HOLY GRIMOLAwho took the 50+% pay cut??
>>21103489That's actually so fucked
>>21103489And they took less than WWE offered to got to AEW KWABOTY
Look at the top of his headOh no no no no
>>21103489>kill your show to save costswhat the fuck are wwe doing?
They didn’t want to sign them and had no plans for them so they offered them a deal they wouldn’t take so they would just leave with face instead of having to fire them. Don’t see why it’s a big deal. WWE is struggling to be profitable.
>>21103494>they took lessanon AEW contracts pay big money especially if you are a former world champ in WWE.
>>21103489Why should I be outraged? Kofi fucking sucks, he should be making $0 in pro wrestling
They did the same thing to Edge years ago. They offered Edge a legends deal
>>21103510>>21103493It's fucking New Day...they werent doing shit with them. They were doing what they do in NFL and NBA do with their veteran minimum contracts
>>21103526>lowball biggest merch movers ever>better keep the anti-draw Samoansif it’s like the nba are they tanking games to get a draft pick or something?
>>21103526facts. I prefer Truth and Priest, along with game changing signings like Corbin and Big Cass.
more than 50 percent?! jesus h chrsit these tko jews are something else, goddamn
>>21103541>anti-draw SamoansImagine thinking Roman doesn't move merch. This board is so fucking retarded
>>21103510Are you retarded?
>>21103545Id unironically take all of them over Woods, he was always fucking annoying and him winning KOTR was a worst ever moment. I was interested in seeing a Kofi Jevon Evans angle but he's not in the top 30 wrestlers I care about on the show
>>21103553It’s hilarious that you have to go to the only relevant Samoan being jammed down everyone’s throats every week
>>21103553It is the dumbest board on 4chan
>>21103489kek why did this set off the pigdrones??
>>21103525This isn’t true at all though. They offered him a full on contract renewal. It was just for the same limited number of 10 dates a year they had been doing which he wanted to work more then. TKO wasn’t even really fully in charge yet when he left
>>21103561They really have convinced themselves New Day are a big deal in 2026 because Tony signed them. You sometimes have to tell yourself you are talking to literal retards and autists here who have no concept of the world outside what happens on their favorite fake fighting show
>>21103561WWE are colder than they’ve been in yearsDon’t pretend like things are going really well for them right now
>>21103541>biggest merch movers evernew day aren't selling shit for shirts in the 2020s
with jews you lose.... more than 50% as it turns out
>>21103569Jacob and Solo are based too. The usos are henchman and the other two with Haku are barely there. Zilla seems based. I don't get the coconut hate for the most part. Roman can be boring on a week to week basis but he is one of the best big match wrestlers of the current era
>>21103582>losing the new gay was a lossOh, you really are retarded
>>21103489This man looks like he just escaped the plantation, good on him making it out
>>21103489Seth agreed to take a pay cut because he's a simp
>>21103489kek jews have no chill
>>21103526Who's fault was it that they weren't doing shit with them? Their heel turn had great momentum and potential. And I always hated the New Day. That was the first time I was ever interested in them and of course Paul did fuck all with them.
>>21103489Kek everyone that agreed and stayed is a fucking mark ass bitch
So who is next? Here's a list of guys I believe have signed newish deals and they're rarely used or sell no merch/have no real value/won't take too kindly to a paycut>Street Profits>Big Cass>Rusev>Drew>Them Viking dweebs>Finn>Gunther>KO>LA KnightGuys who probably accepted the paycut and have an ass full of TKO cum>Sami>Miz>Priest
>>21103510I don't think a single person has stopped watching WWE because New Day isn't there anymore.
>>21103494I'm an E-chad who never once fucked with the New Gay, but if this is true then they absolutely made the right decisionThey were arguably the most consistently-popular WWE stable of the last several years. To ask them to take a pay cut that fucking big is a complete slap in the faceI'm not gonna console-war over this one. At the end of the day, wrong is wrong
>>21103646based reasonable edrone
>>21103489Seth and Fat Kevin
>>21103627Gargano and his hag wife.
>>21103627Bloke definitely took a pay cut
>>21103494Kek that part
>>21103541Biggest merch movers like 5 years ago
>>21103489Let me guess what he said in that interview, tell me if I am right...>"FEDBAD"
>>21103627sami 1000% took the 50% paycut and they gave him a pity 1 week world title run as thank you
>>21103489They're past their prime if Tony wants to overpay them then let him
>>21103669why do jerkers all talk like catty women?
>>21103646Don't forget their heel turn was good and got them lots of heat. All that heat could have been used to get two guys over big or they bring in a new guy to replace Big E or the entire division would get hot with them as reigning champs.
>>21103669quite the opposite
>>21103686Sounds like theyre just being nice to not burn a bridge
Maybe New Day should have tried? Their heel turn was so lazy and uninspired and I doubt they have changed
>>21103707lmao edrones are insufferable
>>21103707Or maybe they're just nice people?
>>21103645Slow degradation of the product qualityYou can stop samefagging the thread now
>>21103648Pretty crazy right seeing someone be able to criticize something they watch instead of going "whatabout other fed"? Most be a mind fuck for you.
>>21103744Lol getting rid of New Day is addition by subtraction
>>21103489Would've been still too much. There is no need for a negro minstrel show anymore.
>>21103774
>>21103489>under 50%So like 40% cus then he’d have said 1/3. Bro they old as shit now, don’t have to do house shows and they bitch when they never drew a dime after big e KWAB’d
>>21103684Remember that originally Odyssey Jones was going to be part of this story. They fired him, but went ahead with the friction between Kofi and Xavier. That heel turn really was fantastic. It sucks they didn't have a plan.
>>21103494Tony who not only notoriously overpays but is obsessed with WWE toys? No fucking chance lmfao they are easily making more than ever before
>>21103686Nah fuck off with that timid shit. FUCK WWE!!
>>21103627Gunther 100% did he's a gutless Fed mark
>>21103489Why doesn't he just shave his head goddamn look at the 7 head
>>21103793They haven't been again since this happened
>>21103811>more than everDoubt it, once upon a time they had shit tons of merch and sponsor shit they were in while they had Big E. They slowly lost everything after big E got hurt and every news kept dropping how bad it was.
>>21103793HAHAHAHAHAHAHA TAP DANCING FOR MASSA! MONTEZ FORD IS SUCH A CLOWN! LMAO THIS IS THE SHOW YA’LL WATCH!??? LOLLLLLL
>>21103793this is the rib they planned in the back..? weird ass company..
>>21103493im shaking
Is he doing a jamaican gimmick again
RECORD PROFITS>for the TKO kikes
>>21103541Bro this isn't the 2010s anymore. Everything you said is the opposite now.
>dronies piss and shit themselves about how AEW is gonna dies>their own shithole has all the characteristic of a company being bled and squeezed before getting liquidatedkwab
>>21103627drew is one of the highest paid wrestlers on the roster but he's basically just a jobber and he's been off tv for almost half a year now, i think they'll try to cut his pay, he may walkprofits are both new fathers, they'll be back later, doubt they walk/get cutsnore raiders are probably not making much above minimum and at least ivar does some backstage stuff, unlikelyrusev again probably not cutting a big check, does what he's told and performs his role well, unlikelyfinn is one of the guys i thought dave could have been talking about when he said someone took a 50% paycut (dave said it was someone that could have made a lot of money in AEW), i'm not sure if he's that much of a mark thoughgunther, maybe now when they see that he's kind of flopped, they gave him that tour bus for nothingKO, i doubt itLA KWAB, maybepriest and miz would 1000% take paycuts if asked, sami possibly but not 100%
New gay hasn't done anything of note those last 10 fucking years. It was a waste of fucking money. These guys are multi multi millionaires complaining about not getting more millions for.... not a damn thing. Fuck them. Good riddance, go milk the money mark and let us be serious
>>21103571close but no
>>21103627I highly doubt LA Knight took a paycut considering the amount of fucking merch he moves and just how over he is, in general.
I got some ideas for Kofi to get that money up if he's up for the challenge.
>>21103489Cardona, Rollins, Punk, Cody. All guys who would pay for the privilege. (And soon will.)
>>21103489Low balling old ass shitters' contract renewal =/= paycuts for the entire roster.
>>21103519record profit bros...
>>21103707Or perhaps they’re just not sour little pussies like you are. Grown men realize that sometimes shit doesn’t work. Doesn’t mean you have to hate the other party. Say thanks and move on. Also Kofi is right. He went straight to the WWE. He was never and indie guy. So yes Vince did in fact welcome to the world of pro-wrestling
>>21103793why did he do this
>>21103797xavier woods is only 39
>>21103489>who took the 50+% pay cut??Finn Balor foshoThe Miz too
>>21103519>WWE is struggling to be profitablehuh? don't they have record profits every quarter?
>>21104334And no one has ever given a shit about him
>>21103627>>Street ProfitsI can see them leaving and taking Bianca with them, specially with how much money Tony Khan likes to overpay for shitters>>Big Casslmao no, he returned to WWE for a reason, he's getting paid 50k a year at most>>Rusevhe ain't leaving either, burned bridges with AEW and, say, TNA or MLW ain't gonna pay him the bare minimum either. It's over, he'll have to deal with humiliation rituals and cuck storylines for the rest of his career.>>DrewToo valuable, I actually feel like he's one of those guys WWE would raise his salary if anything>>Viking DweebsDon't think Tony is a big fan of them, it's either TNA or MLW if they leave. Def took the paycut.>>Finn BalorTook the paycut, and gladly too, this has been know. He's too comfy in America, anyway.>>Gunthersame as Drew>>Owenssame as Drew and Gunther>>LA Knightsame as the viking dweebs. Really, it's a loss for AEW though if it's true he sells so much merch.>>Samieh, he's friends with The Bucks. if he didn't leave yet it's because he's got a good salary over in WWE.>>The Mizthat nigga is such a WWE mark he'd wrestle for free. pussy ass nigga, soft ass nigga, he wrestles like a woman anyway.>>PriestTNA or MLW if he leaves, so def took the paycut
>>21104566you're a fucking retard, main roster minimum is $350,000/year
>>21103493Should have been 75%. Tony can waste his daddy money on these shitters
>>21103489Minimal wage just to destroy your body permanently with zero compensation lol how jewish
>>21104578and an ex-WWE guy just said today there's actually people taking paycuts of way more than 50%do the math niggayou think Baron Corbin is getting paid big bucks? lmfao
>>21104587So a normal job
>>21104578Jinder already told us about the bucket system. They may make that much on paper, but what they actually take home is much, much less than that.
>>21104566>50k a year at mostthere's no fucking way even a shitter like him would accept the same salary a fucking office cuck makes
>>21104207Based. The New Gay would be dimes
Kofi is 45, he is never going to be anywhere near the main event again.Is it really surprising that they don't want to pay him like a wwe champion anymore?I can understand Xavier complaining about a paycut but not this guy
>>21103489So Tony paid them their wwe salary or more than that? Is he fucking stupid?
>>21104795But 48 year old Punk is just fine and dandy to be in the main event right
>>21104795I get why they don’t care about new day, they’ve been top tier champions for a decade and nothing they can do in wwe will be interesting anymore. But you gotta at least let them coast or give them a mid tier retirement contract. A 60% pay cut is a personal insult
>>21104813this isn't vince's wwe anymore. they're all just numbers in columns to tko.
>>21103541>new day>moving merch in 2026
>>21104813>you have to pay them millions to wrestle filler matches because you just have tono they don't
>>21104824Well if they care about fucking aew so much (they do) it’s a huge mistake. New Day was the #2 act they had to make sure never jumped ship, only behind aj styles. They’ve got an 8 year old feud with the Elite ready to go and it’s going to make a lot of money
>>21104843Just like in video games, the new corporate meta is to fire people as a reward for a job well done
>>21103494>lesshow new are you? It's very well known that Tony overpays everyone in AEW. He can because his father has literally endless money to burn
>>21104920they know there's a manlet nepo baby bitch that will not only pay the same, but give them a raise, so why keep them around? it's not the wrestling charity, it's the wrestling business.
>>21104813If New Day were still selling merch I'm sure they would have accepted the pay cut because they would have made it back from tshirt sales. But they're ice cold and the heel turn was a retarded idea, sure the turn on Big E was interesting but they had no ideas after that
>>21104940> t. Ari
Drone retards would gladly take a paycut
>>21103489Good on them for saying no and leaving, but everybody that got bigger deals than they should have JUST to keep them from going to AEW should not be surprised if WWE decides they aren't worth paying.It is a shitty move by WWE not honoring the contracts they agreed to, but it is not surprising.
>>21104997>icwwhatever happened there?
>>21103489Weren't over and merch sales had plummeted, just a stagnant dead thing. I'm shocked it wasn't more
It’s funny everyone saying the new day are old and washed up are the ones who were also begging and demanding Kofimania
Imaging wasting this angleLiterally nothing happened afterwards, and I think the New Day even lost a match KWAB
>>21103686They broke this buck.
>>21103489>who took the 50+% pay cut??The ultimate mark contract
>>21105026Angles are supposed to build to a match. What match was this building to?
>>21105041> edrone hurt himself in its confusion!
>>21103489They weren't worth that much
>>21105045It was a cool segment but it lead nowhere. Big E is crippled and can't wrestle. Big E had no wrestler or tag team associated with him to step in and defend his honour. Terrible booking from WWE to do this when they had no follow up prepared
>>21105048> record profits> we can’t afford to pay our employeesPick one
>>21105058It was supposed to establish The New Day as heels and revamp the tag team scene, but that never happened because Paul hates tag team wrestling
>>21105059>cut the team salary>record profits Yes that’s literally what soccer teams do all the time. NFL teams under cap hell will release shit tons of players/contracts to reset it. Shit usually happens when older dudes are on huge contracts that don’t deserve anymore lol
>>21105085>oh oh i love kike cock so much
Kofi and Woods are cool dudes. It was cool to hear from them
>>21105085You’re right, Nintendo should fire miyamoto or cut his pay so badly that he goes to playstation
>>21103489damn dom mysterio was one and he is still being treated like shit.....
>>21103489>TKO instead gave their former contract money to Brock for an extra 2 appearances Brock squashing Kofietty a second timeKWAB
>>21104605>t. retard who watched a youtube video where the guy slowly explained it and still got it wronglel
>>21103489nooo don't cut the contract of a middle aged tag team no one cares about nooo
>>21104850i don't think they care. wwe is still leagues above aew in profit. even if their product is worse now and decisions like these end up biting them, it will take a long time for them to actually feel it in the wallet. i only watch aew at this point, but it's stupid not to think that, to the majority of the world, wrestling still equals wwe. the terms 'wrestling move' and 'wwe move' are interchangeable to the general public. that kind of market dominance doesn't go away overnight, and certainly not because they lowballed a few veteran merch movers.
>>21104824Vince lowballed and cut people under contract all the fucking time. He also would intentionally book humiliating angles in people who he wanted to quit, which we haven't seen from TKO.
>>21103494firstly AEW is notoriously ran by a money mark so I doubt that and secondly I feel like if your boss is asking you to take a 50% paycut then you're at the point where you can swallow any kinda paycut that jumping to a lesser promotion might entail because personal pride is more important
>>21105058You don't need a followup prepared. Just book 'em into a tag-title run and use 'em to put a baby face tagteam over!
>>21105263vince wasn't doing it to be a jew, with him it was either personal vendetta or personal amusement, maybe a bit of both.
>>21105270It's better to jump to AEW even if Tony's only paying them as much as they were offered with the pay cut. It shows a level of personal dignity and ambition that will mean a much better chance of a bigger push, or even a higher contract at the next cycle.
>>21105256Sadly this is how most businesses work today. “Fire your best employees = profit” is nonsense to anyone with a brain but it’s a strategy that takes ten years to backfire. The key to a sane life is identifying these companies and not making them a part of your life
>>21105293Vince's most notorious cuts came during the Covid era, when the company was making record profits of guaranteed-money contracts:https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/business/coronavirus-wwe-drake-maverick-curt-hawkins-trnd/
>>21105317it was just a rib, pal!
>>21104566Now way AEW would want the Street Profits they bring nothing to the table. Bianca maybe.Drew I think its a 50/50.The rest I can never see leaving WWE and gladly taking pay cuts to stay.
>>21103489I would sue new day for being a resource drain if I was tkoFucking niggers with unicornsGo back to portland coon
>>21105296>>21105270they're also in the unique position of being good friends with the elite, and the elite vs new day feud finally being able to happen, so they know they're not going to get shit booking. guys like street profits on the other hand could easily end up in the toybox, especially if they're only hired as a package deal to get bianca who is clearly the bigger star.
>>21103489This kinda shit seems damaging long term. Unless it's your last chance to give the company a shot (Royce) or a huge mark (Blake), why would you want to sign a long deal with WWE?
>>21105543are they even offering long deals anymore? they're firing niggas in the middle of televised angles. I really think tko is just flexing the fact that most individual talent is disposable and it has mostly worked. their only fuckup was r-truth and it didn't cost them much to smooth that over.
>Fuck yo pay cut niqqa
>>21105575I think New Day said they were on their first year of a five year deal, but maybe you're right. I just think long-term it's dumb to fuck over your vets. Vince never tried the paycut thing and at least you know you were getting paid until spring cleaning time. But now there really doesn't seem to be a good reason to go through NXT, risk the constant cuts or bullshit like pay cuts, when Tony is a money mark. And if you're on AEW TV enough WWE will try signing you at some point
>>21103489Sami Zayn took a 60% pay cut for 1 day with a fake fighting championship
>>21103489>That's actually so fucked
>>21105756It actually is though
>>21105735>we'll never have mjf vs sami
>>21103489Cardona probably took a 92% pay cut
>>21103496looks better than jade cargill desu
>>21105272They did that, they lost the titles to the viking dweebs
>>21106779And still, they only agreed to keep him after Oba slept with Chelsea.
>>21104589Baron also took a paycut when he was sent to NXT before being fired the first time
>>21103489I mean desu I wouldn’t pay Kofi a DIME over like 45k a year with no benefits or travel comps. Motherfucker is completely irrelevant in the big 26
>>21103489The bosses will cut their workers pay before they take a pay cut themselves. Chuds will defend this. Hogan earned his place in hell, next to satan
>>21103646>To ask them to take a pay cut that fucking big is a complete slap in the faceSo what if they were big for 10 years? Were they big after Big-E retired? Were they still selling merch? 10 years is an entire generation of wrestling fans to come and go, how were they doing with the new generation?
