10 Precise Moments Wrestlers Wanted To Jump Ship

5. Scott Hall & Kevin Nash

Status In The WWF:

Well-paid by the standards of the time, and well-pushed, too. Razor Ramon was a perennial upper midcard fixture, and while he wasn't likely to ever win the golden eagle - he had peaked in the babyface and heel roles - he was in his prime during a time in which winning a World Title was a very rare development. As Diesel, Kevin Nash had reached that rarified stratosphere, but he bombed in the role. His sheer frame and development as a vastly underrated worker meant that he'd always be considered for the spot.

Why And When They Wanted To Leave:

When they were offered significantly more money for fewer dates.

It was a different business back then. Creative fulfilment wasn't a concern; if anything, before the Outsiders changed everything, the WWF was the better and more flattering promotion. Moreover, WCW had already booked Nash and Hall like sh*t. Preliminary conversations took place over creative, which was their business, but ultimately - as Nash himself has said - it's only about the money and the miles.

Tracing the line from Nash and Hall's jump to every jump today marks a paradigm shift that indicts WWE as a promotion: it has become so rotten that its riches no longer lure a pro wrestler. A pro wrestler.

These f*ckers bump for a living.