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10. The Midnight Express Were Viewed As Too Highly Paid By 1989

When longtime wrestling fans look back to the decade of the 1980's, The Midnight Express are one of the tag-teams that routinely crop up as one of the best of that era. One of more famous incarnations was Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane, a tremendous duo managed by the loudmouth James E. Cornette. Running riot in the NWA, the tandem would also feature in the new WCW of 1989, but it almost wasn't to be. According to Cornette, it was when the company morphed from NWA into full-fledged WCW that things started to cool off for The Midnight Express, mainly because new management felt the team were earning far too much money. Right up there with the likes of Lex Luger, The Road Warriors and Sting as the top earners - due to the fact they'd been a hot ticket since their arrival in the territory a few years earlier - Eaton, Lane and Cornette were all offered substantially less money by the incoming Jim Herd. Despite drawing big houses for their matches just the previous year, The Midnight Express and their manager weren't really what new officials envisioned as top stars, and they couldn't fathom why these smaller men were being paid the big salaries they were.