NEWS - WWE's Pay Cut Controversy Keeps Getting Worse!
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
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Today's wrestling news, including...
WWE's Pay Cut Controversy Keeps Getting Worse!
Roman Reigns Contract Update!
More Releases Coming?!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, my very good friends, on this wrestling news video, |
| 0:03.0 | WW's pay cut controversy keeps getting worse. |
| 0:06.0 | We'll tell you why WW is doing all of this. |
| 0:09.0 | We have an update on Roman Rain's contract in particular, |
| 0:13.0 | and on top of all of that, could more WWE releases be coming soon? |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Andy H.Murray, the H stands for heavy duty and we are back with our second |
| 0:22.5 | news video of the day as new information just keeps emerging on this WWP cut situation. |
| 0:29.6 | If you have somehow missed all of this, we do have the video up from this morning going |
| 0:34.2 | over the story, amongst other things, of a current WWSTAR, a majorly pushed |
| 0:39.9 | WWSTAR, as they were described as, being offered and taking a 50% pay cut. |
| 0:46.1 | Well, it transpires that this person, whoever it may be, we don't know who it is, is not the |
| 0:52.7 | only person in the company, WWW, who has been asked to |
| 0:56.2 | restructure their deal and take a pay cut and actually agreed to do so. So a few people have done it |
| 1:01.9 | within the promotion. This is a new report here from Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, |
| 1:06.9 | adding some extra details to this whole, let's call it a mess. Why the hell not? It kind of is one. |
| 1:12.8 | I'm going to read you what Dave said and then we can pick it apart. He said, |
| 1:16.7 | I've been told that there were several people who were asked to take pay cuts and they took them. |
| 1:21.4 | I don't know how many. I don't know who. Obviously, the new day was asked and they did not want to renegotiate so they have gotten their releases. |
| 1:30.1 | Apparently, there were some others who did end up renegotiating and probably as time goes on there will be more of these. |
| 1:36.1 | In fact, there definitely will. |
| 1:38.3 | So Sean Ross Sapp tweeted in the wake of this 50% pay cut story breaking, which was a PW Insider story. |
| 1:46.3 | Sean tweeted that more people had been offered it. |
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