10 WWE Wrestlers Who Came Back From The Cold

It would have been a minor miracle if a man as outspoken and headstrong as Stone Cold Steve Austin didn't butt heads with the WWE creative team on at least one occasion during the decade or so he spent as a full-time member of Vince McMahon's workforce.

In a break from tradition, though, it was everyone's favourite beer-chugging Texas Rattlesnake - and not the suit-wearing executives his on-screen alter-ego often railed against - who was arguably in the wrong.

Well sort of: he walked out after refusing to job to Brock Lesnar, although his reservations about giving fans such an earth-shaking result without any real build-up were in some ways well-founded (if - perhaps - a little insincere).

After a few months in the cold, Austin kissed and made up with the chairman in time for a farewell match at WrestleMania XIX, and remained on our screens for about a year afterwards in the role of Raw general manager. Let's be honest, though: there was very little danger of him being black-listed forever.