10 WWE Superstars Fired In The Shortest Time

2. Buff Bagwell (A Week)

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It only took a single match for WWE to realise that Buff wasn't up to snuff, before they told him to get stuffed.

The American Male certainly seemed eager. One of the first WCW contracted talents to accept a buy-out of their Time Warner clause when Vince McMahon bought out his most bitter rivals, Bagwell was selected as one of two men - the other being Booker T - to test the waters of a scarcely believable rebranding of Raw to Nitro.

Obviously, it wasn't a success, or else Tony Schiavone would today be calling Mondays and not Wednesdays. The match went down so poorly with the Tacoma crowd that any plans for a WCW revival were promptly scrapped. A week later, Buff was sacked. Apocrypha has that the awful match effectively lost him his job - though it didn't harm Booker T's prospects any. Bagwell himself was at a loss to explain his firing, though a backstage fight with Shane Helms, missing a taping because of a fake injury, and his mother Judy calling Jim Ross to complain about his schedule probably didn't help.

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