John Cena Tops Forbes' Annual List Of The Top 10 Highest-Paid Superstars In WWE For 2017
Forbes has released their annual list of the top 10 highest-paid Superstars in WWE for last year, and one again, John Cena sits very comfortably at the top. Find out who else made the list after the jump...
Forbes has released a list of the highest paid WWE superstars for the year 2017, and, surprising nobody, "The Franchise Playa" is sitting right at the top.
To be fair, Cena movie roles helped push him to that very impressive $10M mark, but he probably wouldn't have been far from the top spot anyway. Despite only wrestling a handful of matches and occasionally standing in the ring while Paul Heyman cut a promo, Brock Lesnar is #2. He's followed by Roman Reigns, AJ Styles and Triple H.
Check out the top 10 list in full below. Are you surprised by any of the placements?
#1 John Cena – $10 Million (WWE + movie roles including Ferdinand and Blockers)
#2 Brock Lesnar – $6.5 Million
#3 Roman Reigns – $4.3 Million
#4 AJ Styles – $3.5 million
#5 Triple H – $3.2 million (1.7 million in salary + $1.5 million from talent contract)
#6 Randy Orton - $2.9 million
#7 Seth Rollins - $2.7 million
#8 The Undertaker - $2.5 million
#9 Dean Ambrose - $2.2 million
#10 Kevin Owens - $2.0 million