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Originally Posted by Dastardly Dale Newstead
But if you can prove that women don't draw and sell merch like men, than why would you pay them the same?
Morality and progressiveness has nothing to do with Destor's argument, it just comes down to brass tax.
However, out of all athletic endeavours, you could argue women can eventually make the same as men, since it's a scripted sport largely based on charisma. Whereas barriers face women in other sports because frankly, the quality of play can't physically/biologically ever match mens.
If what the lads are saying about the women being ratings draws is true, then we could start seeing the pay gap decrease in the industry.
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If I remember reading, there was a huge complaint recently about WWE paying their female talent well below their actual value. Got alleged by a former WWE and well known celebrity makeup artist who managed to find out some of the pay scales in the WWE.
She did make the mistake of comparing Nikki Bella to Brock in terms of top star power and pay but if you take out both and Cena for comparisons, the highest paid female performer makes very low midcard level of money at best ($200-$300k). Then you have a bunch still on their NXT contracts ($25k range) which gets eaten a lot because of traveling stuff.