I just saw an old interview where The Rock was talking about how he and his mother were poor growing up. How the hell was that possible when both his father and grandfather were professional wrestlers??

but back then wrestlers likely didnt make as much as they do now that was back 60s to 80s when his dad wrestled and way longer before his dad wrestled when his grandfather wrestled

Wrestling was different back then vs now.

In the present-day, there is the WWE Performance center, NXT, and wrestlers get paid a lot more.

Back then, promotions didn't have much of those features.

Profesional Wrestlers did not make a lot of money back in the 70s and 80s, BooLieve That.

Tony Atlas is "poor" and he was tag champion with rocky johnson. its not like everybody knows how to keep their finances in stocks, bonds, CDs, IRAs. They get paid gas money and spends the rest on gym fees and drugs....

big money didn't come into wrestling till Vince's national expansion. Also "poor" is a relative terms- obviously he was "poor" then compared to his current situation....

APPARENTLY YOU DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT IT JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE WRESTLERS DOESN'T MEAN THEY WERE RICH, THEY WERE LUCKY IF THEY GOT BETWEEN $10.00 AND $20.00 A MATCH AND THAT IS IF THE PROMOTOR DIDN'T CHEAT THEM