Kevin Nash To WWE Talent – ‘You Need A F****** Raise’

Since WWE WrestleMania 42, Kevin Nash has been vocal about how much talent earns. Most recently on his “Kliq This” podcast, he revealed how he feels about what talent makes these days. He said, 

“I just wish that the WWE guys were getting a bigger percentage of what was being brought in than they are. I’d like for it to be an open door, to sit down — and it’ll never get there. Because, you know, I made some inroads with SAG and it’s just..”

“I wanted to get involved, and it was one of those things where just like, as I started to dive into it, I sent a message to Andrew [Yang], and he got back to me, but I didn’t get back to him because it was just like, what benefit does this do to me. I’m done (wrestling).”

“Everybody has their own coach. Like, they’re already so far above where we were. And it’s not jealousy or anything else, it’s just like, the industry has grown. And the top talents’ pay has grown substantially, tenfold [from] when I was there. There wasn’t the Netflix money. There wasn’t the ESPN money. Like, they didn’t have, you just have to look at it from both sides. That’s the biggest problem we have on earth. And I’m learning that at 67 years old.”

“That when it comes down to it, when you walk into a Target, 75 percent of the people in that Target, you could sit down and have dinner with and absolutely get along with. It’s the fringe 12.5 percent on each side that you can’t.”

“It wasn’t the fact that we got the deals. It was the fact that we went into the WCW locker room and made our deals well-known to every top guy in that locker room. That’s the difference. People have always gotten paid, but nobody knew what Hogan got. They could always suspect. We went to the guys and I would just say, ‘Dude, how much you making? [They reply] I’m making 800. I’m making this. You need a f****** raise. We’re working in the same f****** matches.’”