11 Wrestlers Who Would Rather Do Nothing Than Work For WWE
10. The "Millionaires Club"
WCW's richest wrestlers wanted nothing to do with WWE following Vince McMahon's 2001 buyout - but they'd have been daft to take the pay cuts required to go back on the road as losers for the winners of the Monday Night War.
McMahon's hastily-booked invasion storyline lacked virtually all of WCW's main players on the heel side for this very reason. It spoke to the Chairman's control of the narrative at the time - these aging "former" stars were seen as workshy money-hungry fossils in comparison to the hard-living hard-working factory floor WWE rank-and-files. In actuality, the likes of Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, Bill Goldberg, Scott Steiner and even sentimental favorite Ric Flair waited out mammoth Time Warner/AOL deals they'd signed before World Championship Wrestling hit the wall.
This knackered WWE's 2001 wrestling war angle, but bolstered their bank balances and did much to enhance their stature after spending so long as the public faces of a failing organisation. Booker T and Diamond Dallas Page had chronic tenures during that time anyway - there was little incentive for any of the megastars to make the jump any sooner than necessary.