WWE: 12 Careers You Won't Believe Stars Did After They Quit Wrestling

Just what is working life after WWE really like?

By Adam Woolhouse /

In the early 90s in the then-WWF, it seemed if you weren't a main-event player, money was kind of tight, and a second job was required. Bob Holly was a racecar driver, TL Hopper was a plumber and Duke Droese was a garbage man. Things must have picked up on the business end around 1995, as the last of the evil taxmen and corrupt college deans and the like left, leaving the ring to superstars like Steve Austin, Bret Hart, and Shawn Michaels. But, unless a superstar was at that main-event level- like the three aforementioned big names- it's a possibility that retirement from the squared-circle is not treating them particularly well money-wise. And like most Americans- or former evil Russians now living in America, as we'll find out- a second "career" can suck, or it can be a blessing. Who has made a successful switch from professional wrestler to professional ? Here are the Top 12 Odd Career Changes Stars Made After They Quit Wrestling. You won't find any Hollywood actors in this list, or Ultimate Fighters, or authors, or Podcast hosts: there are too many of them. But there aren't a lot of these...