10 WWE Stars Who Were Fired Multiple Times
WWE just couldn't stop firing these former stars
2. The Iron Sheik
If there’s one thing The Iron Sheik liked most – besides making Hulk Hogan humble – it was drugs.
Banned substances were the downfall of The Iron Sheik on numerous occasions, beginning in May of 1987 when he and Hacksaw Jim Duggan were found with cocaine and weed respectively on their persons after being pulled over by highway patrol.
Amazingly, the drugs weren’t the main thing that led to their collective firing – it was because they were in a feud at the time and the mingling of babyfaces and heels outside the ring was considered a major breach of kayfabe.
WWE introducing drug testing in 1992 meant he wasn’t around for long after that, either, while his decision to take cocaine out of his bag and put it in John ‘Berserker’ Nord’s hoodie while waiting to enter Canada secured him another pink slip.
Sheik – who once celebrated a ‘positive’ test because he thought that was a good thing – pissed hot once more in late 1997, bringing his final WWE run to a close.
