10 Wrestlers Who Knew They Were On The Way Out
8. Gail Kim (WWE Monday Night Raw, August 1st 2010)
Wrestling needs more people like Gail Kim.
Never content to just be part of a reductive representation, she twice left WWE after twice trying and ultimately failing to drive change in a division the company simply didn't care about. It'd be years later she'd highlight the misogynist and myopic tendencies of those in charge during her tenures, referring to some stipulation matches as "some of the most traumatic moments of my life that I have to live with, feeling like I never had a choice."
Kim could and should have been one of the wrestlers moving things forward for the league, but a total disinterest in it from the top downwards left her with little option but to do it elsewhere.
Ripping the piss out of a system she was only too glad to be moving away from, she lost an August 1st 2010 Battle Royal by rolling out of the ring within seconds of the start. The Raw commentary team didn't notice the flagrant avoidance of kayfabe, blind as they were to any of this actually mattering. She confirmed her intentions to leave the company days later, and was gone within the month.