History ScrewThisImOuttaHere / ProWrestling

-->Wrestling/TripleH: There goes the money.

** Also leaving WCW for the WWF around the same time thanks to a scaffold match was Ray Traylor, aka Big Bubba Rodgers, later known as the Big Bossman. In his case the point of contention wasn't having to do the match, it was having to do it for half the money that everyone else in the match was getting.[[note]]The justification for this is that Bubba wasn't actually ''in the match'' (though he still had to climb up the scaffold), he was the bodyguard for the Midnight Express (who were in the match). Though this doesn't really hold water when Jim Cornette, the manager of the Midnight Express, was paid the same amount as the wrestlers.[[/note]]

** Wrestling/{{Edge}} had his StartOfDarkness by abandoning Wrestling/ChrisBenoit to be pinned by La Résistance.

* Wrestling/{{Edge}} once managed to do it during a triple threat match. He still took an Attitude Adjustment from John Cena, but landing on top of the much heavier Big Show and not under him (Cena had originally lifted both onto his shoulders for his finisher at the same time, and Edge ''immediately'' bailed, knowing how it would've ended for him if he hadn't).

* On the Labor Day 2012 edition, Wrestling/CMPunk decided to take a "personal day" instead of facing Wrestling/{{Sheamus}}. Subverted at the end of the show when he came back to cost John Cena his match with Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio. On the same show, Wrestling/JackSwagger decided to go on leave. Subverted again a week later when Punk tried this again with Wrestling/RandyOrton, only for Orton to [[YouWillNotEvadeMe chase him and bring him back to the ring]]. In early 2014, Punk had another one. After being passed over to be in the main event of Wrestling/WrestleMania for the third year in a row, he walked out and has not been heard from since.

** Also leaving WCW for the WWF around the same time thanks to a scaffold match was Ray Traylor, aka Big Bubba Rodgers, later known as the Big Bossman. In his case the point of contention wasn't having to do the match, it was having to do it for half the money that everyone else in the match was getting.[[note]]The justification for this is that Bubba wasn't actually ''in the match'', he was the bodyguard for the Midnight Express (who were in the match). Though this doesn't really water when Jim Cornette, the manager of the Midnight Express, was paid the same amount as the wrestlers.[[/note]]

* Many old-time wrestling fans remember the famous confrontation between Wrestling/GorillaMonsoon and UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli. But before Ali entered the ring and the legendary exchange took place (Monsoon picking up Ali and putting him in an airplane spin before throwing him to the mat), Monsoon had a match, against stalwart Baron Mikel Scicluna. Monsoon was dominating Scicluna and was knocked from the ring after taking a heavy "Manchurian" chop ... before Ali stepped into the ring to taunt Monsoon. Scicluna regained his senses and threw up his arms in disgust as he left ringside, as if to say the trope's name.

* This was the end result of Tracy Smothers wrestling a bear at a Continental Championship wrestling show. To his credit he did successfully get the bear in a couple of headlock and take it to the mat a couple of times but the wild eyed southern boy eventually lost his nerve.
* EMLL ditched the Wrestling/{{N|ational Wrestling Alliance}}WA rather than help them deal with the Wrestling/{{WW|E}}F, although Wrestling/{{CMLL}} would return to help the NWA later. Disgruntled talent packing up and leaving EMLL lead to the birth of both Lucha Libre Internacional (and by extension, the Mexican UWA) and Wrestling/{{AAA}}.
* Wrestlers departing from JWA lead to the birth of Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling and Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, who would in turn be deserted by disinters who would form Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH and The Wrestling/UniversalWrestlingFederation.
* It's not uncommon for the {{Heel}}s to fall back on this if they're losing the match, especially if they're defending championships (since you can't lose a title by being counted out). Often this plan will be foiled by 1) the {{Face}} grabbing the Heel and dragging him back into the ring; 2) an authority figure intercepting the Heel and telling him to get back in the ring; or 3) the authority figure declaring losing this match in this manner would count as a forfeit (which ''does'' allow the title changing hands). Occasionally the reverse will happen, with a Heel ''trying to win a title from a defending Face'' just giving up and walking away, like Wrestling/{{Test}} did in his ECW title match with Wrestling/BobbyLashley.

* A rare non-villainous, purely comedic example had Wrestling/JackieGayda attempting to ditch Wrestling/StacyKeibler just before their Evening Gown Tag Team Match against Wrestling/TorrieWilson and Wrestling/{{Sable}} at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania XX''. All four Divas had to strip down to their bras and panties before the match began, and Miss Jackie decided at the last minute that she didn't want everyone to see her in her underwear. She tried to leave - but Torrie and Sable would have none of it, grabbing Jackie and ripping off her gown so that she'd ''have'' to wrestle in her underwear. Although, to be fair, Jackie didn't know about the "wrestling in underwear" stipulation until just a few minutes before the match; she thought that the winners would strip the losers, like in a traditional Evening Gown Match (the match originally was to be a traditional bra & panties match, but one of Sable's breast implants burst a few days before the match, meaning she couldn't get as physical as they had planned). [[FridgeLogic Oddly, the match happened because Stacy and Jackie wanted to pose in Playboy instead of Sable and Torrie.]]

* The 10/3/11 episode of ''Monday Night Raw'' ended with this - by about half of the WWE Roster, as well as the announcers, the refs, the cameramen...[[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and the guy that rings the bell.]]
* Wrestling/{{Fandango}} used to be known for refusing to wrestle until someone pronounced his name correctly, which didn't happened until he was introduced by Wrestling/JerryLawler.

* On the Labor Day 2012 edition, Wrestling/CMPunk decided to take a "personal day" instead of facing Wrestling/{{Sheamus}}. Subverted at the end of the show when he came back to cost John Cena his match with Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio. On the same show, Wrestling/JackSwagger decided to go on leave. Subverted again a week later when Punk tried this again with Wrestling/RandyOrton, only for Orton to [[YouWillNotEvadeMe chase him and bring him back to the ring]]. In early-2014, Punk had another one. After being passed over to be in the main event of Wrestling/WrestleMania for the third year in a row, he walked out and has not been heard from since.

* Wrestling/GailKim did this at her last appearance in WWE. Upset with the way she had been booked and realizing she wasn't going to be doing anything there, Gail gave her notice that she quit when at a Battle Royal she eliminated herself as soon as the match began. Apparently she was told to be eliminated from it in under a minute they just didn't expect her to eliminate herself. A few months later she had made her return to [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]].
* At Wrestling/SurvivorSeries it's not uncommon for a Heel to decide to do this, whether it's being outnumbered or an argument with his teammates he walks out on them and heads to the back. [[Wrestling/AllenCoage Bad News Brown]] did this two years in a row because he accidently got hit by his teammates, and was named [[http://www.wwe.com/shows/survivorseries/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-survivor-series/page-2 the worst teammate ever]] in Survivor Series history.

* The night after WWE Payback 2014, Wrestling/{{Batista}} has had enough of being denied a match for the WWE Championship since Triple H and Wrestling/RandyOrton were focused on ending Wrestling/TheShield. He then left the ring, leaving Triple H screaming at him.
** Four years prior, Batista would quit after Wrestling/BretHart named Orton the winner over him in a qualifying match via forfeit despite The Animal twice pointing out how badly injured he was, not to mention suffering three straight [=pay-per-view=] losses to John Cena.
* Nearly any time during Wrestling/HonkyTonkMan's Intercontinental Title run where he was in a fight he knew he couldn't win, he typically just grabbed his belt and left. He would lose the match by count-out, but he would keep the title.

* After the Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob, both Earl Hebner (who had rang the bell) and Jim Cornette (who had pitched the screwjob in a creative meeting but believed that it had been vetoed), quickly drove out of the arena fearing retribution.

* Wrestling/{{Edge}} once managed to do it during a triple threat match. He still took an Attitude Adjustment from John Cena, but landing on top of the much heavier Big Show and not under him (Cena had originally lifted both onto his shoulders for his finisher at the same time, and Edge ''immediately'' bailed knowing how it would've ended for him if he hadn't).
* Wrestling/BigBossMan also managed to do this during a Handicap 4 vs 1 match in 1999. The Big Show quickly dispatched [[Wrestling/MattBloom Prince Albert]], Viscera and Mideon with "[[FinishingMove Chokeslam]]", and Big Boss Man immediately left the ring, letting himself lose by count out, which was a more favorable result than facing NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from the angry giant he was feuding with at the time.

** Four years prior, Batista would quit after Wrestling/BretHart named Orton the winner over him in a qualifying match via forfeit despite The Animal twice pointing out how badly injured he was, not to mention his three straight [=pay-per-view=] losses to John Cena.

** Four years prior, Batista would quit after Wrestling/BretHart named Orton the winner over him in a qualifying match via forfeit despite The Animal twice pointing out how badly injured he was.

* Wrestling/BigBossMan also managed to do this during a Handicap 4 vs 1 match in 1999. The Big Show quickly dispatched [[Wrestling/MattBloom Prince Albert]], Viscera and Mideon with "[[FinishingMove Chokeslam]]", and Big Boss Man immediatelt left the ring, letting himself lose by count out, which was a more favorable result than facing NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from the angry giant he was feuding with at the time.

** Four years prior, Batista would quit after Wresting/BretHart named Orton the winner over him in a qualifying match via forfeit despite The Animal twice pointing out how badly injured he was.

* The night after WWE Payback 2014, Batista had had enough of being denied a match for the WWE championship since Triple H and Randy Orton were focused on ending the Shield. He then left the ring, leaving Triple H screaming at him.

* Wrestling/Edge once managed to do it during a triple threat match. He still took an Attitude Adjustment from John Cena, but landing on top of the much heavier Big Show and not under him (Cena had originally lifted both onto his shoulders for his finisher at the same time, and Edge ''immediately'' bailed knowing how it would've ended for him if he hadn't).

* After the MontrealScrewjob, both Earl Hebner (who had rang the bell) and Jim Cornette (who had pitched the screwjob in a creative meeting but believed that it had been vetoed), quickly drove out of the arena fearing retribution.