RE: Sad day in WWE
It's all scripted/kayfabe. Laryngitis (HUR HUR I AM SO ORIGINAL) is a 'heel', and this sort of stuff is set up to make him as unpopular as possible so that he deservedly gets the shit slapped out of him (kayfabe!) at the end of a long feud. The writers have been doing it for years.
If they were really going to fire Big Show, they wouldn't do it in the middle of a stadium in front of ten of thousands of fans.
"It turned out that the ghost was just Mr. Finley, who ran the amusement park. The spooky part is that, as soon as the ghost appeared, the teenagers' dog began to speak! And it spoke in a tortured parody of human speech: 'relp me, Raggy,' it would say. 'I am an abomination and rould re rilled. Rill re, Raggy.'"