8 Times Wrestling Carnies Got Out-Carnied

8. Booker T & Kevin Nash Use Main Event Mafia Whispers To Leverage Offers To Return To WWE

Back in early 2011, TNA started to tease the return of one of the most dominant factions in the company's history: the Main Event Mafia.

But before the band, which consisted of the likes of Kurt Angle, Sting, Scott Steiner, Booker T, and Kevin Nash, could fully get back together, those last two names opted to suddenly do the unthinkable.

Right as Dixie Carter - the carny known for paying talent late and trying to lowball homegrown stars like AJ Styles - was about to bring Booker and Nash back, those two former world champs used those whispers to score themselves a nice payday to return to WWE just in time for that year's 40-person Royal Rumble. 

While Booker wasn't actually signed to a TNA deal at the time, Nash was and would be released from his contract just before making that sudden, angle-killing jump back to WWE.

The moves completely ruined that incoming Main Event Mafia reunion, with TNA then being forced to pivot and drop that particular storyline as Book, Nash, and WWE left Carter with a whole lot of main event egg on her face.