WWE reportedly feel that they can book talent for TNA and AAA without additional pay due to talent working a reduced schedule.
"If WWE talent works for AAA, which is part of WWE anyway, or if they work for TNA, they don’t get paid extra because everybody is on a guaranteed contract. You make this much, they book you as they see fit. It can be for other companies. That’s just how it works right now.
"From their standpoint, based on previous generations and even a year or two ago, the fact is is that you are going to be working far less dates for that guaranteed money than you would have been even a year ago because they’ve cut way back on shows.
"So because they’ve cut way back on shows and it’s essentially, for most people, one day a week, that they might book you a second day a week, or for a TNA taping, or go to AAA. Whatever the deal is, it’s like you’re still working a lot less dates than for most people they expected to work when they actually signed the deal in the first place."