{"id":12307,"date":"2014-08-09T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/?p=12307"},"modified":"2014-08-09T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T23:03:00","slug":"scott-steiner-and-bret-hart-on-why-they-wont-sign-legends-deals-with-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/news\/scott-steiner-and-bret-hart-on-why-they-wont-sign-legends-deals-with-wwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Steiner And Bret Hart On Why They Won&#8217;t Sign &#8220;Legends&#8221; Deals With WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Steiner was on hand for the San Diego Comic-Con, where he briefly spoke out on his career and action figures. During an interview with Ringside Collectibles, &#8220;Big Poppa Pump&#8221; was asked if there&#8217;s any chance of him signing a WWE Legends deal\u2014it enables WWE to create new merchandise in the talent&#8217;s likeness, with the talent being compensated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I&#8217;ve been asked for a Legends contract,&#8221; said Steiner. &#8220;Unfortunately, my lawyer explained to me that it&#8217;s not worth the paper it&#8217;s written on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WWE has promoted Steiner on a product as he is a playable character in WWE 2K14. Video game deals with former talent, however, are separate from WWE Legends contracts.<\/p>\n<p>WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart has also declined the Legends deal, and has no desire to sign one. He prefers to be &#8220;good friends&#8221; with WWE since he does not want to be owned by Vince McMahon&#8217;s sports-entertainment empire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I&#8217;m one of the few guys that doesn&#8217;t because\u2014these Legends contracts sound great, but they own your soul. It&#8217;s like signing your life to the devil,&#8221; Hart told radio station 680 News in Toronto last summer. &#8220;I&#8217;m Bret &#8216;the Hitman&#8217; Hart and I don&#8217;t want to give WWE my name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hart continued: &#8220;It took me fourteen years of hard labor to own the rights to my name. That was one of the conditions when I left. To go back now and just give it to them &#8211; I&#8217;m doing fine with it on my own. I don&#8217;t like to be owned by WWE; I like to be good friends with them.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Steiner Explains Why He Hasn&#8217;t Signed A WWE Legends Contract, Bret Hart Also Comments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[144,546],"class_list":["post-12307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bret-hart","tag-scott-steiner"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12312,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307\/revisions\/12312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}