10 Wrestlers Who Always Followed The Money

10. The Ultimate Warrior

This list isn't a burial of the trad pro wrestling mercenary; if anything, the stars of yesteryear should be praised for working out that the industry was rigged in favour of the promoter, recognising their own value, and getting paid big to bump on ostensible concrete for a living.

That is of course the only thing for which the Ultimate Warrior, otherwise so revolting a piece of garbage that a dog wouldn't eat it, deserves praise.

He did not get into the business because he loved it, but because he was an insanely muscled gym rat who had the look. He had absolutely nothing else to begin with, entering disastrous performances as the Dingo Warrior, and was never good even in the WWF. He used to clothesline people with his armpit when he wasn't recklessly throwing them to the ground. Pat Patterson's match layout genius got a tune out of him every now and then, and Warrior was very much an "every now and then" wrestler.

He made Vince pay him the same rate as Hulk Hogan for SummerSlam 1991, and when making his second return in 1996 made Vine buy his insane comic books as part of the deal (!).

He knew what the business was; a terrible worker and one of the few to get it, at the same time.