10 Cruelest WWE Superstar Exits Ever

At one point, OVW star Rob Conway was considered a top prospect for WWE. Many assumed that it would only be a matter of time before he was called up to the main roster and made an impact.

Things didn't work out that way, though. In 2003, Conway finally got the call-up, but he was put with La Resistance, a pro-French, anti-American stable designed to get cheap heat in the early days of the Iraq War. Conway's stablemates, Rene Dupree and Sylvan Grenier, were inexperienced at best and bad at worst, and so Conway got lost in the shuffle with them.

In 2005 he was repackaged as "The Con-Man," an arrogant character in the vein of Buff Bagwell, but he soon became a comedy heel. Conway eventually went on a losing streak, then disappeared from TV for months. When he returned to Raw, he vowed to quit if he couldn't beat Jeff Hardy. Hardy won, and before Conway could resign, Vince McMahon came out and fired him.

Conway was actually released from his contract a few months later, but that was his last TV appearance with WWE (he wrestled a few more matches in OVW). Undoubtedly, it made Vince McMahon feel good to essentially fire someone on TV, but for Conway, it was a humiliation.