{"id":1421,"date":"2008-08-19T08:39:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T15:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2008-08-19T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T15:40:00","slug":"big-black-gets-sued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":"Big Black Gets Sued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/17226575.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/17226575.jpg','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/17226575-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"17226575\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jklworldwide.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">JKL Worldwide Inc.<\/a><\/strong>, a talent agency based in Tarzana, CA has filed a &#8220;fraud and breach-of-contract suit&#8221; against <strong>Rob &#38; Big<\/strong> star <strong>Christopher &#8220;Big Black&#8221; Boykin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the suit, Boykin was impressed by the work the company had done for the show&#8217;s skateboarder co-host, <strong>Rob Drydek<\/strong>, so he asked them early last year to help him with his own career. . . . With JKL&#8217;s help, Boykin, 36, entered into a new deal for the show&#8217;s third season &#8220;which significantly increased the monies he was paid the previous two seasons,&#8221; the suit states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The raise was reportedly $163,750 more than the year before and JKL wants their piece of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knbc.com\/entertainment\/17226540\/detail.html#\" target=\"_blank\">KNBC.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JKL Worldwide Inc., a talent agency based in Tarzana, CA has filed a &#8220;fraud and breach-of-contract suit&#8221; against Rob &#38; Big star Christopher &#8220;Big Black&#8221; Boykin. According to the suit, Boykin was impressed by the work the company had done for the show&#8217;s skateboarder co-host, Rob Drydek, so he asked them early last year to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}