10 Most Overpaid WWE Stars Of 2017
9. Dolph Ziggler
Dolph Ziggler has accrued almost a decade of main roster experience, during which time he has "enjoyed" a couple of salary-spiking reigns with the World Heavyweight Championship. Allegedly dissuaded from leaving WWE altogether in the not-too distant past, very decent money must have talked to convince the self-professed top-tier talent to stumble onward in a midcard role. This should put his salary closer to seven figures than six, with the aforementioned dubious source citing the precise downside guarantee as an eye-watering $900,000.
This causes pause not because Ziggler isn't worth it. Of course he is: look at that L'Oréal-level hairstyle, and the sheer amount of very painful-looking, big-bumping graft he's endured over what seems like a million years. But the thing about Ziggler, in 2017, is that he hasn't really pulled off the expensive elder statesman role, and more to the point - since he's not entirely at fault for that - he barely appeared on television throughout the summer months. Creative had nothing for one of the highest-paid members of the SmackDown roster.
What an indictment of Road Dogg's regime that is.