10 Dick Moves Promoters Used To Improve Wrestlers' Performances
6. Refusing To Let Randy Savage Wrestle
Vince McMahon paid fitting tribute to Macho Man Randy Savage during the first edition of Monday Night Raw following his shocking November 1994 switch to WCW, but he perhaps should have been a little kinder to the former two-time WWE Champion when he was still under his employ.
Savage had allegedly made no secret of wanting to wrestle rather than announce, but McMahon's ill-conceived "New Generation" branding apparently froze him out of the scene despite him only being a few years beyond some of the other top stars and younger than Bob Backlund - a man who'd win the WWE Championship just weeks after his departure.
Far from just taking WCW's money and running, Randy instead revved his engines and shoved his ability back in his old gaffer's face. Reborn as a wrestler throughout 1995 and a draw in 1996, Savage had one of his best ever years in 1997 as a heel against great WCW babyface hope Diamond Dallas Page.
His form resulted in years of McMahon trying to win his signature back, before he mysteriously gave up trying (and temporarily erased him from company canon) as WWE rebounded from commercial oblivion at the turn of the decade.