FTW Champion “The Learning Tree” Chris Jericho took to an episode of his Talk Is Jericho podcast, where he discussed a number of topics including how much he was paid under his first WWE contract.
Jericho said, “Walking into that dressing room, I had a fairly good guarantee: I got paid $450 grand a year guaranteed to come in, which was a lot less than WCW was offering me, but I didn’t care about the money. I just cared about the opportunity. It was a lot more than a lot of people were making in WWE so at the time, guaranteed contracts were just starting to become a thing, which is so laughable when you think about it now. I have kind of a target on my back of this ‘hot young upstart coming in, he’s interrupting The Rock, he’s got this big push, this big contract.’ There was kind of a lot of odds stacked against me when I first walked into the dressing room.”
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(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
