10 Best Ever Reasons For Wrestling Storyline Exits

9. "I Can't Be On TV If...I'm Dead!"

Vince Mcmahon Limo Explosion
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"Pal!"

Winsome carny stuff from the COO of a publicly-traded monopoly, Vince McMahon didn't smarten up investors ahead of his death angle, leading to a sharp fall in the share price. He was exploded in a limousine, the culprit behind which was to be Mr. Kennedy, had the events of the tragic Chris Benoit double murder-suicide not rendered the storyline an eerie farce of timing. This was immediately retconned, understandably, but what an incredibly audacious spot of booking this was, and also, what an incredibly crass spot of booking this was, given the horrendously accelerated rate of wrestler deaths so prevalent at the time.

"I'm not really dead, pal, I'm an employee with health insurance!"

Included here for the grapefruit-sized balls on it, beats of the eventual story were adapted into another Kennedy star vehicle, in which he was to be revealed as the scheming, illegitimate product of his semen.

This also didn't happen, because Kennedy in a 2007 mainstream press interview claimed that he only used steroids to enhance his physique on the Independent circuit. He felt that doing so in WWE would betray the integrity of the Wellness Policy and cost him his job.

12 days later, he was embroiled in the Signature Pharmacy scandal.

*Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays*

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