History RoleEndingMisdemeanor / ProfessionalWrestling

* Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio was released from WWE in 2014 after attacking an employee who allegedly made a racist joke. He was released from Impact Wrestling in 2018 after no-showing several events, including the ''Wrestling/LuchaUnderground vs Impact Wrestling'' episode where he was supposed to compete in the main event. In 2020, he was arrested for sexual assault and kidnapping. Although the charges were eventually dropped on December 10, 2021, he was hired by [[UsefulNotes/UltimateFightingChampionship UFC]] in March 2022 though only as a Spanish language commentator, as many agree that his reputation is so toxic, no respectable wrestling promotion will ever book him again.

* NOAH had to demote [[Wrestling/{{Vader}} Big Van Vader]] from his big star position due to his well-known alcoholism. They were initially willing to overlook that he was neglecting his hygiene and working unsafely in the ring, but when he had a drunk breakdown in a hotel room and committed self-harm with a knife, the company was fed up and stopped booking him as soon as possible.

* Despite NOAH founder Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa had reportedly great plans for him, Wrestling/MasahitoKakihara quit Pro Wrestling NOAH after their very first show, where he legitimately attacked Takao Omori during a six-man tag match, sick and tired of Omori being too fond of stiffing him out back when they all worked in AJPW. As Kakihara seemed to avoid being involved with NOAH wrestlers during his next venture in New Japan Pro Wrestling, it was speculated for many years that the attack had forced Misawa into blacklisting him too. Kakihara later denied those rumors and proved to be on good terms with Misawa, though.
* Speaking of Takao Omori (who might be probably best known to western fans for his "Wait, who?" appearance in the 1996 Wrestling/RoyalRumble), he already had a reputation for unprofessionalism and a HairTriggerTemper. Aside from the mentioned incident with Kakihara, the final straw was when he crashed a very high-profile match with Wrestling/ShinyaHashimoto at NOAH's ''Great Voyage'' 2000, after which Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa became sick of Omori ruining his pet projects, released him from his contract, and publicly declared to the press that he would make sure Omori never wrestled in NOAH again.

* Juventud Guerrera was fired from WWE apparently because dancing on a car while high in 2006 was bad for their publicity and by Wrestling/{{AAA}} in 2009 after getting in a locker room fight when he found someone [[ExcrementStatement had taken a dump in his bag]][[note]]Guerrera insists it was Wrestling/{{Konnan}} while Konnan said it was Wrestling/XPac, but thought it was funny either way[[/note]]. AAA did take him back though, because it was easy to understand why he did so.

* In May 2017, Máximo Sexy, La Máscara, and Robin were kicked out of CMLL for trashing Ultimo Guerrero's car alongside Psycho Clown on video -- which they did because, as members of the Alvarado wrestling family, [[DisproportionateRetribution they took offense]] to Guerrero saying that the head of the wrestler's union should be decided by vote and not handed to another Alvarado family member, right after the death of previous head Brazo de Oro.

* Sexy Star is a repeating offender on this:

** After Star hung up her mask and started working smaller promotions as Dulce Poly, she started another shoot fight with Diosa Quetzal at an MDA Lucha Libre show[[note]]A video showed Diosa "starting" the fight with a slightly stiff kick, but eyewitnesses at the show said Dulce had been no-selling her moves all match and Diosa retaliated.[[/note]], so she won't be allowed near any major promotions so soon. The Sexy Star character reappeared in AAA in 2021, but now [[TheOtherDarrin portrayed by a wrestler previously known as La Hija de Gatúbela]].

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* Shinobu Kandori, a judo medalist turned joshi wrestler, walked out of Japan Women's Pro Wrestling in 1986 over a legitimate feud with Jackie Sato. After a match where Sato legitimately [[EyeScream injured Kandori's eye]], Kandori criticized her as a sloppy worker; in retaliation, Sato intentionally shot her on July 6 by attacking her still-healing eye. The JWP board did not punish Sato for this nor listened to Kandori's demands not to put them together in the ring again, and on their next match on July 18, Kandori gave Sato a CareerEndingInjury in retaliation for the whole thing. While she quit JWP voluntarily, Kandori was essentially blacklisted for the incident and took years to return to wrestling full-time.

** The final nail in the coffin arrived in the January 2024, when former employee Janel Grant came forward with allegations against Vince about some of the horrible things he subjected her to, from sexual assault, sex trafficking, and much worse. Grant's attorney pointed out that Vince failed to pay Grant the agreed upon payment that enforced the NDA about her time with the company, voiding the agreement in the process. These allegations came mere days before the company's annual Royal Rumble event, so this caught everyone's attention. Slim Jim, a well known and long time sponsor of WWE, immediately paused their sponsorship with the company. Fearing that this would lead to even more loss of sponsorship revenue and even more terrible PR, TKO Company's CEO and COO, Ari Emanuel and Mark Shapiro, all but forced Vince to resign any and all power he had left in the company, to which the latter agreed. While his attorney stated all of Grant's accusations were lies, the damage was done, as this all led to WWE [[UnPerson scrubbing Vince from their websites, all of his merch taken down and has not been mentioned in any WWE programming since (even having his faced blurred out like in the latest WWE video game)]], ending his WWE legacy in disgrace.

** The final nail in the coffin arrived in the January 2024, when former employee Janel Grant came forward with allegations against Vince about some of the horrible things he subjected her to, from sexual assault, sex trafficking, and much worse. Grant's attorney pointed out that Vince failed to pay Grant the agreed upon payment that enforced the NDA about her time with the company, voiding the agreement in the process. These allegations came mere days before the company's annual Royal Rumble event, so this caught everyone's attention. Slim Jim, a well known and long time sponsor of WWE, immediately paused their sponsorship with the company. Fearing that this would lead to even more loss of sponsorship revenue and even more terrible PR, TKO Company's CEO and COO, Ari Emanuel and Mark Shapiro, all but forced Vince to resign any and all power he had left in the company, to which the latter agreed. While his attorney stated all of Grant's accusations were lies, the damage was done, as this all led to WWE [[UnPerson scrubbing Vince from their websites, all of his merch taken down and has not been mentioned in any WWE programming since]], ending his WWE legacy in disgrace.

** While being trained in NJPW by Apollo Sugawara (not a good influence to begin with), Kitao had a confrontation with his superior Riki Choshu, who'd criticized Kitao's shoddy ring work by telling him to not use moves he hadn't sufficiently trained. Kitao answered by taunting Choshu and calling him an anti-Korean slur (Choshu is half-Korean and his real name is Kwak Gwang-ung), which got him fired from NJPW. This was acknowledged to be an overreaction by the company, as wrestlers at the time routinely got away with much worse things, but Kitao wasn't easy to work with and New Japan had lost interest in him as a prospect, and Choshu's usual connections eventually sealed it.
** In 1991, Kitao was eventually booked to job to [[Wrestling/JohnTenta Earthquake]] at ''SWS Wrestle Dream'', a joint show between Super World of Sports and the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} World Wrestling Federation]]. Kitao, a former grand sumo champion, refused to work with a wrestler from a lower sumo background.[[note]]Even before this, Kitao already had a reputation as a terrible sumo ''yokozuna'': he was promoted without winning any tournaments at ''ōzeki'' level and was forced to retire after embarrassing the sport with several violent incidents, including supposedly attacking his stablemaster's wife. This one was later proved to be just slander, but the point about him being a violent douchebag was very true.[[/note]] He no-sold all of Earthquake's moves, and after being disqualified for kicking the referee, Kitao grabbed a mic and made an unscripted, angry speech insulting Earthquake to the audience. Earthquake had actually been advised to provoke Kitao by SWS booker The Great Kabuki, who wanted an excuse to fire Kitao for his unruly backstage behavior. [[GoneHorriblyRight It worked all too well]]: Kitao ''and'' Kabuki lost their jobs, and SWS went under the following year.

** The final nail in the coffin arrived in the January 2024, when former employee Janel Grant came forward with allegations against Vince about some of the horrible things he subjected her to, from sexual assault, sex trafficking, and much worse. ([[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yeah, you read that right.]] Sexual assault, sex trafficking, and ''much worse''.) Grant's attorney pointed out that Vince failed to pay Grant the agreed upon payment that enforced the NDA about her time with the company, voiding the agreement in the process. These allegations came mere days before the company's annual Royal Rumble event, so this caught everyone's attention. Slim Jim, a well known and long time sponsor of WWE, immediately paused their sponsorship with the company. Fearing that this would lead to even more loss of sponsorship revenue and even more terrible PR, TKO Company's CEO and COO, Ari Emanuel and Mark Shapiro, all but forced Vince to resign any and all power he had left in the company, to which the latter agreed. While his attorney stated all of Grant's accusations were lies, the damage was done, as this all led to WWE [[UnPerson scrubbing Vince from their websites, all of his merch taken down and has not been mentioned in any WWE programming since]], ending his WWE legacy in disgrace.

** The Final Nail in the coffin arrived in the January 2024, when former employee Janel Grant came forward with allegations against Vince about some of the horrible things he subjected her to, from sexual assault, sex trafficking and much worse. Grant's attorney pointed out that Vince failed to pay Grant the agreed upon payment that enforced the NDA about her time with the company, voiding the agreement in the process. These allegations came mere days before the company's annual Royal Rumble event, so this caught everyone's attention. Slim Jim, a well known and long time sponsor of WWE, immediately paused their sponsorship with the company. Fearing that this will lead to even more loss of sponsorship revenue and terrible PR, TKO Company's CEO and COO, Ari Emanuel and Mark Shapiro, all but forced Vince to resign any and all power he had left in the company, which the latter agreed. While his attorney stated all of Grant's accusations were lies, the damage was done, as this all led to WWE [[UnPerson scrubbing Vince from their websites, all of his merch taken down and has not been mentioned in any WWE programming since]], ending his WWE legacy in disgrace.

* A contestant on the third season of ''Wrestling/WWEToughEnough'' in 2002, Lisa, was cut from the competition after having a psychotic breakdown, breaking into the hidden camera room and climbing onto the roof of the house. She was hospitalised but fled when her parents came to check her out, and she managed to have an entire wing of a local airport shut down while people tried to find her. Her fellow contestants (and by extension the audience) were told she left because she decided wrestling wasn't the right career for her.

* Wrestling/BrockLesnar was also involved in the whole Vince and Janel Grant allegations, as Grant's attorney pointed out that Grant was used as a bargaining chip for a "Former UFC Champion" to resign with the company, and Brock is the only one who fits the description, not to mention him facing his own set of allegations from her as well. This led to WWE scrapping all of their plans with Lesnar for the foreseeable future, his merchandise being placed on discount sales on their website and the company, slowly but surely, removing him from all forms of media.

** The Final Nail in the Coffin arrived in the January 2024, former employee Janel Grant came forward with allegations against Vince about horrible things he subjected her to, from sexual assault, sex trafficking and much worse. Grant's attorney pointed out that Vince failed to pay Grant the agreed upon payment that enforced the NDA about her time with the company, voiding the agreement in the process. These allegations came right before the company's annual Royal Rumble event, so this picked up red hot fast. Slim Jim caught wind quickly and paused their sponsorship with the company, and with forceful encouragement from TKO CEO and COO, Ari Emanuel and Mark Shapiro, Vince would resign any and all power he had left in the company. This would also lead to WWE [[UnPerson wiping Vince from their websites, all of his merch taken down and no mention about him has been made on WWE programming since.]]

* Wrestling/BrockLesnar was also involved in the whole Vince and Janel Grant allegations, as Grant's attorney pointed out that Grant was used as a bargaining chip for a "Former UFC Champion" to resign with the company, and Brock is the only one who fits the description, not to mention him facing his own set of allegations from her as well. This led to WWE scrapping all of their plans with Lesnar for the foreseeable future, his merchandise being placed on discount sales on their website and the company, slowly but surely, removing him from all their promotional ads, like the cover of their video games and intros.

* Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio was released from WWE in 2014 after attacking an employee who allegedly made a racist joke. He was released from Impact Wrestling in 2018 after no-showing several events, including the ''Wrestling/LuchaUnderground vs Impact Wrestling'' episode where he was supposed to compete in the main event. In 2020, he was arrested for sexual assault and kidnapping. Although the charges were eventually dropped on December 10, 2021, he was hired by [[UsefulNotes/UltimateFightingChampionship UFC]] in March 2022 though only as a Spanish language commentator, as many agree that his reputation is so toxic, no respecible wrestling promotion will ever book him again.