10 Wrestlers You Won't Believe Got The Better Of Vince McMahon
9. Jeff Jarrett
Jeff Jarrett extorted Vince McMahon ahead of No Mercy 1999, and while that word carries a lurid connotation, it's not inaccurate.
Jarrett negotiated the fee - that he would only accept as a condition of dropping the WWF Intercontinental Title to Chyna - with Jim Ross. Per the November 15, 1999 Wrestling Observer Newsletter, he threatened to pull out unless the dollar amount duly owed to him was upped. The eventual agreement saw Jarrett take home "significantly" more money than he would have made under normal circumstances.
This in itself was an alpha play from Double J. By receiving money for doing nothing, incidentally, he proved himself a natural fit for Vince Russo's WCW before he even entered it.
But that was it. He was mortgaging his future by burning the bridge. He had to make as much money as possible doing it because there wasn't going to be any more. Jeff Jarrett didn't actually work the last Nitro, but Vince still went to the effort of splicing him into the simulcast just to fire him. "Double J E Double F is G Double O Double N Double E," Vince said.
That, just to clarify, was "Goonnee".
And yet!
Jarrett, after leading the charge to compete with WWE as the leading force behind TNA, went home in the end. The man Vince said he'd never do business with again works as a producer, advising the younger generation on when not to do cool sh*t that might get over.