5 Wrestlers Who Were LEGITIMATELY Fired On The Air
4. Hulk Hogan
Bash At The Beach 2000 spelled the end of Hulk Hogan's tenure with WCW.
The notorious event saw booker Vince Russo work a work and work himself into a shoot. Since between them, Russo, Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff couldn't locate the truth if it screamed the words "bro", "brother" and "context" into their faces, details of the worked shoot pin are muddled - but reductively, the foot poke of doom was a prearranged event that Russo fiercely buried in the aftermath, leading Hogan to leave. The promo that followed was the quintessential summation of the man: a hugely entertaining if confusing - and chronically counterproductive - blast.
Russo incinerated Hogan. Much like he had done with his WCW product, Russo peppered his promo with "sh*t" in an expletive-laden burial. He called Hogan a "politician", and a "piece of sh*t", revealing that Hogan had exercised his creative control card and refused to job for Jarrett. Hogan claimed that the company was in the "state it was in" because of "bullsh*t" like this.
Russo was not imbued with hiring and firing power, strictly speaking, but he more or less worked it: when he said "I promise everybody or else I'll go in the godd*mn grave, you will never see that piece of sh*t again!", Hogan was never again seen in WCW, nor did any deity strike Russo down.
Sorry Jim!