WrestleMania 40 is upon us, with the largest wrestling present of the 12 months scheduled for Saturday and Sunday in Philadelphia.
The occasion has been constructed across the return of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who is about to compete in a WWE ring for the primary time since 2013 – except a record-breaking, fast win at WrestleMania in 2016.
Talking of ‘document breaking’, WrestleMania 40 is anticipated to be the biggest-ever version of the historic occasion, with WWE and its guardian firm Endeavor anticipating to see important monetary success.
However what concerning the wrestlers themselves?
The specifics of WWE contracts have lengthy been onerous to determine, however WWE star-turned-executive Triple H (actual title Pail Levesque) advised The Athletic in 2022 {that a} WWE wrestler’s minimal base wage is $250,000.
That determine may need risen since, after all, and it reportedly solely utilized to members of the Smackdown Dwell and Uncooked rosters – not wrestlers on NXT, which is WWE’s developmental present.
Nonetheless, wrestlers’ wages are boosted by merchandise gross sales and, it’s believed, by cuts of pay-per-view gross sales as properly. In fact, merchandise gross sales are more likely to be important on a WrestleMania week and weekend, in addition to pay-per-view gross sales, so Saturday (6 April) and Sunday (7 April) might be probably the most profitable days of the 12 months for many WWE wrestlers.
In August, The Mirror reported a number of the highest WWE wages as these: Roman Reigns $5m per 12 months; Randy Orton $5m per 12 months; Seth Rollins $3.5m per 12 months; Cody Rhodes $3m per 12 months; Logan Paul $2m per 12 months. These figures reportedly don’t embrace bonuses.
Full WrestleMania 40 card
Night time one
The Bloodline (The Rock and Roman Reigns) vs Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins
Rhea Ripley (C) vs Becky Lynch – WWE Ladies’s World Championship
Gunther (C) vs Sami Zayn – WWE Intercontinental Championship
Jey Uso vs Jimmy Uso
The Judgment Day (Finn Balor and Damian Priest) (C) vs #DIY (Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa) vs The Superior Fact (The Miz and R-Fact) vs The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) vs A-City Down Below (Austin Concept and Grayson Waller) vs New Catch Republic (Pete Dunne and Tyler Bate) – Undisputed WWE Tag-Workforce Championship ladder match
Bianca Belair, Jade Cargill and Naomi vs Injury CTRL (Dakota Kai, Asuka, and Kairi Sane) – Six-woman tag-team match
Latino World Order (Rey Mysterio and Dragon Lee) vs Santos Escobar and “Soiled” Dominik Mysterio – Tag-team match
Night time two
Roman Reigns (C) vs Cody Rhodes – WWE Undisputed Common Championship
Seth Rollins (C) vs Drew McIntyre – WWE World Heavyweight Championship [CM Punk on guest commentary]
Iyo Sky (C) vs Bayley – WWE Ladies’s Championship
Logan Paul (C) vs Randy Orton vs Kevin Owens – United States Championship
LA Knight vs AJ Kinds
The Pleasure (Bobby Lashley, Angelo Dawkins, and Montez Ford) vs The Ultimate Testomony (Karrion Kross, Akam, and Rezar) – Six-man Philadelphia Avenue Combat
