Triple H certainly makes a lot of money. He is WWE’s Executive Vice President, Talent, Live Events & Creative. He also appears on WWE television, so he has a talent contract as well. When he was a full-time WWE Superstar, it was also all about money.
On a recent episode of Grilling JR, Jim Ross revealed that during his days as head of talent relations, Triple H was given a $1 million downside contract. Triple H responded to this by making sure he was the highest-paid Superstar in the company.
“It was Evansville, Indiana, he and I were sitting on an anvil case hammering out the final arrangements on his new contract to where he got the magic number,” Ross said. “$1 million a year and he deserved it. Vince did not authorize me to do those $1 million dollar downsides very often. Hunter got his and he deserved it.
“For some reason, I remember him saying to me ‘Are you sure nobody has a better deal?’ and I said ‘Yeah, I’m very sure, are you doubting me?’ and he said ‘No, I just want to make sure’, so ‘Okay, you’re sure. Nobody in this company has a bigger downside guarantee than you will have when you sign that contract, is that what you wanted to hear?’. Then he shook my hand and off we went. Now if he made $1 million a year it would be a giant cut in pay.”
According to records, the Game earned $3,328,092 last year. He also got $1.5 million last week after he unloaded WWE shares.
