10 Compensations Wrestlers Accepted As Payback
4. Sable - A Fresh Start
Though far from the biggest "never say never" moment of the post-2001 years, Sable's WWE return on the SmackDown after WrestleMania XIX came as a fairly substantial shock following her hugely controversial exit from the company 4 years prior.
After rising to enormous popularity at the height of the Attitude Era, she'd grown tired of the WWE grind as well as having to perform her own one by mid-1999. The unexpected departure that year was made worse by a (dropped) lawsuit she filed against the organisation, seemingly cutting ties with Vince McMahon completely just three years after she'd dazzled everybody at Titan's top table.
Though her financial battle wasn't won in the courtroom, enough water had passed under the bridge by 2003 for her to make a return. Notably though, the role was relatively short-lived, and seemed to mock some of the complaints she'd made on her way out. She very briefly engaged in a lesbian pollen (TM OSW Review) angle with Torrie Wilson before linking arms with McMahon as he continued descending into his umpteenth on (and off) screen midlife crisis.