>>8285328Stevie has said that he thought the entire thing was a huge fuckup for Meanie and he should have sued the WWF for everything he could. He literally passed up life changing money for a match where JBL kicked out of his finisher, beat the fuck out of him and he only won at all because of Batista interfering.
While he did not get specific about it, Richards heavily implied that Meanie could have paid off his mother's house and lived well off that money for the rest of his life. Anyone with any sense could realize there is literally nothing to gain from Meanie "keeping the door open" with the WWF and I doubt he made anywhere near what he could have from that lawsuit working the indies.