Vince McMahon didn’t like to guarantee money to his talents, he much preferred to pay them what he thought they generated. Therefore he had a method of calculating payoffs based on a system very few knew, and it wasn’t unheard of for him to pay wrestlers in the same matches different amounts depending on who he thought drew the crowd. And when leaving the company, a $500 payoff wouldn’t be unusual.
Now though, while speaking on his podcast, Dutch Mantell revealed that McMahon once paid Jamie Dundee just $100 for WrestleMania 13 due to him being mad at him for showing up late and leaving the company with a considerable cab fare.
You know what he got paid on that pay-per-view because Vince got mad at him for being an idiot? $100. That’s what he actually got paid. Even managers back in those days, you’d get at least five, six, or seven thousand dollars to walk to the ring. Maybe not that much, but he got mad at him, and he gave him $100, and what’s Jamie going to do, bitch and complain? He is looking for a spot to get rid of him anyway.
He showed up thirty minutes before the show started and still owed the guy like a $700 cab bill. And he told the cab guy, wait, I’ll get you your money, and the taxi cab driver never saw Jamie again. I think they got the guy paid somehow because the guy raised so much hell he wanted his money. And they knew Jamie was there at that time.
Dutch MantellDundee was very much the definition of a journeyman wrestler, initially competing for the USWA before having short runs in WWE, ECW, WCW, and TNA, with most of his success coming under the ring name J. C. Ice as one-half of the tag team PG-13. However, drug addiction spoiled any chance he had of making anything of himself in the business despite being Bill Dundee’s son and Bobby Eaton’s nephew. And sadly, he would go on record to say following his 2016 retirement that he hated the business, noting he didn’t watch unless he was on the show.
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