MVP got paid well for one of the wildest nights of his WWE career, but even he knew Kane probably walked away with a bigger bag.
During Marking Out with MVP and Dwayne Swayze, MVP looked back at his infamous Inferno Match against Kane at WWE Armageddon 2006. The match opened the show because WWE had to build the fire setup around the ring, but MVP made it clear that did not mean it was treated like some throwaway opener. In his words, it was built like a co-main event, and WWE paid him that way. MVP said the Kane match stood out because it was his first real main event-level pay-per-view spot in WWE. Then he dropped the number.
“And I remember, like I said, that was my first main event, my only main event for a pay-per-view. And if memory serves me correct, I got paid $25,000 for that. 25 or $30,000 I got for that.”
Dwayne Swayze immediately reacted to the payday and pointed out how short the actual match was compared to the money MVP made.
“Yeah, man. We got to break that down. That was 12 minutes and 38 seconds of work.”
MVP was not complaining, but he also knew how WWE money worked. At that point in his career, he was still coming up, while Kane was already a major established name. So even though MVP made serious money for that match, he said he always wondered how much Glenn Jacobs took home.
“But I would always say, especially at that stage of my career, right, if I got 25 or 30, what did Glenn get? You know, he got 50, you know, something there about.”
For MVP, the Armageddon 2006 payday was more than just a check. It was proof WWE trusted him in a dangerous spectacle with one of the company’s most reliable veterans. Getting set on fire for $25,000 to $30,000 is not exactly a normal day at the office, but in WWE, it became one of the moments fans still bring up when talking about his career.
What do you think about MVP getting paid that much for the Kane Inferno Match? Was that a fair payoff for getting set on fire on WWE pay-per-view? Sound off in the comments and let us know what you think.