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This week's WWE news has been dominated by the fact that Vince McMahon has released a new social media policy.
Social Media has played a huge role in promoting the wrestling business over the past few years, but whilst this has led to a lot of success for WWE when it comes to igniting storylines and creating some backstory, there are many fallbacks to Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook too.
The following list looks at just five former WWE Superstars who were fired because of their social media platforms.
#5 Cameron was fired by WWE
Cameron is best remembered for her time alongside Naomi as The Funkadactyls, who originally debuted alongside Brodus Clay. Naomi and Cameron were later pushed in the women's division after the duo was featured as cast members on Total Divas when the show debuted back in 2013.
Cameron and Naomi split the following year and after a brief singles run, the former was released from WWE.
The former Total Divas star had agreed with a controversial comment on Twitter regarding the payment scale in WWE just days before her release. She later stated herself when speaking with Hannibal TV that this was the reason for her dismissal.
"They never gave me a reason, I can kind of put my finger on why. You know when the whole [controversial] thing happened. I also wasn't doing anything... you know a perfect moment when you're not doing something and you make a little bit of controversy, it's an easy way for them (the WWE) to go 'Oh, it's time to let you go.'
Cameron has since returned to the wrestling business and competed under her real name Ariane Andrew in All Elite Wrestling as she was revealed as Nyla Rose's tag team partner for the Women's Tag Team Cup Tournament..
#4 Abraham Washington was fired by WWE
Abraham Washington is perhaps best remembered as the manager of The Prime Time Players, as he would cut promos and make jokes during their matches. Before Washington was linked to Darren Young and Titus O'Neil, he had been part of WWE's rebrand of ECW, which was cancelled in 2010.
Interestingly, it was originally believed that Washington was released from his WWE contract because of a controversial joke that he made about Kobe Bryant on WWE TV back in 2012.
The star was released 11 days after the episode of RAW aired, but he later claimed that he was released because he referenced Linda McMahon and her presidential campaign on Twitter.
According to Washington, Linda was trying to distance herself from WWE and didn't wish to be mentioned by any of the stars. The star went on a Twitter rant following his release where he directly Tweeted Linda to inform her that she had cost him his job.
He wrote: "Creates jobs my a**!! I'm fired thanks to you and your campaign."
It could have been a combination of the two that caused him to be fired, but Washington was known to have made a number of jokes on Social Media throughout his time with WWE.
#3 Jimmy Jacobs was fired by WWE
Jimmy Jacobs had an interesting background in the wrestling business before he was signed to WWE as part of the company's creative team back in 2015. Jacobs was better known as a wrestler and had worked for a number of promotions including Ring of Honor and even WWE much earlier in his career.
Jacobs was only part of WWE for two years since he was fired from the company in 2017 when he heard that Matt and Nick Jackson of The Young Bucks were outside WWE and he decided to go outside and take his picture with the members of The Bullet Club.
Jacobs later posted this image online and it led to his dismissal, something that he later revealed in an interview with Chris Van Vliet.
"When I did it, I knew it might make some people upset but at that point in my life, I didn't care, I wasn't trying to not get fired anymore because for so long I was there just trying to not get fired. They did for me what I could have never have done for myself. I would have stayed there another 10 years and been miserable and hated life just like most of the other writers there. I don't want to speak for them, but there's a lot of unhappiness there."
The former creative writer has since returned to the Independent wrestling circuit following his release from WWE.
#2 Matt Hardy was fired by WWE
Matt Hardy recently allowed his contract to expire before walking away from WWE to later join All Elite Wrestling, but this isn't the first time that Hardy has left the company.
On two separate occasions in both 2005 and 2010, Matt Hardy was unhappy with the situation surrounding him and took to the internet to vent, which led to his WWE release. Of course, back in 2005, it was the situation surrounding Edge and Lita and he was rehired a few days later.
Five years later, Hardy had decided that he wanted to be released by WWE and began posting strange videos online, before later claiming that he was doing everything that he could to be released by WWE at that time.
Hardy would self destruct on Twitter and Youtube with tweets much like this one:
@MATTHARDYBRAND What r the chances 2 c u @ WWE Europe tour in November? Or would it be better 2 buy tics 4 TNA in Berlin in January?Matt – “I’d go with Berlin..”
When WWE announced Hardy's release from the company in October that year, the former Champion actually celebrated. The Tweets and videos have since been deleted.
#1 Zahra Schreiber was fired by WWE
Zahra Schreiber may be a name that is completely unknown to many wrestling fans who have only started watching the shows over the past five years. Back in 2015 when it was revealed that the NXT star was in a relationship with former WWE Champion Seth Rollins, she became a hot topic of conversation.
Many fans decided to dig into the background of Schreiber and found Instagram posts from before she was signed by WWE that landed her in hot water.
The images of the Swastika lead to the star being released from the company after very little in-ring action. This was later revealed in all of the reports following her release.
"Zahra Schreiber, the girlfriend of WWE World Heavyweight Champion, Seth Rollins, has been released by WWE. This comes after she came under fire for the content of her Instagram posts containing historic memorabilia and Nazi propaganda."
The former NXT star continued her relationship with fellow star Seth Rollins, but the couple reportedly went their separate ways in the spring of 2016.
