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12/14/2024
“My first paycheck, well, in wrestling, my first paycheck was $40. That’s what our guarantee [was]. This was before WWE. As you’re starting out, I wasn’t ready for WWE. And so I started, I made my bones down in Tennessee.There is a wrestling company down there. It was called the USWA, famous. Everybody came through there, Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler, everybody who became somebody went through there, and that’s where you made your bones and cut your teeth. The guarantee, every night, was $40. Didn’t matter where you were at on the card, that was your guarantee," Dwyane Johnson said.
