10 Wrestling Legal Battles That Turned Ugly

10. Sable Vs. WWF

The rapid ascent of Sable through WWE's ranks happened in tandem with the company's rocketing growth in 1998, with her appeal helping reach a mainstream audience in a brand new way alongside the powerful performances of Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock at the top of the card.

A heel turn in early 1999 reflected her unbelievable success, with a mammoth-selling Playboy pictorial allegedly sending the fame to her head off-screen even more so than it was portrayed on Monday Night Raw.

Relations between talent and office quickly frayed, with Sable's backstage unpopularity only expediting her exit from the organisation only two months removed from a WrestleMania XV Women's Title victory over Tori.

In departing, she filed an enormous $110 million lawsuit, citing sexual harassment and unsafe working conditions after allegedly refusing to take part in a lesbian storyline and/or go topless on television. WWE counter-sued in an effort to claim the rights to the 'Sable' moniker for future profits, and an out-of-court settlement was delicately reached after the nine-figure amount was gradually reduced.

During the suit, she appeared once in the crowd on WCW Nitro, but never officially worked for the group, and outside of a brief spell with the short-lived XWF, wouldn't work in wrestling again before her surprising 2003 WWE return.