10 WCW Stars Who Were Fired For Unprofessional Conduct
9. Never Loved Elvis
We’ve already written about exactly why Roy Wayne Farris, aka the Honky Tonk Man, is so despised throughout the wrestling business. Well, Farris lasted for a little longer than a cup of coffee in WCW, mostly due to his toxic attitude.
The story goes that Farris was offered a tryout with WCW in 1994 after Jimmy Hart, one of his few friends, asked Eric Bischoff for a favour. That alone set the foul-tempered Farris’ teeth on edge: in the WWF, he’d been the longest reigning Intercontinental champion of all time, and now he was auditioning for WCW to work day to day, without a contract. Matters were made worse when Bischoff made it clear to him that he didn’t like his work, and that he was only there to keep Hart happy.
In December 1994, Farris was supposed to put over Johnny B. Badd (who later wrestled under his own name, Marc Mero, in the WWF) at Starrcade, but refused. He claims that he’d been told that he wouldn’t lose on television while he was working without a contract, and that he was let go when he pointed this out: Eric Bischoff, in turn, claims that Farris tried to hold him up for a guaranteed contract in exchange for agreeing to do the job to the inexperienced Mero, and that sacking the Honky Tonk Man represented the most enjoyable firing he’d ever carried out while running WCW.