As Dave Meltzer reported recently in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE has offered Daniel Puder to opt out of his WWE contract. The Million Dollar Tough Enough Champion is currently getting paid $250,000 a year for a four-year contract. There’s reports of WWE bringing Puder in to last week’s RAW taping in Nashville so he could meet with John Laurinatis. At the meeting, he was told that the company is not interested in keeping him as an employee at this salary, and was offered to be released out of his contract, then re-signed at the regular $750 a week developmental deal. He was also offered an immediate release with a buyout option, which allows him to do MMA shows. WWE is allowed to “cut” Puder, as the fine print of his contract says it’s only secured for a year, after which WWE can let him go. That basically reduces Puder’s “$1 million” to the $250,000 a year contracts the Diva Search winners received.
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