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Former WCW Wrestler Files Lawsuit Against WWE
- Updated: August 11, 2016
Source: PWInsider
Former WWE and WCW star Marcus “Buff” Bagwell filed a lawsuit against WWE in US District Court of Connecticut on Tuesday, according to PWInsider. Bagwell claims he is owed royalties from his matches airing on the WWE Network.
Bagwell’s suit notes that he was under contract to WWE from 1991 to 2001 after WWE purchased his contract when they bought WCW in March 2001. His WCW deal expired 4 days after WWE purchased the company. Bagwell was signed to a new deal in June 2001, for WWE’s WCW brand, but he was then released in August of that year after a bad RAW main event against Booker T on June 2nd.
The lawsuit alleges that the WWE deal “merged” with aspects of his former WCW contract that expired in March 2001, originally signed in 1998, and that the WWE contract stated: “This Agreement contains the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and all prior understandings, negotiations and agreements are merged into this Agreement. There are no other agreements, representations, or warranties not set forth herein with respect to the subject matter hereof. . .”
Bagwell believes that WWE is bound by his June 2001 WWE contract in regards to payment of royalties for pay-per-view events and home video content. Bagwell’s suit claims that WWE has ignored the following terms from the contract. It should be noted that WCW mentions in these two paragraphs refers to WWE’s WCW brand.
PPV events: “WCW shall allocate 5% of the Net Receipts paid to WCW with respect to the direct sale by WCW of WCW Pay-Per-Views to a talent royalty pool. Thereafter, WCW shall pro-rate payment to Plaintiff and all other talent appearing in such WCW Pay-Per-Views in the same proportion as was the compensation paid to Plaintiff for his appearances in the pay-per-views to the total amount paid to all talent for their appearances on the pay-per-views.”
Home video content: “The WCW Video Product is a compilation or derivative work of multiple individual WCW …
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