10 Times Wrestlers Cried And Made Everybody Feel Really Awkward

5. Kelly Kelly (SmackDown, February 4th 2010)

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Never the strongest actor, Kelly Kelly was placed in an unenviable position when she had to weep her way all the way from the ring to the backstage area following her sacking by Vickie Guerrero in 2010.

A recent acquaintance of babyface World Champion Edge during his unexpected career wind-down, Kelly had been a thorn in Vickie's side, particularly as she tried everything to wrest the title away from her former husband and award it to new beau Dolph Ziggler.

Stomping into to break up celebrations between 'The Rated-R Superstar' and the former Divas Champion, after a handicap match victory over Dolph and Lay-Cool with the World Title on the line, Guerrero fired Kelly immediately after, forcing her hugely unconvincing and awkward breakdown as she left the arena.

Kelly's drama school dropout display was made worse by the revolting soundtrack it was set to, combining Vickie's banshee wails and WWE's atrocious crowd-sweetening that polluted the b-show for much of its taped tenure.

Her dubious efforts were only accented by the fact she was back just weeks later in a segment where Vickie herself was fired as a result of a match with Vickie. Naturally, not even that mattered. The two both competed in the multi-woman tag team clash at WrestleMania 26.

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