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The lifetime of aWWEwrestler is not all that different from any other daily job , at least not as dissimilar as the ordinary person may think . While an everyman ’s profession may not be as written or bump - heavy as a WWE Superstar ’s , the word " job " is literally in the vernacular of wrestle lingo . To do a " job " is to do business with someone in the gang .
Just like Centennial State - actor in an office chore , WWE Superstars call for to work with each other , and oftentimes in the pillowcase of " the job , " one wrestler has to agree to take the fall - the pinfall - for another wrestler . To resolve to not work with someone , just as in an office work , would be considered unprofessional
10Stone Cold Refused to Work with Brock Lesnar
He Didn’t Like the Creative Booking He Was Enduring
In 2002 , Stone Cold Steve Austin was burn out . He had been quietly phased out of the independent event characterization , and as far as he was touch on , creative had nothing interesting for him to do . Alternatively , WWE was all in on a gentleman they had dubbed The Next Big matter . Going all in on Brock Lesnar ’s push in his rookie class , there were plans for Lesnar to puzzle Austin on a June episode of Monday Night Raw in the first round of the King of the Ring tourney .
Not proud of with booking a pavilion match with no establish - up , this solidify to Austin thatWWE had nothing for him , creatively , prompting his infamous walkout . Austin would be go for the remainder of 2002 , not returning until the No Way Out pay - per - view in February 2003 . In between , though , WWE would publicly trounce Austin for " bring his formal and drop dead home . "
9Brock Refused to Work with Jinder Mahal
He Wasn’t Interested In Working with the WWE Champion
There was a time whenSurvivor Series was an annual traditionfor WWE to pit the respective World Champions of Raw and SmackDown against each other . In 2017 , this would ’ve ascertain Raw ’s Universal Champion Brock Lesnar take on WWE Champion Jinder Mahal . Yet , with just a couple of workweek until the PPV , the November 7 episode of Friday Night SmackDown saw AJ Styles shockingly defeat Mahal , then face Lesnar at Survivor Series .
Former SmackDown headland writer Brian " Road Dogg " James confirm on hisWrestling Outlawspodcast that Brock but professed backstage , " I ’m not work with him . " No reason was given as to why , but additional reports suggested that Mahal vs. Lesnardidn’t feel like a marquise matchworthy of Lesnar ’s time , as far as the then - Universal Champion himself was concerned .
8Ken Shamrock Did Not Want to Wrestle Chyna
The Former WWE IC Champion Wanted to Be a Role Model To His Children
In an interview withChris Van Vliet , when expect why he left WWE , one grounds Ken Shamrock cites is over originative decisions he did not finger well-to-do being a part of , namely when he was require to writhe Chyna . He go on to explain that one matter he always instilled into his child at a youthful historic period is , no matter what , always value woman and never lay hand on them .
As much as he understands that intergender wrestling is merely sport entertainment , he also understands the oculus of compress what he tells his home and coming off like a pretender to his kid . Shamrock restate that he will always put his class before any business and , on the Chyna booking , feared he ’d confuse his kidsby wrestling a charwoman .
7Honky Tonk Man Refused to Work with Randy Savage
Vince McMahon Was Ready to Discard The Honky Tonk Man Completely Without the WWE Intercontinental Championship
In the 80s , Honky Tonk Man once bear the phonograph recording for the longest WWE title sovereignty in the history of the Intercontinental Championship at 454 day , before Gunther broke the book at 666 day after 2023 . His reign was planned to be abbreviate shorter with programme to lose the title to " Macho Man " Randy Savage on the October 3 , 1987 episode of Saturday Night ’s Main Event . Instead , the programme for the stopping point changed to Savage getting a DQ profits take after disturbance from the Hart Foundation , one ofWWE ’s effective tag squad .
In reality , as recounted in multiple interview ( includingTitle Match Wrestling ) , Roy Wayne Farris did n’t feel like Vince McMahon had anything plan for him after his political campaign end . In fact , he felt disrespectedthat McMahon had plans to repackage him wholly after . Ergo , he stood his dry land and kept a vice grip on the title as long as he could .
6John Cena Refused to Drop the WWE Championship Jack Swagger
John Cena Wasn’t Sold on Swagger as a WWE Champion Yet
Although John Cena would run with Jack Swagger a handful of times during his WWE career , he never succeed through on lose a statute title to him . Readers will recall that Jack Swagger won the Money in the Bank briefcase at WrestleMania 26 , the same night that John Cena beat Batista for the WWE Championship . The next nighttime on Raw , Swagger tried to cash in on Cena , but run out , forcing him to successfully cash in on Chris Jericho ’s World Title on the next SmackDown instead .
In an consultation on Chris Jericho’sTalk is Jerichopodcast ( heat content / tFightful ) , Donald Jacob " Jake " Hager confirm that the original plan was for him to successfully cash - in on Cena ’s WWE Championship the dark after Mania . Hager does n’t complicate on a reason , but it may be good to assumeCena simply was n’t soldon the idea of dropping the title to him .
5Hulk Hogan Refused to Work With Bret Hart
At the 9th WrestleMania effect , Bret " The Hitman " Hart lost the WWE Championship in the main event to Yokozuna . Mere instant later on , Hulk Hogan would wrestlethe giant of The Bloodline , and in bare seconds , win his title . Bret Hart details onInside the Ropesthat Terry Bollea hadpressured the WWE Chairmanto take the belt off of Hart and put it on himself , or else he ’d go to WCW .
However , Bollea evidently did anticipate Vince that he was uncoerced to put Hart over in a compeer at SummerSlam 1993 to avail elevate The Hitman . However , Bollea seemed to either change his judgement or get cold feet in the month leading to the show . Instead , he ’d go back on his word . As Hogan , Bollea dropped the claim to Yokozuna at King of the Ring , two months before SummerSlam , before leaving WWE and going to WCW .
4CM Punk Refused to Work with HHH at Mania
Punk Had No Interests in Anything Except the Main Event
Phil Brooks was often down by one pipe dream at the cutting edge of his mind : main eventing WrestleMania . The snug he ’d come to doing so is WrestleMania 28 and 29 . First , CM Punk ’s WWE Championship match with Chris Jericho was relegated to the eye of the card in favour of John Cena vs. The Rock main eventing , while the next twelvemonth , he ’d lose the WWE Championship months before Mania in favor of John Cena vs. The Rock II main eventing .
Brooks was incinerate out by later 2013 when a Championship Ascension Ceremony teased a WrestleMania XXX bout with Triple H. Brooks expressed in his ill-famed 2014 post - WWE shoot podcast interview with Colt Cabana that he had no stake in wrestle HHH in a rematch he felt he should ’ve won in 2011 . Disheveled with WWE , he only wanted to primary event WrestleMania , and with those hopes seemingly dashed for trade good , he walked out from the company .
3Shawn Michaels Refused to Work with Bret Hart at WrestleMania 13
The WWE Champion Lost His Smile
One class after Shawn Michaels ' boyhood ambition come up true after beating The Hitman for the WWE Championship , WrestleMania 13 was on the sensible horizon . The original plans scream for Michaels to represent the title against Hart , this clip with the former title-holder getting his win and belt back .
However , week before the show , Shawn Michaels shorten a promo on Raw proclaiming he was suffering an injury that induce him to lose his smile , prompting him to annul the belt . While the champion was dealing with nagging injuries , he suspiciously performed a backflip some week after this promo and still arrived to Mania for comment . It ’s long been muse that , write for some minor injuries and burnout from route spirit , Michael Hickenbottom simplydidn’t need to do the jobfor his rival .
2Ric Flair Refused to Drop the Title to Lex Luger in March 1990
Flair Only Wanted to Drop the WCW World Title to Sting
WWE is n’t the only caller where wrestlers think twice about who they work with . Future WWE Superstar Ric Flair fits in the same mould , though some referee may commend him for this one . As WCW was quick to push a raw prognosis in Sting to the moon , Steve Borden gets injured before his character could win the statute title . WCW Executive Vice President Jim Herd personally call for that Flair mislay the title to Lex Luger at WrestleWar .
As Jim Ross would detail onGrilling JR , the WCW World Champion had in person handpicked Sting to win his championship and was n’t going to switch plan just because Borden was hurt . Ric opted to stick to his word and wait things out . Thus , when Sting return from combat injury , he was well-chosen to do the job . It ’s no admiration why people see Ric Flair as one ofWCW ’s greatest World Champions .
1Stone Cold Refused to Work With Hulk Hogan
He Thought Hogan Fell Off And Couldn’t Have Good Matches Anymore
Many wrestling fans not only wonder to themselves what a dream match between the Hulkster and The Rattlesnake would count like , but why they never wrestled one - on - one whenthe nWo first strolled into WWE . As it turns out , such a match was on the table at one point , but Austin was convinced Hogan was past his prime and was n’t capable of having a competent , passable match anymore .
As Jim Ross recall onGrilling JR(h / t411Mania),“Austin did n’t have the friction match with Hogan because he did n’t want to have the match The Undertaker did . " This is more so Ross ' view as to why the dream match did n’t happen , but the thought applies as far as Austin not wanting to squirm aHulk Hogan who was worn downand croak his prime . TheWWEUniverse never forgets , so an Austin vs. Hogan match that give out to live on up to expectations would populate forever in infamy rather than eclat , which neither party would want .
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