Unlike many of his colleagues in the XFL, Coachman had an established rapport with WWE CEO Vince McMahon, which prompted him to trust McMahon implicitly. Unfortunately for Coachman, that trust was later broken when Coachman attempted to cash a big check he had held onto for a few days.

“I go put [the check] in the bank, it bounces,” Coachman said. “So I texted a high executive there, and I got a response, ‘Oh, that’s a lot of money.’ I said, ‘I agree. Can you just call Vince? Let’s take care of this quietly, no big deal.’  And they ghosted me, absolutely ghosted me. Vince has the amount of money in his back pocket. It really hit me hard. It wasn’t the money, it was the process. I sit there, and I’ll never forget, I sat there one day and I said ‘Man, they really bounced a check to me?'”

Coachman noted that he received one follow-up text after with the company executive insisting that the XFL and WWE were separate entities. As Coachman attests, though, both companies were owned by the same person — that being Vince McMahon. Given that these events also unfolded in the midst of the financially crippling COVID-19 pandemic, Coachman initially remained patient in his pursuit to rectify the situation. After several months went by without a solution, and WWE later began touting record-breaking revenue numbers, Coachman decided to permanently sever his ties with the company.

“I cannot work for people who do not care about human beings to the point that, in a spot where you really need it, because we all lost our jobs during COVID, and that’s when you’re going to decide to go, ‘Let’s just turn our back on a guy who’s been loyal for 20 years.’ The things that I’ve done for that company would blow your mind. I was 100% loyal, but they were not loyal to me, and that’s it,’ Coachman said.

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