10 Wrestlers Who Were Driven Out Of The Business

10. Palmer Canon

WWE were bloody lucky to secure the exorbitant TV rights fees with which the promotion was able to succeed despite spewing out some of the worst content of all time in the late 2010s; a decade prior, they buried the network that aired SmackDown at the time, UPN, for the reasonable request to not vomit out such awful, sponsor-adverse material.

Palmer Canon, played by developmental graduate Brian Mailhot, was a slimy, meddling, politically correct hypocrite who represented the station and regulated WWE programming to its satisfaction. A Right To Censor retread and exercise in pissy defensiveness, Canon lasted about a year.

Perhaps WWE should have shoot regulated the abhorrent sadists of the SmackDown locker room - because they drove Canon out of WWE.

Bruce Prichard has subsequently claimed on Something To Wrestle that that Canon "wasn't ready mentally, maturity-wise" to enter the business. Since the dark "rumour and innuendo" was that Canon was duct-taped in a shower and tormented about what might have happened next, for six hours, perhaps Canon wasn't the immature one here.

Canon alleged that he was harassed by Chris Benoit and JBL and was so disturbed by Wrestler's Court that he flew himself home from a European tour, handed in his notice, and made only a handful of indie appearances before vanishing from the public eye.

The worst of it is - if it's true etc. etc. - is that JBL and Benoit weren't exactly the reason WWE monopolised the industry, and yet they still felt invincible and beyond reproach atop it.