10 Wrestlers Who Got Buried For Someone Else Screwing Up
Mistakes that cost wrestlers like Mike Awesome and William Regal spots, pushes and jobs.
Wrestlers mess up and make mistakes like anyone else on occasion.
Some were even justifiably fired for their actions, like Nailz lunging at and attacking his boss Vince McMahon, or Sid Vicious casually stabbing Arn Anderson in the chest with a pair of scissors, or even Juventud Guerrera getting high on PCP and running naked through a hotel lobby.
Pro wrestling politics is a tricky thing to navigate and manoeuvre through for grapplers. It can cost wrestlers prized pushes and paydays and jobs and there are times when wrestlers are unjustly embarrassed and buried on the main roster for someone else’s mistake entirely. They can have all the potential in the world but somehow end up buried beyond belief, through no fault of their own.
Take Chris Jericho getting fined for $5000 for Batista insisting on blading in their Steel Cage match for the World Heavyweight Championship, or Jim Ross being fired after hosting a WWE 2K14 roster announcement panel where Ric Flair showed up drunkenly worse for wear. How about Steve Corino’s match/chance in the WWF's Light Heavyweight Title tournament being scrapped after Tiger Ali Singh went way too long in a promo beforehand?
Let's take a run through some of the more notable examples of a wrestler getting buried for somebody else's error...