6 backstage WWE employees Vince McMahon fired in 2019 (and the reasons behind them)

#5 Arn Anderson

Arn Anderson is now All-Elite

One of the most shocking firings of this year was of Arn Anderson. For a few days after he lost his job, it wasn't clear why Vince McMahon fired his long-tenured employee.

According to reports, the reason Arn got fired was that he allowed Alicia Fox to wrestle during a house show while she was intoxicated. WWE's list of rules is meant for everybody and if one does anything against it, he or she, no matter what, will get punished.

In this case, it was Arn's responsibility to avoid this incident taking place but he made a mistake and as a result, Vince McMahon fired him. Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer Newsletter also spoke about the incident and revealed that McMahon and Anderson weren't on good terms for many years:

"Arn and Vince were not really on the best of terms," he said. "There had been a lot of situations over the years, one particular one not too long ago.

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#4 Dasha Fuentes

Vince McMahon's reasoning to release Dasha was her interviewing style

Dasha Fuentes worked for WWE from 2014 to April 2019 as a backstage interviewer, and also had a short stint as a wrestler. Over the last few years, she interviewed many WWE Superstars and while she did a decent job, some fans didn't like her style.

According to reports, Vince McMahon was not impressed with her work and a series of incidents resulted in her losing her position from WWE.

"Vince McMahon didn’t like that Fuentes was “redundant and pausing” her speech during the interview, which contributed to the termination."

Later, Dasha spoke to Chris Van Vliet, where she revealed that during an interview with Roman Reigns, on April 1st edition of RAW she made a slip-up that wasn't tolerated by Vince McMahon. This was the final straw that forced him to fire the backstage interviewer.