10 Wrestlers Who Quit WCW Over Angles

3. Jim Cornette - Halloween Havoc Hijinks

By all accounts Jim Cornette’s not the easiest personality to get along with in pro wrestling if you have contrasting opinions on how a promotion should be run and booked.

Executive Vice President Jim Herd and head booker Ole Anderson knew this all too well in WCW in the early ‘90s. In the run-up to Halloween Havoc 1990, he was seething with both of them over the lack of TV time his team The Midnight Express received. They would travel hundreds of miles on the road in-between shows only to often do nothing more than two-minute interview segments. Jim Ross - then part of the booking committee for WCW at the time - went to bat for Cornette but it backfired and resulted in them being jobbed out on TV.

It all came to a head at Halloween Havoc when the Express arrived at the arena to find they would be losing in the opening match. Not only that, Herd and Ole wanted more entertainment for the show to fit with the goofy Halloween theme so made Cornette wear a Confederate Soldier costume and had pumpkin chucked over his head during the show. This was the final straw for 'The Prince Of Polyester', who quit WCW later that week over the ridiculousness of it all.