Kevin Nash Reveals the Insane Payday One Wrestler Keeps After Slashing His Own Check in Half
You have to feel for the WWE stars who got hit with those dreaded pay cut notices. But according to a Hall of Famer, at least one of them isn’t exactly eating ramen noodles over it.
Let’s rewind. Earlier this month, reports surfaced that The New Day’s Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods had mutually agreed to part ways with WWE. That same wave of internal restructuring saw the company going directly to multiple talents with a tough ultimatum: take a pay reduction or walk, with some getting just 48 hours to decide.
Kevin Nash, never one to mince words, decided to pull back the curtain on his podcast. And what he revealed is pretty eye-opening.
Nash claims his network inside the industry is still solid, and he knows exactly who agreed to the massive cuts. He says one unnamed talent took a full 50 percent reduction in pay. Most fans would assume that is a devastating financial blow.
But here is where the story flips.
When Nash found out what this wrestler was originally earning, he says he had to pick himself up off the floor. We are talking about a number so high that even after cutting it in half, the superstar is still pulling in what most would call huge money.
Nash did not drop the wrestler’s name, but he made it clear that a 50 percent cut for this person is still a life-changing check for anyone else.
On a different note, the WWE legend also took a moment to share a surprisingly warm memory of TKO CEO Ari Emanuel. Nash said he has only met one person from the company’s top brass, and that was Ari. He described the powerful executive as a true gentleman.
