WWE Hall Of Famer Edge told a great story on the latest edition of he and Christian’s podcast, E&C’s Pod Of Awesomeness, about how Jim Ross helped him pay off his student loans by giving him a $40,000 signing bonus when he inked him to a WWE deal. Here’s what he had to say:
“Let’s talk about that real briefly because I’ve had people doubt whether that happened. It happened. well, I’m going to tell you for my end as a kid coming out of college, who owed $40,000.00, which was more than money than I ever made in a year, and no way in the future besides my only goal to pay it, $40,000 at that time is a chunk of change and it’s still a chunk of change for a lot of people.
“And I remember thinking to myself, ‘okay, now I’m signed. Right, the first thing I’ve got to do is pay off this debt.’ And [Ross] paid it off. It was a signing bonus and I’ve never, ever forgotten that because it got me out of a hole. Now I was starting at zero, and, man, it put me in such a different place.”
You can listen to E&C’s Pod Of Awesomeness by clicking this link here.
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