10 Matches That Got Wrestlers FIRED

7. Brad Maddox – Dark Match (November 24, 2015)

For a number of reasons, Brad Maddox is true Rated-R superstar.

Despite looking like an amalgamation of all three chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore, turns out Mr. Maddox has QUITE the potty mouth on him, one that saw him removed from the company in what would turn out to be one of WWE’s more hypocritical firings.

On the fateful night November 24, 2015, Maddox wrestled a dark match against R-Truth shortly before a scheduled taping of Main Event in Indianapolis. As anyone who’s been to Indianapolis would understand, during the dark segment, Maddox called the crowd ‘cocky pricks’.

Maddox had not been cleared to use such language, and Vince was in attendance, releasing Brad shortly after.

Like, ok WWE’s a family show, but the firing’s made all the more harsh when a mere three months later, on the February 22 episode of Raw, Vince told Shane he would get a quotes ‘f**king beating’ ON ACTUAL LIVE TELEVISION.

It’s unclear if Vince was fired for that blunder, but reports aren’t looking good.


6. Eugene 

Oh Eugene, back for more I see. Look, despite my public very-much-dislike for the whole Eugene gimmick, it’s never a good day when a wrestler is fired especially when the firing is as openly cruel as this one.

Back in 2009, Raw was really, REALLY bad, so WWE decided to turn the ship around by resigning Eugene to a contract, that’ll do it.

Eugene’s first and only televised match back was on August 10th, in a contract on a pole match against The Miz who was wearing a mask and calling himself the Calgary Kid for reasons I just can’t be bothered to get into.

Evidently, Eugene wasn’t in the best shape as the man who played him, Nick Dinsmore would explain in a later interview. He got backstage after his match with the Calgary Miz and was told, and I’m quoting Dinsmore here, “We’re not selling fat, old, Eugene, you’re fired”.

Harsh, that. Fun fact, the promo after this match was the first time Miz a) wrestled in teeny underwear rather than long pants and b) said “I’m The Miz and I’m awesome.”


6. Arn Anderson – WWE House Show (February 10, 2019)

And now, somewhat of a rarity, a match that managed to get someone fired, but weirdly, none of the wrestlers who actually wrestled in it.

Arn Anderson, former Four Horseman superveteran, was working as a producer for WWE in early 2019. It was February 10, at a WWE house show in Saginaw, Michigan, and one of the matches on the card was a six-women tag featuring Bayley, Dana Brooke and Natalya going over Mickie James, Nikki Cross and Alicia Fox.

On the fateful night in question, Fox reportedly turned up to work intoxicated. As you probably know, wrestling is f**king dangerous even when everyone is stone cold sober, so this it was rightfully seen as an egregious dereliction of duty when Arn Anderson let her go out and compete regardless.

Fox was benched for two months after the incident, but Anderson himself was fired, and would appear in AEW six months later.


6. Dustin Rhodes & Blacktop Bully – UnCensored 1995

Turns out high-profile departures from major wrestling promotions are something of a Rhodes family tradition.

Cody’s break with WWE is one of the most significant releases of the generation, Dusty Rhodes was famously fired from newly christened WCW after he booked a segment where the Road Warriors opened him up with a spike, breaking a rule laid down by the company’s new boss Turner Broadcasting to not allow blood.

Dustin Rhodes would prove to be his father’s son seven years later when WCW fired him for the exact same thing. It was Uncensored 1995, just a terrible year for American wrestling all over, Jesus Hulkamania Christ.

The show opened with a King of the Road match, which saw Blacktop Bully A.K.A. Demolition Smash A.K.A. Repo Man fight Dustin Rhodes in a cage filled with hay on the back of a moving truck, in what would happen if Mad Max Fury Road had been directed by Sergio Leone, if he’d just suffered a major stroke.

If the potential for motion sickness and hayfever wasn’t bad enough, the very very boring match also saw both men blading, again breaking WCW’s no-blood rule, which saw both men fired from the company.


5. Jeff Jarrett – No Mercy 1999

Vince McMahon never forgets. Another weird situation that saw a wrestler get fired from WWE, a whole two years after a match that rustled Vince’s jimmies.

No Mercy 1999 saw the payoff to a cunning little scheme engineer by Jeff Jarrett and his buddy Vince Russo. Both men were departing WWE and headed for WCW where they would try and save the ailing company but shooting it straight through the brain.

Jarrett was Intercontinental Champion in mid 1999, and was in a feud with Chyna. Russo convinced WWE to blow off the feud at No Mercy, then promptly left the company, only for WWE to then discover that Jarrett the champ would be out of contract at the time of the pay-per-view.

Under no legal obligation to perform, Jarrett told Vince, either pay me $300,000 or I no-show and take the belt to WCW.

Like Ultimate Warrior before him, Jeff got paid his ransom money, before being gleefully fired on live TV two years later after Vince bought WCW.

Like Warrior both men are now in the WWE Hall of Fame because WWE history is just one long reality show of people fighting, crying, making up, fighting, crying and fighting.

3 years ago by Adam Blampied

@AdamTheBlampied

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