10 Times Wrestlers Told You They Were FINISHED
4. Ahmed Johnson (1998)
Buried by Jim Ross on the way out to the ring for the perceived crime of sporting an earring, everything about Ahmed Johnson's Royal Rumble 1998 performance spoke to a man that was substantially closer to the exit door than the main event of WrestleMania.
Wearing about 15 leg supports, a Robbie Fowler nose strip and the expression of a performer that knew how the next 10 minutes were about to play out, the fire Johnson had been able to breathe into the upper midcard two years earlier had sadly been extinguished by a number of injuries and the industry completely transforming underneath him.
Sluggish on offence and the sell, Ahmed was eliminated just before Stone Cold Steve Austin arrived to take out the entire field, but suffered a one-man burial at the hands of former stablemate Kama. Exiting where 'The Supreme Fighting Machine' entered, Ahmed ate a shove in the chest from the future Godfather, shot him half a look, then shrugged and slumped off to the back. It was his penultimate WWE pay-per-view, with his last falling just one month later.