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Breakdown said:

And that she makes way more money as a dentist than a wrestler so you know if you can lock that pussy down you are set financially

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I THINK that Britt is on a $1.2M/year or so contract (along with Nyla Rose, for some reason) which was part of the "women main eventers will be paid the same as men main eventers" initiative touted at the outset of the company forming, which didn't really hold up as an idea for very long. At that time, the "division centerpieces" were supposed to be Britt, Nyla, and Kylie Rae (who quickly dropped off). They may have renegociated the contracts in mid-2022, I don't know. Britt didn't take a pay cut in any case. So it might be higher now.

My point is, her wrestling salary is actually a lot higher than a dentist's, even if the dentist were working full time which she doesn't. Doing both certainly doesn't hurt, and with AEW's lack of house shows (for a bit longer anyway) most of the people who work there have a ton of free time between traveling. Britt could make a ton of money if she wanted to by filling up the rest of the schedule with dentist work, but from what I understand she only dentists on one day a week and takes several days off. Monday, I think, then travel Tuesday, then work Wednesday, travel Thursday, Fri-Sun off.

Adam Cole got hired at $1.5M/year IIRC (the same as the rest of the Elite on their original contracts) so unless she renegociated a good deal, chances are he makes slightly more than Britt. No clue what he makes from Twitch but it's not insubstantial, so tack that on there too.

If anything I'd say they're both lucky to have locked each other down.

Aside from MJF accidentally throwing tequila in a little kid's face and probably getting the company sued, yeah, it was a pretty solid night. The match quality was nuts. Only weak link was Wardlow/Joe, but Wardlow gon' get pushed. Nice enough guy and I want him to do well, but IDK, it isn't working. Hopefully TK gives Hobbs the nod this week.

And then Wardlow's gear and the TNT Title turned up stolen...

THE KID DID IT

Not sure why anybody would think it's a good idea to leave anything in a car in California at this point. I hear it takes 5 minutes to get your car broken into in the Bay Area if you leave anything expensive visible on the seats.

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Odd choice but i might just grab a ticket if i can get one since its a cheap flight there lol

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Toronto is well within range to get the Chicago crowd that filled the United Center for last year's Forbidden Door, as well as being a nice centralized location. Good choice, but I wish they were going with the Skydome instead. Been 24 years since a non-Wrestlemania show was able to draw a large crowd to the Skydome (February 1999 RAW), and I bet AEW could do it with proper promotion and the right matches (Omega vs Ospreay II, Moxley vs Okada, Bryan vs Tanahashi, MJF vs Naito). Running a regular arena for a supershow like this is a waste, but then again so was running All Out 2021 in the NOW Arena instead of the United Center. WCW did this stuff too, Starrcade 97 took place at a significantly smaller venue than the next four or so Nitros did (they ran a bunch of stadiums in January 1998).

Fun Fact: If Double or Nothing is main evented by the Four Pillars Four-Way, it'll be the first AEW PPV ever to be main evented entirely by homegrown stars with no ex-WWE or ex-NJPW presence. Hard to believe when we're four years in but it's true.

Goldberg free agent.

Get ready everybody, Tony Khan LOVES the Goldberg. People think TK is this giant workrate guy, but he'll recreate The Streak ASAP if he doesn't think it'll damage the rest of the company (which is the tough part isn't it?)

He tried to get Goldberg in 2019 for the Dynamite debut episode. Wasn't quick enough on the draw, cause WWE made him a new offer and fed him Dolph Ziggler at Summerslam.