10 WWE Superstars Who Ended Up With Surprising Jobs After Wrestling
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Wrestling is far from secure and doesn't promise the easiest second life, but plenty of the industry's biggest stars have found almost as much success away from the ring as inside of it. So much so, that their stories are at this point old news.
For an industry infamous for not having the best of exit strategies, think of the stories we have heard about. The Rock and Batista went to Hollywood, Kane and Jesse Ventura got into politics, Trish Stratus and DDP healed bodies and minds with yoga, Stone Cold Steve Austin and Chris Jericho have become fairly prolific podcasters and Hulk Hogan just missed out on scoring the naming rights to the George Foreman grill and disappeared out of the public eye completely never to be seen or heard from again.
Though the prospect of wrestlers being out in the wild with their bumping days behind them can seem like a terrifying one, the above lot all made their names all over again in other trades. And they're not the only ones, even if these next moves were perhaps a little lower profile...
10. AJ Lee - Writing And Advocacy
Former WWE Divas Champion and underrated stalwart of the pre-Women's Revolution era AJ Lee hasn't really looked back since leaving wrestling in 2015.
As well as setting up her own production company and writing a series of collaborative projects for the likes of DC Comics alongside actor Aimee Garcia, AJ Mendez Brooks has become an advocate for mental health awareness since publishing her hugely successful memoir "Crazy Is My Superpower".
As she put it to Fox Sports in 2017;
"Basically, I felt this book was the journey to discovering mental illness, and then saying, 'Oh, this okay, I can use this as a weapon, and it's actually a gift. It helps me see the world in different colors, and that's a good thing.' And the second book is, now what? How do you live with it every day?
Endless words of wisdom followed as the years passed, with Mendez Brooks becoming one of the more prominent figures from WWE's recent past to note the fundamental problems with how they stigmatise "crazy" in their storylines.