10 Wrestlers Who Allegedly Got Other Wrestlers FIRED

8. The Elite / Jimmy Jacobs

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They tried to tell him.

In what is a wild memory now, looking at the complexion of the North American wrestling industry, the Bullet Club once legit invaded the site of WWE Monday Night RAW in September 2017. A stunt pulled for the PR and the patter alike, they didn't know the extent to which the gathering would sprawl, the story would spiral. A feeling of invincibility overwhelmed them, as the Young Bucks put it in their autobiography, and they mobilised and rallied several more fans than the faction had anticipated.

It was Cody in the aftermath who first registered that, yes, this was probably going to piss WWE off to a lasting and almost seismic extent, and it did: WWE issued the Young Bucks with a cease and desist letter for their usage of the "too sweet" hand sign. They sought legal counsel, who advised them that nobody can trademark a hand gesture. The Bucks were simply on their radar now as irritants to be quashed.

But the Bucks knew well in advance that it was hardly going to split Vince's sides, obviously, and told Jimmy Jacobs, old ROH buddy and then-WWE creative writer, that joining them for a photo opp was a dumb, dumb idea.

He didn't listen - or he no longer cared to listen - and got sh*t-canned. Ironically, given the cyclical nature of the "tank" invasion gimmick, he was the Hunter Hearst Helmsley: the only person involved WWE could feasibly punish.

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