4 WWE Superstars Vince McMahon personally fired and 4 he hired

#3 Vince McMahon hired Sharmell

Booker T achieved a considerable amount of success in WWE after Vince McMahon’s purchase of WCW in 2001.

The two-time Hall of Famer won almost everything there is to win in WWE, including the World Heavyweight Championship, Intercontinental Championship, United States Championship and Tag Team Championship, as well as the 2006 King of the Ring tournament.

However, as he revealed on an episode of his Hall of Fame radio show in 2020, Booker T tried to leave WWE in 2005 following his marriage to Sharmell, but Vince McMahon talked him out of it by agreeing to hire his wife.

“It was like, ‘What the hell, what’s going on? What’s the deal?’ And I was like, ‘Well, you know, I just got married and I don’t wanna end up [with] anything happening.’ And he goes ‘Well, let’s hire Sharmell!’ [laughs] So I’m like, ‘Oh, we get another check?’ [Vince McMahon said] ‘Yeah!’ And I’m like, ‘Okay, I can stick around!’” [H/T 411mania]

Sharmell, who previously worked in the wrestling business with WCW and WWE between 1998 and 2002, returned to WWE as Booker T’s valet in 2005 before joining Impact Wrestling with her husband in 2007.