Former WWE Star Talks About His Video Game Royalty Check

It’s a dream of many professional wrestlers who sign with WWE to one day be featured in one of their video games. Along with having a digital version of yourself exist, it also comes with royalties.

Former WWE star Mark Jindrak recently spoke about the royalty check he received for his appearance in WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2006, which was released after Jindrak had left WWE.

Speaking with Get Funk’d, Jindrak said:

“What was cool too, I got fired (from WWE) in 2005, I didn’t start doing sh*t until July — and I didn’t start doing sh*t until like May of 2006 because I remember I got on the last video game for — even though I got released, I made the last cut for Raw vs. SmackDown 2006 and you know with video games, those royalties were f*cking sick, you know? I got — I think one royalty check — I was released and I’m thinking, my gears were spinning. I was like, ‘I need to party less, I need to date less and go on less dates. I gotta turn it down.’ I had a sweet Hummer and then all of a sudden, I opened my mailbox one day and a royalty check came for the f*cking video game and it was for f*cking $53,000 and I was like, ‘Umm…'”

Mark Jindrak was released from WWE in July 2005. He has since become infamous for being in the original planned lineup for Evolution instead of Batista.

Following his WWE departure, Jindrak went on to achieve great success in Mexico for AAA, Lucha Libre USA and CMLL.

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