10 Wrestlers Who Destroyed Their Careers On Live TV
9. Titus O'Neil - Monday Night Raw, February 8th 2016
Vince McMahon can hire, fire, upend and suspend until his weathered heart is content - it's regrettably his autocratic right as eternal kingpin of WWE, but he didn't half come away from this bizarre tale looking as big a heel as he had during his Attitude Era pomp.
The gif above was the on-camera extent of the situation, but in case it's not exactly clear in the above, know that this random act of seemingly friendly frivolity cost Titus O'Neil sixty days work and a WrestleMania payday in 2016.
Bad timing, bad judgment or a bad man in a bad mood? All of the above, sadly.
The roster including McMahon had just clapped off a retiring Daniel Bryan to tearfully end a particularly sombre edition of Monday Night Raw, but the Chairman was clearly in no mood for some light relief after such a heavy duty sendoff for a wrestler he always hated pushing anyway. The gaffer looks f*cking furious as he shoves Titus away - right as the 'Prime Time Player' appeared to grab his arm in a bit of over-familiar horseplay.
Until Hidden Gems returns to the WWE Network, that's all anybody will ever see of it. The clip fades away from that point, much like any proper push for O'Neil himself.