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10 Wrestlers That Lost Their Titles Due To Contract Disputes - The Hardy Boyz! Bret Hart! AJ Styles! Brock Lesnar?!

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🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Companies taking gold away from grapplers over contract conflicts. Simon Miller presents 10 Wrestlers That Lost Their Titles Due To Contract Disputes...


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0:00.0

As soon as you tell your boss you're not happy with your deal, you are opening the door

0:12.8

to potentially have your ass kicked.

0:14.9

Figuring out contract disputes is never easy, especially when the person at the top of

0:18.4

the chain is also in charge of how you're gonna get used on TV.

0:22.3

You better hope they're not a vindictive son of a gun.

0:24.7

You already know how that goes though, and here's exactly what I'm talking about.

0:28.4

I'm Simon from WhatCulture, please hit that subscribe button, and this is 10 wrestlers

0:32.2

that lost their titles due to contract disputes.

0:35.8

10.

0:36.8

Chris Jericho and the WCW TV title Chris Jericho often found himself at odds with

0:40.7

management throughout his WCW run.

0:42.8

It's not hard to see why.

0:45.0

Despite getting himself over with the fans, the company just refused to push him to the

0:48.7

next level.

0:49.7

He was a mid-cada, and that was that.

0:52.0

Something like this is always gonna piss a performer off, and it got really bad in 1998,

0:56.0

and WCW offered Jericho a contract extension, and he said no.

1:00.4

I mean, why would he sign that for more years of being held down?

1:03.4

Good point.

1:04.4

As he had planned to leave the promotion as quiet as possible, Chris would try and dodge

1:07.6

senior vice-president Eric Bischoff so it wouldn't become a thing, that's only ever

1:11.5

gonna last so long, when they did have the chat from nowhere Jericho was booked to drop

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