10 Most Overpaid WWE Stars Of 2017

8. Titus O'Neil

Titus O'Neil Samoa Joe
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$400,000 is the concocted figure bandied about online, earned by a wrestler who barely wrestles on television.

Even when he did wrestle; he wasn't worth what can be inferred as a feasible figure, owing to his tenure. Elemental at best, sloppy at worst, invariably dull, Titus has never once shown so much as a glimpse of improvement during his five years of main roster experience. He was equally dismal in the promo department; the Brooklyn fans are still dying of embarrassment with his legendarily botched 2016 "Last night - no, earlier tonight!" promo ringing in their ears.

Now that he is longer a fixture on television, that salary veers from eye-watering to inexplicable. He is, by all accounts, a nice bloke. Devoted to charity work, he earned that salary in 2015 purely by virtue of embarrassing JBL on commentary - but two years later, in a pseudo-managerial role, Titus commands a performer's salary without doing much in the way of performing.

It's difficult to even reach an acceptable word count here; Titus contributes so little to the product that writing about him is as much of a chore as watching him, which should indict what he earns.

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