10 Wrestlers Who Went To War With Vince McMahon
7. Jeff Jarrett
Jeff Jarrett was left with nowhere else to work in 2001.
ECW and WCW had folded, handing the WWF victory in the Monday Night War, and the WWF didn't hold him in their A double F, E, haha, C T I O N S. At No Mercy 1999, Jarrett's last date with the company, he was insistent on getting what was owed to him: the pay-per-view bonus he would have received months later, ordinarily, in addition to every other dollar owed per the terms of his deal. Dave Meltzer wrote in the Observer that the figure he eventually extracted from McMahon eclipsed that which was owed, undermining somewhat Jarrett's later attempts to play the controversy down. Vince "fired" Jarrett on the RAW/Nitro simulcast, and, brilliantly, had to splice in the prior week's footage to do it.
This incredibly contrived way of showing spite alerted Jeff to the fact that, after going acoustic in the Australian money mark pseudo-major that was World Wrestling All-Stars, his was a different path to most.
Who won?
Jeff forged his own, by founding TNA, but while it showcased and in part shaped the hybrid 'modern' style with the X Division, the promotion, presumably built on ancient religious grounds, was cursed to exist - forever, incredibly - as a laughing stock.
And, because wrestling is wrestling, he of course works for WWE as a producer.