List of WWE Personnel

Wrestler finishers

* WWF contracts.html
* Full List WWE Wrestlers Salaries 2014
* Old Wrestling Salaries
* WCW Contract & Payroll Information (1996-2000)
* Summerslam 2022 stage [entrance set]

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* From AEW, CM Punk, Chuck Taylor, Ethan Page, FTR, Mickie James, John Morrison, Hangman Page, The Butcher and William Regal are leftist
* From AEW, Young Bucks, Britt Baker and Chris Jericho are right-wing
* Zack Sabre Jr., Excalibur from PWG, Allysin Kay, Beth Phoenix, CM Punk, David Starr, Dalton Castle, Dave Batista, Kevin Nash, Liv Morgan, Mercedes Martinez, Mick Foley, JBL, Rosemary, Gail Kim, Raven and Shelton Benjamin are leftists also
* Austin Aries, Bryan Danielson and Kimber Lee are Green Party supporters
* Brock Lesnar, Big Show, Larry Zbyszko, Ted DiBiase and his son, Steve Austin and Kurt Angle are Republican
* Kane is a libertarian
* Ric Flair is a Mike Huckabee supporter

## Corporate staff

**Board of directors**

Triple H is EVP of Talent Relations from 2011 until 2022

Executive Assistant

### **Executive management**

* WWE brought back their own sales force
* Chief operating officer (COO) combines the roles of Chief business officer, chief business development officer, chief visionary officer, chief strategy officer, chief administrative officer (CAO)
* 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
* Chairman combined the President roles as well
* Chief design officer is combined with Chief content officer
* Executive Assistant is merged with Chief of Staff
* Chief product officer merges with Chief branding officer, Chief marketing officer and Chief sales officer, into 1 role and 1 team.

### History

* Golden Era (1982–1993)
* New Generation Era (1993–1997)
* Attitude Era (December 15, 1997–May 7, 2002)
* Ruthless Aggression Era (May 8, 2002–July 22, 2008)
* PG Era (July 22, 2008–July 19, 2016)
* **Retribution Era (July 19, 2016–2020; 2021–present)**
* COVID-19 era (2020–2021)

## Broadcast team

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

### Raw

 Corey Graves
* Big 4 PPV commentator
* Host of *This Week in WWE*
 Kevin Patrick
 Mike Rome
 Mauro Ranallo
* Big 4 PPV commentator

### SmackDown

* Pre-show host for pay-per-views
* Host of *Talking Smack*
 Michael Cole
* Play-by-play commentator
 Megan Morant
 Samantha Irvin
 Pat McAfee

### NXT

 Kelly Kincaid
 McKenzie Mitchell
* Co-host for Pre-show of NXT TakeOvers
 Vic Joseph
 Wade Barrett

## **Music department**

 Jim Johnston
 John Paul Alicastro
 Michael Conrad Lauri

## **Producers**

* Lance Storm never joins WWE
* Sylvain Grenier never joins WWE
* Billy Kidman left in WWE 2020
* On April 15, 2020, Helms was released by WWE
* In April 2021, Jordan was promoted to a new role of lead producer overseeing all other producers at TV tapings
* Jimmy Wang Yang was released on December 28, 2021
* Pat Buck resigned from WWE on April 4, 2022

## Men wrestler roster

### **NXT**

"Undisputed" by CFO$ ft. Josiah Williams

Roderick Strong at Undisputed Era "Shock the System"

* Curt Stallion
* Draco Anthony
* Tyler Rust

## Women

### **SmackDown**

Nia Jax - Cannonball Senton, Powerbomb, Samoan Drop

### **NXT**

B-Fab

Austin Theory released in 2020 following allegations of sexual misconduct with a 13 year old girl as well as an inappropriate video surfacing.

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**

* 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-A Democrat
* 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

Corporate Ministry Titration (April 29, 1999 - August 2, 1999)

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?"

## **Note**

* Braun Strowman- Build him up, bring in local athletes and Performance Center guys and have them lose to Strowman for a few weeks, remind everyone that he’s still a Main Event worthy monster and not a pin eater
* Aleister Black-Just like Braun, Build him up. Have him beat local athletes and performance centre guys then have him feud with Big E and such
* Steve Cutler, Wesley Blake, Arturo Ruas-Have him do something, doesn’t matter if it’s putting over guys like Corbin And Shinsuke or beating Local Athletes just do something with him
* Killian Dain-keep The Team with Drake, have them lose a little bit then give them a underdog story and some wins that ends with a Tag Title Win
* Alexander Wolfe-Have him feud with Aichner and Barthel, give him some wins and have him face WALTER for the U.K Title
* Tucker-Loses on Raw against guys like Ricochet, Mansoor, Drew Gulak, but gets 50/50 booking on Main Event, And finally give him a match against Otis
* Buddy Murphy - Do something with him, anything.
* Lana - Have her take losses but don’t squash her, have her matches be like Young Lion Matches in NJPW
* Ruby Riott - push her and Liv.
* Chelsea Green - I know she was injured during her last few months with the company, but still, you could’ve at least waited til she was healthy and give her a push
* Andrade - PUSH HIM LIKE THE BIG DEAL HE IS
* Bo Dallas- unless he wanted to step away from wrestling, I don’t see why they didn’t just have him on SmackDown putting over other talent
* Ember Moon - keep her in NXT the women’s division could use someone with her experience for the newer talents
* Mia Yim - have her be a somewhat too name in the SmackDown women’s division
* Harry Smith - would work well as a bodyguard type character, to who? I don’t know
* Franky Monet and John Morrison - Top duo on NXT, Morrison would be a solid addition to NXT since he’s both a good worker and his style fits in with the new NXT style, Franky was already there and she was good
* Tegan Nox - Have her as a top face underdog in the Raw women’s division
* Toni Storm - make her a top woman on SmackDown, let her shine in Matches
* Cesaro - put him in NXT, imagine Cesaro vs WALTER, Cesaro vs Dunne, Cesaro vs anyone, give him matches with time and let him shine