List of WWE Personnel

Wrestler finishers

WWE wrestlers are placed into a private association (not the same as a union) as FOX and Disney can afford it

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 * The actual purchase price of World Championship Wrestling by WWE from Time Warner was $2.5 million
 * WWF contracts.html
 * Full List WWE Wrestlers Salaries 2014
 * Old Wrestling Salaries
 * WCW Contract & Payroll Information (1996-2000)

Response to #SpeakingOut

 * 1) Get rid and "blackball" proven abusers, groomers, predators and pedos entirely from wrestling business
 * 2) Neutral 3rd party with expertise in managing inter-personal conflict, and so wrestlers, fans, trainees and crew members can talk to if there's an issue
 * 3) Sexual harassment training
 * 4) Separate locker rooms for men and for women and based on your biological sex
 * 5) Background checks, especially for trainers
 * 6) Accountable and growth

UK response


 * Wrestling training schools are "sporting" but shows and promotions be considered "theatrical", "artistic" or "performative".
 * Urges the Arts Council and Sport England to do the same.
 * Classifying professional wrestling as both a sport and entertainment, this will help to increase health and safety as well safeguarding in the discipline, the MPs said.
 * A Private Members Bill was introduced and passed that would amend the Sexual Offences Act 2003 "to make sports coach a position of trust for the purpose of child sex offences".
 * Wrestling coaches will now be "explicitly recognised as being in such positions of trust".
 * The report also addressed the difficulties professional wrestling has had falling between sports and entertainment.
 * It found "the absence of any proper governance and oversight" created "serious implications for the mental and physical health, safety and wellbeing of performers and others".
 * Among other health and safety measures, it recommended "all promoters, trainers and referees be physical and mental health first-aid qualified and trained in concussion awareness and protocols".

Board of directors

 * 1) Vincent K. McMahon-Chairman and Executive director.
 * 2) Eric Shanks-Vice chairman, Chief financial officer (CFO) and Executive director (represents FOX)
 * 3) Larry Jones-Executive director and Chief business officer (represents FOX)
 * 4) Jacob Ullman-Executive director (represents FOX)
 * 5) John Nallen-Executive director (represents FOX)
 * 6) Colin Cowherd-Executive director (represents FOX)
 * 7) Brad Zager-Executive director (represents Walt Disney)
 * 8) Nick Khan-Executive director (represents Walt Disney)
 * 9) Mark Yovich-Director, Vice-chairman of Live Nation Entertainment and Chairman of Ticketmaster
 * 10) Steve Pamon-Director and President & Chief Operating Officer of Parkwood Entertainment
 * 11) Linda McMahon-Executive director and Chief sustainability officer
 * 12) Shane McMahon-Executive Vice President of Global Media, Executive director and Executive Producer & Head booker of WWE SmackDown
 * 13) Paul Levesque (Triple H)-Executive director, Head of Global Talent Strategy & Development and Executive Producer & Head booker of NXT
 * 14) Stephanie McMahon-Chief product officer and Executive director

Executive management

 * 1) Kevin Dunn-Senior manager of Television Production
 * 2) Lance McConomy-Deputy assistant manager of Television Production
 * 3) Jamie Horowitz-
 * 4) Karen Mullane-
 * 5) Paul Richardson-Chief solutions officer (CSO)
 * 6) John Laurinaitis-Manager of Talent and Relations
 * 7) Chris LaPlaca-Chief communications officer (CCO)
 * 8) Henry Jacob-Vice president of Communications
 * 9) Tara Carraro-Director of Communications
 * 10) Michael Weitzschnitz-Chief investment officer (CIO)
 * 11) Monty Sarhan-General Counsel and Secretary
 * 12) Patrick Talty-Manager of Live Events
 * 13) Sarah Cummins-Chief customer officer
 * 14) Shane Davis-Coordinator, Community Relations
 * 15) Sheetesh Srivastava-President of WWE India
 * 16) Klaudia Bermudez-Key-President of WWE Latin America
 * 17) Carlo Nohra-President of WWE Asia Pacific
 * 18) Chara-Lynn Aguiar-?
 * 19) Scott Zanghellini-Vice president of Revenue Strategy and Development
 * 20) Claudine Lilien-, reports to Stephanie
 * 21) Samira Shah-Chief Counsel and Corporate Secretary
 * 22) Matt Drew-Manager of International
 * 23) John D'Amico-Manager of Live Event Production Management
 * 24) Scott Smoot-Assistant manager of Live Event Production


 * Chief business officer combines the roles of chief business development officer, chief visionary officer, chief strategy officer, chief administrative officer (CAO), and chief operating officer (COO)
 * Chief financial officer is combines the roles of Chief audit executive, Chief accounting officer, Chief commercial officer, Chief revenue officer
 * Chief product officer is combined with Chief privacy officer, CMO, chief web officer, Chief technology officer are combined
 * Chairman combined the President and CEO roles as well
 * Chief design officer is combined with Chief content officer
 * Executive Assistant is merged with Chief of Staff
 * Chief product officer, Chief branding officer, Chief marketing officer and Chief sales officer is combined into one role and one team.

History

 * Golden Era (1982–1993)
 * New Generation Era (1993–1997)
 * Attitude Era (December 15, 1997–May 6, 2002)
 * Ruthless Aggression Era (May 6, 2002–July 22, 2008)
 * PG Era (July 22, 2008–July 19, 2016)
 * Retribution Era (July 19, 2016–present)

Broadcast team
The following section pertains to announcers who cover WWE broadcasts. This group includes presenters, ringside commentators, ring announcers, backstage interviewers, pre-show hosts, and analysts.

NXT
B-Fab

"Undisputed" by CFO$ ft. Josiah Williams

Roderick Strong at Undisputed Era "Shock the System"


 * Curt Stallion
 * Leon Ruff
 * Tyler Rust

SmackDown
Nia Jax - Cannonball Senton, Powerbomb, Samoan Drop

Ruby Riott

NXT
Renee Young

How are WWE wrestlers paid
The downside amount is a guarantee that during the year the wrestler will make that much money. Wrestlers get paid per event and on merchandise sales so their income varies year to year and this keeps them from making too little money in a year.

So let's say a wrestler has a contract with a $1.5 million/year downside guarantee. The sport has a bad year and merchandise sales are down and there aren't as many huge events as they thought. So when you add up all the income the wrestler made throughout the year he only made $1 million. The agency they signed the contract with will then give them a check for $500,000 to make up the guarantee. If the wrestler had made $2 million then nothing would happen.

WWE pays each main roster members a "Downside Guarantee", which in most cases is in the 70,000-125,000 range. They get this regardless of what happens all year.

On top of that, in each contract there is a set dollar amount one gains on top of that for certain shows, house shows, etc. (Let's say $1000 for TV and $500 for a house show), This can often be adjusted on the fly, for example they pay double for a European tour, etc.

Also, many veteran wrestlers get bonus perks if they are on the upper card. 1st class travel and hotel suite upgrades are given to the top 10 or so. A few years ago they added luxury tour buses that you can see on the total divas show for example. Only a few guys have these, Cena, Orton, HHH and Big Show for some examples. Big Show is not because of his card status, it is to prolong his career as his size makes air travel very difficult.

Most wrestlers have merchandising agreements as well. The standard is 3-5% of all merchandise goes to the wrestler, some have agreements in their contract that gives them more. One wrestler historically netted 20%, but most that are given more are in the 6-7% range. Cena for example gets the highest at 6.25%.

So a guy on a bench all year like Tyson Kidd is just going to get his downside, which is low. Probably around 75k. A guy like Viktor is going to also be on a very low downside, lets say 75k, he did lots of TV and house shows this year, but was pulled off the road when Konnor got suspended for a while. Since the suspension, instead of getting the probably $2,000-3000 a month he was getting for TV and house shows, he was then getting his downside plus $0. Situations like this are terrible, but it's how the business works. He also is missing out on story lines that could put him in a PPV match, so he's missing those bonuses. A PPV like Money in the Bank upcoming will have bonuses from the low 4 digits to the low 5 digits. The Ascension could have been in a 4-way tag match, or tag gauntlet, etc.

Finally they also now get "mailbox money" or royalties for network airings of old events as well as some DVD sales, etc. if they qualify. This is often a very low amount of money for the lower card guys, maybe into the 4 digits for the top company guys quarterly. (Excluding if a DVD was released for you. For example if they release an Undertaker DVD, he would get a certain percentage outside of these royalties.)


 * WWE pays for the wrestlers surgery’s even if they the get injured outside of WWE. Yeah it’s BS what wwe is pulling with the wrestlers but they are not clearly standing up for themselves. WWE can’t fire everyone specially their top guys. They even pay for rehab for wrestlers who have drug or alcohol problems. Besides why should WWE pay for their health when they are not working for them? Wrestlers go into WWE with previous injuries from other promotions. So WWE should take care of a person who wasn’t working for them when they got injured. It would be like me breaking my neck in AEW then joining WWE After I done broke my neck and expect them to pay for my health cause I got injured. It’s the same thing Raven and a few others tried to pull but a judge ruled they got injuries while under different promotions and they can’t prove those injuries was cause of working for WWE.

Finisher

Corporate Ministry Titration (April 29, 1999 - August 2, 1999)
 * Adam Bomb / Bryan Clark / Wrath-
 * Big Van Vader–
 * Bill Goldberg-"Who's Next" by Jim Johnston (WWE) and "Invasion" (WCW)
 * "Broken" Matt Hardy-"Live For Deletion" by Tolkuton
 * Brie Bella-
 * Nikki Bella-
 * "The Glamazon" Beth Phoenix-Cameron, NC
 * Bubba Ray Dudley-
 * D'Lo Brown-
 * Dean Malenko-
 * Fandango-
 * Kevin Nash-"Jacknife"
 * "The Ravishing Russian" Lana-"Ravishing" by CFO$
 * Lita-
 * Jamie Noble-
 * Jack Swagger-
 * Jinder Mahal-
 * "The Pirate Princess" Kairi Sane-Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
 * "Punk Rock Ragdoll" Ruby Riot-Edwardsburg, Michigan-"We Riot" by CFO$
 * Rob Van Dam
 * Rhino
 * "Big Poppa Pump" Scott Steiner-Steiner Screwdriver
 * "Stone Cold" Steve Austin-Victoria, Texas, USA-"Glass Shatters" by Disturbed (July 23, 2000 – present), "Ringmaster" by Jim Johnston (January 8, 1996 – June 23, 1996), "Hell Frozen Over" by Jim Johnston (June 24, 1996), "You Won't Do What I Tell Me" by Jim Johnston (March 24, 1997 – July 17, 2000). "Rattlesnake" by Jim Johnston, "Venomous" by Jim Johnston.
 * The Big Show
 * Ted DiBiase
 * "The Deadman", "The Phenom" or "The Demon from Death Valley" The Undertaker-Undead wrestler-"Graveyard Symphony" by Jim Johnston (November 22, 1990 – July 20, 1998), "Dark Side" by Jim Johnston (July 26, 1998 – March 2, 2000), "American Bad Ass" by Kid Rock (May 21, 2001 - December 14, 2001), "Rollin'" by Limp Bizkit (December 17, 2000 - November 16, 2003), "Rest In Peace" by Jim Johnston (March 14, 2004 – present)
 * "The Game", "The Cerebral Assassin" and "The King of Kings" Triple H-Pedigree (Double underhook facebuster)-"Blue Blood" by Jim Johnston (April 28, 1995 – November 10, 1997), "My Higher Brain Pattern Time" by The DX Band and Jim Johnston (February 15, 1999 – July 26, 1999), "The Game" by Motörhead (August 2, 1999 – March 20, 2006), "The King of Kings" by Motörhead (March 26, 2006 – present)
 * Sid Vicious – Vicious Crossface (Crossface)
 * Último Dragón - Asai DDT (Standing Shiranui), Asai Moonsault and Dragon Sleeper

DX-"Break It Down" by The DX Band (August 11, 1997 – February 14, 1999; June 19, 2006–April 2007; August 24, 2009 – March 1, 2010)

DX-"Break It Down" (remix) by The DX Band (October 25, 1999 – July 2000)

Steve Austin character history


 * January 8, 1996 - June 23, 1996: The Ringmaster
 * June 24, 1996 - August 3, 1997: Surly texan redneck
 * August 4, 1997 - April 1, 2001: Surly beer-drinking anti-authority rebellious Texan redneck
 * April 2, 2001 - September 17, 2001: Psychotic paranoid ruthless despicable villain
 * September 17, 2001 - March 17, 2002: Surly beer-drinking Texan redneck cyborg
 * March 18, 2002 - 2009: Comedic beer-drinking Texan redneck who always says "What?"

On June 17, 2020, We the Independent severed ties with independent wrestler David Starr, many promotions cut ties with Starr and/or stripped him of titles. Starr would later be sentenced to life imprisonment for rape and sexual assault

Alumni
2014

Jim Ross left WWE in May to commentate on the boxing for Golden Boy Promotions on Fox Sports 1 which he still does to this day.

Emma

1990s
Left is another word for resigned

2013
(Bateman never joins WWE in 2018)

2016
Bella Twins became guests of Total Divas from Season 6. Alicia Fox and Summer Rae added on Total Divas cast for Season 6

WWE removed almost all references to Jimmy Snucka from their website, his merchandise from WWE Shop, and his entry from its WWE Hall of Fame page (however, he was still listed in the Hall of Fame entry of the official WWE encyclopedia). Mattel stopped producing Snucka action figures, while Snucka's merchandise was taken down from online stores of Target, Toys "R" Us, and Walmart. His appearances on upcoming WWE video games was cut and nevered introduced again

2017
(Ho Ho Lun never joinined WWE, instead joined Dragon Gate)

2018 (Zeda never joins WWE)

Deonna Purrazzo never signs for WWE, she would stay in ROH & Stardom and wrestle at All In

2019

 * TJP, Nasser Alruwayeh, Ricardo Miller, Stacey Ervin Jr were never signed
 * Shadia Bseiso is still at the company

2020

 * Ace Steel, Andrea Listenberger, Fit Finlay, Jerry Soto, Lance Storm, Kendo Kashin, Gerald Brisco, Pat Buck, Sarah Stock, Scott Armstrong, Shawn Daivari, Shane Helms and Mike Rotunda were all released.
 * John Brody and Mark Kowal both executives of WWE left.

(Serena Deeb, Mars Wang, Josiah Williams, No Way Jose, Jazzy Gilbert, Killer Kelly, Edgar Lopez, Aleksandar Jaksic, Faisal Kurdi, Hussain Aldagal, Kendo Kashin, Marcos Gomes, Mohamed Fahim, Nick Ogarelli and Yifeng were never signed. Curt Hawkins also never signed, he would join GFW)

2021

 * Others to leave in 2021 were:


 * Canyon Ceman – Senior Vice President of Talent Development
 * Kenice Mobley – WWE RAW Writer
 * Vic Joseph – Commentator
 * Susan Levison – Senior Vice President & Head of WWE Studios
 * Dan Humphreys – International Vice President of Communications
 * Brian Pellegatto – Senior Vice President of Production
 * Jay Rosenstock – Executive Vice President of International.
 * Makham Nolan – Vice President of Media Operations
 * James Wortman – Digital Media
 * Jaylar Donlan – Executive Vice President of WWE’s Advanced Media Group
 * Mark Carrano – Senior Director of Talent Relations
 * Nicole Zeoli – Director of Talent Relations
 * Mead Rust – Vice President of Communications
 * Joe Villa – Manager of Publicity and Corporate Communications

November 4 releases:


 * Laura Petrucelli – Vice President of Branding who had been with the company for over nine years
 * John Stamatis – SVP of Global Marketing and Sales Strategy for more than four years
 * Laura Todd – Vice President of Partnership Marketing, joined WWE over 14 years ago
 * Mike Giacco – Worked in the Talent Sales & Global Partnerships department

(Adnan Virk, Asher Hale, Ari Sterling, August Grey, Lars Sullivan never signed for WWE)

(Eva Marie never returns to WWE in 2021)

2022

William Regal - NXT is no longer interested in signing independent wrestlers and is looking exclusively at athletes and non-experienced wrestlers who are coming through their initiatives like their new NIL program. As such, scouting jobs done by Regal and others were deemed unnecessary. Because there was no need for him to identify talents as he'd done with names like Sasha Banks or others, WWE must have felt that keeping him was only getting in the way of their new hiring policy

Hideki Suzuki never signs