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10 WWE Stars Who Pretty Much Asked To Be Fired - Hulk Hogan! Austin Aries! Enzo Amore! Robbie McAllister?!

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🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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'Fire me! I'm already fired!' Gareth Morgan presents 10 WWE Stars Who Pretty Much Asked To Be Fired...


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0:00.0

WWE's continued dedication to stockpiling talent means that it could be harder than ever

0:14.7

for workers to get out of their deals if they're unhappy, not just feel like trying their

0:19.4

looks somewhere else.

0:20.8

In short, they'd have to go to pretty extreme measures to wiggle out of them, sort of

0:25.0

like the examples set here.

0:27.0

I'm Gareth from What Culture Wrestling and here are 10 WWE stars who pretty much

0:31.6

asked to be fired.

0:33.2

10.

0:34.2

Austin Aries

0:35.2

Austin Aries WWE Ron was a classic case of wrong time, wrong company.

0:40.4

When news broke that the 205 live man had been released in July 2017, some reason that

0:46.3

Austin must have simply asked for his contract to be terminated, Dave Meltzer's Wrestling

0:51.2

Observer soon jumped on the case, however, revealing that Aries was far from popular behind

0:56.4

the scenes in WWE amongst management, and that he didn't actually ask to be let go.

1:02.1

Both parties were happy with the result, though, let's make that clear.

1:05.9

Aries hadn't exactly been thrilled with his lot in the promotion, and WWE seemed to

1:10.0

view the former TNA and Ring of Honor stand out as the kind of worker who was just lucky

1:14.9

to be there.

1:15.9

It was a toxic situation, and one that was probably never going to work.

1:19.8

If Aries, as Meltzer's sources claimed, was a pain in the ass to WWE officials behind

1:24.9

the scenes, then he couldn't have been surprised when his contract was eventually torn to shreds.

1:29.9

Never going to stomach hassle from somebody that was being honest, little more than a utility

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