10 Times Wrestlers Secretly LIED To The Locker Room

10. The Radicalz Ghost Shane Douglas

Shane Douglas has at least made peace enough with what happened to him in late-1999/early-2000 enough to share the anecdotes in shoot interviews and the like, but it can't have felt great to be 'The Franchise' when actual wrestlers embodying the term were making the jump to wrestling's new promised land.

Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko and Perry Saturday successfully got out of their WCW deals as part of a coordinated move to the thriving opposition, but the camp had initially been much bigger. Billy Kidman, Konnan and Shane Douglas were all good to go until the former pair were talked down and only five remained.

It was at this point, Douglas recalled, that things got weird. Either WWE made it clear he was of no interest or the group had simply done all their business without him, but the former ECW icon was no longer in the picture and, within days of not being able to get hold of his buddies, he was watching them, debut on Monday Night Raw.

Authored by Michael Hamflett

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Posted On: 8th Feb 2022