>>11215837Ego.
They're big now, they're gonna stay big, and when they have to retire they can work spot shows for some indie guy and rake in cash off of nostalgia.
Sid and Austin just looked ahead of their bump limit and made smart investments that keep them healthy while everyone else was living in the moment.
What people also forget, especially in today's age, is that wrestling is all about the money. It's all, entirely, about the money.
A means to an end, not the end itself.
If you keep that priority straight, you'll improve your game and draw more money into your coffers.
But if you don't, and you start working yourself into being a mark for yourself like so many of the party guys did, you end up bankrupt like Flair or flat broke like Dusty.
Ultimately that's why AEW Dynamite flounders while Collision is building up success.
The guys at Dynamite are marks for themselves and think they can't do anything wrong because they're each making high six figure or low seven figure incomes.
Similarly all the guys and girls at Raw and Smackdown happily do as told, because they get paid well.
The result is that the business stagnates at a certain level and there's no longer such a thing as top talent.
That's where Collision is different. They're doing this to get as many people to watch, so they can take in as much money as possible while they can still work in the ring.
