Re: Dennis Rodman Sues The WCW - World Championship Wrestling

[Sherry & Hart <hartleyo@ix.netcom.com>]

Way Of The Ray wrote:
> 
> Dennis Rodman = Media Whore
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>  Rodman sues World Championship Wrestling
>  Copyright © 1998 Nando Media
>  Copyright © 1998 Associated Press
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>  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.
Is there anybody out there that can give Rodman the sleeper hold and put
us all out of the misery of dealing with him.

Regards,
Hart