11 Wrestlers WWE Fired And Then Immediately Rehired

9. The Iron Sheik

The Iron Sheik
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Fired: Despite being on totally opposite sides of the babyface/heel kayfabe divide, The Iron Sheik and Jim Duggan were good pals behind the scenes and liked to ride the roads together. The problem? They got pulled over by cops in May 1987 and busted for drugs. The WWF made an example of Sheiky baby by releasing him.

Rehired: He was back by February the following year, albeit it in a non-televised, jobber-squashing role on live events. Sheik didn't appear on television again until July '88, but he was working long before that on the house show loops and probably earning a nice pay check for it.

Weirdly, company commentators made several remarks about Sheik's decreased mobility and weight gain when he did show back up on programming. His career would never be the same after that highly-publicised drug incident with Duggan.

Sheiky was the one made humble here.

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