The Sandman on his run with WCW: “I almost got to sit home for the whole contract”
While speaking to Chris Van Vliet, The Sandman (James Fullington) commented on leaving Extreme Championship Wrestling for World Championship Wrestling in 1998…
“Oh, dude, I almost got to sit home for the whole contract. So they signed me, and they gave me a $10,000 signing bonus on September 9 or something like that. They didn’t use me until the beginning of March, but that company was going down — it was going to be closed soon, less than two years later. So I thought maybe I was going to sit home for the whole contract.
They had me do some stupid stuff with Raven, but that wasn’t going anywhere. I did some vignettes with him as his brother.
But then Nash gets the book. Nash gets the book Saturday afternoon, later on Saturday afternoon. J.J. Dillon calls me and says, ‘Nash just got the book. He wants you in Minnesota Monday night.’
I’m like, okay. I was like, damn. Half of me is like, okay. The other half is like, wow, I really could have sat on this whole contract.”