After learning that former Nexus member, Skip Sheffield, required a third leg surgery, World Wrestling Entertainment chose to put the ailing hoss down.

“We just reached a point where it was going to be difficult for him to go on without pain,” said Stu Bennett, Skip’s handler. “It was the right decision, the right thing to do. When he no longer enjoyed being corn-fed, then it would be time.”

The farm-born Sheffield toughed it out for several months, but after developing an abscess on his hind leg, the injury caught up with him. “It was the first time he was distressed by the condition,” said world-renowned veterinarian Richard Jacobson.