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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), but it 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 (though they soon got better).

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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), but it 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 (though they soon got better).
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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), but it 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 (though they soon got better). These wrestlers are more likely than any others to be a Steven Ulysses Perhero. This is actually a case of Truth in Television, as any indy wrestler will tell you. It's also Truth In Television in that amateur wrestlers have very limited opportunities after leaving college (or rather, limited athletic opportunities): they can either 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) attempt to make the Olympic level team(like WWE/TNA star and gold medalist Kurt Angle, gold medalist Rulon Gardner, and Olympic team member and current StrikeForce fighter Dan Henderson) or make the transition to either professional wrestling or mixed martial arts. Or do several of the above, in the cases of Brock Lesnar and Bobby Lashley. Conversely, within the landscape of the WWE, wrestlers can end up being paid very very well, generally in the six figure range for even low level performers while top tier stars can reach high seven figures plus perks. Several of these gimmicks were actually the wrestlers' second jobs before they got to the big 2. Shane Douglas really was the dean of an elementary school, and Duke "The Dumpster" Droese was a garbage man. Examples of Wrestling Doesn't Pay include:
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