 What's good, Josh, for Ross back again with another video spring check out 10 wrestlers WWE attempted to destroy before they left. Now, it has been documented that when certain wrestlers leave WWE dependent on depending on their, you know, the backs, their backstage situation, you know, whether, you know, there, you know, they were good backstage in the sense of like people like them or upper management like them, or in a certain situation, maybe upper management didn't care for them or AKA Vince didn't care for them. So what they'll usually do is they'll try to destroy a wrestler's credibility on screen before they leave the company. I don't know why this is a thing, but it does happen. You know, to maybe contracts didn't get renegotiated and, you know, if a person may end up going somewhere else and, you know, management may think they go may end up going to like the opposition or another company AKA W or whatever, then they'll do what they can to sometimes not all the time, but sometimes just destroy their credibility. So we're going to check out some of these moments where, you know, it was definitely some pettiness on the booking side of things for these wrestlers before they left to another company or whatever. It's by wrestling. Amy and appreciate all love and support. We're going to get right into this. Unfortunately, it's rather common in wrestling companies such as WWE for them to embarrass a wrestler when they're leaving the company. If a wrestler decides to not renew their contract, WWE is prone to bury the wrestler on the way out and completely derail any momentum that particular character had. Additionally, if WWE are getting set to release a wrestler, it's not uncommon for the wrestler to be buried on WWE TV and sometimes they'll even book them in humiliating angles. Join us there as wrestling here looks at 10 times WWE attempted to destroy a wrestler's credibility. Tis tis tis man. Unnecessary pettiness man. Be sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell for daily wrestling videos and follow us on Facebook for exclusive list. Also check out our new channel, WrestleMania shorts. Number 10, Raven upon the debut of the Raven character on WWE television in 2000, fans hope that WWE would realize just how special the Raven character was. Sadly, he was relegated to the hardcore division with the majority of his run and he was barely involved in any substantial storylines. When WWE made the decision to cut Raven in 2003, they attempted to completely destroy any ounce of credibility the character had left. This began a few months prior when Raven lost a match to Tommy Dreamer and was consequently banished from Raw. This relegated Raven to Sunday Night Heat, which was a huge demotion and was WWE's way of telling fans that Raven was not a wrestler they needed to care about. Raven was eventually allowed back on Raw for his final month in the company, but he would only wrestle one time in the show losing to Jeff Hardy and subsequently being released from WWE. Number nine, Eugene. There's an argument to be made that Eugene was humiliated and embarrassed during both of his WWE exits. During the final months of his initial WWE run, Eugene was in essence turned into an enhancement talent and he rarely won. This over time seriously hindered his relationship with fans as Eugene who was wrestling Triple H on pay per view is long gone and now Eugene was lucky to get an entrance on television. Alright, WWE appearance of this run on August 31st, 2007's edition of SmackDown. He would be annihilated by Mark Henry and placed in a bear hug before passing out writing him off TV in the process. His second run was over before fans even knew it as Eugene was brought back in 2009, but Vince McMahon didn't like the physical shape he was in. This resulted in him having a match on Raw against the Calgary kid who would later be revealed to be the Miz and was fired immediately after in a humiliating fashion. Number eight, the revival. In January, 2019, the revival requested they double I was just talking about this how they they just misutilized them, bro. Misutilized them. They are tag team gold. And WWE, well, not even WWE. I mean, well, technically Vince is WWE. Vince just didn't really see anything special in them, bro. The WWE release. This is outright denied for the next 15 months. As WWE believed that the revival had zero intention of leaving the company and the duo were threatening to leave so that they could receive a push. In a rare circumstance, this push was granted. Yeah. The revival knew that WWE didn't care about tag team wrestling and they simply wanted out in their final months of their run in the company. Vince McMahon had an idea which would have destroyed the tag team's credibility forever. McMahon personally designed an entirely new gimmick for the team, which was less than flattering. Wow. The duo revealed that both of them burst out laughing when McMahon proposed the new characters, which would have featured the two wearing lipstick and carrying glow sticks. They were even set to wear suspenders and a large shatter machine sign on a chain necklace. Thankfully, instead of debuting these awful characters, the duo were pulled off TV until their formal WWE release in 2020. I'm so glad they did not go with this. What that is purposely trying to bury somebody as they leave. Like why? Just let just just let them leave. You know, saying how they do what they need to do. Put the other talent over. Don't bury him and call it a day. That's I'm glad they're doing what they're doing in the AEW, bro. Number seven. That's crayons Hogan. A following WrestleMania 19. This is very interesting man. They decided to have a Hogan portray the Mr. America character. This was a character that didn't really take off as it wasn't exactly hard to work out that it was Hogan under disguise as just one of the holster persona back on screen. Yeah, Hogan was incredibly unhappy with WWE creative during this time and it was no secret that he was planning on leaving the company. It was around this time when WWE began to bury Hogan as much as possible on TV. In a wrestling Observer newsletter report from 2003, Meltzer discussed this and this is what he had to say. Hogan was unhappy about how creative was handling the Mr. America character. He'd come off losing to Vince McMahon in the arm wrestling match that didn't seem to serve a purpose and then losing to Big Show's Choke Slam in the Six Man Tag, which was to set up show for Zach Goward and Stephanie McMahon. Number six. Mickey James. Pointless. The months leading up to Mickey James is 2010 release. It was almost as if WWE wanted to embarrass one of their top female stars as much as humanly possible. They would implement a controversial storyline which revolved around James's weight. The storyline went on for months and involved Layla and Michelle McCool constantly belittling James and mocking her. I mean, she, she looked good to me back then. She still looked good now. I don't, I figure the segments weren't entertaining or even clever and they did a little to generate any genuine heat. The storyline was without question designed to mock James before eventual release. And over 13 years later, fans still discuss how inappropriate and offensive the storyline was. Yeah, super. Number five. Jeff Jarrett. In 1999, Jeff Jarrett decided to leave WWE behind in favor of joining WCW. He would follow former WWE head writer Vince Russo to the company with the hopes of finally being a top guy. Jarrett's departure was controversial as he wasn't under contract at the time of the no mercy interview. What a fucking sink, bro. But he was intercontinental champion and naturally WWE wanted him to drop the title. Infamously, Jarrett held McMahon up for money and Jarrett was paid $200,000 to complete the match. Damn. In the months before Jarrett's departure, he would be booked in a storyline with China in the battle of the sexist angle. The storyline portrayed Jarrett and a thousand was definitely a lot back then. So he held him up just for that money, bro. That's crazy. I think we did check out a video talking about his issues with, you know, before he had left WWE because I think he was old some money that he never got as extremely sexist. And it was obvious that WWE were annihilating his gimmick all the way out in the no mercy match against China. The two would compete in a good housekeeping match. Jarrett was defeated by China thanks to being hit by the likes of a toilet seat and a literal kitchen sink. What the fuck? Number four, Lita. Shortly after the retirement. Here's the thing, y'all. We got to call a spade a spade. Back then, there were some cringe matches, cringe segments, cringe characters. It was like even back then it didn't work. So if you go back and look at some of these old segments, you're like, what the fuck? Why was this on television? So you can't just say it started with the PGR. No, there's always been some cringe, eye roll, inducing stuff on WWE television. Even goes back way to the 80s sometimes. Trish Stratus, another female legend decided to hang up her boots, whereas Stratus was allowed to go on top. The same couldn't be said for Lita as a WWE send off was insulting and a massive disservice to Lita and the fans. Following a loss to Mickey James at the 2006 survivor series event, prime time would begin to auction off her personal belongings as a crowd. I remember this according to Lita during an interview with Chris Van Bley. She was rather hurt by how WWE handled her departure. That is kind of cool. It just hurt my feelings, you know, and I was very vocal about it. I went to my producer that day. I went to the head writer. I went to Vince. I went back to my producer. I went back to the writer back to Vince being like, is there any way we can not do this? Can we just do this in a pre-tape later? Like, can I just have this match? And I remember saying, all right, well, this is the last time you get to pull my strings. So I guess you're pulling them hard, you know, I'll go out there and I'll do business because I'm a professional, but I want you to know this hurts my feelings. That's gonna fuck up. I ain't gonna hold you. That definitely is fucked up. Like, I know some people feel some type of weight about the whole Lita, Matt and Edge thing, but she deserves that. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's, you know, kudos to her for being professional. But yeah, bro, that's that's wrestling businesses. Ain't always a sunshine in daisies. The Big Show. For the longest time, it looks set that the Big Show would never leave WWE. However, in 2021, she decided to leave the company. The former WWE Champion has spoken at length about how WWE were treating him during his final months in the company. It was clear that WWE believed that show had zero value as a top star. Big Show was fully aware that WWE weren't going to present him in a substantial manner ever again. According to Big Show, he was getting the impression that Vince McMahon wanted to put him into a retirement home, which was frustrating to him as he believed he had so much to offer WWE. One specific segment highlighted shows frustration and it was evidence that WWE would destroy show's character before he left. In a segment with Randy Orton, Orton would berate show and he would even grab him by his neck. It was a character killing segment that was no doubt designed to embarrass show and hinder any credibility he had left as a top star. Number two, Bray Wyatt. It's like, come on, bro. This is a big show. Nobody should be grabbing his neck. I don't care if it is or any way. He should be doing something and grabbing his neck. He should be launched into the next room. In the months following Bray Wyatt's WWE release, it's after Vince McMahon had a personal dislike of Wyatt. This would explain how poorly WWE presented Wyatt in his final months in the company, particularly how they booked the Fiend character. The Fiend was an interesting character, yet the Fiend would Randy Orton receive mixed reviews as a match quality wasn't exactly stellar and the Fiend would never seem to be able to secure a win. Wyatt's final match of his initial run was at WrestleMania 37. The Fiend would be defeated by Orton in arguably one of the worst matches on the show. Following the match, there was a distinct lack of desire from fans to see the Fiend character on TV as he simply was incredible and it was almost as if this is exactly what McMahon wanted to achieve with his questionable booking decisions. And number one, Dean Ambrose. In unprecedented fashion, WWE decided to announce that Dean Ambrose would be leaving WWE in 2019 ahead of time. Following this announcement, WWE's presentation of Ambrose was rather bizarre and it was clear that they were trying to bury him. Ambrose would enter into a feud with Nia Jax and WWE were only planning on delivering an Ambrose vs Nia matchup. According to Ambrose, WWE created promise they wouldn't even bury him on the way out, but Ambrose knew exactly what they were doing with the Nia feud. WWE would also book the ultra-popular Star and the Matches against the likes of EC3, which he would lose in two minutes. And it was so transparent what WWE were doing that fans firmly sided with Ambrose and this would have no doubt annoyed McMahon which often believed that he was smarter than the audience. WWE attempted to humiliate Ambrose on the way out but it didn't really work and thankfully, it didn't hinder Ambrose's popularity heading into his run in AEW. But they have it for It did not hinder him because we saw right through what was happening and when he went to AEW, he was a mega star for the company, bro. He still is a top guy for them. I may not be a big fan of his matches and the overdoing it on bleeding and dinner almost all his matches, but I can respect the fact that he's his own guy over there. He is one of the top guys over there and the fans love him. So I can't I can't knock him for it. You know what I'm saying? This was one of the few times they tried to end Dean Ambrose like try to destroy his character on the way out and it actually didn't work. It backfired and it made people wanted to see him more. So hey, that's the silver lining in this situation. But comment down below. Let me know some other wrestlers that ended up getting released or whatnot that you remember getting released and they were just burying them beyond belief, man. But I appreciate all love to support you guys on Channel Road to 150K and I am still young to speed the YouTube wrestling champion of the world. Appreciate y'all kicking me seeing see y'all in the next one. Peace.