10 WWE Breakups You Forgot Were HEARTBREAKING

2. APA Close Business

Faarooq Bradshaw APA 2002 Split
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Remember that claim about never making people think about the WWE Draft again? It was a little lie. Oops. There's no escape from the Draft. Everyone knows that by now! Seriously though, a long-forgotten moment during the original back in 2002 deserves your tears. It brought the curtain down on some iconic backstage segments for the era, and ended one hell of a party for Faarooq and Bradshaw.

On the 28 March SmackDown, William Regal not so kindly reminded the APA that they'd been placed on different brands. Their run as a mercenary tag team for hire was over, but the pair didn't want to admit it. Being fair, some probs thought Ron Simmons was finished once the Nation Of Domination run ended in 1998. They'd be dead wrong about that - like others, he had more gas in the tank.

Simmons/Faarooq and Bradshaw had one more brawl in their office before closing it for good. Not even Jerry Lawler palming off their emotion by asking if Torrie Wilson ever got naked during a game of strip poker could ruin things completely. Tears fell when Bradshaw turned the, "Come In. We're Open!" sign around to one that said: "Sorry, We're Closed!".

This wasn't a full-time end for the APA. They'd reunite for another run before Bradshaw turned into JBL in early-2004, but it was the end of an era for their hilarious office-with-no-walls skits. The way Faarooq and Bradshaw got ticked off at wrestlers walking in without using the door? Timeless.

There was also a legitimate crack in Bradshaw's voice when he thanked Ron for everything before they went their separate ways.

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