10 Wrestlers Who Allegedly Got Other Wrestlers FIRED

7. Ric Flair / Jim Ross

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At a WWE 2K14 video game symposium, Ric Flair, addled through a grim cocktail of grief and liquor, began to talk at length and dominate the show.

Unwittingly bringing John Cena's upstanding persona into disrepute, he also told distressing and very intimate stories about the funeral of his young son Reid. And yet it was Jim Ross, who moderated the discussion, who was fired for "failing to control" Flair. A regrettable if understandable scene, it was surely just best to move on from it. How was Ross meant to "switch gears" to some fictional storyline chat, with a troubled, drunken man pouring his heart out?

Ross, fired here for the fourth time, was effectively the kid in class who wasn't talking, but got sent to the back. Only, without his income.

Back in April 2020, Vince probably did the "awh" sitcom noise when he remembered that JR wasn't around to fire during a pandemic.

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