Rachael Ellering Recounts Promoter Not Being Able To Pay Talent, Arn Anderson Following Promoter Home To Ensure He Got Everyone’s Money

A story about Arn Anderson from Rachael Ellering.

Ellering shares a story about Arn Anderson.

As Rachael Ellering guest appeared on Monte & The Pharaoh, she shared numerous stories from her nine-year career as a wrestler.

One of those was when she was scheduled for a convention that a show would tag along with. She remembers Arn Anderson informing talents that the promoter said he did not have enough money to pay everyone. 

Ellering said Anderson and the promoter left the venue together and Anderson followed him home to ensure he got everyone’s pay.

“It was like a convention that I don’t even remember who was hosting and somewhere in Georgia and I was supposed to have a match on the show, and then there’s like a meet-and-greet thing before and there were all these legends and just anybody you could think of, they were there and we hadn’t even gotten into the area where the ring was to, okay, this is who I’m working with, any of that and Arn Anderson walked in and was like, ‘The guy doesn’t have the money to pay any of us,’ and I remember being two, three years in, you’re like, what does that mean? What do I do? Do I have to go talk to him? Like, what? And so, Tully Blanchard came over and he was like, ‘Okay, Rachael, we’re gonna go try to get the money from this guy.’ So everybody is just kind of like, ‘What’s going on? We’re not moving until this gets sorted,’ and then you see Arn follow this guy out to his car and you’re just watching from a hallway in this building like, ‘Oh my gosh, is Arn gonna give this guy a spinebuster? What’s happening right now?’ And Arn followed this guy to his house where he went and made him get the money and come pay and pay us all. Then after that, I remember Tully took a couple of us out to dinner and so, the show didn’t end up happening, the meet-and-greet stuff didn’t end up happening. So it was the first time I also showed up to something and was like, ‘We’re not doing the show? What? Okay.’ But it’s also a hilarious memory now but it’s also just a memory of like, oh, wow. That was so nice of Arn to do that for all of us, one. 

(The promoter got) Nothing. Exactly, and then I got a steak dinner with Tully Blanchard. I mean, come on, so, that was the most memorable I didn’t get paid moment of my career. Hopefully, I don’t have to worry about those anymore.”

Ellering is currently with AEW/ROH. She was last in action on the May 15th episode of ROH on HonorClub. 

If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Monte & The Pharaoh with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.