10 Times Wrestlers Thought They Were Fired For Sure
5. Kaitlyn
From one end of the Vince McMahon unexpected responses backstage scale to the other, here we have a potential career-ending moment which turned into nothing more than a laughable !*$%-up.
Back in August 2012, various performers were thrown into a Battle Royal to decide the new number one contender for Layla's Divas Championship. Yet, instead of the planned winner Eve Torres going on to have her arm raised at the end of the chaos, it was former bodybuilder Kaitlyn who came away with the accidental victory. This mistake went down on the back of a particularly overzealous clothesline from Kaitlyn to Torres, with the Champion on commentary and the unintentional victor both looking genuinely stunned at the turn of events.
In this moment, Kaitlyn was convinced her boss wouldn't hesitate in giving her the boot from WWE after botching such an important spot. Yet, instead of blowing his typical gasket, McMahon reportedly couldn't stop chuckling at the screw-up. Understandably, Kaitlyn assumed this was perhaps "an evil laugh", but she continued to perform under the WWE banner for a few more years, and even won the butterfly belt later down the road.