Guarantees have escalated well past the $1 million ceiling that existed before the arrival of AEW last year. He worked as a bouncer at a club near his training center and frequently slept in his car rather than making the long drive back to Yuma, Arizona each night. Cain Velasquez ($450,000) Paul Felder ($46,000 + $46,000 = $92,000) def. is tightly woven into the family business, serving as chief brand officer. Velasquez wasn't down for long and he beath Antonio Silva in the first round before taking on a rematch with dos Santos, which Velasquez won. But he could be earning as much as $6 million in 2020 and beyond. The majority of his annual income still comes from his pay as a performer, though, as Levesque made just over $2 million in the “other” category, which, per the proxy, “consists principally of performance fees and royalties.” That comes from working just a handful of events, including a WrestleMania match with Batista, a one-off match with Randy Orton at Super ShowDown in Saudi Arabia and his non-wrestling role hyping up the talent from the NXT brand for Survivor Series.

Now Dave Meltzer claims on Wrestling Observer Radio that he also had a recent meeting with WWE. FORMER UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez has held talks with WWE over a potential contract. He also appeared as a featured guest on "Lopez Tonight." Francis Ngannou ($110,000 + $110,000 = $220,000) def. Styles was valuable to WWE when he signed in 2016 as they allowed him to skip NXT unlike most of his peers. James Vick ($65,000) Cynthia Calvillo ($44,000 + $44,000 = … , with WWE’s record profits from new TV rights deals and a lucrative partnership to produce propaganda events for the Saudi government also pushing the numbers up. He is a former two-time UFC Heavyweight Champion.

Wrestlers get paid like a cross between prize fighters and entertainers, including performance fees based on a formula tied to where they appear in each event. NEXT: 5 Best & 5 Worst Women’s Matches At WrestleMania. that he’s not being paid by WWE while he’s not working because of the pandemic, which is entirely possible in the likely event that his payoffs since July equaled or exceeded said guarantee. Both men were in attendance for a press conference on Friday where the match was made official, but Velasquez's contract status was not discussed during the proceedings which did not include questions from the media. How Much WWE Executives Makes In A Year ? In the early days of his professional fighting career, Cain trained at a facility in California far from his home.

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