Today’s list started as a reaction to an event that, it turns out, isn’t what it first appeared to be.  You see, Dixie Carter tweeted that Christian was going to be at a TNA Impact Wrestling event.  Christian is currently the WWE Intercontinental champion.  All of this sounded like a recipe for Christian to be fired from WWE.  It seemed stupid on everyone’s part.  But, as it turns out in the world of wrestling, we weren’t getting the full story.  Christian’s appearance is WWE approved as part of a deal with TNA to have Ric Flair appear at the WWE Hall of Fame 2012 ceremony.  So all is good and approved.

But that doesn’t mean wrestlers don’t make stupid ass decisions.  This list could be full of steroids and other drug fueled incidents.  Hell, all four slots could be taken up by Scott Hall.  Instead lets take a look at some of the more interesting stories and tales which led to professional wrestlers losing their jobs.

4.  Robbie of WWE tag team the Highlanders appears in the crowd for TNA Impact.

Way back in March of 2008, both WWE and TNA had live shows in Orlando, Florida.  WWE took over the town with the freight train known as WrestleMania.  TNA rode the coattails of this juggernaut with a live episode of Impact.  Robbie wasn’t a huge star in WWE, and thus he didn’t have the press and publicity commitments that other Superstars were obligated to during WrestleMania week.  What to do with all of that downtime?  Robbie decided to buy a ticket and go see TNA.  It is not uncommon for wrestlers to visit other shows, but usually they hang out backstage.  Thus, off camera.  Of course, TNA didn’t have to show him on camera either.  Stupid for Robbie to go, and kind of a dick move for TNA to show him on camera.  Robbie’s cell phone went off moments later and someone higher up than him in the WWE hierarchy told him to leave the Impact Zone immediately.  Robbie was fined $5,000 and fired months later in August.

3.  Konnan calls “bullshit” on Vince McMahon.

Yeah.  Hard to imagine that Konnan and Vince McMahon have ever been in the same room, much less had a conversation.  But its true.  Konnan was in WWE for a very short amount of time as the long remembered ridiculous gimmick known as Max Moon.  Its also Konnan who is telling the word about all of this, so depending on your feelings about the man you may/may not believe this.  The story is that backstage around 1992-1993, while Konnan was in WWE, VinceMcMahon said he had never heard of Jushin “Thunder” Liger.  This may be true, as in numerous shoot interviews wrestlers have claimed McMahon didn’t know about them, their independent history, or even what was going on on the “B” shows.   Konnan called Vince out on this and said there is a picture of Vince and Liger together in a Japanese pro wrestling magazine.

I have been searching for a scan of this issue, and if anyone has one please send it.  Calling McMahon a liar, plus an overly expensive suit for a gimmick that wasn’t getting over, all led to Konnan’s release from WWE.  He is also on the short list of men who have never returned to the company.

2.  Nailz.

Chances are if you’re reading this you’re a wrestling fan, and all wrestling fans dream/wish they were good enough to be in the WWE one day.  Imagine you are in the WWE.  You have huge PPV matches against (at the time) stars like Virgil and the Big Boss Man.  All of this is to elevate your name, for an eventual feud with the Undertaker.  It was about to be such a large feud that you’re going to be on the cover of WWF magazine!  It sounds too good to be true.  There are hundreds if not thousands of wrestlers around the world who would do anything for a shot like this.

Then there is Nailz, the wrestler who got this opportunity and fucked it all up.  In December 1992, Nailz confronted Vince McMahon for more pay.  Nailz had received his PPV money and felt the pay envelope was a little light.  So he took his complaint to Vince himself.  This is something that could be done in an adult, respectable manner.  That is not what happened.  Nailz knocked Vince out of his chair and then began to choke his boss.  Never a good idea.  Nailz was fired and the much hyped feud with Undertaker never happened.  Eric Bischoff smelled controversy and cash, and brought Nailz into WCW as “The Prisoner”.  The Prisoner had one, ONE!, match with the company, against Sting.  It stunk, and Nailz was never seen in a big wrestling promotion again.

1.  Flight From Hell.

The infamous flight from hell.  From May of 2002.  This is the WrestleMania of stupidity in wrestling.  All the stars were involved, and so many things took place that the results spiraled out for months.  Curt Hennig and Scott Hall were both fired after the events of this flight.  Other reprimands and fines took place against the rest of the trouble makers.  Lets look at some of the events from this infamous trip:

Goldust got on the plane’s PA system to serenade his ex wife, Terri.  When that didn’t go well he decided to ask one of the flight attendants for a blow job.  (Other reports say it was Scott Hall not only driving the Hummer, but asking for them as well.)

The Freebird, Michael PS Hayes, decided to get into it with JBL.  Bradshaw punched out Hayes.  Michael Hayes’s mullet/ponytail was cut off while he was “sleeping”.  No one said who, but word later came out that X-Pac was the barber.

Ric Flair walked that aisle wearing nothing but one of his signature robes.  Not a single stewardess stood in line for Space Mountain that day.

But the worst, dumbest move of all time was when Curt Hennig challenged then rookie wrestler, Brock Lesnar.  Brock – a gorilla of a man and also an NCAA champion.  No slight against Mr Perfect, but inside the cramped quarters of an airplane, chances are youth and power would win.  Brock didn’t want to look like a bitch while someone was calling him out.  His training took hold and he charged at Curt, shooting the legs.  Then both men ran straight into the wall.  Of the plane.  While in flight.  They ran into the wall either right next to the exit door, or into the actual door (reports vary).  Brock walks around anywhere between 260 and 300 pounds.  Hennig was on average around 250.  Which means that, give or take, 500 pounds of human with physics and momentum behind them ran into a door while in flight.  They are lucky that door didn’t swing open sending both men plunging to their deaths.