11 Wrestlers Who Would Rather Do Nothing Than Work For WWE
6. Jim Cornette
Jim Cornette brought a 12 year stint with WWE to a dramatic conclusion in 2005 when he slapped then-trainee Santino Marella hard in the face for laughing at The Boogeyman gimmick whilst all of the above were toiling away in Ohio Valley Wrestling, but the trainers role was supposedly the 'Prince Of Polyester's dream position before the whole thing soured.
During the late-1990s, Cornette was a trusted confidant of Vince McMahon, working every hour his boss refused to sleep through alongside the likes of Jim Ross, Vince Russo and Bruce Prichard to help craft a remarkable business turnaround for the group. By his own admission though, he was burned out and ready to move out of Stamford, Connecticut when a different kind of opportunity knocked at the turn of the century.
Cornette's OVW run was supposed to be the perfect escape from Vince McMahon's grasp, but it was ironically exactly that that expedited his exit. Persistent meddling with the up-and-comers on the show (despite huge success showing patience with the likes of John Cena, Randy Orton and Batista) infuriated him enough that he left completely - yet another assumed lifer that would leave during a several-year period of change for the company.