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Grado on the Mr. Anderson Show podcast said TNA once FedExed him a hand-drawn picture of a check for $4,600 instead of an actual check, and that the Bank of Scotland told him there was nothing they could do with it. ​ "I opened up the FedEx and I take out this bit of paper, and it was a drawing of a check. If you could imagine a bit of paper with all the numbers up the top on the side in pen. $4,600. They sent that to my house." ​ Grado said he brought it to the bank thinking it might be a legitimate American business practice: "They went, 'What the f**k do you want me to do? Are you at it?' I was mortified." ​ As discussed on Jim Cornette's Drive-Thru, Cornette and Brian Last were in disbelief. Cornette: "Was somebody trying to just f**k with him?" Last: "I've never heard of anyone being paid with a drawing of a check. Not even in rock and roll." ​ Cornette defended Grado's value to TNA, noting he was a genuine star in the UK at the time. Last added: "That was the only market TNA had....

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