10 WWE Superstars Who Have Been Released The Most

5. John Tenta (3)

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The rampaging John 'Earthquake' Tenta was a hard man to miss during his earth-shattering early WWE run, but as the company pivoted towards the New Generation, his notable tremors gradually faded from their seismograph.

Just months after the Natural Disasters had quite literally squashed the Beverly Brothers before 92,000 fans at SummerSlam '92, Tenta vanished from WWE. After stints in Japan's WAR and Mexico's CMLL, he was welcomed back to Stamford a year on from his departure. Situated amongst Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels and Diesel, Earthquake felt like a relic. Tenta looked more comfortable in a mawashi for an oddly compelling sumo contest with Yokozuna, but it was just about the last time WWE fans would see his face - if not his figure. He was let go again in 1994, and promptly assisted WCW's '80s revival under a variety of failed guises.

When he next appeared in WWE, Tenta was unrecognisable - mostly because he was under the leather hood of 'Oddity' Golga. This wasn't a way to humiliate him, but simply because, having dropped so much weight, company higher-ups didn't believe fans would buy Tenta's Earthquake routine anymore.

Unfortunately, they didn't really buy into the Oddities either, and the entire group was released at the start of 1999.

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