10 Wrestlers Who Blame Others For Failing In WWE

Buff Bagwell, as his gimmick - and indeed, surgically enhanced calves and later career as a gigolo - suggest, was no stranger to being enraptured, Narcissus-like, by his own visage. Yet through all those long, hard looks in the mirror, self-reflection never brought the conclusion that, if he was being totally honest, he was largely to blame for his WWE failure.

Almost as quickly as he was hired, the Stuff was fired. A match with Booker T, designed to test the waters of a possible Nitro revival, met with such an atrocious response that Vince McMahon practically lost interest in the Invasion angle altogether. Stories then surfaced that Bagwell had faked an injury to skip SmackDown tapings, and had implored his mother call the office to complain about his travel schedule. Within a month of signing, the American Male was out the door. It was really quite the exercise in ignominy.

Bagwell himself told a different version of events. "Do you really believe that you're gonna fire Buff Bagwell over one bad match?" he quizzed Wrestling Inc. "Do people really believe that I had my mother call and say, 'let him off Augusta in Birmingham?' Well f**k no, that's not true!"

Though none of that is as incredulous as he makes it sounds, Buff placed the source of such malicious rumours at the feet of WWE's former Head of Talent Relations Jim Ross.

"The true, true story is, Jim Ross created that monster, and people believed it," he raged. "Jim Ross ruined my career." Rightio, then.