All our characters are loaded with cash, or at least that's what we like to claim. Dan Ryan and Lindsay Troy are loaded enough to buy whole wrestling companies. Wrestling would have to be a major part of the US/World economy if the FWC-A-Verse was real. Health Care Reform would live or die in the Senate based on what the Wrestling lobby or "Big Wrestling" had to say about it...
So now I ask you, how rich is your character? I'll go down the list of my major characters first.
Doc Silver- Doc was born into money, that was always a part of the character, he's like BJ Penn in the sense that he never had to work a day in his life if he didn't have to, but he got into wrestling and made good money doing it anyhow. Doc's most likely worth about 4-5 million.
Bloodhunt- Bloodhunt might have made good coin in NFW, but he knew he'd have to work after the business was over. Currently has an ownership stake in a used car dealership somewhere in Maryland, wrestles in bingo halls/VFW Hall's for whatever money they pay him. He's middle class America, making 40K or so a year, maybe a little more. He has enough in the bank for a rainy day fund.
The First- He's new to the sport, we'll just assume UCW paid him OK with promises of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and then ran for the hills when the creditors came calling. He'd still be on a kind of low paying contract in EPW and A1E, his profit margin would really be how much of a cut does he get on his EPW merch. I'd assume he's making a little under 200K from all income sources combined, which seems great, but odds are with his size his career isn't going to last more then 15 years (If it even gets that far) so unless he knows he has to make a big score in wrestling or else his nightmare of being "Brian Nadalny" and working some shitty desk job to provide for his wife and kid will be one that comes true.
So how do you see your characters pay scale? Reply damn you!
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Interesting post.
ReplyDeleteAnarky would probably be fairly wealthy at this point, though I don't really write him that way. He does own a nightclub in Hartford, as well as at least two homes, neither of which is mansion-like. So I don't think I oversell his richness, but I do sometimes set the promo in his bar, which is only partially fleshed out.
HAL probably makes as much as a typical IT guy. He has enough money to afford some solid computer systems, but you'll never see him in an Aston Martin.
Kazuo Shizaki would probably be rich, what with the awesome lifetime as a mob assassin? Not very realistic -- was never portrayed as especially rich.
Eddie Patton has yet to debut, but will almost certainly be a middle class fella.
Like Doc, the Troy's were born into money. Their father built a communications/PR firm from the ground up after studying in the States and eventually becoming a US Citizen. When he died, they inherited his wealth and business. Their mother (along with their aunt) was a successful musician in the Florida Orchestra before her death. Their father was born into money too, but essentially rejected his family once he came abroad for school. I never got into the mom's backstory quite like I did the dad's, so I can't say for sure how well-off her family was/is. The girls' aunt and uncle (who raised them after their parents' deaths) are middle to upper middle class...not rich, but comfortable.
ReplyDeleteAlaina still runs the family business (prez/CEO). LT is on the board, but doesn't do anything in the day-to-day operations. The Troy girls made some smart investments along the way, but LT's wealth mainly comes from the wrestling business. She and her sister still own her father's house (which LT still resides in part-time) and she also owns a home outside of Boston (used as a plot-point for a successful Universal Title defense in PRIME).
JA is like Bradshaw, only with less shower rape. That is to say he's a self-made millionaire on stock market and investment stuff.
ReplyDeleteI imagine Maggot as living in Randy the Ram type conditions.
Everyone else is somewhere in between.
If you consider how many leagues claim to sell out arenas with capacities between 16-40,000 on a monthly basis, you'd think Pro Wrestling was bigger than U.S. Steel. In a kayfabe environment where 20 different pro wrestling companies can sell out MSG, the average yearly salary would be something in the range of 200,000 per year.
ReplyDeleteBut...aside from mocking our little community... :-)
Since NFW is a big time, big money fed, my guess is they Castor pretty well. In character he owns a production company that yields crazy profits, but I never thought of what he might make IRL. I guess his backstory could be that he found some film success outside of wrestling during his time off, and now he's legit rich. But again, NFW probably pays him pretty well.
Layne sorta lives in Randy the Ram conditions, or he did...but I said in storyline that he signed a decent contract with EPW. So he can afford to drive around in a Hummer H2; maybe he's in the 80-90,000 p/y ballpark?
PC makes shit, plus Paul "Heyman" Miller keeps forgetting to pay him. :-)
J1D definitely didn't make coin wrestling for LVW, even as their champion.
NFW was paying Mylde OK, but RA Palazzo overpaid to get him as NLW's color commentator. Mylde's set.
I don't think I established an exact dollar amount with the Marx family fortune, but with Marx being a third generation wrestler, having gone to Princeton, a laboratory where he built a time machine in Mansion, and his father having a financial share in WFW... I'd say he'd have a Bruce Wayne like fortune.
ReplyDelete"The Undying" Rocko Daymon - During the divorce proceedings with his wife, Daymon agreed to sign over all of his monetary assets and marketing liscensing to Caitlyn. In his mind, it was an honorable way of thanking his estranged family for their token support, by setting them up for life with the earnings he made being a multiple World Champion in the peak years of his career. Having waived all that, he's pretty much living on crackers and soup, living out of gyms, rec centers, and YMCAs across the country and hitching random rides form city to city. A less than glamorous lifestyle, but some could say it compliments his rugged approach to wrestling and life.
ReplyDeleteErik Black - It's always hard to pinpoint Erik's exact monetary value, given a lot of his assets come in the form of illegal contraband. I'm not just talking substances -- it's long been known that he and Ivan run a bootleg merchandise racket. What is known is that they usually have enough cash on hand to gas up their van to the next show and re-up their supply, if need be.
Olvir Arsvinnar - I like to think that Olvir's years of plundering castles have granted him a treasury that makes him quite well-off. After all, he apparently owns his own property in Las Vegas. On top of this, his cut from the pornography features at Valhalla Studios probably sets him up well. This is likely how he can afford a giant bigwheel-mounted dragon ship to lay siege to virtually anything he sets his eyes upon.
Eli Flair is a millionaire several times over, and never has to work again. He started with virtually nothing, but, as his pay increased and his exposure got bigger, his road bills stayed the same. He lived in the same rent controlled apartment in the Bronx as a twenty three year old curtain jerker as he did as a twenty eight year old World Champion or a thirty five year old legend. He was virtually alone for the six year stretch that saw his star go from bright to nuclear, and he saved probably a good sixty percent of that money with nothing to spend it on. Nowadays, he and Ivy McGinnis are 50% partners in a bar, and his wife is a fairly successful musician, so he's pretty set.
ReplyDeleteThe McGinnis family was working class - all three kids worked at the family diner, so Ivy never really WANTED for anything. But, no matter how much money ever came in, she was a workaholic and just kept doing more and more, and her parents taught her frugality, so she managed to amass some funds as well.
Impulse doesn't really have any investments or any future plans - he clears enough away to pay his rent and bills after road expenses, and to put a bit of cash aside. But he has the same habits and the same hangouts as he did before he started wrestling. I've tried to make him as close as possible to a celebrity completely unaffected by that celebrity.
I always figured with Problem Child that he got paid well by WFW:NE, but then after he paid all the fines for mentioning all of the other leagues, he'd be getting back to opening match money.
ReplyDeleteFusenshoff spends all his money on booze. The rest he squanders.
ReplyDeleteCruise at this point is fairly wealthy. Starting out, he made about the average salary any other decent wrestler now-a-days makes, but of course, that was before he was put in with Joey Melton and the endorsements, etc., as well as joining the Highland Park Social Club. Being that the HPSC is widespread known in the company as a top-tier class (that I've understood), Cruise has become accustomed to riding in limos, Lear Jets, and dressing the way a Millionaire should, though his personality to a point never changed; he's still intent on training, conducting business on a scale that has himself more or less busy all week long, though he still finds time to tip back acouple when he needs to. Touring and staying in shape is still the constant and so long as he doesn't fall into a phase like Tom Sizemore, he'll be fine for the rest of his life.
ReplyDeleteErik Mateo owns a bar over in Nevada and looks nothing like his title but knows how to run things in his bar "right". With that said he loves the chance at proving other men wrong, especially in a match.
Karla Starr lives the lifestyle much similar to that of Michelle McCool. She's by no mean's rich, but she likes to dress like her and conduct herself as much. (if that makes sense.)
Rory Henderson is by no means "rich" whatsoever. He "had" an average man's salary but that was before he was committed to the looney Bin.