10 Most Embarrassing Falls From Grace In WWE
Sometimes, it's better to allow a star to go gentle into that good night.
If there's one thing that the WWE have shown us time and time again, it's that it's one thing to break into the top of the card - staying there is something else entirely.
While some wrestlers manage to spend the remainder of their careers breathing in the rareified air at the top of mount WWE, others find themselves tumbling back down the slope once the office loses interest in them. (See: Shinsuke Nakamura, Chris Jericho circa 2002-2005, any number of one-time WWE champions).
For most wrestlers, this descent is soundtracked by nothing more than the collective sighs of disappointment from their loyal fanbase. The entrants on this list weren't so lucky. Insead , their televised falls from grace might as well have been accompanied by a laugh track as they fell victims to Vincent Kennedy McMahon's "such good s**t" school of booking.
From slut shaming to being dumped in literal dog-crap, each entrant on this list is a reminder that it doesn't matter how high you climb in the WWE - you are never guaranteed a dignified descent down the mountain.
10. Bart Gunn
Starting off with the man who inspired this list, Bart Gunn was the victim of impossible circumstances.
Competing in WWE's spectacularly ill-advised Brawl For All tournament, in which professional wrestlers fought shoot matches, Bart Gunn found himself in hot water after beating "Dr Death" Steve Williams. The doctor had been earmarked for a feud with Stone Cold, but his defeat at the hand of Gunn destroyed his credibility as a contender for the Texas Rattlesnake.
Gunn would go on to win the tournament, getting himself over in the process. WWE, however, were still pissed off at him for ruining their plans. In a spectacular example of biting their nose to spite their face, they had Bart Gunn (a professional wrestler) enter a boxing match against Butterbean (a boxer). As the video shows, the fight was every bit as one-sided as it sounds.
Punished for winning a tournament that should never have existed in the first place, Bart Gunn's humiliation at Wrestlemania is a sad reminder of how capricious professional wrestling, and the WWE in particular, can be.