Sometimes your patience for work simply runs out and other times something a little more strange happens that makes you walk away. These are the 9 strangest reasons WWE stars have quit.
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0:55 - Honourable Mentions
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3:19 - 7
4:35 - 6
5:40 - 5
6:57 - 4
8:17 - 3
9:26 - 2
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00:00 I once quit a job because they sent me on three trips to get onions in one day.
00:04 I won't say where that job was out of fear of getting sued, but let's just say I was not loving it.
00:10 People's reasons for quitting their jobs are their own and usually come at the end of a long
00:14 deterioration of their will to live or their patience for whatever corporate BS they have
00:18 had to put up with, and that most definitely extends to WWE. There have been dozens of
00:23 wrestlers over the years who have left WWE because of the grueling schedule or because
00:27 of unsatisfactory creative plans, but for every ten of those, we get a wrestler that has walked
00:32 away from WWE for reasons that are just a bit more odd. I'm Tebbas Haling from PartsFunKnown,
00:38 and these are the nine strangest reasons WWE stars have quit.
00:42 But before I get on with this list, make sure of course that you like this video,
00:44 subscribe, and enable notifications to always on so you never miss a fun list just like it,
00:48 and make sure you check out the latest edition of Survival Series where we detail
00:52 every single Roman Reigns universal title defense.
00:55 Honorable Mention - Rocky III - Hulk Hogan
00:58 It may be hard to believe these days given how many wrestlers are flocking to be in whatever
01:02 movie possible, but in the early 80s, if you were a wrestler, you did not do movies. So much so that
01:08 Hulk Hogan taking the part as Thunder Lips in Rocky III saw him leave the WWF under Vince McMahon Sr.
01:14 Depending on who you talk to, Hogan was fired over this, or if you ask Hogan, he quit. I'm
01:19 less inclined to believe Hulk Hogan given he is, well, Hulk Hogan, so this is an honorable mention.
01:25 Number 9 - Following His Wife in Solidarity - Jerry Lawler
01:29 Now, first impressions would state that quitting because your wife got fired from the company that
01:33 you both work for is probably a good idea, at the very least for your marriage if perhaps not for
01:38 your career. However, this entry arrives on this list because of the circumstances surrounding it.
01:42 First of all, the one quitting was Jerry "The King" "Diva" Ogling Lawler, so frankly,
01:48 any showing of respect towards women is somewhat surprising. But also,
01:52 they were divorced by the end of the year. Yes, when Lawler's then-wife Stacy "The Cat" Carter
01:57 was fired by WWE after No Way Out 2001, Jerry followed her and remained gone until the night
02:02 after Survivor Series when he returned to relieve the frankly far superior Paul Heyman of his
02:07 commentary duties. It's not the strangest reason someone could walk out of WWE, but it is strange
02:12 for Jerry Lawler, so he gets the bottom spot on this here list.
02:15 Number 8 - DVD Money - Neville Once upon a time, AEW's Star Pack was tasked
02:20 with being the head of the struggling WWE Cruiserweight division, a thankless task no
02:25 doubt. But when he was then asked to lose the title to Enzo Amore, a guy with the wrestling
02:29 credibility of the guy outside your local Weatherspoons who's always saying how tough he is,
02:33 Pack, or Neville if you'd prefer, took his bag and went home. Now that is honestly pretty
02:38 understandable given how amazing a performer Pack is, but that was not the only factor in Pack's
02:43 leaving. In addition to having to put over the leopard-spotted New Yorker, Pack also took issue
02:48 with his WrestleMania 33 pre-show match with Austin Aries being cut from the DVD release of
02:53 the show. In addition to the disrespect that comes with your match being deemed the least
02:57 important of the biggest show of the year, it also meant that Pack wouldn't be getting any
03:02 royalty checks from sales of the DVDs. And you know what? Given the introduction of the
03:06 WWE Network meant the death of all those WrestleMania bonuses for a while, I think
03:11 getting worked up over making even less money from WrestleF*ckin'Mania is a pretty justified
03:17 reason to get the hell out of Dodge. 7. "Too Old" Randy Savage
03:23 Aging out of your job, especially one that involves athletics, is pretty normal, unless
03:28 you're a US Congressman, but let's move on. It can sometimes be unfortunate, but it happens.
03:33 Telling one of the best wrestlers of all time, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, that he is too old to
03:39 be a wrestler anymore, while in his early 40s, is not f*cking normal. In 1994, Savage had long
03:47 since been moved out of the WWE spotlight, with the company trying to move him into a commentary
03:52 role due to his age. He decided he did indeed have more to give the wrestling business bell to bell,
03:57 like beating up Spider-Man, and left. After nearly a decade with Vince McMahon's World Wrestling
04:02 Federation, Savage jumped ship to WCW, where he would win their world title four whole times.
04:08 How is that for a decrepit, old, 47 year old? It is just hilarious when you consider that as
04:15 Vince got older, so too did the average age of the WWE roster, to the point that Dominic Mysterio
04:20 looked like a high schooler at Take Your Kid to Work Day by comparison. Had Savage worked in the
04:25 modern era, he would have had another 10 years in him in WWE when he left, but unfortunately,
04:30 for all those involved, WWE was set on introducing a new generation.
04:35 Number 6 - Not being booked in the Royal Rumble, Justin Gabriel
04:39 Everyone loves the Royal Rumble. Well, every fan, that is. As far as those behind the scenes and in
04:44 the match are concerned, we have heard mixed things about WWE's most complicated match of the year.
04:49 Who's coming in next? Who's getting thrown out next? When does the next spot happen? Did I just
04:54 miss my cue? Some wrestlers and producers have really not liked putting that match together,
04:58 but someone that seemingly does not apply to is Justin Gabriel, known best for his role in the
05:03 Correra and some other factions. Gabriel quit WWE in January 2015 after 4 and a half years on the
05:10 main roster, citing frustrations over a lack of creative direction as his reason for leaving.
05:15 Now, again, that doesn't seem to be terribly uncommon, but the final straw being that Gabriel
05:20 wasn't booked in the Royal Rumble match is a bit more interesting. I mean, yeah, if WWE doesn't
05:25 have a spot for you in the 2015 Royal Rumble, that probably doesn't look good for your position on
05:30 the WWE totem pole. Honestly, this was probably a blessing in disguise for the man, because I tell
05:35 you, you do not want to have been in the 2015 Royal Rumble match. Number 5, the racist t-shirt.
05:43 Miles Jordan. Oh, Lord, where do I start? The 2019 NXT Breakout Tournament featured a bunch of names
05:50 fans would recognize. Swerve, Bronson Reed, Cameron Grimes, Dexter Lumis, Joaquin Wilde,
05:56 Angel Garza, and the biggest star of them all, Boa. Love you, Boa. Miss you every day. But the
06:01 man that outlasted all of them to win that tournament was Jordan Miles, probably better
06:06 known as ACH. Clearly, WWE saw big things in Miles' future, setting him up for an NXT Championship
06:13 match with Adam Cole only two months into his NXT career. That is where the happy part of this
06:18 story comes to a swift and complete end, however, as in October 2019, WWE revealed the Jordan Miles
06:24 t-shirt and, oh boy. Miles very loudly and very publicly accused WWE and several of their high
06:32 ranking officials of being racist due to the shirt resembling blackface, with leaked emails of Triple
06:37 H asking for the shirt to be made more teethy, which is just, I don't even know. There was a lot
06:45 of controversy surrounding this whole situation, and while controversy apparently creates cash,
06:50 it doesn't create fun list atmosphere, so I will just tip my cap to ACH for standing on business
06:56 and move on. Number 4, The F***ing Puppet, Road Warrior Hawk. In my list last week, I said AOP
07:03 perfectly evoked the memory of the Road Warriors upon their arrival on the WWE main roster by
07:08 leaving Paul Ellering behind, just as Hawk and Animal did in 1990. Without Ellering, the newly
07:13 dubbed Legion of Doom did merely okay, and I mean look at these two monstrous men. Nothing about
07:19 their presentation should be just okay. So before long, Paul Ellering was indeed added back to the
07:25 fold, but with him came something very strange. Supposedly in an attempt to find a quote-unquote
07:32 "softer" side of the Road Warriors, which is like trying to find a softer side to Killer Croc or the
07:37 1975 Philadelphia Flyers or, I don't know, Luke, WWE introduced a ventriloquist puppet to their act.
07:44 In the top tier of the dumbest ideas they have ever had, Rocco the Puppet was added to the Legion
07:50 of Doom's act, most infamously seen riding to the ring on a motorcycle with Hawk and Animal in
07:55 Wembley Stadium. This puppet was such a bad idea that Hawk ultimately quit WWE over it. Now it is
08:01 no secret that Hawk dealt with a load of problems around the same time, including but not limited to
08:06 allegedly spending great amounts of time with the Hell's Angels biker gang in London, but every
08:11 account of Hawk's departure points to this stupid f***ing puppet as a massive contributing factor.
08:17 Number 3 - Wanting to be G.I. Joe - Sgt. Slaughter Having major crossover appeal is something that
08:23 most wrestlers strive for these days. Getting the chance to catch the eye of a major franchise,
08:28 get a part in The Mandalorian or a Marvel movie, that's the dream. Such was the case for one of
08:33 the most iconic wrestling characters of the 80s, Sgt. Slaughter. The future WWE Champion's iconic
08:38 status and larger-than-life character landed him a deal with G.I. Joe, which was s*** hot in the 80s,
08:43 and despite this extra publicity and potential new eyes on the wrestling product, Slaughter was told
08:49 he couldn't do the deal, probably due to the merchandising rights and such. Wrestling was a
08:54 backwards-ass place back then, so like a sane human being, Slaughter left WWE to pursue G.I. Joe,
09:01 where he would voice his own character in the animated series and get his own G.I. Joe action
09:05 figure every single year until he returned to WWE in 1990 as an Iraqi sympathizer because,
09:11 well that's just not what an enemy of Cobra would do at the time. WWE would later try to spin the
09:16 release as Slaughter getting fired over no-showing an event in their various home media releases
09:21 approached the topic, but eventually the truth came out and was indeed much stranger than fiction.
09:26 Number 2 - The Satanic Tattoo - Dan Severn For as badass a human as Dan Severn is in real life,
09:32 his run in WWE in the late 90s never quite lived up to the hype that preceded him as one of the
09:37 pioneers of UFC. Participating in the Brawl for All may have had some part to play in that, but
09:42 that was in 1998. By 1999, WWE was trying to find some way of adding some flavor to the former shoot
09:48 fighter. In their infinite wisdom, they decided the best way to do this was to try and get Severn
09:53 to tattoo 666 on his forehead and join the Undertaker's Ministry of Darkness. Now I don't
09:59 know about you, but I would not be first in line to ask a UFC Hall of Famer to get anything tattooed
10:05 on his forehead, much less a mark of Satan himself. The story goes that, understandably,
10:10 Severn did not react well to this, saying he wouldn't do it, only for WWE to tell him that
10:15 they would bury him on TV if he refused. He, again a UFC fighter, promptly said "try me"
10:23 and the idea was dropped, but not before Severn asked for and was granted his release.
10:28 And Number 1 - Wanting to play softball. Sid. There is a reason that one of the greatest
10:33 moments of Steve and Larson's lives was Larson gifting Steve a softball signed by
10:38 Psycho Sid Vicious himself. Sid's reputation for loving softball is probably one of the
10:42 three things he's best known for, joining Pooping His Pants and Breaking His Leg,
10:46 but the only one of those three things that caused his quitting a wrestling company was softball.
10:51 Sid had a couple of stints in WWE, but it was his 95-97 run that saw him become a two-time
10:56 WWE Champion that this story takes place. While recovering from an injury in 1997,
11:02 Sid had decided he was pretty much done with working for Vince McMahon and his traveling
11:06 circus, and in the months it took to get out of his contract, Sid returned and played softball,
11:11 maybe his greatest passion in life. Ultimately, he would get his release and return to WCW,
11:16 and speaking of that company, softball had already stuck a wedge between Sid and where
11:20 the big boys play in 1991. This is perhaps even more bizarre, as it has been told that during Sid's
11:26 contract negotiations with WCW President Jim Hurd, he came to the table with three demands.
11:31 He wanted something in the neighborhood of 400 grand per year, okay that's top guy money,
11:36 he wanted the world title, alright likewise top guy was with the horsemen,
11:40 and he wanted softball season off. I'm sorry, what was that last part? Yep, Sid wanted time
11:45 off to play softball every year, and that my dear friends, Jim Hurd could not sign off on.
11:51 So if you have ever wondered why Sid joined the WWE in 1991 to have his very bad Mania Main Event
11:56 with Hulk Hogan, now you know. And that's our list, make sure of course that you like this video,
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12:04 and check out this clip from the latest Survival Series.
12:07 Things had devolved a fair bit, let me see what I can remember from that.
12:11 Uh that is the four-way, so that is Randy Orton, AJ Styles and LA Knight, yeah.
12:18 Randall Keith Orton, Alan Jane Styles, Lucretius Aurelius Knight.
12:23 Enjoyed that, had a little sip.