10 WWE Punishments That Didn't Fit The Crime

10. Smiling

Most people are encouraged to come to work with a positive attitude, but it doesn't always pay if you work for WWE, as Paul London found out in June 2007.

In a backstage segment on Raw, the young high-flyer was one of several wrestlers tasked with standing in a corridor as Vince McMahon walked to his limousine (whereupon he would explode in a fiery inferno). While he nailed the standing part, he failed to convey the appropriate level of seriousness by momentarily grinning in full view of the camera.

According to reports, on watching the segment back after the show went off the air, the chairman of the board was said to be absolutely livid, so much so that London - once a promising up-and-comer - was booted out of the company altogether about a year later.

That seems ridiculously harsh. Wrestlers, after all, are just that. It's certainly advantageous if they can act as well, but you until you start recruiting talent from outside the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, you have to accept there's going to be a drop in quality from the silver screen.