12 WWE Stars You Didn't Know Were Super Intelligent

By Tom Gibbs /

While being successful in professional wrestling can potentially earn a superstar a ton of cash, there€™s not much financial security to fall back on. Once a wrestler€™s popularity comes to an end, or a sudden injury occurs that takes them out of action for an uncertain amount of time, perhaps even permanently, their net worth starts to plummet. Not too many wrestlers are able to give twenty or even thirty plus years of their life to sports entertainment. When it comes time to put away the trunks for good, some wrestlers don€™t have a secondary plan for working. Some wrestlers try to stick with pro wrestling even when their bodies aren€™t in great shape which can lead to a lot of health issues. They have to force themselves through this because they don€™t have any other means of making money. But not every wrestler ends up this way. Fortunately, there are more than a few cases where professional wrestlers have not only made their way through college, but have even extended their education further so that should they ever stop wrestling, they€™ll have a degree to keep them occupied. In the past we€™ve seen wrestlers with €œgenius€ gimmicks such as Lanny Poffo, Bobby Heenan, and Damien Sandow, but here are twelve wrestlers who are not only smart academically, but also have the intellect to keep making money even when they€™re no longer actively wrestling.