10 Best Ever Reasons For Wrestling Storyline Exits

Years and years in the making, enriching the impact, on the December 6, 1993 edition of Monday Night RAW, Gorilla Monsoon had had it.

He had tired of his commentary colleague Bobby Heenan's constant insults. He had tired of warning Heenan to cut those insults out. And so he marched to the ring, as Heenan, despite his later protests, proved himself incapable of change. "Hey, hey," he said, grabbing at Vince McMahon's tux jacket.

"The ape's comin'!"

And then, fearing that he was in earshot, Heenan changed tack as the delectable coward he was - a man so bereft of a backbone that he could literally change form. "I mean, my buddy Gorilla!"

It was the last priceless sh*t he ever slung for the company in a full-time capacity. Gorilla grabbed him by the neck, dragged him backstage, and Uncle Phil'd him out of the building and into the harsh New York winter. Essentially, Heenan in the storyline was such an insufferable jackass that nobody could bear him any longer. In later years, WWE diminished the aura of its departing talent in order to lessen their value.

Heenan in reality was so liked and respected that he was instead afforded the ultimate heel send-off.

Great in pitch, it's still difficult to watch, despite knowing the arrangement suited all parties. The WWF lost a part of its old soul on that night, and Heenan and the ape sobbed long into it, when all was said and done.