10 WWE Stars Who Were Fired For Unprofessional Conduct
1. Teddy Hart Throws Up All Over Ring Of Honor
The nephew of Bret The Hitman Hart, the story of Teddy Hart's professional wrestling career is a story of ruined opportunities, attitude problems and bizarre behaviour. At one time the youngest person ever to be signed by the WWF at eighteen years old, Hart wouldn't even make it to the main roster before being released due to his terrible attitude problems. But it's his firing from Ring Of Honor in November 2003 that we want to focus on here.
Taking part in a frenetic Scramble Cage Match with partner Jack Evans and four other tag teams, a match that was won by The Backseat Boyz, Hart began to no-sell the moves he had taken after the match, and climbed the cage to knock down one of the other participants with an unplanned, dangerous twisting moonsault, and then again on three more with an even more unplanned and dangerous shooting star press. In both cases, his fellow wrestlers were forced to run to catch Hart to prevent him from killing himself, despite the complete lack of warning that the moves were coming, placing themselves in physical danger.
Fellow losers The Carnage Crew took exception to Hart going into business for himself in such a fashion, and gave him a swift beatdown before a flabbergasted crowd to impress upon him the importance of selling the match. As soon as they left, however, Hart leapt to his feet and scaled the cage once again, to perform not one but two moonsaults to a standing position and then throw up before the audience.
Attempting to keep some semblance of order in front of the crowd, ROH bosses refused to let anyone from backstage past the curtain to stop Hart, who was immediately fired and physically thrown out of the building. It was the worst time, but it wasn't exactly the first time. Hart's bad reputation had preceded him even then, with many ROH wrestlers unhappy with him appearing for the promotion in the first place. CM Punk, in particular, was vehement after Hart's firing that Hart had no place in Ring Of Honor, and stated in an open letter online that this business is dangerous enough.
We, the boys, risk our lives enough. We don't need a kid like you putting any of us in harms way more than we already are. Despite his obvious in-ring talent, Teddy Hart would never become the star he probably should have been, due entirely to reigning as the uncrowned king of unprofessional conduct.
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