Booker T Was Set To Make $1.3 Million On Next WCW Contract Before Company Was Sold

Booker T had moved to the top of the card in WCW toward the company’s end, and he recently revealed he was set to make some big money before it was sold to WWE. The WWE Hall of Famer spoke about the situation in the latest episode of his Hall of Fame podcast, noting that he had negotiated a $1.3 million contract for his next deal before the company closed and was bought by WWE.

“I had an agent in WCW,” Booker said (per Fightful). “In the beginning, he handled all of my contracts until I went singles. I handled my biggest contract, I negotiated my biggest contract. it was well above all the money that my agent had ever negotiated for me, sometimes twice as much, maybe three times. The way I did it was, I remember being asked how much was it going to take to keep me in WCW. I go, ‘How much am I worth?’ They came back with a number well above what I was thinking of. ‘You’re kidding me, right?’ I was like, Wow, they think of me that much. I can tell it, it was $750,000.”

He continued, “My next contract, it was $1.3 million. If the company wouldn’t have folded, my next contract was $1.3 million. It was a great time back then, Eric Bischoff was making us all rich. He said he was going to do that. He said, ‘Book, I’m going to make you rich.’ His goal was to make all wrestlers to be paid like NFL players. I give him a lot of credit for that.”