Kevin Nash Recalls The Origin Of Guaranteed Money In Wrestling Contracts

On the latest episode of Kliq This, Kevin Nash talked about the history of guaranteed money in wrestling contracts and more. You can check out some highlights below:

On the history of guaranteed money in wrestling contracts. “There was no guarantee in wrestling… No, we got a flat-out guarantee. Vince [McMahon] then came back with the guarantees. And then once WCW went out of order, there was no way of going — you couldn’t put the f**king genie back in the bottle. There was no way anybody was gonna go back to f**king $1,500 guarantees.”

On his first WCW contract and subsequent raises: “That was like the first deal we got [somewhere around $1 million]. And then that changed within as soon as they pulled that stupid f**king Diesel and Razor look-alike, we got a f**king big bump on that. We were making some — we got longer time, and we’re making seven figures. And then somebody came in and we got a favored nations… and then somebody else. I think we got an idea of what Hulk was actually making. So we went in and asked for more. We were always — along with Barry Bloom, we were always in the process of renegotiating our deals.”

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