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#4 Jesse Ventura
Taking Vince McMahon to court isn’t what one would call a good idea. In fact, very few have taken Vince to court and won. One of the few who have sued McMahon and have come out on the winning side is Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura.
The story starts in 1987 when Ventura was renegotiating his contract. At the time, Ventura was told that non-performers don’t get royalties for videotape sales and thus he waived his rights to royalties for them.
When Ventura later found out what he had been told about non-performers not getting royalties was false, he took McMahon to court. Ventura demanded $2 million in royalties. The case went to federal court and McMahon was ordered to pay Ventura $801,333 as well as $8,625 in back pay. At the time, Vince McMahon said that Ventura would never appear on WWE television again but he actually did appear a few times over the following years.
Ventura spoke about taking Vince McMahon to court in an interview years later, talking about his departure from the WWE:
I had a deal outside of the WWF and he wouldn’t allow me to do it, I told him he didn’t own me, in which he replied that if I did the job that was me done with the WWF, and I said, ‘Fine, I’m done,’ and moved on. I sued him and I beat Vince McMahon in federal court because my likeness and voice were on 98 of his tapes. And now I’m paid royalties for everything that I participated on by the WWE and there is nothing Vince can do about it because it is court ordered.
