.

[cjh]

As was already said, Legends deals are pretty much pensions.  You get put on the payroll (rumored to be $10,000 a year), WWE gets to include you in their toy lines and video games, and you can work non-WWE wrestling shows (with some restrictions).

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Ah cool. I thought Legends was a one-time payment for some reason, carry on.