The Beast Incarnate is absent from the programming ever since WrestleMania 36 and it seems WWE has to load Brock Lesnar salary account with huge amounts in order to make his return happen. As reported earlier, his contract with the company is said to have expired and as of this writing, he’s not signed a new deal with the company.
It’s assuming that Brock Lesnar salary can’t decrease by any means as he is the biggest box office attraction of the company. Going by the earlier reports, he was the highest-earner of the WWE locker room. He grabbed overall $10 million in the last financial year while the poster boy of the company earned only half it.
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When it comes to commencing his next stint in the company, Brock Lesnar salary has to be $3 million, according to the latest report. The Dirty Sheets (via Wwfoldschool.com) has provided complete details of all the contracts signed by Lesnar with the WWE. Beginning from the return in 2012 to 2020, you may check out the details revealed by the source,
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Revealed: Brock Lesnar Salary In WWE Since 2012 Return
– Brock Lesnar signed a 3 match deal while making 2012 return (Extreme Rules 2012, SummerSlam 2012, and WrestleMania 29). At that point, Brock Lesnar salary was $5 million for the one-year stint.
– The contract was extended to another year, where he could have stopped after digesting a loss to The Undertaker at WrestleMania 30. But he picked up a win over Taker (which also marked the end of The Streak) after signing another deal for one year.
– Thus The Conqueror was scheduled to leave WWE after WrestleMania 31, but he ended up signing a deal with WWE that remained intact for 3 more years. From WrestleMania 31 to 34, Brock Lesnar salary (base) was $9 million ($3 million per year). He also received an additional $100,000 for every House Show he worked.
– After WrestleMania 34 he was rumored to leave but he retained the Universal Championship against Roman Reigns in the main event after signing an “image rights” deal, where Brock Lesnar salary would be $500,000 per year while WWE uses use his image on T-Shirts, Video Games, etc. This deal was intact until WrestleMania 36.
He also signed a deal to get paid per appearance for working in RAW, SmackDown, and House Shows while WWE paid him $100,000, per appearance. While competing in a Pay-Per-View match, WWE paid him $500,000. As for a Saudi Arabia pay-per-view event, Brock Lesnar salary was $1 million.
– After WrestleMania 36, WWE has extended Lesnar’s image rights deal as they wanted him to bring back at SummerSlam 2020. But then Lesnar refused to work at the ThunderDome forcing WWE to terminate his image rights deal while paying $125,000 from WrestleMania to SummerSlam.