If we are supposed to go by the adage that in the world of wrestling controversy does create cash, then well, WWE has done mighty, mighty well. WWE have been home to so many controversies and you don’t become that big of a corporate company without creating a lot of bad blood amongst some or many employees.
With social media almost killing kayfabe, the politics in the industry have come to the notice of many and they have been documented enough to register a good idea of what’s happening backstage.
Here are the 5 people who may just hate the WWE:
CM Punk
There is no former WWE employee who was as famously, publicly displeased as CM Punk in the past 2 years since his departure from the company. He had been vocal about what bugged him while he was there until he just couldn’t take it anymore and left on his own terms and created a lot of ripples for many weeks to come.
Be it reasons related to carelessness from the company regarding his health issues, the backbreaking schedule or the backstage politics- Punk took it as long as he could until he vowed never to go back to what was once the love of his life - Wrestling.
Bret Hart
He may not hate WWE to such a degree as many former employees but he sure does not give two cents about what they think of him. He does not need the WWE and was publicly vocal about how he does not really want to be at Payback and was just doing all of this as a favor to his niece and how them ripping off the Montreal Scewjob was stupid.
He openly talked about the tensions between Triple H, Stephanie and Shane McMahon and on many occasions has been unforgiving about Hunter.Also, he criticized the attention and investment part-time superstars get compared to the full-time performers, the latter of whom he thinks are slogging day in and day out but the big money goes to guys who don’t work as much as they do.
Batista
Good for Batista that he’s doing so, so well outside of the realm of WWE and getting huge Hollywood offers. Just looking at Vince McMahon and Co. raving about his casting as the villain in a Bond movie might make one wonder what the heck they were doing when Batista, putting behind his grudges with the PG Era, came back to give WWE one more shot.
He was booed, sure, but surely things did not seem to turn around as they were planned to be. He may not hate the WWE in every sense of the word, but he ain’t a huge fan either. He’s also called the company disorganized.
Jeff Jarrett
Well, for years Jarrett has tried to create a rival to the WWE but never really succeeded. The bad blood between the two parties may be recalled to the one night Jarrett was asked to put someone over.
And that someone was the Ninth Wonder of The World Chyna. But here’s the thing at that point Jarrett’s contract had run out and he was no longer bound to perform. Vince McMahon tried to put him in a one day contract but Jarrett took a huge amount of money- somewhere close to $300,000, to lose the IC Title to Chyna.
This bad blood may never be resolved.
Scott Steiner
He may not dislike the WWE as much he disliked Triple H during his time there. And since Triple H is an integral part of the company, Steiner did not like the product all that much. One infamous incident is when he was asked to undergo a steroid test but refused to until Triple H was also made to undergo one.
The animosity may also be the reason why there was absolutely no understanding or chemistry while the two feuded. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter called their 2003 Royal Rumble match to be the “worst worked match” of the year
He talked about how he was offered the legends contract but refused to sign it according to his lawyer’s advice since it was ‘not worth the paper it’s written on’
