 What's good jobs? What rocks back again with another video? So we're going to check out 10 exact moments WWE wrestlers saved their jobs. Now, this should be a very interesting one. You know, you have those situations where a wrestler is about to get featured in Deppard. And maybe they're not getting over with, you know, the fans or maybe Vince is not liking the matches they're having. Maybe they're having some backstage issues with some personnel. Who knows? It could be a plethora of reasons why they may end up being on the chopping block. But it's those instances where they find something where they they're able to come up with some type of gimmick or they're able to improve on their wrestling or they're able to, you know, make situations better in the back for them where they end up saving their job. So it's going to be very interesting to see some of these instances where wrestlers were legit about to get fired. But they were able to save their jobs doing whatever they needed to do to get it to get it done. So we're going to check this out. Appreciate all the love and support you guys have shown on the channel. Let's get right into this bad boy. Fortunately, WWE firings are a natural part of the way they operate. However, from time to time where WWE is getting set to fire someone, that talent can attempt to save their own skin. The wrestler manages to change the perception surrounding them, either in a ring or backstage. The wrestler has some popularity with top names in WWE and that ultimately gives them one more chance at the big time. Join us now as WrestleMania looks at 10 exact moments a WWE wrestler's saved their job. Be sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell for daily wrestling videos and follow us on Facebook for exclusive lists. Subscribe to WrestleMania if you haven't already. Or see the channel WrestleMania Shorts. Number 10 Stevie Richards One of the most disappointing matches of the Invasion Era Definitely seeing stories about this destruction. The two teams were collided at the unforgiven 2001 pay-per-view and the match was so unbelievably bad that chronic member Brian Clarke was fired from WWE shortly after the pay-per-view match. He was fired because the outright refused to go to WWE developmental whilst the other chronic member Brian Adams accepted their request for a stint in the developmental territory. For chronic's infamous run in 2001 they would be joined by Stevie Richards and according to Richards during a shoot interview, Actually it's crazy because I think he has a YouTube channel now where he be kind of talking about things that he's experienced and like different things that's happened that has happened or is happening in the ring. He'll give his own opinions and critiques on certain things. So he actually do have a YouTube channel. I've seen that so if you guys want me to check out some of the stuff that he be talking about on his YouTube channel, I definitely will man but I have seen his channel pop up on my mention feed, you know, for me to check out. So I hadn't yet so let me know if y'all be interested in that because I'm pretty sure he has plenty of things to talk about and on his insight within the actual wrestling biz and what he went through. Job during the unforgiven match by calling an audible. In the end we had to call that audible and I got in the ring. I backed up to Glenn and I did the old reaching behind and oh my God is he still behind me turned around beg off take the choke slam half decent take a bump. I think that there might have saved my job in a way because I got in the ring and call that audible. They were kind of cool with it that we kind of saved a little bit of the match with that. Number nine JBL. Whilst it was never confirmed that WWE were planning on firing JBL by 2004 it was clear that the team of the APA had run its course. Rook was getting set to retire and this left JBL who was using the name of Bradshaw in a state of flux. Thankfully for JBL he had a backup. In 2003 he became an author and would release his book title Have More Money Now. If they decided to fire the former tank team champion JBL would have a backup. However he would make the smart move in pitching the JBL persona to WWE and they absolutely loved it. JBL would be instantly propelled into the main event scene and within a few short months of this initial pitch he would become WWE champion. Number eight Tidus O'Neill. The wrestling world was in a state of shock following Daniel Bryan's initial retirement in 2016 but this wasn't the only story dominating the wrestling news at the time. As Bryan's statement came to a close Tidus O'Neill physically pulled Vince McMahon out of the way in order to let Stephanie McMahon pass. Vince was absolutely furious with O'Neill. He was getting set to terminate O'Neill with immediate effect. Yeah I do remember this. Yep that story. It's crazy how Vince was ready to fire him when he was just trying to you know let his own daughter you know go through like he was trying to let Vince's daughter get through and I don't know Vince I guess had a bad day. Get your hands off me pal you know what Tidus. Thankfully for O'Neill he had built up a solid rapport with Triple H and the game used his influence to convince Vince to reconsider. While O'Neill was still suspended the incident didn't negatively impact his standing within WWE. That's crazy. Alexa Bliss had emerged as one of the most successful call-ups from NXT but at one point in time it looked like Bliss was going to be fired from WWE. This is very interesting. She was failing to get over and she was ultimately failing to find a character that she was comfortable with. WWE were getting frustrated with her and she was in contention to be fired. Damn. She drastically changed for Bliss as she would join forces with Blake and Murphy. I remember that. That would be used on the main roster. The multi-time women's champion would discuss how she was almost fired during an appearance on the Not Sam podcast. From day one I knew it was my sink or swim moment because in NXT as a good guy my character wasn't getting over and when I was told about the pairing with Blake and Murphy and I knew there had to be a character change. Wednesday night we had takeover and I pushed Enzo and helped and keep them as champions. I came the next day with new gear and different hair and I knew that if I didn't run with it I probably wasn't going to have a job. And it worked out for her. In 2015 ESPN debuted a special documentary that focused on NXT. The nature of the documentary was supposed to show major success of the NXT brand as well as notable failures. These failures were designed to show firings and one of those firings was going to be Tyler Breeze. A Breeze was smart enough to realize that he needed a new gimmick immediately and this is where he decided to come up with the Tyler Breeze character which would go on to become one of the most successful gimmicks on the NXT brand. Discussing this on Oral Sessions with Renee Paquette the former WWE star revealed that E-60 thing that we were doing was supposed to have a couple of guys who made it, a couple of guys who we didn't know and a couple of guys who got fired. Me and Big Cass were supposed to be the two that got fired during the time I found Tyler Breeze and he found this thing with Enzo and it completely won 18 and all of a sudden they were like we can't fire these guys. They're doing good now. He said that for the first time in front of everybody and we went, oh my God. I think we were excited about we were going to get fired and we had no idea. That's wild. When you find out like you're going to be featured on something and then you're not even thinking you're about to get fired. And then they tell you as someone else is getting over we can't fire these guys. Wait, what? Y'all was going to fire us? Like that's wild when you really think about it. Brock Lesnar. This is very interesting too. Which Brock Lesnar is fired from WWE just months into his main roster run while in an interview with Bill Aptor of Sportskeeter Wrestling and WWE Wall of Famer Mark Henry talked about how an incident between him and Lesnar left Lesnar fearing for his job. According to Henry, he and Lesnar had a shoot match and this resulted in Henry getting hurt. He shot from about six feet away and went to my ankle and he put both hands behind my ankle and his shoulder and my knee and hyper extended my knee and I was out for like six to seven weeks. I was just on the ground like, oh my God. And he was like, you hurt? I was like, damn, I can't move. And he was like, he's like, they're going to fire me. I said, no, they're not going to fire you. They're going to fire me. And we were going to say that he and Lesnar were able to laugh it off and Lesnar's insecurity in relation to his job likely came from his reputation at the time because it was infamous for being borderline reckless in the ring. Yeah, Mark Henry said it right. They're not going to fire you, bro. They going to fire my ass for not telling you to ease up. Thankfully for Lesnar, the veteran spoke up for him as she wasn't doing anything with malicious intent and it probably helped that Lesnar had a fantastic attitude and this in turn probably helped save his job. Number four, Seth Rollins. During Seth Rollins' time in developmental, he didn't have the best reputation amongst WWB management. Brahms was calling issues during training sessions and this led to Triple H pulling him aside and letting Rollins know that he had no issues with firing him. Thankfully for Rollins, he had to change his attitude and it was a deep conversation with Joey Mercury that influenced Rollins to change for good. Discussing this on Stone Cold Steve Austin's podcast, Rollins stated, Hunter took me aside and was like, look, I don't see anything special in you. If you don't want to play ball and you don't want to work with us, you can go back to Ring of Honor and do things your way. Wow. We should start doing things our way. I was like, oh man, my dream is about to go up in smoke here. I go back to Joey Mercury and sat down with the men and he's like, you need to understand how to play the game. It doesn't mean that you have to change who you are, but you have to play a role all the time. Not just went on when you want to be. You have to be on all the time to find a way to give them what they want while teaching them how you do things as a compromise. And you have to figure out how you do that. He sat me down and took me through that whole process. Number three. Triple H said, I don't see nothing special in you at that time. That's wild. But once again, that's how it is in WWE. You can be this amazing, athletic, talented, you can flip over everything and do somersaults everywhere on the independent scene and and be willing to put your body through all types of pain on the independent scene. When you come to WWE, they want you to kind of look a certain way. They want you to kind of move a certain way is finding a way to keep your your core self. But also, you know, like you said, kind of play ball, play within the system, but keep your originality as much as you possibly can. So that's very interesting that triple H had to say, man, you can get the boot easily, bro. Yeah, one of the wrestlers that is synonymous with the ruthless aggression era is Batista. Yeah, Batista was extremely close to being let go by I definitely heard about this evolution. Yeah, an interview with Chris Jericho on the Talk is Jericho podcast. But he stated that the Deacon Batista gimmick wasn't working. No, WWE were considering cutting ties with him. However, when Batista was handpicked to be a member of evolution alongside Joe Blake, Flair and Randy Orton, everything changed. It saved his wrestling career in WWE. He came to Batista and they were absolutely right. As Batista were going to become one of the biggest and most successful names in WWE history. Fact number two, Becky Lynch, even though Becky Lynch reached made of it status on the main roster, her NXT run particularly early on wasn't exactly the standout portion of it. This is interesting. Before they appeared on NXT TV, WWE trainers and officials have become frustrated with Lynch's lack of progress. And instead of repackaging her, they were planning on letting her go. However, Lynch had their stellar debut on NXT against Summer Ray and this changed everything. She took to Twitter to reference the match and in the now deleted tweet, the WrestleMania main event has stated a couple of weeks before this they were going to let me go. I've been fighting to survive this place since before day one. I'll never be above what I had to do to stay alive. She's also discussed how pivotal Dusty Rhodes was in keeping Lynch employed with WWE and thankfully they did as it would have truly dropped the ball if they'd find her. Sure. And number one, John Cena. Yep. And we know about this one. Well, some of y'all may not know about this one. This is a very pivotal one because he was almost out the door legit. Crazy to know. There could have been a world where John Cena was not a thing. 2002, WWE were getting set to release John Cena from his contract. Cena was blending into the background and he had zero character or presence on screen. And this is when Cena did one ingenious move which saved his entire career. Speaking on the acclaimed ruthless aggression documentary the WWE legend stated I was told I would be getting my release in Christmas cuts because it just wasn't working. We travel as a community so we're all on the same bus. So I heard a bunch of guys sitting at the back of the bus like Rikishi and Rey Mysterio kind of leading the charge and they were all freestyling and I remember just being like let's go try this. Just dove right in and it was like it resonated with me in two seconds. I made a small rap about a tuna fish, the jetway, the plane we're about to go on and the destination and then closed it with a comment about Stephanie. She said, would you guys like to do this on television? I said absolutely. Just weeks later, Cena's rapper son of a debut on TV and this wouldn't just be a gimmick that would save his skin. It saved him to the next level in WWE. They have it folks. And it saved them so much that yeah ended up becoming a I think that record is a platinum selling record his his John Cena album the John Cena album. I believe it's a platinum record album. I think he has sold over a million units since crazy selling more than your favorite rapper back then. So his rapping persona definitely saved his career without a doubt. And then it's very interesting all it takes is that one thing and it can change your entire life. So this was a very interesting video. A lot of these I did not know a lot of these individuals I didn't know they were on the chopping block but it's it works out things are supposed to happen the way they're supposed to happen. Comment down below. Let me know some other videos you guys want me to check out. 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