10 Reasons Brock Lesnar Is The Most Hated Man In WWE
9. It Actually Is All About The Money, Money, Money
Taking into consideration the number of appearances hes contracted for per year, and how many of them are actual wrestling matches, Brock Lesnars $5 million per year flat rate for his last three years with WWE has to make him one of the highest paid men in the industry. And its not for a one-off appearance, like the Rock and the Undertaker at Wrestlemania (probably the only other people with a comparable earnings/appearance ratio), who are really on the WWE active roster in name only Lesnar is the WWE world heavyweight champion, and has been since August last year. He was certainly making more in UFC, but that was based mostly around a commission on pay-per-view buy rates: if he didnt draw, he didnt earn, and a whole host of variables could affect a UFC pay-per-view fight, far too many of which are completely outside of a fighters control. Compare that with earning a flat fee in a scripted entertainment medium, where all he has to worry about is turning up ready to go, and where youre not being punched full in the face for a living. You can see why hes back with the WWE and thats kind of the problem. The core pro wrestling audience (as opposed to the casual audience) is enthusiastic, maybe slightly obsessive, but above all devoted to the art form. It has to be, to spend that kind of time and money on something that often simply doesnt pay off. It tends to fall in love with performers that appear to be just as committed, just as passionate: and everyone knows that Lesnar isnt that man. Daniel Bryan is. CM Punk was. Zack Ryder got over, not because of a few catchphrases, but because of his overwhelming, almost childlike love of everything to do with being a WWE superstar and wrestler he so desperately wanted to make it in the WWE that the crowd decided he deserved to. Brock Lesnar is a mercenary, and not in a cool, sexy way. Even the flat fee salary structure bears this out: his earnings arent tied to how well WWE does, because hes not interested in helping them do well. He just wants the payout to be consistent. This is the man who beat Frank Mir in the Octagon, spat on the UFCs sponsorship from Bud Light and endorsed Coors Light instead because Bud Light wont pay me nuthin.
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