The veteran exluchador and manager currently in AEW -He has also gone through WWE, NJPW or TNA– MVP has a few words for independent talent. And exposes his problems with a promoter, MLW.
► MVP to Indies fighters
“For you, independent fighters: do not get so excited for being 'signed'. I have seen this of people who say: 'I am a talent with contract'. If you signed a contract to fight in a company but you still need to have full -time job, you are not signed at all. If you have a contract where you want a few hundred dollars a month, and you also have a financial obligation with that company, do not presume to be signed. You are not under a contract that allows you to live as a professional fighter. You still have to complement your income working in a gym or whatever. ”
“The problem is also that, when you are starting, you are still trying to understand where you are standing, and you have no negotiation power. So, if someone offers you the opportunity to fight for a company and they tell you: 'We want you to sign a contract, if you do not use you, we will not use you anymore.' What are you doing? You wonder: I sign this contract and tie up this company, where at least I have some exposure on TV and some money, or I say no, and I don't appear anywhere? It is a difficult situation.”
“I had a well -known confrontation with Court Bauer and MLW because they were signing talents with contracts that, from a professional point of view, seemed unfair to me. Brody King, who is now in AEW, approached me and asked me: 'Hey, they want me to sign this contract.' And I said: 'I can't tell you with a quiet consciousness that you firm it, because it doesn't seem fair.' I remember that I told Court: 'Give these boys a 90 -day output clause.' That doesn't ruin your television, you have 90 days to close any story you want and get them out. Make them lose before leaving, whatever. But if NXT appears and offers them an opportunity to earn money that will change their lives, are you going to make you stay with you for two or three years earning a few hundred dollars a month, without being able to live as fighters? That is why we and me distance ourselves. To this day, Brody and I are very close because he told me: 'Thank you for being honest with me.' I simply could not, with a quiet consciousness, tell him to sign that contract.
But I also understand the dilemma in which one is located, because if you have no influence, what are you going to do? It is a painful decision, but it is the reality.”
