Steph De Lander Says Most Talent Are On Per Appearance Deals In TNA
Steph De Lander discusses TNA contracts.
After spending nearly two years with the promotion, De Lander announced her that she was quitting TNA Wrestling on Wednesday, March 4. Mance Warner, the husband of De Lander, also left the company.
Speaking with Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp for a new interview, Steph De Lander revealed that most talent in TNA are on per-appearance deals.
“As far as I’m aware, most talent aren’t on salary. They are on pay-per-appearance, which basically means if you get booked for this day, you will get paid whatever your rate is for that as a day rate. It’s great if you’re booked consistently and you’re working and you have a good rate and all of that, but then it is difficult for people if they are left off for a loop or a few loops in a row or if there’s only two tapings a month, that’s only two opportunities to get paid. So it’s not a conventional weekly salary paycheck. I know they did do that previously and I think there’s still a few people that might be on that kind of deal just from signing that with previous management. But from what I’m aware, for the most part, it’s moved to pay-per-appearance deals.”
Continuing on, De Lander revealed that herself and Warner were originally scheduled for both tapings in New Orleans before being pulled from one of them.
“Yeah, you can go months without getting paid if they don’t book you. Even for the tapings next week for New Orleans, we were told we were on both of them, they booked the travel and whatever and then I got an email that we were only needed for one day. That was kind of part of what made me think like, ‘Okay, I thought I was gonna be wrestling at this show. Now I’m unbooked for one of the days,’ which again, also means that you’re not getting paid for one of those days. So you’ve planned your month around, I’m going to be earning this much per month. You also haven’t taken any bookings that day and then if you get told two weeks beforehand, it’s too late to pick up any indie bookings. So that part of the scheduling and everything being so last minute can definitely affect you financially as well.”
Elsewhere in the interview, De Lander went into detail about her decision to quit TNA. Check out her full explanation by clicking here.
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