Listen to any wrestling podcast or shoot interview, and you will hear a former wrestler or commentator speak about the importance of saving your money. A wrestler's career is finite and the shelf life of a worker in the business - especially today - is extremely short. It is important for the stars of the business to save their money and prepare for a future outside of the squared circle. Despite the importance of putting money aside, many stars like Ric Flair and others find themselves broke when the arena lights go out. The lack of money forces them to continue working even in advanced age.

While there are those stars who have mismanaged their finances, there are plenty of jobbers who are living well post-wrestling. Most wrestling jobbers didn't earn enough money to work in the business full-time. Many just competed in part-time roles and kept day job son the side. Today, some of these ex-grapplers are doing well in their current careers. Others have parlayed their work as enhancement talent into further work in wrestling or on the comic con circuit. The fact they were able to find even some success after wrestling deserves recognition. But the fact they were able to achieve it after not making much noise in the big leagues is a testament to their work ethic.

The 16 grapplers below show the difference in lifestyles between being stars and jobbers. It also shows the difference in those who didn't know how to manage their funds properly.

16 Broke: Tony Atlas

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The 1999 MTV documentary, "True Life: I'm a Professional Wrestler", came out during the height of the Attitude Era. Every American male from the age of 12 to 21 wanted to be a professional wrestler during the time thanks to the N.W.O., "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and The Rock. The documentary shed a different light on pro wrestling, however, as fans got to see the gritty side of the business that was inhabited by Tony Atlas. As a wrestler, Atlas had been a major star in the 1980s, but drugs got the best of the superstar; and Atlas fell out of the limelight. In "I'm a Professional Wrestler", viewers got to see a wrestler still trying to hold onto his past glories – not too different than the film The Wrestler. Atlas has credited his fall from glory and financial mismanagement with gaining success too quickly in the wrestling business.

15 Doing Well: Damien Demento

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Damien Demento main evented the first ever WWE Monday Night Raw. It was a losing effort to The Undertaker, but Demento featured on many of those early Raw episodes from the Manhattan Center. Demento worked for the WWE between 1992 and 1993, and he portrayed a sadistic character in feathery attire. It is a gimmick much different from the man who played it. Phillip Theis began wrestling as a way to make a living and to support his art career.

A painter and sculptor, Theis broke into the business in 1987. At 6ft 3in and 300 pounds, Theis was a monster of a man. His size helped him and Theis became a regular on the northeast indie scene. Following his WWE run, Theis appeared in Die Hard with a Vengeance in 1995. Today, he continues to work in art. He occasionally dons the tights and boots, but for the most part, you will find him in Manhattan working on his paintings and sculptors.

14 Broke: Koko B. Ware

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The WWE has tried to stop any and all ex-wrestlers from suing them for medical reasons. In 2015, the company filed a lawsuit against Koko B. Ware to prevent him from suing the company. Ware wasn't the only one the WWE sued, as Dynamite Kid and Ivan Koloff (who has since passed away) were also included in the lawsuit. He and others have seen their finances drained due to mounting medical costs from a life of working in wrestling. Ware still works on the indie circuit as the former WWE grappler earns money to pay his bills. Ware was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2009. However, it seems any legends contract money he has received has been insufficient toward his medical and other needs.

13 Doing Well: "Nature Boy" Paul Lee

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"Nature Boy" Paul Lee did jobs for the NWA/WCW and Smoky Mountain Wrestling in the 1980s and 1990s. Lee took his love of Ric Flair and turned it into a gimmick. If Flair was cool and suave, then Lee is redneck and rude. In fact, he may be more akin to the late great Buddy Landel than to Flair. After 35 years in the business, Lee still works shows across the United States, with many coming in the southeast. Lee's continued work in the business shows he has done something right and that people want to see his Flair imitation. Even if he is just aping Flair, Lee has carved out his own niche that fans of wrestling will enjoy if they see him live. Lee also has a hand in running the AWF promotion in Georgia and keeps wrestling alive and well with fans in the area.

12 Broke: Lex Luger

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When WCW went out of business in 2001, Lex Luger was making $1.4 million a year, and he had two years left to run on the deal. In fact, many credit Luger as the first wrestler to get a guaranteed contract, in 1985. The demand for him was so strong that Jim Crockett Promotions did everything to lock him down. It changed the structure of the business and contracts slowly became the norm. In 2003, Luger's world came tumbling down with the death of Elizabeth Hulette.

The former wrestling valet was Luger's girlfriend, and her death and the legal problems that followed sucked the former WCW World Champion's finances dry. Four years later, Luger suffered spinal infraction, which has led to long-term health problems. The former football player and bodybuilder looks nothing like he did 20 years ago and thanks to his finances being tapped, he now lives with his mother in New York.

11 Doing Well: Barry Horowitz

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Barry Horowitz is one of the most famous wrestling jobbers of all-time. Horowitz debuted in 1979 and bounced around the territories wrestling during the 1980s. Horowitz wasn't the jobber he would become later on, and he even won the NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship when most states had their own titles. It wasn't until the 1990s that Horowitz truly became a jobber to the stars. It was also during that time frame that he received a slight push in the WWE and competed at SummerSlam 1995 against Skip of the Bodydonnas. Horowitz still gets in the ring today, despite being 57. He also works as a consultant for a Florida sports nutrition business. It is a good life with much fewer bumps. He got to live his dream of being a pro wrestler even if it was just as a journeyman carpenter.

10 Broke: Jerry Lynn

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Jerry Lynn was one of the most underrated wrestlers of his generation. Like so many before him, few knew just who Jerry Lynn was – or how good he was – until he got to ECW. Unfortunately, the company not only helped him get over, but ECW's style helped Lynn's body deteriorate more quickly. Lynn was able to go onto a successful career in TNA before retiring in 2013. Two years later, the injuries Lynn accumulated became too much, and he sought help via GoFundMe to get neck surgery. Although Lynn had insurance through his day job, he couldn't pay the $5,000 deductible. Nor could he afford to live for two to three months without work as he recovered. Luckily, Lynn's donation page went past the needed amount and the extra money received went to the Nashville Rescue Mission.

9 Doing Well: Duane Gill

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Duane Gill was a jobber long before he was ever given the Gillberg character. Like many other jobbers, Gill got to live his dream of being a professional wrestler while working a 9 to 5 job. However, in the late 1990s, he got a taste of superstardom as he donned the Gillberg gimmick. Of course, it was spoof on WCW's Bill Goldberg, but it won many fans over as it mocked the star of Ted Turner's company. Gill still competes sporadically on the indie scene, and in 2017, made an appearance with the WWE against Kevin Owens. Gill also ran his own wrestling school after his WWE tenure. He continues to sell his own merchandise and works the comic con circuit when booked. For a group of WWE fans of the 1990s, Gill is still a man in demand.

8 Broke: Jake "The Snake" Roberts

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Jake "The Snake" Roberts lived hard and fast during the 1980s and 1990s. Roberts was spending money just as fast as he could get it, and many times got booked on indie shows and received his fee, but never turned up to work. Roberts' friend Jerry Grey booked the former WWE wrestler on a number of shows across the United States. Grey has plenty of great stories - many shared on the 6:05 Superpodcast - of Roberts' drug abuse and ridiculous money spending.

The grappler's addictions and poor money management are why Roberts has nothing left from his wrestling heyday. Despite working major programs in WWE and WCW, Roberts squandered the money he accumulated. Today, he has got his life turned around thanks to friend Diamond Dallas Page. Now, Roberts is on the comic con and speaking circuit as he gets booked to tell fans about the glory years of the 1980s.

7 Doing Well: "Nightmare" Danny Davis

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"Nightmare" Danny Davis broke into wrestling in 1977. Trained by legendary wrestler, booker and trainer Buddy Fuller, Davis worked the territories throughout the 1980s. He found most of his success in wrestling in the southeast as a member of The Nightmares tag team. By the 1990s, Davis was no longer a top wrestler and was being used more to put guys over than to go over. Davis retired in 1997 after spending time as a jobber with Jim Cornette's Smoky Mountain Wrestling. After quitting as an in-ring worker, Davis became a trainer and opened OVW. The company became the training territory of the WWE and later TNA. On Davis' watch, the likes of John Cena, Randy Orton and many more stars of today were trained.

6 Broke: Sabu

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Sabu should be one of the wealthiest wrestlers in the world. He was an innovator in high demand during the late-1990s and early 2000s. However, Sabu's high-risk attack and out of ring lifestyle prevented him from staying long in any promotion outside of the original ECW. Sabu is in his early 50s and still wants to wrestle. His uncle, the Original Sheik, worked late into life without needing the cash, but in Sabu's case, he needs the money to live. Years of high-risk, death defying moves have wrecked Sabu's body. His finances are in such a way that he cannot afford medical treatment and surgery on his own. In 2016, a GoFundMe page was started for fans to donate to Sabu, so he could get the hip surgery he desperately needed. To date, it has raised over $27,000.

5 Doing Well: Colt Cabana

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Colt Cabana has become successful due to his podcast, the Art of Wrestling, as the indie superstar has used it as a vehicle to promote himself. Cabana was the first professional wrestler to create a podcast and it occurred long before every past and current worker had their own show. He wrestled in WWE developmental from 2007 through 2009. Cabana wrestled in just a handful of matches in the WWE before being released. It was a time the grappler thought his career might be finished. However, he dusted himself off and created AOW. Although Cabana is being sued by WWE doctor Chris Amann currently, with mounting legal costs and a verdict that could change podcasting forever, the former WWE jobber has found success with Ring of Honor. Cabana still works the indies but spends much of his time as the colour commentator on ROH's programming.

4 Broke: Dynamite Kid

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The Dynamite Kid was one of the most innovative and exciting wrestlers of all-time. His style was copied by the likes of Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho and more cruiserweights that exploded onto the scene in the 1990s. Dynamite was just as good in singles competition as he was a tag team wrestler. However, many WWE fans of the 1980s remember him specifically as one half of the British Bulldogs. Drug and steroid abuse wreaked havoc on Dynamite's body and today he is wheelchair bound. Everything he earned in the wrestling business has gone on medical bills. The WWE has not attempted to help Dynamite, according to reports; and the former wrestling great has depended on a GoFundMe account to help with costs. In 2016, Dynamite Kid spent 13-plus months in a care home in England after suffering a stroke.

3 Doing Well: "Dangerous" Danny Davis

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"Dangerous" Danny Davis was a heel referee in the back pocket of manager Jimmy Hart and the Hart Foundation. His turn and favouritism toward Hart's proteges made for some memorable clashes in the WWE in 1987 and 1988. In fact, WCW would later replicate the angle with Nick Patrick and N.W.O. Davis would have a short run as a wrestling jobber following the angle before moving back into a referee role. Following his retirement from the ring in 1995, Davis promoted wrestling cards in New England and has featured on the typical interview/comic con circuit. Davis and author Kenny Casanova started a KickStarter fund for the wrestling referee's autobiography. The duo has already met their goal of $3,000 and Davis will soon publish his life story for fans to read.

2 Broke: Ric Flair

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Ric Flair went through wives as fast as he did cars, houses and cash. His ex-partners are part of the reason Flair has little, if any, of the money he made during his 1980s heyday. But it isn't just the women he married that has hurt Flair's finances. The "Nature Boy" spent lavishly on cars, houses, jewelry and girlfriends as he lived the gimmick 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Even during the 1980s, Flair was being supported by fans and money marks to live his excessive lifestyle.

Some claim Flair to be a multimillionaire today, but it is thanks to his continued work with the WWE as a legend and bookings with promotions, comic cons and other events that keeps him paying the bills. Flair is booked for shows in the coming months on the indie circuit. At one show in particular, Flair is selling an autographed 8x10 for $150 a pop. Want to get a selfie with the "Nature Boy"? It will cost you $115.

1 Doing Well: Lanny Poffo

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Many wrestling fans remember Lanny Poffo as a WWE jobber in the 1990s. However, before his final WWE run, Poffo had been over as a formidable heel against Hulk Hogan in 1989. Even before then, Poffo had worked as a top territory wrestler during his career. Unfortunately, Poffo was overshadowed by his brother, "Macho Man" Randy Savage. Since leaving the squared circle, Poffo has continued to do autograph shows and comic cons. He also worked in car sales and is a published author. Wrestling fans may have also seen Poffo appear on television as he has appeared in various films and TV shows. Mostly, Poffo spends his time talking about his career and brother in shoot interviews, however.