10 WWE Legends That Require A Career Reevaluation

10. Jeff Jarrett

What is it about wrestling fans that make them favour the bosses, rather than the workers?

The infamous "Jeff Jarrett held WWE up in 1999" story has for years painted 'Double J' as the robbing swine gleefully swindling a small fortune out of innocent po-faced promoter Vince McMahon on his last night. Laying down for Chyna before escaping out the side door to Nitro, swag-bag and Lone Ranger mask in-tow.

The reality was far less dramatic - Jarrett had roughly calculated what he was owed as part of WWE's complex delayed pay system for the pay-per-views and live events he'd already worked. Furthermore, he took advantage of a contractual oversight on the company's part, not his own.

Jarrett was an at-times fabulous pro wrestler but an even better worker. He worked his way into an outstanding WCW deal after taking a small fortune from McMahon, then kickstarted his own promotion when he knew full well there was no chance of a job with the company following his misdemeanour.

The master of making a little bit more than he started with, Jarrett's one of the last of a breed of performers that knew the realities of the business they were in and exploited it as well as they possibly could.