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Post by WoodStoner1 on Oct 17, 2021 3:22:24 GMT -5
Did Billy Whatshisname ever pay Lex to wrestle R-Truth?
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Oct 17, 2021 4:00:08 GMT -5
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Oct 17, 2021 5:49:13 GMT -5
Did Billy Whatshisname ever pay Lex to wrestle R-Truth? I don't know!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2021 6:51:09 GMT -5
Didnt New Jack and a couple other wrestlers get pay in porn while working for XPW?
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Oct 17, 2021 7:37:46 GMT -5
Did Billy Whatshisname ever pay Lex to wrestle R-Truth? I don't know! He's one of the biggest legends stars ever in this.....GAH!!!!
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Oct 17, 2021 8:13:42 GMT -5
How no one has assaulted him is one of the great mysteries of life. The fact that Heyman is not penniless and in a wheelchair is testament to what an absolutely master bullshitter he is, and the fact that he seems to absolutely buy into his own bullshit probably helped other people do the same.
Plus something a lot of wrestlers talk about how even though he's a serial liar who owes them tens of thousands of dollars, they liked working for him. Yes, you can't trust him with a fiver, but a lot of them had a good time not trusting him.
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Post by Rave on Oct 17, 2021 8:50:09 GMT -5
The night Hardcore Roadtrip imploded. Promoter faked a heart attack and bailed, so nobody who worked that particular show got paid and several people almost got stranded in Canada.
I heard later that the good folks at SMASH Wrestling stepped up and paid everyone.
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Post by chrom on Oct 17, 2021 9:30:28 GMT -5
It's a miracle Heyman was never found in a ditch beaten to death
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Oct 17, 2021 12:50:38 GMT -5
Didnt New Jack and a couple other wrestlers get pay in porn while working in XPW? Feel like I’ve heard this story as well. I often wonder about the negotiations of what $500 worth of porn DVDs from a company like Extreme Associates must have sounded like.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 18, 2021 14:01:45 GMT -5
Didnt New Jack and a couple other wrestlers get pay in porn while working for XPW? I know New Jack and Luke Hawx were offered cases of Porn VHS/DVDs instead of pay. "I can't feed my son with copies of Take a Dump on Grannie part 5"
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Oct 18, 2021 14:13:20 GMT -5
this is ecw & dixie carter era tna: the mega thread. Does it count if I mention Tammy's compensation for Chris Candido's death being a smoked ham?
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Oct 18, 2021 16:00:49 GMT -5
Him not even listing a name for who was in charge of WCW, and saying he had no idea who his boss was, is reason 1 why WCW folded. You gotta have somebody in charge, somebody the talent knows who is in charge, and somebody who is the final say. You can't be told by 6 different people to do 4 different things, and not know who to listen to. How no one has assaulted him is one of the great mysteries of life. The fact that Heyman is not penniless and in a wheelchair is testament to what an absolutely master bullshitter he is, and the fact that he seems to absolutely buy into his own bullshit probably helped other people do the same.
Plus something a lot of wrestlers talk about how even though he's a serial liar who owes them tens of thousands of dollars, they liked working for him. Yes, you can't trust him with a fiver, but a lot of them had a good time not trusting him.
We should just all be thankful that he never tried to start a cult.
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Post by Rave on Oct 18, 2021 16:06:35 GMT -5
this is ecw & dixie carter era tna: the mega thread. Does it count if I mention Tammy's compensation for Chris Candido's death being a smoked ham? From what I was told a while back, they couldn't legally give her his last paycheck as they weren't married, so it went to his parents. Sending her a ham dinner as condolences was still pretty bad.
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Post by britishbulldog on Oct 18, 2021 16:11:11 GMT -5
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Post by Andee9001 on Oct 18, 2021 16:22:51 GMT -5
A local company here in NZ didn't pay their wrestlers because one of their shows was a bust. This was in spite of making a big deal about how great they were for doing so (at top dollar too) and would run down other NZ promotions that couldn't afford to pay at their level.
One of the wrestlers was mates with Will Osperay who was doing a tour at the time and was going to work some of the shows. Will then posted all about it online and asked fans to boycott the promotion. The wrestler was then fired and the promoter posted a video online (which he quickly deleted) where he looked blitzed off his face on something and infamously held his fist up when he threatened to shove his foot up Wills ass.
Needless to say he went of buisness a few months later.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 18, 2021 17:34:47 GMT -5
this is ecw & dixie carter era tna: the mega thread. Does it count if I mention Tammy's compensation for Chris Candido's death being a smoked ham? Low key that's one of the worst things Dixie ever did.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Oct 18, 2021 18:21:17 GMT -5
Didnt New Jack and a couple other wrestlers get pay in porn while working for XPW? I know New Jack and Luke Hawx were offered cases of Porn VHS/DVDs instead of pay. "I can't feed my son with copies of Take a Dump on Grannie part 5" Not with that attitude!
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Post by fortknox on Oct 18, 2021 19:08:56 GMT -5
this is ecw & dixie carter era tna: the mega thread. Does it count if I mention Tammy's compensation for Chris Candido's death being a smoked ham? I've read they sent her a full meal spread for his wake. It wasn’t just a ham to Tammy.
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Post by fortknox on Oct 18, 2021 19:10:51 GMT -5
We should just all be thankful that he never tried to start a cult. He did, it was called ECW.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 18, 2021 22:37:06 GMT -5
Not sure what promoter this was,but like 12 years ago Max Maverick,now retired,and Brother Heaven Lee Love drove from Magee MS to some town right on the TN/MS border. Were promised "75 bucks each and a meal for each of you brother"
They get there and it is 2 hours before doors open ring just got there,no chairs are set out. So Max offers to help set up the ring. And it ends up being him and one other dude doing the ring. Doors open and 5 people come in. No chairs are set out yet. The promoter has been outside on his cell arguing with someone for 3 hours.
Brother HL Love comes out in his gear and wheels a pallet of 10 chairs and sets out front row on one side. The 5 fans sit down.
The promoter had been planning on paying most of the guys off the ticket sales. So he tells them they are gonna stall for 30 minutes give the fans a chance to get there.
After 20 minutes Brother HL Love and Max wander out ,can't find mics so start yelling at each other,Love is a face Max is a heel. They try to kill time for the crowd to get bigger. "After 25 minutes Heav and I had no idea what else to say so I grabbed him and whipped him into a few of the empty chairs on front row. Look up and 4 people are coming in the door."
They got almost 10 fans in the crowd. Promoter starts the show.
Heav and Max are in the back talking and Heav tells him "Look Double M sometimes you gotta go out and entertain 10 fans and sometimes you go out and entertain 200 fans. But no matter how many they all paid to be entertained.I doubt we get more than a few bucks for gas tonight."
They go out and have a decent match from what I saw from the footage. Entertained those 9 people.
There was 5 matches total all singles. 10 wrestlers and 2 refs total. tickets were 20 bucks so they are all thinking the promoter made enough to give everybody 5 bucks for gas.
Show is over promoter is telling them as a few of the guys break down the ring."Well sorry guys we didnt make nothing at the gate. But I at least got yall the meal I promised yall." Seems one of the sponsors for the show was a local farmer. And he hands to each wrestler a fairly large watermelon.
Never mind that it is MS and half the roster is African Americans and the promoter was a fat old white dude. Never mind that he has to have close to at least 300 from the sponsors and ticket sales.
Brother HL Love cusses the dude out,throws the watermelon at him and motions to Max and they leave.
SO no cash pay,but everybody got a large watermelon,back then that cost ya 15 to 20 bucks IIRC.
"It was Heav and I in my shitty honda,driving these 2 lane roads and eatting the Melon and spitting the seeds out the windows. Was a really good watermelon. And hey at least it wasn't a handshake and a hotdog."
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