Dennis Rodman Sues The WCW - World Championship Wrestling

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 Rodman sues World Championship Wrestling
 Copyright © 1998 Nando Media
 Copyright © 1998 Associated Press

 LOS ANGELES (Nov 28, 1998 - 2:09 EST) -- Dennis Rodman has
 capped off a bizarre month by suing World Championship
 Wrestling.

 The eccentric basketball star who has been married,
 separated and sued in the last two weeks, alleges he
 wasn't fully paid under two pay-per-view contracts with
 WCW.

 According to the suit filed in Orange County Superior
 Court and moved Wednesday to federal court in Los Angeles,
 Rodman claims under one contract, he was to be paid a base
 amount of $750,000 to be host for an event in Charleston,
 S.C., and to wrestle in Daytona, Fla.

 Rodman, 37, was to get half of all gross cable sales
 revenue more than $3.9 million for each event, the suit
 charges.

 Richard Howell, a lawyer for Rodman, said the WCW has
 "given us different sets of numbers that confuse us and
 appear to be in conflict with other numbers that we have
 been provided."

 Howell said the WCW also now claims Rodman is entitled to
 a percentage of the pay-for-view cable TV sales but not
 the cable satellite sales.

 "We strongly disagree with that," Howell said.

 The suit also alleges a second similar contract covered an
 event in Detroit as well as the "Bash at the Beach" in San
 Diego last July, where Rodman, Karl Malone, Hulk Hogan and
 Diamond Dallas Page wrestled.

 WCW officials could not be reached for comment.

 A seven-time NBA rebounding champion who helped the
 Chicago Bulls win the championship the last three years,
 Rodman filed papers last week seeking annulment of his Las
 Vegas marriage to former "Baywatch" actress Carmen Electra
 on Nov. 14.

 And a cocktail waitress who sued Rodman for assault and
 battery earlier this month filed a criminal complaint
 against him Tuesday at the Los Angeles County Sheriff
 Department's West Hollywood station.

 Susan Patterson claimed Rodman jammed a $100 bill down her
 blouse and grabbed her breast on Oct. 3 while she was
 working at the Fenix in the Argyle Hotel in West
 Hollywood.