Kevin Nash has usually mentioned that assured contracts in skilled wrestling did not exist till he and Scott Corridor went to WCW in 1996, as usually wrestlers labored off of a handshake settlement and had been paid per their draw and their merchandise gross sales. Nash’s NWO compatriot Hulk Hogan disputed that declare in a brand new interview with “Stay The Outbound Life,” the place the WWE Corridor of Famer mentioned Vince McMahon signed him to a assured contract within the Eighties.
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“Once I got here again, January 23, 1984, I received the [WWF Championship]. I used to be again a pair months earlier than then doing TV. I had a assured contract again then. I had a 10-year assured contract then,” Hogan defined. “That was approach earlier than they signed Kevin Nash.” In accordance with the previous WCW World Champion, he’d grown large enough within the ’80s that McMahon knew he wanted greater than a handshake with the budding movie actor.
“Vince [McMahon] needed to lock me down as a result of, on the time, I had the gimmick discovered, and I used to be so sizzling,” Hogan defined. “I used to be main the cost on quite a lot of fronts. The assured contract was a continuing … I used to be making a pair motion pictures a 12 months. That was extra cash on the facet.” Hogan has mentioned that the win in January 1984 did not simply fortify his skilled profession, but additionally enormously affected his private life, not too long ago revealing that his father admitted he was happy with Hogan the night time he defeated The Iron Sheik.
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