10 Main Event Wrestlers Who Were Paid SIGNIFICANTLY More Than Their Opponents - CM Punk! Bobby Lashley! Triple H! Hulk Hogan Makes More Than The Entire WCW Roster?!
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🗓️ 25 August 2021
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‘Here comes the money’ for some and not so much for others. Andy Murray presents 10 Main Event Wrestlers Who Were Paid SIGNIFICANTLY More Than Their Opponents...
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| 0:00.0 | Not everything in professional wrestling is created equally, especially the paychecks. |
| 0:14.6 | And sometimes while the person you're standing across the ring from is Scrooge McDuck in |
| 0:18.7 | any giant pool of money, you're standing there lining up for another serving of gruel, |
| 0:24.8 | like please Vince, can I have some more? |
| 0:27.8 | I'm Andy from What Culture Wrestling and here are 10 main event wrestlers who are paid |
| 0:32.7 | significantly more than their opponents. |
| 0:36.6 | 10. |
| 0:37.6 | Andre the Giant loses a WrestleMania free, but wins big at the pay window. |
| 0:43.6 | The iconic body slam heard around the world and playing a losing role in one of WWE's |
| 0:48.5 | most iconic moments ever earned Andre the Giant a tidy trip to the pay window, proving |
| 0:54.7 | that sometimes it really does pay to do the job. |
| 0:58.8 | According to Dave Meltzer, both Andre and Hulk Hogan earned a tasty $750,000 for their |
| 1:05.6 | roles in the WrestleMania free main event, with Andre scoring an extra $250,000 for doing |
| 1:13.2 | the job. |
| 1:14.2 | A substantial bonus for a guy who was a sizable reason for WrestleMania free doing so well |
| 1:19.8 | in the first place, capturing the attention of fans and mainstream media alike, |
| 1:24.7 | when he turned on Hogan and set the wheels in motion for the legendary slam. |
| 1:30.0 | 9. |
| 1:31.0 | Triple H squashes Chris Jericho at WrestleMania 18 and in pay. |
| 1:37.0 | Both the rock and Hulk Hogan likely earned more money than Chris Jericho did at WrestleMania |
| 1:41.9 | X-8, despite Y2J technically claiming the main event spot alongside Triple H, and if Jericho |
| 1:48.5 | is to be believed, he wasn't even the highest paid guy in his own match. |
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