10 Wrestlers Who Walked Out On The Show

9. The Midnight Express

Back to the slightly more comfortable days of yesteryear now, where we can talk about things with a bit more levity. Wait, this story involves internet lightning rod Jim Cornette? Fabulous, going to be a spicy comments section this week.

The Midnight Express, the team of Stan Lane and Bobby Eaton, managed by racket wielding opinion generator Jim Cornette, were not best pleased with their position in WCW in 1990, having already left the company due to the dreaded ‘creative differences’ the year before. In October, on a tv taping day, tensions flared up again.

The Midnight Express turned up to the tapings to discover that they, unknown to them, they were not scheduled to compete that day, which meant that the wrestlers missed a day with their families for no reason, before then discovering that on the next day of tapings, they would wrestle several matches and lose them all. Confronting WCW’s booker at the time Ole Anderson, Cornette expressed dissatisfaction, if that’s a thing you can imagine Jim Cornette doing, with Anderson telling him, if you don’t like it leave. Cornette called his bluff and walked out on the spot, with Stan Lane following suit

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