8 Wrestlers Fired By WWE After Major PPVs

WWE's traditionally lax standards when it comes to workrate mean that rarely has a performance been so wretched its cost the jobs of the people involved. Bri(y)ans Adams and Clark can count themselves unlucky then, as they managed to clear the snowflakes from Dave Meltzer's desk with such efficiency at Unforgiven 2001 that they were soon let go.

Just how bad was it? Put it this way: at one point, Paul Heyman on commentary broke character to scream at Clark to get into position. This was a man who was supposed to be acting as his advocate at the time.

It's hard to know precisely what the company were expecting from a tag team so painfully accurately named 'Kronik', but one thing was abundantly clear: any failings in the match were absolutely not the responsibility of Adams and Clarks' opponents, WWE lifers The Undertaker and Kane.

Furious at being made to look like such a chump, 'Taker raged against the terrible tandem towards WWE officials. 15 year veteran Adams was sent to developmental, but his partner refused to follow him there, and was promptly sacked. The company couldn't teach the former Crush much more either, and he also received his P45 before the end of the year.