7 Wrestlers Who Got Fired RIDICULOUSLY Fast
1. Jeff Jarrett (0 Days)
It takes a while for a wrestling fan to truly understand just how much of a truism "never say never" really is, depending on just how many times the impossible gets made real in their lifetime. and Jeff Jarrett's return to WWE via Hall Of Fame induction in 2018 was one of the bigger reminders for a certain generation.
'Double J' had a mixed fortunes across multiple runs with WWE in the mid-to-late-90s, but it's reasonable to say he was as hot as he'd ever been when he decided to take big money for a big spot in World Championship Wrestling in October 1999. Nothing strange about that, not least when countless other talents - including Jarrett himself - had switched sides during a financially fruitful ratings war era. Infamously though, by asking for what he felt like he was owed, Jarrett became a pariah. He decided to take his business to Atlanta, but insisted - very fairly, by the way - on getting upcoming house show payments from bumps he'd already taken for Vince McMahon. He had leverage too - the incoming 'Chosen One' was all ready to go to Nitro starting the day after October 17th's No Mercy pay-per-view, and refused to drop the Intercontinental Championship to Chyna as planned unless he got his cheque.
McMahon frustratedly agreed, Jeff went out and did some excellent business with the 'Ninth Wonder Of The World' and left, but on the day when so many of his colleagues' contracts were scooped up in 2001, he didn't make the cut. Worse still - he was told as much at the same time as the watching world.
Paraphrasing the nickname he created for the second generation star, the power-mad and giddy McMahon stood in front of monitors that supposedly screened both Raw and Nitro in his dressing room (the footage was recycled and had to be located, the clip of Jeff had bee from a prior broadcast) told Jarrett to spell his name "Capital G, Double O, Double N, Double E", and told the audience that there'd be no chance Jarrett would be part of any version of the company's near future.