On the latest edition of the Grilling JR podcast, Jim Ross spoke about his experience announcing games for the original XFL.
Ross ended up revealing how much he and Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler got paid for announcing XFL Games.
Here is what JR said (h/t to 411 Mania for the quotes below):
“The money was never great. I did it because I loved the game and I always wanted to fulfill a dream as a bucket list. Conrad, we made $1500 a game for this thing. Yeah, I’m serious. $1500 a game. They paid our T&E [travel and expense] and all that good stuff, obviously. But $1500, it was not big payday money here. It wasn’t a big deal, no.
Everybody’s talking about Ventura making a million [dollars]. So you know, Ventura’s making a million for a little part of a season of football which is great. Good for him, he got a hell of a deal. But the rest of us didn’t do it for the money. And at that point, when Lawler saw that the $1500 was all we were ever going to get, it took another day away. He could have made more than that going to do an independent wrestling show in Tupelo.”
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