10 WWE Salaries You Won't Believe
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Oh, it's a good life, being a WWE wrestler. There's all the glamour of being an actor combined with all the glory of being a professional sportsperson, without the pressures that come with either. And naturally, since they're famous and all that, WWE Superstars are handsomely remunerated for their exploits, right?
Not always. The truth is, life between the ropes isn't quite as rewarding as it looks. Salaries for most wrestlers on the roster generally struggle to break too far beyond the six figure mark, and when the grueling schedule and potential for injury are thrown into the mix, it suddenly doesn't look so attractive.
Of course, this doesn't apply for everybody. For every Mojo Rawley bobbing along at the bottom of the card, there's a John Cena gilding everything he owns with his mammoth, multi-million pound earnings. But this disparity is understandable: how much merchandise has Rawley shifted this past century? About as much as the gift shop at the little-known and poorly-planned Joseph Goebbels museum.
Yet there are some annual downsides that are, simply put, staggeringly stupefying. Using data compiled from numerous sources including Forbes and Celebrity Net Worth, and with all pains taken to ensure it is as accurate as possible, here are 10 WWE salaries you won't believe.
10. El Torito ~ $23,000
Provided the many-universe interpretation of quantum mechanics is entirely, incontrovertibly accurate, there still doesn't exist a plane of reality in which El Torito deserved to earn in the region of $23,000 per year for his contribution - even if that is on the low end of the pay scale.
Had the act of the former Los Matadores mascot had provided anything even vaguely resembling entertainment, his limited appearances throughout 2015 would still have barely justified the fee. After being plunged through a table by the Dudley Boyz - a move presumably designed to turn the pair heel but which instead engendered nothing but praise - the diminutive bull was limited to nothing besides backstage skits, for the purposes of 'comedy'.
They had about as much comedic value as discovering your pack of bacon has gone out of date just as pigs have been declared extinct.
Torito left WWE in May of this year, having done absolutely nothing but sit home and collect his disproportionate paycheck. Talk about milking it (yes, I know he's a bull).