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Professional Wrestling, as a vocation, apparently doesn't pay very well. How else can one explain the various wrestlers who apparently work a second job in their downtime? Stranger still, they bring the attire and mannerisms of their second job to the wrestling ring. This trope has long been a part of the wrestling landscape as it makes for easy gimmicks. In the days of Catch Wrestling, most of the non-carnie practitioners were miners who used wrestling as a quick income supplement or way of relieving boredom, but the gimmick was especially common in the WWF in the early-to-mid-'90s. Some fans think it was a twisted sort of Lampshade Hanging, as the WWF was in the process of going bankrupt at the time. These wrestlers are more likely than any others to be a Steven Ulysses Perhero. This is a case of Truth in Television, as any indie wrestler will tell you. It can take years to reach five-figure income on the independent circuit and decades for six figures, which usually only comes with semi-regular appearances in an entrenched regional powerhouse like WWC. Some independent circuit wrestlers do reach seven-figure income, but this is almost always the result of notoriety and endorsement deals gained from a stint in a national promotion like CMLL or New Japan Pro-Wrestling in between indie dates. In the case of amateur wrestlers, they have limited opportunities after leaving college (or rather, limited athletic opportunities) such as attempting to: Join a military wrestling team (like UFC fighters Randy Couture, who wrestled in the U.S. Army; or Brandon Vera, who wrestled for the U.S. Air Force). Make the Olympic level team (like WWE/TNA star and gold medalist Kurt Angle, gold medalist Rulon Gardner, and Olympic team member and former StrikeForce fighter Dan Henderson). Make the transition to either professional wrestling or mixed martial arts. Do several of the above, in the cases of Brock Lesnar and Bobby Lashley. Conversely, within the landscape of the WWE, wrestlers earn in the six-figure range for even low-level performances, while top-tier stars are expected to reach high seven figures, plus perks. WWE wrestlers also tend to work too busy a schedule for a second job to be logistically possible... except the ones whose second job both pays more than what WWE is willing and potentially gives WWE more publicity, such as a movie actor, in which case conveniently-timed kayfabe injuries will allow them time to film. On the other hand is AEW, which allows wrestlers to work as backstage talent. One example is Michael Nakazawa, who wrestled only seven matches in 2021. While he's on the AEW roster of wrestlers, he's more useful to the company as a Japanese/English translator who knows the wrestling business than for his occasional in-ring appearances. Other AEW personnel with backstage jobs include Brandon Cutler (executive producer), Captain Shawn Dean (talent booker for AEW Dark), and referee Aubrey Edwards (project coordinator and podcast host). A job-themed gimmick can remain even after the wrestler becomes successful enough not to need to work a second job anymore. Shane Douglas really was the dean of an elementary school, and Duke "The Dumpster" Droese was a garbage mannote A popular rumor is that Droese was only signed because Vince McMahon was claiming that he could turn anyone into a main event star during a meeting, someone (who that someone was depends on who's telling the story, but Jim Ross and Gorilla Monsoon are the most common names to come up) produced a copy of that year's PWI 500, pointed to a guy calling himself "Garbage Man" ranked 500th, and told Vince to put his money where his mouth is.. Not to mention Dr. Britt Baker DMD, who really is a practicing dentist. This trope can apply to situations well outside of wrestling too, such as when a Gang of Hats actually have a line of work that requires them to wear their silly costumes. |
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Storyline example from TNA. Lisa Marie Varon (WWE's Victoria, TNA's Tara) lost her career in a match and disappeared for a few months before returning as the sidekick of Madison Rayne, who retired her. The storyline explanation was that Madison pulled some strings to get Tara reinstated but had a contract that stated she would have to be Madison's right-hand woman. Madison would regularly point out that she could "fire" Tara and send her "back to the lipstick counter with minimum wage". Likely a bit of Reality Subtext since the reason Tara left TNA in the first place was low pay. Ironically, behind the scenes, she was still being paid more than Madison. | |
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Kevin Nash was Vinnie Vegas for a short stint in WCW. | |
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Diana La Cazadora (de Noticias) was on TV for both CMLL and for traffic reporting. | |
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When Barry Darsow (aka "Smash" of Demolition and the WWF's Repo Man) joined WCW, he became wrestling golfer Stewart Pain. Due to the untimely death of real-life golfer Payne Stewart, where the name was taken, he became Barry "Hole in One" Darsow not long after. He was also the Blacktop Bully, a wrestling truck driver. | |
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Before he was Kane, Glenn Jacobs went through a string of these: Isaac Yankem, DDS, a wrestling dentist; Diesel (after Kevin Nash jumped to WCW); and "the Christmas Creature". When being the cartoonishly evil brother of a wrestling zombie makes your character less ridiculous, you really should look at your contract. And while it's never been part of his gimmick, in real life Jacobs is the owner of an insurance agency. He was also elected Mayor of Knox County, Tennessee in 2018, and briefly won the 24/7 Title while mayor, making him a wrestling politician. And even as Kane, he sometimes was this, having his stint as Corporate Kane, and at one point he got kayfabe fired and had to work at the concessions stand. | |
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Rico, the wrestling stylist, who combined this trope with Gorgeous George and Camp Gay. | |
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Averted when Cody Rhodes and Austin Aries revealed how much more money they make outside WWE. | |
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As stated earlier, Elijah Burke became "The Pope" D'Angelo Dinero in TNA, who was another swing at the "wrestling minister" gimmick. However, his kind of made sense since he was played up as an inner-city street preacher, meaning his place in the wrestling business was just another venue for him to expand his flock for all the evils and debauchery that made up the wrestling industry. | |
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Mike "Irwin R. Schyster" Rotunda, the wrestling IRS tax agent, who was originally brought in as the IRS consultant to Ted DiBiase. Of course, it led to him "auditing" random people backstage, or wrestlers he faced, including one rather disrespectful instance where he repossessed a ceremonial headdress gifted to Tatanka from an actual Native American tribe. When Mike Rotunda was in WCW, he was given a gimmick where he suddenly inherited a lot of money and changed his name to Michael (later V.K.) Wallstreet. When he moved back to WWE, the "money persona" went with him, before he later reassumed the I.R.S. gimmick. | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia takes it pretty literally with Da'Maniac, a mentally unstable former pro-wrestler (played by the late, great Roddy Piper) who is evidently so broke that he lives out of his car and subsists on foraged chestnuts. His last appearance sees his situation change for the better when he gets roped into a multi-level marketing scheme, but then turns out to be a wizard at selling the product. | |
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There was also the West Texas Rednecks, three wrestlers, led by Curt Hennig, who decided to form a country band and record anti-rap songs when Master P started coming around WCW. The WTR were supposed to be heels, but because country music was way more popular with WCW's audience than rap, and the WTR were rather badly outnumbered by Master P's No Limit Soldiers, and they were just genuinely charismatic and funny, the crowd treated them like faces anyway. And, like Three Count, they performed their own song, "Rap is Crap". | |
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The Honky Tonk Man, a wrestling singer/Elvis Impersonator. | |
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Something*Positive introduces uWuigal Simpington IV, an "old money E-girl" created as a gimmick for a fantasy fed. | |
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Jeff Hardy, to a fan's extrapolation, is a wrestling rave dancer. | |
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Single storyline example: In December 2008, JBL offered Shawn Michaels a job at his company to make up for Michaels's recent stock market losses. Not a completely impossible storyline, but still fairly unbelievable due to Michaels's undoubtedly astronomical salary as a WWE veteran. JBL himself has done this three times: first as Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw (later Blackjack Bradshaw, while teaming with Barry Windham as the New Blackjacks), a wrestling cowboy; then as one of the Acolytes/APA (with Faarooq, who were Undertaker cultists at first and then mercenaries after the Ministry of Darkness broke up; and then as JBL, a wrestling stock analyst - which is an example of the best gimmicks being those where you take the real man and turn the volume up. JBL wisely saved his money and invested it, instead of blowing it like too many others in his profession, and made himself a legitimate multi-millionaire. | |
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Jeff Jarrett, in his early days in WWF, was a wrestling country singer who planned to use wrestling as a stepping stone to break into Nashville. His guitar still featured prominently for most of the rest of his career, usually by way of cracking it over the head of his opponents. "Road Dogg" Jesse James debuted in WWF as Jarrett's roadie, and became a wrestling country singer himself as "The Real Double J" Jesse Jammes after being revealed as the real voice behind Jarrett's song "With My Baby Tonight". This gimmick actually dates back to the 80s and was pitched to Bret Hart, who turned it down because he hates country music and felt he wouldn't be a good fit for the role, and because he thought it was a stupid gimmick that wouldn't get over. Vince put the gimmick on the back burner until Jarrett came along, who actually is from the Nashville area and would have a much better idea of how to make it work. |
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What about the midcard male models? From the late '80s to the early '90s, it was Rick "The Model" Martel. Now, it's Tyler Breeze. Resurrected in 2022 with the "Maximum Male Models." | |
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All Elite Wrestling has Britt Baker, who was originally introduced as "Dr. Britt Baker, DMD"—which is exactly what she is outside the ring. She worked in the indies while attending dental school at the University of Pittsburgh, and has a dental practice on the side. They also have the kayfabe examples of The Librarians (Leva Bates and Peter Avalon), a deliberately bad call back to when this trope was everywhere in the early 90s, done in response to a comment by Dave Meltzer that the only gimmick that couldn't get over in wrestling was a librarian. |
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Used rather tragically in The Wrestler, where Randy "The Ram" Robinson is a former star from the 1980s who has descended into poverty as his star power has dwindled. By the beginning of the film, he is living in a trailer park, works a menial job in a supermarket, and is implied to now spend more money on his wrestling career than he earns from it. The Ram's actor, Mickey Rourke, would later dedicate the movie to the real professional wrestlers who don't make much. | |
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Played completely straight, with a twist, by ECW mainstay the Sandman, who can and has competed in events for next to nothing. He owns a successful contracting firm, and is quite well off because of it -he just loves wrestling. | |
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This gimmick actually dates back to the 80s and was pitched to Bret Hart, who turned it down because he hates country music and felt he wouldn't be a good fit for the role, and because he thought it was a stupid gimmick that wouldn't get over. Vince put the gimmick on the back burner until Jarrett came along, who actually is from the Nashville area and would have a much better idea of how to make it work. | |
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Lucha Underground has El Mariachi Loco a Mariachi player who works in a Mexican restaurant. | |
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KENNY! JOHNNY! MITCH! NICKY! MIKEY! They're the Spirit Squad, and they were a stable of male cheerleaders. Before that, the future Dolph Ziggler was plain old Nick Nemeth (his real name), golf caddy to Kerwin White. |
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This trope is discussed in Chip Cheezum and General Ironicus' Let's Play of No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle. When the UAA starts setting up, of all things, a Battle Royale-type event between its members, Ironicus notes how the UAA has essentially turned from the organization of assassins it was in the first game to a more fatal knockoff of the WWE, and as such assumes that actual assassination has gone from the primary purpose of the organization to just the "second job" all of its members pretend they do when they're not fighting and killing each other to climb the ranks. | |
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Jillian Hall was initially a "fixer" publicist brought in to help MNM out and later worked as JBL's image consultant before becoming a Hollywood Tone-Deaf Dreadful Musician. Ironically, she got a real-life album that sold well. | |
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ECW briefly featured the Musketeer, who, on the September 16, 2000 episode of ECW Hardcore TV, threw out an open challenge to anyone... and got his ass kicked by "The Female Fighting Phenom" Jazz in 49 seconds. After the match, Joey Styles mocked him by saying, "Good night, d'Artagnan!" | |
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In FMW Jadō & Gedō tried to end Chocoball Mukai's second career by targeting his groin with a ladder. He was a wrestling porn star. | |
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TNA had The Menagerie, circus performers consisting of Crazy Steve The Clown, strongman The Freak, contortionist Rebel and ring leader Knux. Inverted in that the circus was struggling and Knux taking them to TNA was his attempt to turn things around. | |
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Southpaw Regional Wrestling pokes fun at this, with Big Bartholomew the farmer, Mr. Mackelroy the bankernote Who bought Big Bart's farm without his permission, and The Butchers, a tag team made up of "Dry Rub" Doug and Frantic Frank, who are butchers both in terms of personality and in terms of secondary occupation (their promo is recorded in the backroom of a butcher shop, with the belts hung up on meat hooks, and they wear the proper uniforms). Apparently, this isn't just a gimmick, as they end up having to vacate the tag titles after being linked to an E. Coli outbreak. | |
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Parodied by MAD with their back cover in 1987, featuring "Harold the Killer Accountant". Who coincidentally, looks very much like Mike Rotunda's persona Irwin R. Schyster, which came later. | |
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WOW Women of Wrestling is absolutely LITTERED with them Hammerin' Heather Steele, wrestling carpenter Wendi Wheels, wrestling car mechanic The Beach Patrol, wrestling lifeguards The Disciplinarian, wrestling teacher Bronco Billie, wrestling cowgirl Team Spirit (Patti Pep and the original Randi Rah Rah), wrestling cheerleaders The 2022 Randi Rah Rah, still a wrestling cheerleader Sophia Lopez, wrestling lawyer Slam Dunk, wrestling basketball player Coach Campanelli, wrestling coach The Mother Truckers (Big Rig Betty and Holly Swag), wrestling truckers/tow truck drivers |
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Michelle McCool was first a personal trainer, a sexy teachernote Her team, the Teacher's Pets, produced Aaron "The Idol" Stevens, known today as "The Intellectual Savior of the Unwashed Masses" Damien Sandow, an All-American Face, a badass powerhouse and then finally an Ambiguously Gay Valley Girl. She actually was a teacher before her time in WWE but hated the gimmick, terrified her old co-workers would see it. A rare case of a female wrestler not only having a gimmick but evolving as a character a great deal over time. | |
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This caused a lot of hullabaloo when Taylor Wilde of TNA was discovered working at a Sunglasses Hut just to pay the bills since, despite being a personality on a primetime TV series and holding (at the time) the TNA Knockouts Championship, TNA didn't cover her living expenses. Wrestling these days, especially at that level (being nationally televised), is usually regarded as a genuine occupation, and having to pull odd jobs like that is seen as fairly shady on TNA's part (other wrestlers on TNA's roster also said they weren't making a solid income from wrestling either and had to do other work to get by; Jesse Neal in particular kicked up a shitstorm on social media when he tweeted that he qualified for food stamps despite working for TNA). | |
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Lest anyone assume this trope went out of fashion with the end of the Rock & Wrestling era, 2013 saw the introduction of Fandango, a wrestling flamenco dancer whose gimmick revolved around refusing to fight unless the ring personnel could pronounce his name correctly - it's "Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan-DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN-goooooooooooooooooo". | |
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Steven Universe: In "Tiger Millionaire", Steven cooks up the wrestling persona "Tiger Millionaire", an anthropomorphic cat businessman and later philanthropist. | |
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Inverted in the case of William "Paul Bearer" Moody, who actually was a certified real-life mortician. He had retired from the wrestling business by the 2000s, (though he made occasional appearances to participate in various Undertaker/Kane feuds) and ran a funeral home in Mobile, AL until his death. | |
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The animated version of The Junkyard Dog in Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling ran his own junkyard outside of the ring. | |
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Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake. He inherited a gimmick of making every match he had a hair-vs-hair match, but only the ones he won (he mostly fought and defeated "jobbers", but did beat the occasional "superstar" every now and then, and often clipped at least a lock or two of their hair). He was originally a male stripper (hence the name Beefcake) but that was eventually dropped around the time he joined Johnny V's Dream Team. | |
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Scott Hall was a alligator wrangler for a really short stint in WCW, after leaving the AWA but before becoming The Diamond Studd, a male stripper. | |
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Paige Turner, the wrestling librarian. | |
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The Undertaker started out as a wrestling... well, undertaker, but eventually evolved into a wrestling Anthropomorphic Personification of death, going through phases as a zombie, a cult leader, and, rather idiosyncratically, a biker along the way. This last was an example of Real Life Writes the Plot, as Mark "Undertaker" Calaway is an avid biker in real life. He last used the zombie gimmick before retiring. | |
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Simon Dean was a wrestling infomercial salesman who was in several straight televised ads before being brought up to the Raw roster selling the weight loss "Simon System". His brief tag team partner Maven later became a real-life wrestling infomercial salesman. He combined this trope with No Celebrities Were Harmed, as the character was based in part on real-life fitness guru Richard Simmons. | |
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The Body Donnas, Skip and Sunny, were wrestling fitness trainers. Evil wrestling fitness trainers. | |
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Ryu Gouma of Dramatic Dream Team offshoot BASARA is a wrestling lawyer who wrestles in his dress shirt and tie. FUMA is a wrestling heavy metal guitarist. | |
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Despite being a satire of wrestling, Kayfabe: A Fake Real Movie About A Fake Real Sport delivers some Brutal Honesty about the pay for each and every wrestler. The following shot shows Randy on his lunch break, hammering the point home. |
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Done with a twist in Tiger Mask: Tiger Mask's wrestling career does pay (even when he had to pay Tiger's Cave half his wages he made a lot of money), it's just that it's never enough to help children, leading to him using the money he owed Tiger's Cave to pay an orphanage's debt to the Yakuza (and thus getting Tiger's Cave on his case for this rebellion), entering the Maskmen World Tournament (actually a Tiger's Cave trap with all other contestants being Tiger's Cave wrestlers) to pay for a little girl's operation while spending as little as possible on himself. | |
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In 2021, Baron Corbin became a wrestling panhandler. Apparently, after losing his King Corbin crown to Shinsuke Nakamura, he lost all his money and has been reduced to begging. Eventually, he won big in Vegas and became "Happy Corbin." | |
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Dawn Marie was introduced to WWE as "Dawn Marie Rinaldi", Vince McMahon's "paralegal." This was abandoned after a month or so and the gimmick and the last name were never revisited. During the first round, "Tiny Teddy," of the Divas Undressed competition, Jerry Lawler made the obvious joke about how he'd "like to see her briefs." Given Vince McMahon's sense of humor, this may have been the entire reason for the gimmick. Harsher in Hindsight when in real life, it got out that he paid a WWE paralegal $3 million in hush money using company funds to cover up an affair with her. | |
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In one The Man Show skit, Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel tried their hand at pro wrestling. At one point, Adam appears as a character called "The Calligrapher," complete with a Renaissance-themed costume. Other gimmicks demonstrated included "The Rabbi", "The Alcoholic Step-Father", and "The Pope". | |
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After a gimmick switch, David Otunga went from celebrity hanger-on to a wrestling lawyer. The former is based on being engaged to Jennifer Hudson (they were together for eight years, but split in 2017 without ever formally marrying); the latter is due to graduating from Harvard Law School and working at a firm before becoming a wrestler. | |
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Crowbar was a gas station attendant, although that was forgotten after about a month or so. | |
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Ted DiBiase's entire "Million Dollar Man" character is an Aversion. Ted was (Kayfabe) wealthy before wrestling and didn't need the money. He just liked to show off his wealth, be a jerk, and satisfy a desire for violence. | |
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After breaking up The Dudley Boys, D-Von became "Reverend Devon", a wrestling minister. This one really didn't pay because he often appeared with his deacon, who would attempt to collect "offerings" from the ringside audience. | |
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Before that, the future Dolph Ziggler was plain old Nick Nemeth (his real name), golf caddy to Kerwin White. | |
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This trope is actually the root of the late Ring of Honor/CHIKARA wrestler "Sweet 'n' Sour" Larry Sweeney's Catchphrase "12 Large, brother." He had been on a show with the Patriot (Tom Brandi). Sweeney had asked the Patriot how much he had made selling his merchandise at his gimmick table. The Patriot told him, "I'm up 12 Large, brother," which meant that he had made $12. | |
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V. K. Wallstreet, a wrestling stock trader. Played, amusingly enough, by Mike Rotunda, who's also on this list as Irwin R. Schyster. The "V.K." initials were a sideways dig at Vincent Kennedy McMahon, owner of the WWF, though he debuted under this name in late 1995, about four years before WWE's IPO. He also was Captain Mike Rotundo, a wrestling varsity-team coach who became a wrestling ship captain after leaving The Varsity Club, a Jerk Jock Power Stable, just so they didn't have to change his name. | |
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While Jacqueline had long since accused them of being whores, dialog from Angelina Love on an episode of Impact implied The Beautiful People had the second job of being porn stars. Unlike with Val Venis, this led to all sorts of fridge horror and TNA decided to live up to its acronym and prove those fears with bullied recruit Madison Rayne being whored out to referee Slick Johnson. Ironically, this was more obvious when they were still the baby face tag team Velvet-Love Entertainment. | |
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Homestar Runner parodied this phenomenon in the Strong Bad Email "yes, wrestling", with characters like Il Cartographer (a wrestling explorer) and Gardenboy (a wrestling farmer). | |
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Smash has Kana, a wrestling video game journalist who makes designs for mobile platforms and wears the X-box logo on her tights. | |
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Bray Wyatt was a wrestling leader of a rural cult based in a commune. And after that went kaput, he took up hosting a kids' show called the "Firefly Fun House". | |
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Magnum Tokyo, the wrestling stripper. In Fighting Opera Hustle he went undercover as a wrestling detective, which was later recycled in Lucha Underground for Joey Ryan, and about half of The Crew. | |
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Bruce Tharpe, the real-life lawyer, former president of the National Wrestling Alliance, and thorn in the side of Japanese baby faces everywhere. Veda Scott also practices law (but doesn't antagonize Joshis... as much). A more local example is Jeff G Bailey, whose similarity to a certain someone banned in multiple states for misconduct is purely incidental. | |
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Val Venis, a wrestling porn star, and his brief tag team partner, The Godfather, a wrestling pimp.note As noted in some of these other examples Vince liked to base a lot of these gimmicks on a wrestler's real-life occupation before they became a wrestler. A common joke among fans was that since Vince doesn't actually check up on these things Val lied and said he used to do porn. | |
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There is a persistent urban legend that André the Giant was once a defensive end for the Washington Redskins (The Washington Commanders as of 2022). The truth is an aversion - what actually happened was that the 'skins invited him to go to training camp in 1975, but apart from a short visit which was little more than a publicity stunt, he did not attend the camp or play for them. As one of the first true superstars of professional wrestling, he was making twice what a star football player was making in those days, and his busy schedule didn't allow for him the opportunity to seriously try out even if he'd been willing to take a 50% pay cut to give up wrestling for football. | |
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Steve Regal, the 'Real Man's Man'. He was a construction worker or a lumberjack or something, it was kind of vague. Later, Regal changed his name to "Lord Steven Regal" and later "William Regal" and became 'the United Kingdom's Goodwill Ambassador'. | |
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On top of being the most patriotic American wrestler in existence, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan downplayed this trope, as he spent almost his entire career as a wrestling carpenter... minus the carpenter. His nickname is "Hacksaw" and his weapon of choice was a 2x4. He wasn't afraid to use that 2x4 on his opponents. Beyond those two connections to woodworking, he didn't really have a job gimmick, though, during his brief time with the WCW, he was told by the Powers That Be that he wasn't marketable, and was demoted to a janitor. | |
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Hunter Hearst Helmsley as a gimmick was originally a Connecticut Blueblood who was obviously rich before he ever entered a wrestling ring. Eventually, he averted this trope when he joined Shawn Michaels to form DX and shortened his name to the well-known Triple H. | |
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In one episode of Night Court Bull tried to start a career in professional wrestling. His character was "Bull the Battling Bailiff", wearing an outfit loosely based on his bailiff uniform. | |
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