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The goal of becoming a successful entrepreneur is more attainable now than it’s ever been. Side hustle options through freelancer sites and the abundance of home manufacturing technologies are just the tip of the entrepreneurial iceberg. Not to mention the massive deluxe fancy gift basket of multi-level marketing opportunities you can explore through sites like The Economic Secretariat.
If there’s one common thread though; if there’s one magical ingredient to the secret sauce of success, it’s chutzpah. There’s a certain bigness of personality required to headbutt your way through the nine to five grind to the magical land of self-earned wealth and self-defined living which lies beyond.
It’s probably not all that surprising then that the world of wrestling contains more than its fair share of body-slamming luminaries who went on to become ridiculously successful entrepreneurs. Here’s four of the best.
Ahh, Hulk Hogan. He has to be given top billing because despite or revere him, he is undeniably a genre-defining titan of the gentleman wrestler. If wrestling had a “wrenaissance,” then Hulk Hogan is the wrestling world’s Titian or Raphael.
So much of the Hulk Hogan aesthetic is unrepeatably singular. The yellowness of his general person, the impossible mullet and handlebar mustache combo, the massiveness of his physique — all these trappings of excess somehow pale into insignificance against his luminous, aggressive, unstoppable Hulk Hogan-ness.
Hulk Hogan doesn’t just break the mold, he grinds it up into a fine powder and sprinkles it on his morning muesli for a bit of extra fiber.
It’s this which equips him to be the consummate entrepreneur.
Hogan has an impressively diverse portfolio of businesses under his thrall. In the restaurant industry alone, you’ll find his mustachioed stamp of approval in everything from down home pasta joints in Minnesota to airy beachfront restaurants in humidity drenched Florida.
He even owns a part share of a … website hosting company … of all things. It’s called Hostamania, in tribute to the manic zeal of Hulk Hogan fans in the early eighties; a phenomenon which became known as Hulkamania.
While the other wrestlers in this article all trod their own path and made their own fortunes, in a very real sense each and every one of them owe some part of their success to the ridiculous, monolithic powerhouse who invented the wrestler entrepreneur archetype: the legend himself, Hulk Hogan.
Diamond Dallas Page was never a top echelon wrestler, but oh how he was loved. Page was, is and ever shall be a showman. In the ring and in life, he looms large as a self-promoter whose big mouth is shadowed only by a shrewd mind which misses nothing.
If Hogan is a Renaissance Founding Father of wrestling, Page has to be a PT Barnum figure, always finding new ways to put on one hell of a show. It’s Page’s godlike ability to get asses on seats which equipped him perfectly to don the boots and fancy hat of a captain of industry.
So let’s talk about DDP Yoga. This thing is an absolute fudge nuggeting phenomenon. Any sober minded business analyst would likely predict that yoga isn’t the ideal product for a faded wrestler with crappy knees to be peddling, but Page doesn’t just make this business work, he makes it shine.
DDP Yoga rivals Beachbody in its ability to draw regular people in and get them investing a solid stream of money to work on their fitness. He has every base covered. Hell, the guy is inventing fitness bases and then covering them. Yoga for military personnel. Yoga for kids. Yoga for people with injuries. Yoga for celebrities in rehab.
He’s successfully marketed an obscene variety of yoga products and accessories — to the point that this sexagenarian scrapper has basically built an empire.
For a man whose cranium alone looks like a lethal battering weapon, Paul Michael Levesque is unfeasibly, unreasonably (and kind of unfairly) accomplished.
Levesque joined the World Wrestling Federation in 1995, where he rapidly developed a his distinctive and polarizing persona, wealthy sophisticate and man of means, Hunter Hearst Helmsley.
Triple H has a contract with the the WWE which is worth $1 million per year in base salary alone. Add to this his roughly $2 million haul in merchandise earnings and Levesque bears more than a passing resemblance to his ridiculously wealthy triple H persona.
He also owns over 65,000 shares of WWE stock, which is worth just south of $2 million.
Levesque is an entrepreneur who hasn’t wasted time with diversification. He’s onto a good thing and earning every drop of unbridled wealth while he can. Hard to hold that against him!
I’m gonna bookend this lineup of ridiculously successful wrestlers with none other than Dwayne Johnson.
Beyond (probably) being able to crush walnuts with his eyebrow muscles, The Rock is on Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people of 2019. If that wasn’t enough of an accolade, his write up in said illustrious magazine was by Wonder Woman herself, Gal Gadot.
If you took all of Dwayne’s commercial successes and divided them equally across three people, each of those three people would probably be considered deeply and extraordinarily successful.
Of course, he’s a household name as a wrestler, and considered one of the biggest professional wrestling draws of all time. He’s also an A-list actor, with the wildly successful Jumanji and The Fast and the Furious franchises just two of the many notches in his acting belt.
He also owns his own production company and is spearheading a pretty damn watchable American Ninja Warrior make-like game show called The Titan Games. Oh yes. It’s probably worth mentioning he’s also on the New York Times Best Seller list, having written a genuinely, actually really good autobiography.
Estimates of his wealth vary wildly, but it seems to float somewhere around a third of a billion dollars. That’s right: around $280 million bucks. Money, brains, looks and abs. He’d get a lot of resent-filled hate on the Interwebs if he weren’t so freaking likable!
Superstar wrestlers mightn’t be your first guess for successful entrepreneur material, but the personality requirements are actually oddly similar: crazy self belief, the ability to keep doing what you like no matter what others think, and the exercise of complete determination no matter the odds. Huge, intimidating muscles probably help too.
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