5 times WWE Superstars refused to wrestle 

#3. Stone Cold Steve Austin

Stone Cold Steve Austin is now remembered as one of the biggest stars of WWE's Attitude Era, but even Austin had some issues with the company back in 2002 when he disagreed with a loss against Brock Lesnar that was scheduled to take place on RAW.

Austin walked out of RAW without wrestling the match and didn't return to the company for an entire year.

The former WWE Champion opened up about the situation on Sam Robert's Wrestling Podcast back in 2017.

“When I look back, I was running so hard and the level of intensity was so hot and I was just white-hot in the business and I made a knee-jerk reaction to, they wanted me to do a job in Atlanta [Georgia] in a really non-publicized match with Brock and I thought that was real pi**-poor business and it was, I’ve always been willing to do business, when it was time to do business, but that wasn’t business. When you have a guy, and I never blow smoke up my own ass, but when you have a guy like me that draws big money, you don’t just job him out on a bulls–t Monday night TV, so I got to jazz up the language because that was something I was very passionate about and it really comes from my heart and my guts. That being said, I shouldn’t’ve got on an airplane and taken my ball and went home as they said."

Austin confirmed that it was Jim Ross who helped bring him back to WWE, after the former WWE commentator approached Austin and was able to help him bury the hatchet with Vince McMahon.