When you think of a professional wrestler, your mind typically jumps to violent, hardcore images of highly muscular men like Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold Steve Austin or John Cena fighting each other in spectacular events. Whoever you consider, it is doubtful that you would associate these sports entertainers to smart, or even brilliant, fellows. Despite this being a popular opinion, it is far from the whole truth.
In this video, we’ll be going through 6 of the most brilliant wrestlers in history. Here, we’ll cover wrestlers who got a real education at college or university level and have leveraged it outside of the arena. Hence, we won’t take into account wrestlers who merely had smart appearances such as “Million Dollar Man” Ted Dibiase’s personal accountant Irwin R.Schyster, or Bobby “The Brain” Heenan.
It’s important to mention here that Mick Foley, the Hardcore Legend, became a highly successful writer when he sensed that his days in the ring were coming to an end. He has published several New York Times bestsellers, which include two fiction novels, children’s books and four autobiographies. Since he however didn’t graduate, we will not be covering him in this list.
David Otunga
Otunga was a reality star on I Love New York as “Punk” (season 2)
He graduated from University of Illinois with Bachelors degree in Psychology
Otunga worked at Columbia and studied at Harvard Business Schools
Christopher Nowinski
Chris graduated from Harvard with Bachelors degree in Sociology
He was the first Harvard alumnus to have joined the WWE
He published a book on head injuries in football and consults on ESPN and CNN
Xavier Woods
Woods graduated from Furman University in Psychology and Philosophy
Woods is currently pursuing a PhD in Psychology
He started wrestling part-time at university and signed with WWE in 2010
Michelle McCool
McCool has studied at Pasco-Hernando State College where she played first-base
She holds a Masters degree in Educational leadership at Florida State University
She taught seventh grade science for four years in Palatka, Florida
Matt Striker
Matt has a Bachelors degree in History and a Masters in Educational Psychology
He worked as a part-time teacher in high schools and wrestled part-time
Striker currently is an announcer on Luncha Underground which airs on El Rey
Eve Torres
Eve won 2007s Diva search and attended University of Southern California
She graduated with honors and a degree in Industrial Systems Engineering
Torres co-founded Omega Phi Beta sorority chapter at her university
Source: http://www.therichest.com/video/the-smartest-wrestlers-in-wwe-history/
