8 Wrestlers That Visibly Hated Working For WCW

8. Bobby Heenan

Visibly, aurally; it's was clear for anybody tuning in and Bobby Heenan was the first to admit it - he was there for the paycheque rather than the product when it came to calling the action in WCW.

A fantastic manager, wrestler and "broadcast journalist" in the 1970s, 80s and early-90s, Heenan moved many to consider him the best all-rounder in wrestling history, and the evidence is stacked so high it's little wonder he was viewed as quite a coup for WCW when he left WWE at the very end of 1993 to rejoin Mean Gene Okerlund on the other side of the mainstream wrestling divide. 

But, by his own review and the sentiment of the vast majority of the viewing audience, WCW just didn't get the best of 'The Brain' during the six years he was on the call.

From some middling first impressions, Heenan sensed the outfit wasn't going to be the sort he was used to, and rationalised that he might as well earn good money even if only passable work was expected out of him. Far removed from the locked in legend that sat alongside Gorilla Monsoon and Vince McMahon and brought the best out everybody around him, Heenan merely played the generic and disinterested sidekick to Tony Schiavone, and - when the nWo blew up - coward WCW staffer and situational babyface. 

The 1992 Royal Rumble is beloved as much for Bobby's call as Ric Flair's work, and it was only when covering matches for 'The Nature Boy' and a select few others did it feel like that legendary spark was still there.