Robin Ramzinski from "The Wrestler" might have made roughly $182,000 per year as a professional wrestler in the 1980s. Mickey Rourke made less money to play him. According to Wrestling Inc., former professional wrestler Jim Brunzell stated that he and his fellow wrestlers were paid between $2,500 and $3,500 per week throughout the 1980s. This would make their annual salary around $180,000 or $210,000 with inflation. Brunzell also said they had no health insurance and no retirement plan other than taking care of their own injuries. Roughly 15 years after playing the part of Ramzinski, Mickey Rourke landed a role in Russell Crowe's movie "Noah". He was not paid anything for this part but rather received credit and promotion. In return, he agreed to be listed in the film's credits. In 2007, it was reported that Rourke was paid $1 million for making two appearances at the WrestleMania 23 event. The first was a backstage interview where he praised wrestling and announced that he was willing to wrestle anyone put in front of him. The second appearance was at the event itself where he interviewed Vince McMahon before wrestling The Rock. Since then, there have been reports that Rourke has been paid huge sums of money for appearing at various events including sports leagues and television shows. However, these reports cannot be confirmed because wrestling companies do not release information about their contracts.