No one gets an appearance fee for just showing up or do they?.
In the good old golden days in the USA, skating stars used to get big fat bonuses to show up . AFAIK, Lysacek was negotiating his fees but at the end, it was not satisfactory. He blamed the USFSA for using his name and image before the deal was closed. I figure USFSA looked at the poor ticket sales and could not afford him. Trouble was the deal crumbled close to the competition date and was very disappointing for many fans. Lysacek was supposed to be well trained.
Actually HE never did. His new agency did. The agency that works mainly with rockstars... All Evan said was an agreement was not made and he was bummed because he was ready to go. Frank Carroll said at SA that it was all "news to him" and he had no clue as to what was going on.
In the good old golden days in the USA, skating stars used to get big fat bonuses to show up . AFAIK, Lysacek was negotiating his fees but at the end, it was not satisfactory. He blamed the USFSA for using his name and image before the deal was closed. I figure USFSA looked at the poor ticket sales and could not afford him. Trouble was the deal crumbled close to the competition date and was very disappointing for many fans. Lysacek was supposed to be well trained.
The other theory is that it wasn't about appearance fees at all, but rather that the USFSA wanted a cut of Lysacek's endorsement money from other sources, as is usual for skating federations.
Evan's new representation (and whomever said he controls that is quite right) asked for a very large appearance fee -
In recent years the USFSA has not paid appearance fees for anyone but even with that fact in place, Evan's agents asked for way more than they possibly could have paid or would have paid even in better years.
skateluvr said:What did Evan have as endorsements ever?