WWE had been the best while handpicking some of the gorgeous Divas. They hosted Diva Search contests for several occasions in the last decade to chunk out the lovely ladies that entertained us on weekly shows. The hotness quotient shown by them was an integral part of the Ruthless Aggression Era. Speaking of this brings us to perhaps the most popular amongst them.
We are talking about Maria Kanellis who was the brightest face during her prime. No other woman on the roster might have earned the support that she received from the fans. It was certain considering her beauty and the oomph factor. We can find her perhaps the purest beauty to step foot inside the squared circle. She still is flawless without doing any surgeries or tattoos to her quite incredible body.
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This proves how natural beauty this lady is. WWE utilized her to a big extent when it comes to entertainment. Unfortunately, she could not make it to the championship picture. But that did not stop Maria Kanellis net worth from reaching to a particular stage. She is an American professional wrestler, valet, actress, model and singer at the same time. This proves Maria Kanellis salary comes from multi-dimension.
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Before going to Maria Kanellis net worth, we should take a look at her career’s early details. Maria Louis Kanellis is her real-life name who came to the world in 1982. Her birthplace was in Ottawa, Illinois in the United States. Her parents had two more children. So, Maria had a brother and sister named Bill and Janny, respectively. She never thought of competing in pro-wrestling.
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Instead, she was fond of other sports. This automatically dragged her on to other sports. This nag started from high school days. She started playing games like basketball, softball, and volleyball. But besides this, she always wanted to be a model. So she set the eye to the glam industry from the very early in her career. This helped to give some initial amount in Maria Kanellis salary account.
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She completed her graduation from Ottawa Township High School in 2000. Later she joined the Northern Illinois University continuing further studies. This time around, participating in beauty pageants provided Maria Kanellis salary account regularly. Being such a beautiful face landed her to the Diva Search contest hosted by the WWE in 2004. She decided to participate in it after seeing an advertisement on Monday Night Raw. Well, the Divas showed their faces on the weekly programming during the contest.
Maria Kanellis stood fifth in the 2004 contest after getting eliminated by showing the middle finger to fellow contestant Carmella DeCesare. But WWE did not let her go under their wings. She received a job and started making appearances in Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), WWE’s then-developmental territory. She used to provide creative ideas for the brand that sooner offered her promotion to Monday Night Raw. Maria Kanellis net worth started to increase as she became a backstage interviewer. Plus, she introduced WWE KissCam segment that became much popular.
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WWE continued to use the lovely lady in different such segments apart from wrestling due to her proficiency. Back in 2006, Edge and Lita were in an on-screen relationship to feud against John Cena. Maria got hooked herself up with the franchise player. This started rumours that they might be dating each other. Speculations started fuelling even more after Cena eventually kissed Maria on an episode of WWE Raw.
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However, this might have been just another storyline for an on-screen purpose. Be it on or off-screen, the blonde beauty became a fascination for the male superstars. She managed to her name up with various other wrestlers like Dolph Ziggler, CM Punk and more. Santino Marella was another one who started to date Maria for a TV angle. But it soon came to an end with Maria’s popularity growing huge.
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Playboy magazine featured her on the cover story giving a big boost to Maria Kanellis salary. At Wrestlemania 24, WWE hosted a Playboy BunnyMania Lumberjill match. Snoop Dogg was the special guest during this match to share a passionate smooch with Maria on the biggest stage of them all. Maria entered the Smackdown roster in 2009 to continue her oozing performances. Dolph Ziggler also fell in love for this lady for the on-screen purpose.
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But that did not last long as Ziggler was in a real relationship with WWE superstar Nikki Bella. Some think that it started a rift between Nikki and Maria at one point. The latter one took some time off from WWE to go mainstream once again to feature in Celebrity Apprentice also featuring Donald Trump. Earning this much attention definitely inserted big paychecks to Maria Kanellis salary. She won the Slammy Award for Diva of the Year in 2009, her biggest accolade in the WWE. Within two months of time, WWE released her from the contract in early 2010.
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But career never stopped for this woman as she went on to become the ‘first lady’ of the Ring of Honor promotion. This is also the place where she met her husband, Mike Kanellis. She also appeared around the indie scenes to earn her first career championship becoming the Family Wrestling Entertainment (FWE) Women’s Champion. Her dominant outing continues over the indie circuit that sooner inserted her into another famous promotion named New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW).
After spending a year, Mike and Maria Kanellis returned to the United States. TNA Impact Wrestling promotion became their employer to give a hike to Maria Kanellis net worth. They featured in the mid-card talent, but Maria finally was able to win the TNA Women’s Knockout Championship. It is one of the most prestigious women’s titles around the wrestling scene. In 2017, TNA released them from the contract, and they finally landed up in the WWE, once again.
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To date, their journey has not been smooth at all. Mike was in tremendously bad shape forcing WWE to take him out from TV. He was also dealing with some addiction problems. Maria, on the other hand, gave birth to their first daughter earlier this year. But thankfully she is back by her husband’s side as they got a new place to perform, i.e. on 205 Live.
Maria Kanellis net worth stands at $3 million, at this time. She earned not only paychecks from wrestling promotions but also from film and TV shows. WWE pays $200000 to Maria Kanellis salary account, approximately which is similar to her husband. Her brand value is way bigger than Mike considering her mainstream stint.
FHM named her 53rd of 100 on their “The Sexiest Women 2008” list in the same year she posed nude for Playboy. Some of her popular movies and TV shows are Cubed, Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed, Swallow: The series, Mother Hen, Army of the Damned and A Bet’s a Bet. Releasing debut album Sevin Sins on April 13, 2010, with “Fantasy” singles earned big amount to Maria Kanellis salary account.
Currently Maria Kanellis net worth includes an own perfume line called Signature. The couple also runs a podcast named Mike & Maria in Wonderland. If that’s not all, then the wonder woman also runs and operates an event design company called Wonderland Event Productions. Hopefully, Mike can become more successful in his WWE career which could take Maria Kanellis net worth to a better figure soon.
