10 Times A Wrestler Exercised A Creative Control Clause
These wrestlers weren't having any of what creative had planned
4. Stone Cold Steve Austin has no interest in working with Jeff Jarrett - WWE
When you’re one of the biggest and most important wrestlers of all time, chances are you’re going to be afforded a lot more backstage power than most.
Stone Cold Steve Austin challenged creative decisions plenty of times in his career. He apparently reneged on plans to turn WrestleMania 15’s main event into a triple threat - but that may have been because Shawn Michaels got in his ear.
He famously walked out after he was told to lose to Brock Lesnar on free TV. Sorry, he “took his ball and went home”, as WWE said at the time. He also outright refused to work with people, including a certain country singer.
Jeff Jarrett had returned to the Federation two years earlier and WWE had plans to push him into a feud with the Texas Rattlesnake. However, this was cancelled because the two were far from friends in real life.
Double J had called out the “Austin 3:16” promo as “blasphemous” and Stone Cold had been unhappy with the way he was treated whilst working for Jeff’s father in his rookie days.
As a result, The Bionic Redneck vetoed working with Jarrett, and that was that.
