Regarding A.J. Styles price on indies, while things vary based on promotion, how many dates booked, if it’s someone he knows well, etc. but his asking price in the U.S. and Canada is $3,000 per shot. The $2,500 figure we had last week was for someone he knows well. The price for a show outside the U.S. and Canada is $5,000. I believe in Japan, it would be a contract situation, but he’s booked solid every Saturday and a lot of Fridays, and as noted, he gets to keep his merchandise money and doesn’t have the road expenses working indies since when you work for indies, the rule of thumb is that you are picked up and a hotel room comes with the package so no rental car and hotel room. The point remains, at this stage of the game, when he’s fresh off television and his shows are generally drawing well, it looks to me like he’ll do considerably better on the indie scene than he would have had he stayed with TNA this year. Usually in time, for guys coming out of a major promotion, the asking price drops over time, but name wrestlers can make a solid living on the indie scene. One of the issues with WWE guys as opposed to TNA guys, is when you’re used to 3,000 to 15,000 fans every night, the indie scene can be a come-down, but Styles is working before generally as big or bigger crowds on indies than he did with TNA.
