10 Wrestlers Who Hated Working For WCW
1. Steve Austin
Eric Bischoff had enough evidence to support his call. Or, infamously, his Fed-Ex.
Over the phone to Austin's wife was supposedly where 'Easy E' heard 'Stunning Steve' yelling some less-than-complimentary things about him, all while recovering from an injury that was just one of several things seemingly stopping him rising to the top of WCW.
This was a man that clearly didn't give a f*ck anymore, and Bischoff made the understandable choice (through lousy means) of cutting him. But the turmoil had muddied the messaging. Austin gave more of a f*ck than ever before, but he'd lost hope in ever breaking through in a company that carried the justifiable perception of being Hulk Hogan's plaything.
He rocked up in ECW in mid-1995, absolutely blistering Bischoff, Hogan, Dusty Rhodes and others for how he'd been handled, lambasting them as short-sided buffoons during a run so electric that he was picked up by WWE just months later.
The repurposed biliousness would eventually make Vince McMahon a billionaire, with the company also dining out on merch-machine Austin once being told by a stressed Eric that he "wasn't marketable". Bischoff wasn't wrong in 1995, but electing not to locate the megastar lurking within the mechanic was a costly failing.