Add as a preferred source on Google Kevin Nash once again harshly criticized TKO, this time over recent reports involving pay cuts for WWE wrestlers.
As we previously reported, several talents were called in to accept reductions in their salaries. The most well-known case is that of The New Day, as Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods left the company after refusing a restructuring of their deals.
On a recent edition of Kliq This, Nash was asked about the logic of cutting wrestler pay while ticket prices remain high.
“If you’re looking at television production, I have no idea what the cost is, but back in the day we could shoot Nitro for half a million. The building isn’t going to go up. If you’re paying the talent less, you have a 50% saving there. I could only think, at that point, the ticket prices should go down. If they can’t work it out financially, maybe some of the higher-ups can kick some of their golden parachute back and help out the working man a little bit. It’s always about Main Street, not Wall Street. It would only make sense. 50% pay cut to the guys, tickets are 50% off.”
The comments come amid growing internal frustration. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reported that the total compensation for five top TKO executives in 2025 came in just below the total paid to all WWE talents combined.