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Though there are a number of reasons that WCW died, historically, a lot of the blame has gone to the company paying wrestlers way above market value. While WCW would still have lost tens of millions of dollars in the year 2000 even if every wrestler had worked for free, there’s no question that a the pay scale was out of control and often made little sense. They were in a promotional war, and the ability to outbid the WWF was one of the clear advantages they had. Even if they weren’t actually outbidding anyone in practice.
When Sonny Onoo and other former WCW talent sued the company in a racial discrimination lawsuit in 2000, among the documents released to the plaintiffs in the discovery process were various printouts of WCW’s roster databases, emails pertaining to contract negotiations, and so on. These include the financial terms of...
Though there are a number of reasons that WCW died, historically, a lot of the blame has gone to the company paying wrestlers way above market value. While WCW would still have lost tens of millions of dollars in the year 2000 even if every wrestler had worked for free, there’s no question that a the pay scale was out of control and often made little sense. They were in a promotional war, and the ability to outbid the WWF was one of the clear advantages they had. Even if they weren’t actually outbidding anyone in practice.
When Sonny Onoo and other former WCW talent sued the company in a racial discrimination lawsuit in 2000, among the documents released to the plaintiffs in the discovery process were various printouts of WCW’s roster databases, emails pertaining to contract negotiations, and so on. These include the financial terms of...
- 8/5/2014
- by David Bixenspan
- Obsessed with Film
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