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Source: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter

The word going around the locker room is that Vickie Guerrero was only being paid $500 per appearance by WWE. On top of that, she had to cover her own hotel and road expenses.

Typically, talent on the main roster net a $75,000 downside guarantee at the very least, so her salary was drastically below even the lowest paid main roster performers in the company.

Some wrestlers are understandably fired up over this rumor, as the feeling is that the company could have done more to take care of a person who was such an integral part of WWE.

Although, it’s worth noting that WWE paid for Eddie Guerrero’s funeral and likely did more to help out Vickie financially than the locker room is aware of.

» Regarding Vickie Guerrero’s decision to legitimately quit World Wrestling Entertainment, for the record, she handed in her notice to the company about two months ago. Coincidentally, or perhaps not so coincidentally, this is right around the time they started having Santino(a) Marella insulting her by calling her a pig on television. While there were a few light-hearted jokes concerning Guerrero’s physical appearance here and there throughout her three-year tenure in the company, she was never treated this harshly up until a few weeks ago.

» One big difference many have noticed within WWE in regards to the Smackdown locker room is that the top guys (Edge, Chris Jericho, Rey Mysterio) are working really hard with John Morrison, Dolph Ziggler, Mike Knox and others as they seem them as potential new main event opponents. This is opposed to the veteran mentality in the past where the opinion of newer talent was that they haven’t paid their dues or are missing something important to become a star.

Hulk Hogan and Brian Knobs were both at the Tampa Bay Rays vs. Chicago White Sox MLB playoff bold yesterday. Hogan spent abundant of his time accomplishing promos adjoin Chicago for bounded media outlets.

The Orlando Sentinel has an account up with Edge area he talks about his hiatus, accepting to the capital accident level, alive with Vicki Guerrero, and more.