It's never fun watching an honest wrestler getting deceived by their boss, former employer, or colleagues in this sometimes quite ruthless business.

But when the people regularly found fooling, cheating or scamming their way through their careers in the wrestling bubble,

find themselves being well and truly duped? Well, it's pretty much impossible to feel any sort of sympathy

towards the dishonest carnarni in question.

Oh and before we get started a quick shout out to the fine folks over at our

squared circle who helped inspire this very list.

So with all that said I am Gareth this is what culture wrestling and here are

eight times wrestling carnies got out carnied number eight buckety and Kevin Nash

use main event mafia whispers to leverage offers to return to

W. W. W. E. W. W. W. A started to tease the return of one of the most

dominant factions in the company's history, the main event mafia baby. But before the band

which consisted of the likes of Kurt Angles, Stings, Scott Steiner, Buckety and Kevin Nash

could fully get back together, those last two names opted to suddenly do the unthinkable.

Writers Dixie Carter, the Carnie known for paying talent late, and trying to lowball homegrown

stars like A.J. Styles, was about to bring Booker and Nash back.

Those two former world champions use those whispers to score themselves a nice payday

to return to WWE just in time for that year's 40-person Royal Rumble.

While Booker wasn't actually signed to a T&A deal at the time, Nash was and would be released

from his contract just before making that sudden angle-killing jump back to

W. W. The moves completely ruined that incoming main event mafia reunion, with T&A then

being forced to pivot and drop that particular storyline.

As Buck, Nash and WWE left Carter with a whole lot of main event egg on her face.

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