Neville made quite the impact when he transitioned to the 205 Live division as The King of the
Cruiserweights, quickly becoming Cruiserweight Champion.
However, despite becoming the longest-reigning Cruiserweight Champion in WWE, Neville grew
frustrated with his creative direction.
Losing the Cruiserweight title to Enzo Amore of all people didn’t do him any favours either.
If that wasn’t already painful enough
Neville was scheduled to lose his rematch with Enzo Amore on Raw, so he walked out before the show.
That was the last time Neville was seen in a WWE ring.
At Vengeance 2007, Chris Benoit was scheduled to face CM Punk for the vacant ECW World Championship,
however, he never showed up.
A couple days prior, Benoit no-showed some weekend WWE house shows, explaining that his
family was ill with food poisoning but the truth was far grimmer.
Benoit’s absence at Vengeance 2007 was because he murdered his own family including his 7-year-old
son before taking his own life.
It remains one of the darkest and most disturbing tragedies in the history of wrestling.
With his verbal “pipe-bombs”, the outspoken CM Punk never shied away from sharing his
true feelings about the WWE.
By 2014, Punk had lost all passion and grew tired to the point that he was ready to call
it quits.
The Raw after the 2014 Royal Rumble that’s exactly what he did, telling Vince McMahon
and Triple H that he was “going home”.
Punk also failed to appear on the next SmackDown show despite being advertised.
After walking out, Punk never returned to a WWE ring again.
Stone Cold Steve Austin was one of the WWE’s biggest stars of the Attitude Era but by 2002
he was burned out.
Creative differences led to Austin airing his grievances online but the final kicker
for Austin came when he was told that he’d be losing a qualifier match on Raw to the
up-and-coming Brock Lesnar.
Outraged, Austin refused to show up.
This could have been the last we ever saw of Stone Cold in the WWE but thankfully, he
managed to patch things up with Vince McMahon.
On the May 16th 2022 edition of Raw, the “Legit Boss” Sasha Banks legit walked out of the
building with her tag team partner, Naomi while
the show was on air.
The WWE released an official statement which read, “they walked into WWE Head of Talent
Relations John Laurinaitis office with their suitcases in hand, placed their tag team championship
belts on his desk and walked out.”
The reason for this: they felt they weren’t respected enough as tag team champions.
I can imagine Sasha’s exit from the building went a little like this…