Perry Saturn says what started as an opportunity to help retired wrestlers eventually turned into years of frustration, unanswered questions and a project he now believes should never have earned their trust in the first place.
Speaking on his YouTube channel alongside Sonny Onoo, the former WWE and ECW star accused the people behind the Woo Wrestling Organization blockchain project of making promises that never materialized, claiming wrestlers went years without meaningful payments while their names and likenesses continued being used. Saturn says the situation spiraled into a complete breakdown of trust, leaving several former wrestlers demanding they be removed from the game altogether.
According to Saturn, the final straw came after years of waiting for money that he says never arrived. Fans who had joined the project because of the wrestlers kept asking questions they couldn’t answer, and Saturn decided enough was enough.
“After all this s*** for years now, Sonny and I… people are asking us that we referred to the game, got them to do the game, want to know what’s going on, and nothing’s going on. So in February we tell Ian, ‘Okay, that’s it. Nobody’s received money in years and we are all going to rescind or not allow you to use our likeness anymore in the game. No wrestling talent wants to be in the game that they’re not going to be paid for.'”
Instead of agreeing to remove the wrestlers from the project, Saturn claims the organizer asked for one last chance. According to Saturn, he was told another sale was just around the corner and everyone would finally get paid.
“‘Well, what if I have a sale and you guys will get your share of that?’ We said, ‘When is the sale?’ He said, ‘By the end of February.'”
For a brief moment, Saturn believed things were finally moving in the right direction. Then came another promise. Saturn says he was told a pre-sale had brought in more than $7,000, so he asked what he thought was a reasonable question: if the money was coming anyway, why not simply pay each wrestler the roughly $70 they were allegedly owed?
“He sold a little over $7,000… I said, ‘Hey, just pay us. Each of us gets like $72, $75, whatever. Why don’t you do that? It’s out of your pocket because you know that money is coming to you, right?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ So I said, ‘Why don’t you do that?’ He said, ‘No, I’m not doing that.'”
That answer, Saturn says, changed everything. The wrestlers decided they were done waiting and collectively demanded that their names and likenesses be removed from the project.
“That’s when we told him, ‘Okay, that’s it. We don’t feel that we can do business anymore. We want all of our likenesses taken off the game. We do not want you using our likenesses anymore.'”
But according to Saturn, the story didn’t end there. Just days later, he says Sonny Onoo received another email claiming the sale they’d been told about never actually happened. To Saturn, that wasn’t just another excuse—it was the moment every promise surrounding the project completely fell apart. Saturn says there was no way to reconcile those two explanations.
“A week later, he sent Sunny another email telling him that sale never happened. In essence, he didn’t sell anything and he didn’t owe us any money. I got two different emails from him. We can show that to prove it if he calls us liars. There’s only two options. Either you lied to us and didn’t have a sale, or you had a sale and you’re lying to us and ripping us off $70-some dollars apiece. There’s no other options there.”
Looking back, Saturn says that dispute forced him to re-examine everything that had happened over the previous few years. Moments that once seemed ordinary suddenly looked very different.
One of the biggest was a blockchain convention in Las Vegas. Saturn says he and Sonny Onoo arrived expecting to promote a wrestling video game, but quickly realized nobody could even explain how the game worked.
“He invited Perry and I to Vegas for a blockchain convention. We kept asking, ‘How do you play this game?’ Nobody could tell me how to play the game. What he sold us was a pretty good game. First he said it was a video game. Obviously, we found out as we went on it was not a video game. It’s a card-based online game. I kept asking, ‘I need to see the video game. How do you play it?’ Nobody could tell me.”
The more Saturn thought about those events, the more convinced he became that the wrestlers weren’t there to promote a game at all—they were there to give the project credibility. He alleges they filmed promotional videos, attended meetings with blockchain company Splinterlands and appeared at conventions, while Onoo summed up how they both now view those appearances.
“We were a prop. He wanted to show that he had contact with Raven, Perry Saturn, Sonny Onoo, Mikey Whipwreck and these wrestlers. He wanted to show people that he had contact with us. None of us wanted to do it, but he said it was mandatory.”
Saturn says other pieces of the puzzle started bothering him too. He claims the wrestlers were originally told they would give away autographs in exchange for fans’ email addresses to help promote the project, only to arrive and discover fans were instead being charged for autographs and photo opportunities. He also questioned expenses the organizer allegedly pointed to later, including a mandatory dinner at a Brazilian steakhouse that Saturn says made little sense given he couldn’t even eat the food.
As those memories piled up, Saturn said he kept coming back to one question that still hasn’t been answered in his mind: where did the money go?
“Not to mention that when he presented it to us, he told us he was going to give out the autographs and 8x10s in exchange for your email address so he could promote the game. Then we get there and find out he’s charging $40 for an autograph or a picture, $60 for a combo. So it all changed. The whole reason why we were supposed to be there changed when we got there. He claims he spent $2,000 at a Brazilian steakhouse taking us out to eat. That was a mandatory meal. I don’t have f**ing teeth. I can’t eat steaks. I didn’t even eat at this meal. Why do I want to go to a steakhouse when I can’t eat? I sat all day signing autographs and now, instead of going to my room and eating something I can chew, I have to go to this steakhouse because he told us it was part of the deal, because he wanted Splinterlands to invest in the game.”
He questioned what he says were inconsistent financial figures, disputed game sales and donations that were allegedly collected to help retired wrestlers obtain healthcare.
“What he says about the money that he gave me, you and Raven from sales adds up to around $41,000… So what happened to that money?”
He also alleged that none of the wrestlers ever received money from donations despite healthcare being presented as one of the project’s biggest selling points.
“I guarantee that not one wrestler received a penny from any donations. So if you donated money, he ripped you off because we haven’t received a penny from it. Where are these donations?”
Saturn admitted the part he struggles with most isn’t the money he believes was lost. It’s the fact that he encouraged friends and fellow wrestlers to get involved in something he now deeply regrets trusting.
“It’s 100% my fault because I let him work me like a f**ing mark and I convinced my friends that he was a decent person and they could trust him to get involved with this game.”
While admitting that it reflects his own belief rather than something he says he can conclusively prove, he argued that the wrestlers’ names and reputations became the project’s biggest selling point.
“He used us as a catalyst to con people. That’s what I feel happened. I have no proof of that, but I don’t feel it would be very difficult to prove.”
Whether Saturn’s allegations ultimately lead to a response from those behind the Woo Wrestling Organization remains to be seen. For now, he says he’s speaking out because he believes both the wrestlers and the fans who supported the project deserve answers after years of unanswered questions.
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