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7. Mark Jindrak's Post-Release Royalties

Though a released WWE superstar no longer receives a monthly cheque from the company for their in-ring (or otherwise) services, they will continue to receive royalty payments based on products that they are featured in, such as action figures and DVDs. 

The pay range obviously varies massively from top stars and legends to midcard and opening match talent, but former WWE star Mark Jindrak recently gave an insight into how healthy and welcomed those payments can be. 

Speaking with former WCW colleague Allan 'Kwee Wee' Funk on the Get Funk'd podcast, Jindrak mentioned how he was given a decent chunk of change after his 2005 release for appearing as a playable character in the SmackDown versus Raw video game. 

"What was cool too, I got fired [from WWE] in 2005, I didn't start doing sh*t until July — and I didn't start doing sh*t until like May of 2006 because I remember I got on the last video game for — even though I got released, I made the last cut for Raw vs. SmackDown 2006 and you know with video games, those royalties were f*cking sick, you know? 

I got — I think one royalty cheque — I was released and I'm thinking, my gears were spinning. I was like, 'I need to party less, I need to date less and go on less dates. I gotta turn it down'. I had a sweet Hummer and then all of a sudden, I opened my mailbox one day and a royalty cheque came for the f*cking video game and it was for f*cking $53,000 and I was like, 'Umm…'". 

The drinks are on Jindrak!