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Originally Posted by Matthean
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Some good stuff there. TNA pays him $22,000 a month? I don't understand the economics of wrestling at all.
As a tangnet on that point, I don't understand how a Randy Savage tribute show in Florida could draw 150 people at $5-$10/piece, and then everyone's shocked that the promotor couldn't pay everyone. And that Ox Baker so generously only asked for "airfare from CT", which by my math, would pretty much wipe out the entire amount of ticket sales. Somehow I doubt the promotor was sitting on some giant treasure trove after this show instead of paying talent:
Randy 'Macho Man' Savage benefit called a 'blemish on the name of wrestling' - St. Petersburg Times. I don't get how anyone outside the WWE can make a living wrestling, or promoting shows.
But back to the point, this is the highlight of the article;
2002: In May, Fliehr and a group of other wrestlers, including Scott Hall ("Razor Ramon") and Virgil Runnels III ("Dustin Rhodes a.k.a. Goldust") were on a chartered flight back to the United States after a series of shows in Europe. They began drinking, and the situation quickly deteriorated. Two flight attendants, Taralyn Cappellano and Heidi Doyle, would compile their allegations into a 2004 lawsuit. Chief among the chronicled misdeeds was Fliehr's sexual aggression. He wore nothing but a jeweled cape, the flight attendants said, and "flashed his nakedness, spinning his penis around." He separately grabbed each woman's hand and placed it on his crotch, and then "forcibly detained and restrained" Doyle "from leaving the back of the galley of the airplane while he sexually assaulted her." Other wrestlers on the flight passed out syringes to the flight attendants with instructions to dispose of them. The specifics of the assault aren't clear. At other points during the flight, Hall licked Doyle's face, told her he wanted to "lick her pussy," and asked Cappellano to "suck his dick." Runnels advised Cappellano that, "You and me are gonna fuck."