10 Wrestlers Who Walked Out On The Show | partsFUNknown
With Sasha Banks and Naomi walking out of Monday Night Raw, Adam Blampied has supplied his list of 10 wrestlers who also walked out on the show. Which of these surprised you the most? Let us know in the comments!
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With Sasha Banks and Naomi walking out of Monday Night Raw, Adam Blampied has supplied his list of 10 wrestlers who also walked out on the show. Which of these surprised you the most? Let us know in the comments!
00:00 - Start
01:09 - 10
02:13 - 9
03:09 - 8
03:59 - 7
04:50 - 6
05:35 - 5
06:26 - 4
07:29 - 3
08:22 - 2
08:36 - 1
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00:00 So this is quite... timely.
00:02 Full disclosure, this list is being written the day after what happened on this week's
00:06 Raw, so it may be that new developments come to light before this goes out on Sunday, but
00:11 yeah, gosh, wrestling is a funny ol' business, isn't it, with creative disputes leading to
00:15 changes in the show happening in real time.
00:17 Crosswords can lead to split decisions which can lead to "Oh whoopsie whoopsie, now the
00:21 advertised main event of the show isn't happening anymore," leaving fans staring at the product
00:25 like a magic eye puzzle, waiting for the word "shoot" or "work" to appear from the maelstrom
00:30 of squiggles.
00:31 Needless to say, this isn't the first time it's happened.
00:33 It's even affected the commentary table in the past, with Jerry Lawler up and walking
00:37 out of the company the day after No Way Out 2001 and missing the biggest WrestleMania
00:42 of all time.
00:43 Let's try and separate the fact from the fiction of some of the most tumultuous nights in wrestling
00:47 history.
00:48 I'm Adam Hailing from PartsFunknown, and here are 10 wrestlers who walked out on the show.
00:52 And if you'd like to walk in to our show, you can subscribe to PartsFunknown.
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01:09 Bye.
01:10 10.
01:11 Sasha Banks and Naomi
01:12 Let's get into the reason this list exists, then.
01:14 Monday Night Raw was thrown into chaos this week when Sasha Banks and Naomi, the WWE Women's
01:18 Tag Team Champions, walked out on the show, leaving their rather bad-looking belts behind
01:23 as they did so, despite both being advertised for the main event number one contender's
01:26 six-woman match.
01:27 What's even crazier is that Naomi, who followed Sasha's initial walkout in solidarity, was
01:32 supposed to win that match and face Bianca Belair for the title of Hell in a Cell.
01:36 It's the latest in the Sasha Banks vs. WWE saga that will someday make for a very interesting
01:40 documentary which we really hope won't be produced by WWE, with their particular history
01:44 of Cathy and Alex Fose's ally the Ultimate Warrior.
01:47 Corey Graves branded the two as "unprofessional" live on air before WWE released a statement
01:52 that sh*t stirred the pot even more by alleging they were uncomfortable sharing the ring with
01:56 two other wrestlers, in this case, per Fightful, Asuka and Becky, despite that being refuted
02:01 by those close to the situation, Jesus Christ.
02:04 This comes after Sasha requested her release from the company back in 2019, a release that
02:07 was then denied this time around.
02:09 Who knows, but it's an ugly situation that we hope works out okay for everyone involved.
02:13 9.
02:14 The Midnight Express
02:15 After slightly more comfortable days of yesteryear now, we can talk about things with a bit more
02:20 levity.
02:21 Wait a minute, this story involves internet lightning rod Jim Cornette?
02:23 Fabulous, gonna be a spicy comments section this week.
02:25 The Midnight Express, the team of Stan Lane and Bobby Eaton, managed by racket-wielding,
02:29 opinion-generator Jim Cornette, were not best pleased with their position in WCW in 1990,
02:35 having already once left the company due to the dreaded creative differences the year
02:39 before.
02:40 In October, on a TV taping day, tensions flared up again.
02:42 The Midnight Express turned up to the tapings to discover that they, unknown to them, were
02:46 not scheduled to compete, which meant that the wrestlers missed a day with their families
02:49 for no reason, before then discovering that on the next day of tapings, they would wrestle
02:53 several matches and lose them all.
02:55 Confronting WCW's booker at the time, Ole Anderson, Cornette expressed dissatisfaction,
02:59 if that's something you can imagine Jim Cornette doing, with Anderson telling him, "If you
03:02 don't like it, leave."
03:04 Cornette called his bluff, and walked out on the spot with Stan Lane following suit.
03:08 8.
03:09 Shawn Michaels
03:10 Shawn Michaels?
03:12 Doing something unprofessional in the mid-'90s?
03:14 I will not stand for such wild and baseless accusations.
03:17 Not really.
03:18 Shawn had recently received his honorary doctorate from Prick University, and during his infamous
03:22 backstage beef with Bret Hart, just upped and went home one day.
03:25 In mid-1997, while Michaels was tag team champions with Steve Austin, no less, the Heartbreak
03:29 Kid had a physical altercation with Bret Hart backstage, as a result of the infamous "Sunny
03:33 Days" promo, and in that altercation, allegedly, Hart ripped out some of Shawn's beautiful
03:38 hair, and look, come for the man if you must, but leave his beautiful hair out of it, that
03:41 beautiful hair didn't hurt anyone.
03:43 As a result of that fight, hours before the roar after King of the Ring in June, Michaels
03:48 walked out of the company and didn't come back for over a month, forcing WWE to put
03:53 tag straps on Austin and Dude Love.
03:55 Thankfully, that was the end of the Shawn and Bret problems, and nothing bad between
03:58 the two ever happened again.
04:00 7.
04:01 Raven
04:02 Getting frustrated with management?
04:03 That's so Raven.
04:05 Coming out on WCW?
04:08 That's so Raven.
04:09 Back in the late 90s, the wrestling ambassador for Jorts and Luke Owen's Forever Style icon,
04:14 Raven was unhappy with his position in WCW.
04:17 That seemed to be going around in the 90s, especially in the late 90s, when backstage
04:21 politicking was rife and stunts like the Finger Poke of Doom were really starting to apply
04:24 liquid nitrogen to the company's two-year hot streak.
04:27 To address mounting dissatisfaction, my dad Eric Bischoff called a meeting backstage with
04:31 all WCW wrestlers and told them that, to paraphrase, if they didn't quit moaning, he would turn
04:35 the car around and there would be no Cape Canaveral for anybody, saying that if anyone
04:39 wasn't happy, then there was the door.
04:42 In response, Raven, and only Raven, stood up and walked out, and was immediately granted
04:47 his release.
04:48 That is so Johnny Polo.
04:50 6.
04:51 Justin Gabriel
04:52 Unbelievable that the man who was told to wrestle in a bunny suit might want to leave
04:55 the company that told him to do that.
04:56 If I was told to present my fantasy booking videos in a holiday armadillo costume, I would
05:00 just be thankful for the opportunity.
05:02 Don't know, Oli.
05:03 I will leave.
05:04 In 2015, on the last episode of Raw before the Royal Rumble, Justin Gabriel, after turning
05:08 up to the arena to find once again they had no plans to feature him, decided on the spot,
05:12 "Eh, I'm done," and went home.
05:14 He left the arena, got on a flight, and flew away.
05:17 In between flights, Gabriel received a call from the then-head of talent relations, saying,
05:20 "Actually, we have a segment for you, 'Where are you?'" to which Gabriel told him he was
05:24 no longer in the building, and also, "Goodbye forever, I guess."
05:27 He was granted his release during Rumble weekend, and he was free to once again gamble about
05:31 in Mr. McGregor's garden, causing no end of headaches for the elderly horticulturalist.
05:34 5.
05:35 Jeff Jarrett and Road Dogg
05:37 From bunnies to dogs now, and honestly, for a WWE Hall of Famer, Jeff Jarrett sure did
05:40 carve out a legacy for himself of telling WWE to do one.
05:44 Years before his famous refusal to drop the IC belt on his way to WCW without getting
05:48 that paper, he also left the company years earlier in the New Generation era, this time
05:52 taking his musical friend with him.
05:54 Double J and The Roadie, the man who'd go on to become Road Dogg Jesse James, were an
05:58 effective heel double act in 1995, so effective that the two really didn't want to break up.
06:03 However, that was the plan, and at WWE's second ever In Your House pay-per-view, tempers boiled
06:08 over.
06:09 Jarrett allegedly asked McMahon to change to creative plans.
06:12 Vince refused, although Bruce Prichard denies that Jeff Jarrett spoke to Vince before what
06:15 happened next.
06:16 So Jarrett went out, dropped the IC title to Shawn Michaels' plan, then he and The Roadie
06:20 immediately walked out of the arena, announcing they were quitting as they went.
06:23 At least Vince managed to get the belt off him this time, I suppose.
06:27 4.
06:28 Adrian Neville
06:29 Adrian Neville, then called Neville, then called Pac, then called Puh, is a very, very,
06:33 very, very, very, very, very good wrestler, which might go some way towards explaining
06:39 why when the King of the Cruiserweight showed up to an episode of Raw in October 2017 and
06:43 was told he would be losing a Cruiserweight title match against Enzo Amore for the second
06:47 time since Enzo pinned him for the belt at No Mercy a few weeks earlier, he said, "I
06:51 don't want to do that, you know.
06:53 I'd rather be a gun in home."
06:56 Evidently the idea that Enzo, whose kayfabe gimmick at the time was "is bad wrestler,
07:00 should not be Cruiserweight champion", could hand one of the best Cruiserweights in the
07:04 world multiple losses did not sit well with Neville and he walked out on the show never
07:08 to return.
07:09 In true WWE fashion, they replaced him with Kalisto, who then won the title as an extra
07:13 spicy little f*** you to Neville for leaving the way he did.
07:16 Fun fact, this was during a weird time where WWE was ending Raw with the Cruiserweights
07:20 every single week because a third hour was less important to them than the second.
07:23 Yeah, weeks of main event Enzo Amore taking a dump on the Cruiserweight division.
07:27 What a weird company.
07:28 3.
07:29 Gail Kim
07:30 This is so weird.
07:32 Most of the entries on this list are about moments where wrestlers walked out on the
07:35 show backstage.
07:36 This moment is about when a wrestler just straight up walked out of an entire match.
07:39 In the mid to late 2000s, Gail Kim helped to revolutionize women's wrestling over in
07:43 TNA, having a still to this day highly acclaimed feud with Orson Kong, and spearheading the
07:47 knockouts division which, despite the name, was pretty darn great in a less than stellar
07:51 time for women's wrestling.
07:53 WWE snapped her up for a return, but repeatedly refused to crown her champion, and then just
07:57 stapled her to Daniel Bryan's arm candy, but I suppose a vegan option for arm candy.
08:03 Things came to a head in August 2011, when Gail Kim was entered into a Divas Battle Royal
08:07 and was booked to be eliminated in the first minute.
08:10 Correctly reasoning that actually the only person here that deserves to beat me is me,
08:14 Gail Kim eliminated herself from the battle royal by sliding out of the ring and just
08:17 walking to the back, out of the company, never to be seen in WWE again, which is pretty f***ing
08:22 cool.
08:23 2.
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08:35 1.
08:36 Steve Austin CM Punk might be the benchmark of taking your
08:40 ball and going home in the modern era, skipping out on the Raw the day after the 2014 Rumble
08:44 owing to long running health and creative problems, but he was following the blueprint
08:47 of a legendary walkout a decade earlier.
08:50 In June 2002, Steve Austin skipped out on Raw for the second time in two months, frustrated
08:55 by his position in the company and baffling creative decisions like having Brock Lesnar
08:59 being planned to defeat him on free TV.
09:01 In a move reminiscent of how WWE handled the Sasha and Naomi situation, Austin was blasted
09:06 live on air.
09:07 Vince, Rock, and JR, even JR, all buried Austin for being unprofessional live on TV, including
09:14 an almost funereal segment where Vince left a can of beer in the ring in an incredibly
09:18 shrewd bit of emotional puffet mastering.
09:20 It's a situation where, like the majority of these cases, you can see there's fault
09:24 on both sides.
09:25 Bad creative must be frustrating and often seem callous at times, but jeopardizing a
09:29 show that's worked on by so many more people than the creative team?
09:33 I dunno, you come down more on the side of wrestlers I suppose, because obviously they
09:36 risk their necks for these stories that they hate.
09:39 But man, at the end of the day, I just want everyone to be making something they're
09:41 proud of, because the alternative sounds pretty sad.
09:45 And that's our list.
09:46 What do you think is the most memorable wrestling walkout?
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