Select Answers: WWE salaries, Dixie Carter, Reused themes (Patreon)

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Every so often I see a Dixie Carter clip of her addressing the TNA roster in a really weird manner. She was like scolding them. What was this about?

Oh, man. It was weird. She felt like the locker room was getting away from her, when in reality, they just weren't confident in creative. A few people I spoke to couldn't even remember it. Matt Morgan told me he couldn't believe it was actually happened. Eric Young was baffled and believed someone got in her ear about them not respecting her. It came off horribly and ages even worse.

What is the average WWE main roster salary?

They're all over the place. The minimum these days is 350k. I've heard of people that will never sniff the main event again getting millions of dollars, which is fantastic news. However, I've also heard of people who have been there for years getting stonewalled at 500-600k. Still, pretty incredible considering when Good Brothers and FTR were being offered 700-800k in 2019 a lot of people acted like it was the end of the world.

A lot of people know Hulk Hogan's theme used to belong to someone else, and Kurt Angle's was the Patriot. Is this common for any prominent wrestlers? Does it happen today.

Yes, it still happens today. I can't say which act ended up using it, but I'd always heard that the theme that Cope & Gangrel were going to use for a while ended up going to someone else. However, Mikey Rukus can put together a good theme really shortly, so he doesn't have a great need to reuse them.

In the past, CM Punk got "This Fire Burns," which was originally meant for Randy Orton, and Orton actually used it once.

My favorite example is the infamous Brodus Clay theme. In all, Brodus Clay, Sweet T (Tensai/Albert), Xavier Woods, Naomi and Cameron all used that theme. But it was used years before by Ernest "The Cat" Miller and Lamont. However, there's an oft-overlooked version of this. Right in between the Ernest Miller/Brodus Clay runs, there was the "God" match at Backlash 2006. They used a remixed version of the song for God.