8. Jim Herd
Unlike virtually all the entries on this list, Jim Herd had little to no experience whatsoever working in the wrestling business. Herd worked for Jim Crockett Promotions, which would later become WCW in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Prior to that, he worked at a radio station and was the regional manager for a Pizza Hut. He entered WCW at a time when its audience was still composed of diehard traditional rasslin fans, who were more interested in the realistic, athletic aspects of wrestling, as opposed to the more colorful, cartoony wrestling seen in the WWF at the time. Herd wanted to mimic the WWFs wrestling by creating more outlandish gimmicks for WCWs talent. From wrestling hunchbacks (who could not be pinned because their shoulders could never touch the mat), to turning Stan Hansen into a comedy cowboy, to a tag team with bells called the Ding Dongs, Herds decisions were all soundly rejected by the booking committee in WCW at the time. But it was his faux-pas with Ric Flair that was his most unforgivable sin. In 1990-1991, Herd constantly clashed with Flair, convinced that Flair was no longer a major draw, despite fan reaction clearly proving the opposite. Herd wanted Flair to drop his Nature Boy persona and trademark blonde hair in order to adopt the gimmick of Spartacus the gladiator. He also demanded Flair drop the WCW World Title to Lex Luger despite previously promising Flair dropping it to Sting. All of this incensed Flair to such a degree that he left WCW for the WWF with the WCW World Title. What made Jim Herd such an enemy of pro wrestling is that he was a man with little experience in the wrestling industry being given considerable creative decision-making power. He was trying to fix something that clearly wasnt broken (Ric Flair) and was trying to emulate the WWF in their ridiculous gimmicks. It is a good thing that he had a booking committee reject his decisions, and that he was fired from WCW in 1992.