10 Mind-Blowing Wrestler Salaries WWE Couldn't Afford

7. Kevin Nash - Salary Expectations $750,000 In 1996, $1.6 Million And Creative Control In 1999

Kevin Nash never wanted to leave the WWF and hoped that Vince McMahon would match WCW's $750,000 offer in 1996. But McMahon simply couldn't afford it, so Nash ended up giving notice the week after Scott Hall had. By 1999, he'd established himself as (just behind Hulk Hogan) the most powerful pro wrestler in WCW. He was booking the company and also working as a wrestler, unsurprisingly making himself the main events. He did this while pocketing an improved salary of $1.6 million. While McMahon always wanted to bring Nash back, he simply couldn't afford to offer that kind of money and creative control to the star. Especially when you consider what a miserable job Nash did as WCW booker, there was no way that McMahon was going to make him a deal that gave any creative input. He eventually re-signed the big man on a $700,000 wrestler deal in 2002.