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Post by NWA Fanatic on Aug 27, 2016 8:10:26 GMT -8
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Post by MKCS on Aug 27, 2016 16:49:19 GMT -8
Yeah. Great moment. Controversy creates cash
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Post by shawn on Aug 28, 2016 10:48:49 GMT -8
Now you can buy video games from him at Target.
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Post by MKCS on Aug 28, 2016 14:55:24 GMT -8
Now you can buy video games from him at Target. Don't know if he's still doing it but when he was at Target he wasn't some cashier he was the manager of a store which would have been a really decent living with all the trimmings that pro wrestling doesn't offer. I'd much rather these older professional wrestlers leave their TV days behind and get decent jobs rather than the alternative where you become like Tammy Lynn Sytch who is so obsessed with being a "star" and not being a "normal person" that she has to do adult films and whore herself to her fans from 20 years ago. It's always sad to me seeing guys like Honky Tonk Man who are well into their sixties and they're wrestling for 500 bucks and trying to con as much money as possible from the twenty people who came to see them. |
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Post by philvarlese on Aug 28, 2016 15:02:08 GMT -8
Now you can buy video games from him at Target. I hope that wasn't meant as a sarcastic comment. A job at Target is honorable money. Dude isn't selling drugs or robbing banks. I know many workers who enjoyed the spotlight years ago who have "regular" jobs away from the business these days. Perhaps we all need to remind ourselves when athletes in the 50's & 60's who kept jobs during the off season because they needed extra money to support their families. |
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Post by NWA Fanatic on Aug 28, 2016 17:37:46 GMT -8
Now you can buy video games from him at Target. I hope that wasn't meant as a sarcastic comment. A job at Target is honorable money. Dude isn't selling drugs or robbing banks. I know many workers who enjoyed the spotlight years ago who have "regular" jobs away from the business these days. Perhaps we all need to remind ourselves when athletes in the 50's & 60's who kept jobs during the off season because they needed extra money to support their families. People think working retail is a low end job and shouldn't be worthy, yet it takes all to make the world go around! Money is money and you can make a great living in the retail world if you're a reliable worker! But still one of the greatest moments in pro wrestling history as it pushed Eastern Championship Wrestling to the next level. |
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Post by Fred Richards on Aug 29, 2016 7:28:45 GMT -8
I concur with Phil Varlese and others who cite the truism that an honest work at an honest job is a manifestation of integrity and guts.
Few workers who made it to the top neither invested wisely (if at all) nor prepared for the inevitable day when their ring appeal was over. They squandered their paydays irresponsibly dodging reality and the Internal Revenue Service only to have it hit them like a DDT down the road - - does the name Ric Flair ring true???
Hell's bells, Brutus Beefcake was once employed as a part-time change maker in the Boston Subway System when he had empty pockets because he spent it all frivolously.
Once someone slides back down the ladder and reverts to the Indie circuit (although there is no shame to that). paydays crash accordingly. And even for those who command, say, a $750.00 talent fee - - when you're booked infrequently it doesn't go far given the expenses of a roof over your head, food in your family's bellies, etc. Notwithstanding, Pro Wrestling never came with a benefit package - no medical, dental prescription (legal ones) drug plan or pension.
This is one of the reasons I thank God I listened to my late friend The Magnificent Maurice when, at a Don "Lawman" Slatton card in Abilene , Texas back in 1967, he counselled me to stay out of this "racket" and get a real job. Maurice (Gene Dubuque) left his job as an NYC Fireman - a civil service job - to chase his dream; a dream, he found, that became a nightmare each time the ring lights went dark and he had little money for life's necessities.
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Post by gmellos on Aug 29, 2016 9:16:38 GMT -8
Now you can buy video games from him at Target. I'd much rather these older professional wrestlers leave their TV days behind and get decent jobs rather than the alternative where you become like Tammy Lynn Sytch who is so obsessed with being a "star" and not being a "normal person" that she has to do adult films and whore herself to her fans from 20 years ago. I haven't seen any of her videos but I heard she looks BAD. |
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Post by gmellos on Aug 29, 2016 9:20:29 GMT -8
Now you can buy video games from him at Target. Well I live in So California (where 2b 1b homes cost over 400,000 )and working at a Target isn't going to pay the bills! But I am sure in more central states where the price to live is like 1/2 of what it is in CA Target may be a decent wage job in those states. Now that being said a honest job IS a honest job!!! Not everyone thinks about tomorrow too. |
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Post by dkm on Aug 29, 2016 13:20:43 GMT -8
Median house hold income in the US is almost 52,000. You would have to be booked 6 times a month at $750 just to gross that much. If you are honest on your taxes you will have to pay self employment taxes reducing your next. That also assumes the promoter picks up the travel and hotel costs.
Considering many guys are lucky to 300 in the main event, even if you are booked, on average, 6 times a month that is only 21,600 a month. Or 10.38 an hour for a fulltime worker. For most it is far less.
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Post by Jay Cal on Aug 29, 2016 14:11:34 GMT -8
I wouldn't pay for the Tammy Lynn videos or to SKYPE with her, but my birthday is in November...
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Post by BeltFanChris on Aug 29, 2016 14:28:49 GMT -8
Sunny was so good looking in the mid 90's, now days 👎
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Post by dkm on Aug 29, 2016 16:10:01 GMT -8
I wouldn't pay for the Tammy Lynn videos or to SKYPE with her, but my birthday is in November... No |
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Post by nwasmokymtn on Aug 30, 2016 3:48:09 GMT -8
Tammy is... something else.
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Post by gmellos on Aug 30, 2016 7:43:26 GMT -8
Sunny was so good looking in the mid 90's, now days 👎 Most people were better looking in their 20s than they are in their 40s |
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