"You can't fake gravity" : The Big Show
Posted on 04/13/2014 7:25:00 PM PDT by expat1000
No matter what your views of the professional wrestling industry may be, one point that cannot be argued is that if you are good enough at it, you will make quite the nice living for yourself.
Now that doesn’t just mean inside the ring. No. With your growing popularity in the ring comes other opportunities outside of it, especially on the Hollywood scene.
So, have you ever wondered who the wealthiest professional wrestlers of all time are?
If you have, then lucky for you that TheRichest.com has compiled the list of the Top 10 wealthiest men that have ever stepped foot inside the squared circle on a full-time basis at one time or another.
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The Crusher!
Leo & Gino Garibaldi, Wild Red Berry, Lou Thess (sic), Gorgeous George, Baron Michel Leone, and Jesse Ventura (ha ha). Just wanted to prove that you don’t forget everthing as you age. I used to sit on the sofa with Grandma and Grandpa and cheer for the good guys. Those were the good old days !!!!!!!!, Karen
(That's the only wrestler's name I know, LOL).
Leni
My best friend’s Mother was watching a wrestling match on TV.
One of the wrestlers was about as bad as he could act. Suddenly she grabbed a broom and headed for the TV set. My friend’s Daddy was able to disarm her before she broke the TV.
George “The Animal” Steele, Andre the Giant and “Classy” Freddie Blassie
“HBK!!!!!!”
Net worth today - not even close to Steve Austin!. Don’t forget Austin made some movies and was on a TV reality series ages ago.
"You can't fake gravity" : The Big Show
But I did - too many characters to remember! What's amazing is how different they were from each other.
Better angle and more content.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrX9Ca7LSyQ
I saw that too and the wrestler should have been thrown in jail for a very long time. It was a simple assault. No question the wrestler was large and powerful and capable of inflicting damage on the little guy.
Of course it is fake. The wrestler was also a jackass.
Killer Kowalski
You have to be pretty old to remember him. My Babcia loved watching him in the 50’s on that new fangled thing called tv.
Verne Gagne, Red Bastien, Billy “Red” Lyons, The Crusher, Dick the Bruiser, “Mad Dog” and “The Butcher” Vachon, Pepper Gomez, “Haystack” Calhoun, and the imitable announcer and pitchman, Marty O’Neill
Ah, those were the days!
“The American Dream”, Dusty Rhoades
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