>>18171155Ummm… it’s not. Most wrestling fans, obsessive console warriors and people who try to make internet bux by aggregating dirtsheets (and the dirtsheets themselves) are kinda retarded and believe anything. They can’t do math and draw wild inferences. All you have to do is look at the Ospreay contract to see how it works. A report comes out that says
>Ospreay is reported to have signed a 3+ Year deal for a for a reported 7 figure sum
100 percent believable and still stupidly overpaid. Assume 3+ means no more than 5 or it would have just been reported as 5. And assume that the 7 figures is correct and even factor in for Tony being a mark that was competing against himself and no one else and that shakes out to (a still unreasonable) 4 years at 2.5 million. That’s 7 figures guaranteed not including merch and any other kickers. That is 100 percent a number that WWE is not going to give him hence “refuses to compete with AEW”. It takes exactly 1 day for a bunch of goobers on Twitter and Reddit to say
>Ospreay getting 10 million a year his contract 7 figures Tony is a tardo lol Then that gets reblogged, retweeted and disseminated until one of the Indian or low test aggregators cites a tweet as a source a month later. We know CM Punk was the highest paid guy in AEW history. There’s real confirmation of his contract details. WWE slashed Punk down to 2.2 they are not giving out the same money as Tony or trying to compete that way. Even if that doesn’t seem like much it’s a 30% difference. People leave their jobs for 5 % bumps. No one is all the sudden getting 3-4 times the previous largest salary. Especially when they cannot get even 1/2 of that anywhere else in the world.
