10 Times Wrestlers Abandoned Their Comfort Zone
8. Make Me Famous
When WWE purchased WCW, they signed the bulk of lower-end talent in line with their nominal WCW contracts. They did not, however, bring along the inflated deals of nearly all of WCW's top tier talent, having decreed that anybody on a $1 million (or more) downside guarantee would have to accept a buyout and negotiate a new deal.
Though temporarily frozen out of the business as a result, this resulted in Ric Flair, Sting, Kevin Nash, Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, Scott Steiner all simply sitting still on mammoth AOL Time Warner funds until the contracts of differing length ran out. Only Booker T and Diamond Dallas Page elected to take the immediate buyout and try their luck with WWE.
Though Booker T got around some challenging creative early in his tenure, Diamond Dallas Page was hamstrung by his, and his wrestling career never really recovered from his fiscally risky decision to work for Vince McMahon.
Revealed as a weirdo stalking Undertaker's wife, his motive was apparently to be 'made famous' by warring with 'The Deadman', which 'Taker would usefully convert into a synonym for 'kicking the sh*t' out of somebody' following repeated decimations of the former WCW World Champion.