Select Answers: Non competes, WWE Pay, AEW women's division
Added 2025-02-15 17:00:06 +0000 UTCWelcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
Are the 90 day non-competes enforceable still? I know the government banned them for the most part but WWE doesn't do a real non-compete I thought.
Yes. This is categorically different. Wrestlers have these negotiated into their deals and are actively being paid during the 90 day period. Of the hundreds I've seen released, I've only met one or two that didn't like it.
How financially secure is the typical WWE wrestler? For example, if they have been with the company for six years, would they have a million dollars in the bank account, even if you are not headliner?
These days, six years on the main roster usually has you pretty comfortable for a while in the event that you get released or leave. The minimum pay for WWE talent on the main roster was between 200-300k per Triple H, though I hear it's higher now, and there are a number of talent making in the millions per year. Just five years ago, the Good Brothers and FTR being offered between 700-800k was pretty wild to some.
Who is writing for the women's division in AEW?
RJ City does a lot of the writing for Timeless Toni Storm, and Jenn Pepperman does a lot of the writing for Mercedes. I know Will Washington has wrote some things for Willow in the past, but I can't speak to a week to week basis
Comments
They are still under contract during those 90 days. See my comment below. When the media says that someone was “released,” they should really say that they “received formal notification that WWE is terminating their contract in 90 days.”
Andoski
2025-02-16 04:46:36 +0000 UTCI still feel like that's really still a non compete even if they are paid. Seems fairly common for companies to pay out 60-90 days and if former employees find work before that time they absolutely can double dip. I guess t would be different if they got 90 days pay + kept benefits for that time too.
Ricky
2025-02-16 02:14:25 +0000 UTC“Non-compete” is a total misnomer for this situation, as WWE talent are still under contract during those 90 days. It’s not that their contract is terminated, and the 90 days come after that. It’s that WWE gives them formal notification that their contract *is being terminated*, which starts a 90-day clock until the termination takes effect.
Andoski
2025-02-15 20:41:17 +0000 UTC
