Former WWE broadcaster and talent Jonathan “Coach” Coachman recently joined Insight with Chris Van Vliet this week when he discussed his issues with his payments getting bounced in WWE.
Coachman, aka The Coach, debuted in the World Wrestling Federation in 1999 as an interviewer, commentator, and presenter. In 2003, Coach turned heel and would become an authority figure years later, before his departure in 2008.
Close to a decade later, Coachman returned in January 2018 as a Raw commentator but was replaced by that September.
Here is what he said:
“But I think everybody would agree and the schedule has changed now they were running people into the ground. Nobody should be working 52 weeks a year, nobody. They shouldn’t be having new shows 52 weeks a year, let’s be honest. And everybody inside WWE says it. They just don’t want to admit it. But no company should work that way. But for me what it was, I’ll just be honest with you, Chris is they came to me and they said XFL 2020. And Vince needs somebody there that he trusts that can do it the right way. So I was flying from California to New York every week to do the pre-show. And because they hired a lot of people who never worked for him before.
So I trust Vince, implicitly, like I’ve done so much for him with him. Everybody knows that. And so you turn in invoices, right? Well, I didn’t turn mine in right away. Because I’d worked for him for 20 years. He had always paid me, right? So COVID happens. And I have a fairly large check. And I hold on to it for a couple of days. I go put in the bank. It bounces. And so I called or texted a high executive there. And I got a response. Oh, that’s a lot of money. I said, I agree. I agree. I said can you just call Vince let’s take care of this quietly no big deal. Yeah. And ghosted me, absolutely ghosted me. And, you know, Vince has the amount of money in his back pocket. You know what I mean? And it really hit me hard. And it wasn’t the money. It was the process. You know what I mean? That and I sit there I’ll never forget Chris. I sat there one day and I said man, they really bounced a check to me.”
