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No matter the ending, if one of those wrestlers does something so extremely stupid or awful in their personal lives, or left the WWE in a terrible way, all of that work can be wiped out in a blink of an eye. WWE is a public company, and must uphold a certain image to those who invest with them; so obviously, they don’t want to be connected to a racist or worse, a murderer.
As extreme as those situations sound, sometimes it can take much less to get cleared from the record books with just the right amount of smack talk, or bringing in lawyers can easily accomplish this reaction by the biggest pro wrestling company in the world.
The following is a group of wrestlers who have achieved varying amounts of success in their wrestling career, but due to very different reasons, were erased from WWE’s history.
10. Chris Benoit
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In 2007, Benoit mysteriously was absent from a match, which eventually led authorities to do a “welfare check” on his home. This is where they found the bodies of Benoit, his wife Nancy, and their son in an apparent murder-suicide. Before all the details came out, WWE ran a 3-hour tribute for Chris Benoit, but once they found out what happened, they quickly distanced themselves away from the wrestler, pulling merchandise off the shelves, and never mentioning him again on TV.
With such an awful tragedy, WWE had to do damage control as the mainstream news picked up this story, doing tons of interviews with multiple wrestlers. The topic of brain damage came to light as Benoit’s was studied by West Virginia University, to which they concluded he had the brain of an 85 year-old with Alzheimer’s that included an advanced form of dementia. WWE tends to be somewhat forgiving towards their talent, but this is one name that will probably never see the light of day again within the company.
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