10 Most Controversial WCW Firings Ever

8. 1-2-3 For Fired Syxx

WWF€™s 1-2-3 Kid, the real life Sean Waltman, jumped to WCW in September 1996, and immediately joined the New World Order to hook up with his former buddies from the Kliq, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall. The heel stable was still huge at the time, only two months after its formation when Hulk Hogan had infamously turned heel: as the sixth member of the group, Waltman was rechristened Syxx. A year later, the NWO was a bloated beast, the angle having become blown out of all proportion into a massive ego trip for the main event wrestlers who formed the core of the group. Hall and Nash had become difficult to handle, but they were too high up the pecking order to be wrangled in the normal manner. The story goes that Syxx had been sidelined with a neck injury, and had been unable to perform for the company for some time. It was written into all WCW contracts that, past a certain period, incapacity would be sufficient grounds for the company to terminate a wrestler€™s contract: accordingly, Waltman received a Fed Ex package with that termination notice in October 1997. Waltman would claim that Eric Bischoff€™s issue with the Outsiders had fallen onto him: that, since Bischoff couldn't take it out on Nash and Hall, he€™d punished their best mate, who was lower on the totem pole and vulnerable, by having him sacked in the most humiliating way possible. Bischoff has countered by saying that it wasn€™t some political gamesmanship: that Waltman was only a good worker when he was sober, with his sober moments increasingly further and further apart, and that with his substance abuse issues the man had been lucky to have a job at all. Bischoff points out that Fed Ex, like it or not, was WCW€™s go-to method of parting company with their talent, and also mentions that Waltman's agent had recently tried to renegotiate his contract by playing hardball, which Bischoff took issue with. This was his way of making a statement.