8 Wrestlers That Visibly Hated Working For WCW
4. Eddie Guerrero
Really, all four soon-to-be-labelled Radicalz could be included in this list.
It took some doing to up sticks and walk with no cast-iron promise that it would work out for any of them in WWE after years plying their trades any and everywhere but the market leader. But while Dean Malenko, Perry Saturn and Chris Benoit all had their reasons for leaving, only one of Eddie Guerrero's beefs was public enough that it made it onto national television.
As WCW crumbled under the weight of its own successes in 1998, Eric Bischoff found himself inadvertently alienating many of the talents that had helped carry the company from the outhouse to the penthouse underneath Hulk Hogan and the New World Order over its halcyon era. As well as overlooking wrestlers creatively, Bischoff developed a reputation as a bit of a hothead, particularly when stories like this one leaked.
Per multiple reports and eyewitness accounts, as the two engaged in one of their familiar backstage rows, 'Easy E' either threw a coffee to the ground in anger and it splashed on Guerrero, or threw the hot drink directly at 'Latino Heat'. Either way, when time came for Eddie to cut a (not that great) worked shoot promo on the August 17th edition of Nitro, he re-enacted the moment with a scowl to confirm it for those who knew and confuse those who didn't.
Its effectiveness wasn't really the point for Eddie and many of the disillusioned wrestlers he was effectively representing; more that any opportunity to vent about the mismanagement wasn't to be wasted.