10 Bizarre Ways Wrestlers Have Been Written Off TV

1. Limo Explosion

Though he was an ever-present as a television character for the best part of 25 years, Vince McMahon would, periodically, decide to write himself off his own shows, either because he thought he was ‘too old’ to be on the box or because he wanted the attention and emphasis to be placed on others.

As with anything Vince-related, the ways in which he was written off were typically far from ‘normal’. He’s had the Million Dollar Mania stage collapse on him, he’s been beaten up in Hell in a Cell before having his face shoved in Big Show’s backside and so on and so forth. 

None quite measure up to when he was literally blown up after closing the door of his limo on the Mr McMahon Appreciation Night episode of Raw in June 2007. 

The Genetic Jackhammer’s mental faculties had recently been questioned and he had been acting oddly the whole show (based on a ‘bad feeling’) before he went kaboom. 

This was supposedly going to lead to a long and twist-laden investigation to find out the culprit, before real-life tragedy forced Vince to drop the act and claim that he had ‘faked’ his own demise.