5 bizarre reasons why WWE fired Superstars

#3 Paul London's smile cost him his WWE contract

London could have had a better WWE career

WWE has seen several high-flyers make their way into the company over the years. Paul London was a superstar who was great at what he did inside the ropes. He had the talent and charisma to lead the cruiserweight division had he been given the chance to do so.

However, a bizarre incident led to his firing from WWE at a time when he was quite popular with fans. Speaking with The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling, London spoke about the night when WWE shot Vince McMahon’s infamous Limo explosion video.

London revealed that WWE took several takes, and London was smiling during each one of them.

“Looking back at it the funniest thing about that segment is really all of the other wrestlers reactions or attempt at reactions and just how bad and funny it looked to see all of these actors or wrestlers, how hard they were trying to feed into this whatever it was so that was pretty comical. But we did that thing 9 times at least and I smiled every single time. Each take. It wasn’t the same smile but that was my motivation and they didn’t say anything different. I figured if they had a problem they would tell me. Vince even looked in my face on a few of these takes as he was walking around and doing these takes and looked at me. So it wasn’t like he didn’t see it 8 or 9 times.”

Paul London’s smile did not sit well with the WWE chairman, who fired him eventually fired him for this and several similar incidents the next year. The former superstar has since appeared on several different promotions but never competed for WWE again.