10 Times WWE Made MASSIVE Changes That You Didn’t Even See
7. Bruce Prichard Gets Fired In 2008
It wasn't just the nature of Bruce Prichard's firing as much as what it represented about the changing face of the corporate structure of WWE in the mid-2000s - and, retrospectively, what it may say about the change back in recent years.
Outside of a short absence between 1991 and 1992, Prichard had been with the company for the better part of 20 years when he left amidst strange rumours and sad reality in 2008.
It was, rather fittingly, a story shrouded in rumour and innuendo before Prichard himself filled in some of the gaps on the podcast that would ultimately light the way for a return to the company proper in 2018.
He documented a long and challenging relationship with Stephanie McMahon, noting a tacit power struggle and a breakdown in communications leading to him becoming miserable in the place he thought he'd work for life. His choice to bring a gun to a television taping (regardless of Prichard's sort-of-rational story about how and why such a seemingly insane thing would occur) was the last straw.