Later on in the podcast, Konnan revealed an interesting anecdote that highlighted how certain members of WCW were only looking out for themselves. He recalled how some members of the WCW roster were unhappy with X-Pac being fired from the promotion, and said that they were willing to stand up for their friend’s dismissal by wearing WWE gear on WCW television.

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“To me, when they fired X-Pac — ’cause I was there, I was friends with them — and they were sitting in the arena, and they were hot as a motherfu**er. They had shirts on, like button-down shirts, and they opened up their shirts and they had WWE shirts,” said Konnan. “They were willing to go up in the fu**ing ring, open up their shirts show WWE, and support X-Pac. When Eric fired X-Pac, they took their ball and went home — meaning, they were not giving any more ideas, they weren’t coming in on time, they weren’t playing anymore, and just the jealousy and everybody cutting each other’s throats. And Hogan always looking up for himself, that was part of the reason.”

X-Pac’s exit seemingly hurt Eric Bischoff and WCW as they lost the Monday Night Wars to WWE, with Bischoff acknowledging that X-Pac’s return to WWE gave WCW’s rival promotion a huge “shot in the arm.”

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