11 Hugely Talented WWE Stars Who Were Fired Too Soon

2. Gail Kim

When Gail Kim arrived in World Wrestling Entertainment in the summer of 2003, she made an immediate impact. She captured the Women's Championship and looked to be poised to become one of the company's top female talents. Unfortunately, the creative team did a miserable job of expanding the character, never giving fans a reason to care about the beautiful young competitor and as a result, she was greeted with silence upon her entrance to the squared circle. She quickly lost the title and was paired with Molly Holly in an attempt to get her some heat. It did not work and for two years, Kim wasted her time and potential as a bit player in one of the most talented women's divisions WWE has ever assembled. In November of 2004, she was released from her contract. Rather than sit around and complain, the former Women's champion set out to make sure it was the biggest mistake the company could have made. She worked the independents before signing with TNA Wrestling in 2005. After serving as a manager for two years, she was finally allowed to prove herself in the ring against the likes of Awesome Kong, Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, ODB and the underrated Roxxi Laveaux. It was against those women, particularly Kong, that Kim proved to be among the best women's wrestlers in North America. When TNA foolishly let her go rather than paying her more to stay, WWE signed Kim to a second contract. As they did the first time, they left her off of television, stuck her in meaningless matches on B- and C-level shows and wasted her prime. She would occasionally challenge for the Women's and Divas titles but otherwise, she was the fifth or sixth most important part of multi-Diva tag matches rather than the star of the division, as she should have been. At times, it almost seemed as though McMahon signed her so that TNA could not, leaving the performer herself stuck in a miserable predicament. WWE released her for a second time in 2011. Later that year, she returned to TNA and continued building her legacy as the greatest Knockout in that company's history.