Daniel McConnell
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So, I mean, he's not poor.
See, he had migrated.
had gone into movies as well so the WWE had set up its own film studio as well so a lot of their stars had almost following in the path of The Rock had gone into like so even you know so John Cena has gone in Stone Cold Steve Austin had done a couple of movies so I get you know this throughput again this whole industry starting from the kind of the base of the wrestling has now branched out into all sorts of like and then don't forget there's a whole merchandising kind of side to it as well which is as we know from our Star Wars I mean that's become very important you know
I'm not sure you're guaranteed because you're a wrestler.
I presume they look at who's most likely to.
So a guy like Dave Bautista, who was in the Guardians of the Galaxy and stuff, he was another very famous wrestler.
But he himself has gone on to have a very successful movie career.
So I don't think it's guaranteed.
But what's really interesting about the wrestling careers, and this is something that I don't know if you know your man John Oliver in the US, his show did a big expose, if you want to call it, about how wrestlers are paid.
So a lot of these, they're not staff, they're independent contractors.
And in days gone by, obviously, if you didn't earn, or say if you didn't work, you didn't earn, and obviously put pressure on wrestlers.
And the shady side of wrestling and the dark side of wrestling is people are obviously pushing themselves
People were obviously pushing themselves in terms of illegal substances.
Now, obviously, it's a different regime now.
And obviously, Seamus is nowhere near the world that we're talking about there.
But there was a dark, shady past.
And I think the WWE has come in for a very legitimate criticism about how it's treated its talent, overworking them, demanding too much from them, not protecting them when they get injured, not looking after them properly when they get injured, and not giving them employee status.
So yes, it's come on an awful long way.
And we've talked about that corporatization of the company.
But there are still those legitimate criticisms.