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#2. Hope is true: Why WWE can't make Superstars take pay cuts

With the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people have lost their jobs around the world and the same applied to WWE, where over 30 Superstars were released and "hundreds" of others behind-the-scenes lost their jobs.

While it was rumored that higher-ups were forced to take pay cuts, it seems as though WWE Superstars haven't had to. The releases may have covered for that.

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Dave Meltzer revealed on the Wrestling Observer Radio that the nature of the WWE talent contracts has details that prevent Superstars from taking a pay cut:

“The thing is the talent is under contract. If the talent is asked to take a pay cut then they become free agents and then they can go to AEW. So the talent is gonna be the last ones. Perhaps the undercard talent, I mean they may offer people who they don’t think will go, or they don’t think will be interest, or they don’t care if they go. Then you’re breaching contracts. I don’t see them breaching contracts with talent. That will be the last one that they do, but yeah, it’s another one. They gotta keep those profits up."

We hope this is true because it would be unfair for the talent to take heavy pay cuts.

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Rohit Nath is a content writer from Bangalore, India. A former full-time employee of Sportskeeda, Rohit was a part of building Sportskeeda's WWE section in its rapid growth. His work has been featured in both Sportskeeda and Wrestlezone.

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