10 WWE Superstars Fired In The Shortest Time

The minimum standard of quality needed to wrestle for WWE was once, it's fair to say, very very low. Workers of excruciatingly limited capabilities not exhaustively including the likes of Tugboat, Mabel, Heidenreich and The Great Khali have no just earned jobs with the world's theoretical premier sports entertainment endeavour, but promoted to positions well beyond their means. In short: you have to be a special sort of f*cking dreadful to lose your job for it.

Bryan Clark was precisely that, though perhaps his bigger crime was making The Undertaker look abysmal in the process. Nominative determinism ensured that the tag team of Clark and Brian 'Crush' Adams, collectively known as 'KroniK', were just that, and it didn't get any better when they alighted in WWE as part of WCW's abortive invasion. It's difficult to understand the logic influencing their immediate pairing with company vets Kane and The Undertaker, but suffice to say the quartet's match at Unforgiven 2001 was so bad that even Paul Heyman on commentary broke character to shout basic instructions.

That was pretty much that. Though Adams was offered a reprieve, of sorts, in the Heartland Wrestling Association development territory, Clark was swiftly let go. The words 'unsafe' and 'unconditioned' were given for his release. In actuality, 'Undertaker' was the most pertinent.