Rising ticket prices for WWE events over the last couple of years has drawn the ire of wrestling fans and according to former manager/wrestler Scarlett Bordeaux, the topic wasn't just limited to fans - it was discussed backstage in the locker room as well.
Appearing on the The Coach and Bro (with Jonathan Coachman and Vince Russo) show this week, Coachman asked Bordeaux and husband Killer Kross whether escalating ticket prices were something that wrestlers talked about. Here's what Scarlett said:
"Constantly. We noticed it also with the comp tickets. We used to have no issues in different cities if we wanted to get comp tickets for friends and family. There were tickets that we were told were going to be approved and then last minute — we were told that the comp tickets were available, and day of there’s no tickets for people. But they’re deciding to sell them instead. So, like, little things like that we would notice. We noticed the ticket prices going higher, the fans would tell us. But it was definitely a topic of discussion amongst the locker room."
On the topic of money, Bordeaux and Kross also noted that while they were paid very well in WWE, they are actually earning more after leaving the company as they work indie dates as well as for MLW:
"This sounds crazy and probably not very believable, but it’s something I feel like the people in WWE right now who might be stressed out, ‘Am I going to get released?’ They might want to hear this: we are making more than we were making there. And we were getting paid very well (in WWE), but we are making more now weekly on the shows we’re doing than we were at WWE. WWE pays great, but it can be done if you hustle."
