Jesse Ventura On His Relationship With WWE

where's your relationship with WWE now my relationship with them now has much improved uh we are on the verge right now I can say this that uh contracts have been written contracts have been agreed upon and all it requires is two signatures one from them and one from me okay and I will be back with the Legends wow do you have a time frame on this uh uh fairly quickly oh my goodness fairly quickly amazing because uh time is money what what changed is it the Vince isn't there yeah yeah yeah very much so I think that they're very much more since they merged with the ultimate fighting and they're under that one roof now they're very much more mainstream corporate that you can deal with better because they're more open it isn't having the ti into the old days of wrestling for lack of better term slavery wow because you know in the old days of wrestling you truly were slaves and uh I don't know I got a great compliment I heard the other day Barry Bloom my former agent the one I introduced to Vince I was the first wrestler that made Vince deal with an agent and I heard Barry was on a podcast and said that all these contracts these guys are getting today they owe Jesse Ventura a thank you because if it weren't for him they wouldn't be getting them what was your relationship with Vince like up until he left his role in WWE well Vince uh you know I've had I've always admired Vince I was at the point in wrestling I was going to quit and what year are we talking about we're talking about 1983 okay I I had saved up enough money I had opened up a weightlifting gym here Ventura's gym uh it was supporting me and it gave me it gave me what you need in wrestling at that time and I'll be very blunt this is a podcast it's Fu money to where you can say FU and walk away well the gym did that for me it gave me a leverage at the time if I if they were mistreating me fine I'll go run my gym and and we were getting by my wife and I and children the gym was supporting us and uh and so I was at the end of my straw so when I made the final jump from the AWA to the WWF at the time I did it fully knowledgeable this would be it and I and I simply said Vince I want you to guarantee me six years and he did because I ended up 84 to 90 right on the button almost six years before he fired me so why couldn't you come back sooner sounds like your relationship with Vince was okay well we did uh we did work together when uh we did a cross promotion for conspiracy theory yeah where I came on and broadcasted with him again that one time yeah that was great you heing you back on commentary yeah and we and we did that so Vince and I were not totally adversarial it's just that uh he could have me around because I'm the proverbial stallion that's outside of the Corral you know he has to have everyone in the Corral that's why I was fired I I owned the rights to Jesse The Body Ventura I have them registered with the United States government and Vince wanted them and I said no I said Jessie Ventura belongs to me you want him you deal with me and he couldn't do that he because he owned everybody that's why I called it slavery you know felt like Prince a little bit remember when Prince put slave on his face know with the record company