8 Wrestlers That Visibly Hated Working For WCW
5. Mick Foley
He just waited until he got to ECW to make it explicitly clear.
Mick Foley had to know that when he spat on his WCW Tag Team Title and threw it on the ground that a) it would get back to management and b) it wouldn't be taken in the spirit intended. For the uninitiated, the artist formerly known as Cactus Jack had been given a brief break from World Championship Wrestling in 1994 to head to ECW for some of-the-time dream matches with Sabu. The very idea of the contest lit Philadelphia ablaze - the coming together of the two men considered to be the wildest in the business, in the wildest and most fitting venue.
The match as much to Foley as it did the fans, and in perhaps the first of countless epic ECW promos down the lens in Paul Heyman's basement, he committed cardinal sins against the gold whilst trying to make the point that the fights with Sabu were so important that they meant even more than one of WCW's richest prizes.
He wanted to be he craziest wrestler alive more than he did a doubles champion, and chose the most transgressive way to make his point - surely the naivety he claims in his autobiographical re-telling of the story is just an "aw shucks" smokescreen?! For his part, Foley speaks candidly about his issues with then-booker Ric Flair, and that was probably at the core of all of this - the disrespect of the gold may have been a genuine misread, but taking aim at Flair and the Atlanta-based outfit was at very least a subconscious choice.