HULK HOGAN—$25 MILLION

Hulk Hogan, played by Terry Gene Bollea, is one of the original wrestling superstars to have come out of entertainment wrestling. Indeed, one could argue that he was among the people who’s put entertainment wrestling on the map.

In fact, IGN, an entertainment website, ranks Hulk Hogan as “the most recognized wrestling star worldwide and the most popular wrestler of the 1980s”. He has, to his credit, single handedly ushered the wrestling boom of the ‘80s and made entertainment wrestling and its fandom what it currently is. Now retired, he’s still in great shape and was even able to launch his own energy drink and nutrition website.