Booker T Reveals How Much He Was Going To Make In WCW Before The Company Was Sold

Prior to WCW being sold to WWE and then coming to an end, Booker T was one of the top talents in the company.

Speaking on a recent edition of his “Hall of Fame” podcast, the two-time WWE Hall of Famer revealed that he had negotiated a $1.3 million contract for himself. Instead, the deal fell through when the company was sold. He said,

“I had an agent in WCW. 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.”

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