Chavo Guerrero Recalls A Time When Wrestling Promotions Didn’t Want To Deal With Agents, ‘It Was Almost Very Shunned Upon’

Chavo Guerrero thinks that agents are important in the wrestling space.

In recent years, names like Barry Bloom and Mojo Rawley have largely dominated the agent space in wrestling, managing top names from the industry like Chris Jericho, Kenny Omega, Mercedes Mone, and CM Punk.

In a new interview with Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp, Chavo Guerrero recalled a time where the industry looked down on wrestlers having agents.

“Back in the day, they did not want to deal with agents, period. It was almost very shunned upon, they did not want to look or even deal with you if you’re dealing with an agent. My take was always like, hold on, did JR or Johnny Ace or Vince McMahon write this contract? No. Their lawyers wrote this contract. So, for me just to read it as a law student, it doesn’t make sense. So, you have to have a lawyer look at that. The reason why we’re getting paid, Brad and myself as their agency, is because we’re trying to get them the best deal. If we get them the same amount of money that they would’ve made without us, well then there’s no need for us. But, if we’re making them money, okay, well there you go. That may possibly work in the future. It’s not just money, it’s your three-month no compete, it’s so many other things in there that wrestling contracts have definitely changed. They continue to change but the first time someone got their rental cars paid for or the first time they got their hotels included or the first time they got a guaranteed paid, that wasn’t standard in the industry. My grandfather didn’t have that, my father didn’t have that, uncles didn’t have that, nobody had that. Then, WCW came around and we started having that. That changed the game for WWE, they had to start giving guaranteed downsides. It just really changed the way that wrestlers are treated, you know?”

Elsewhere in the interview, Chavo spoke about the one-sided nature of contracts in wrestling. Check out his full comments by clicking here.

Fans can check out Fightful’s full interview with Chavo Guerrero in the video linked at the top of this article.