7 Wrestlers Who Ruined Their Careers By Refusing Jobs

6. Bad News Brown

Reading Bret Hart's autobiography makes it crystal clear that Allen Coage was a tough customer. For example, unless someone was either a hard man or criminally insane, there's no way they would challenge the gargantuan Andre The Giant to a fight. Known as 'Bad News Brown' in the then-WWF, Coage was reportedly promised a top run in the company by Vince McMahon himself. That didn't come to pass, but it wasn't all straightforward. Likely feeding off McMahon's alleged promises, Brown wasn't exactly thrilled to learn that he was jobbing to Jake 'The Snake' Roberts at the SummerSlam 1990 Pay-Per-View. In the mind of Bad News, this directly contradicted what McMahon had told him was going to happen, that he'd be the WWF's first black World Champion. In the end, Bad News Brown lost to Jake Roberts via disqualification. The Big Boss Man was the Special Guest Referee, and witnessed Brown clocking Roberts with a steel chair. Thus, he was disqualified, and Jake was handed the win. It seems the original plan was for Roberts to win outright, but that didn't sit well with Bad News. He kicked up a stink backstage about the ordeal, and didn't want to be pinned. Due to this, as well as his feeling that Vince had reneged on their deal, Brown elected to leave the WWF. That proved to be his last major run in wrestling.