10 WCW Stars Who Were Fired For Unprofessional Conduct

When Sean ‘Syxx’ Waltman – previously the 1-2-3 Kid in the WWF, later to be best known as X-Pac while a member of the WWF’s D-Generation X – joined WCW in late 1996, the nWo were huge: probably the biggest deal in professional wrestling. Waltman’s arrival allowed him to team up with his former best friends from his WWF days, Kliq buddies Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, two of the biggest names in WCW. He must have felt that he was untouchable.

This would prove to be a horrible misconception. Sidelined with a nagging neck injury about a year after his debut, Waltman would receive a Fed Ex from WCW management letting him go after only a few weeks on the injured list. The reason would prove to be a murky one. Waltman claimed – and still believes – that Nash and Hall were proving difficult to control, but were also too important to the company to risk antagonising, whereas he was disposable: an object lesson to the nWo, displaying Eric Bischoff’s authority.

Bischoff’s counter to that is quite simply that Syxx was wasted more often than not, and was only a valuable performer when he was straight, with lacklustre promo skills and zero charisma. He took advantage of WCW’s incapacity clause in the contract to remove Waltman after his agent attempted to renegotiate his contract while it was still underway, proving that the thing that narcissistic opportunists hate the most is having to deal with others of their kind. And yes, we’ve used this sub-headline before… so sue us. We can’t resist a good pun.