5 top superstars who buried the WWE locker room

The WWE locker room is one of the most important places backstage. Everyone has their role, and there's always a locker room leader. The most famous one of them all is naturally The Undertaker, who was not only the locker room leader, but he was the judge and jury of the Wrestlers court.

While the Wrestlers court is a thing of the past, there have been a couple of people who succeeded him in taking over the reins of the locker room, namely John Cena, and later on, Roman Reigns.

However, there have been multiple occasions where superstars, past and present, have taken a shot at the locker room for whatever reason. The most common jab towards the locker room is complacency. But as you're going to see, there have been superstars, megastars and even some legends who have outright buried the locker room. Here are five such examples of when it happened.

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#5. Batista

Batista got quite a bit of heat in early 2014 when he announced his return and entry into the Royal Rumble. It wasn't his entry that caused heat, but rather a tweet that stirred up the locker room.

He was in a mini social media feud against Alberto Del Rio, who vowed to eliminate The Animal from the Royal Rumble. They were taking a lot of jabs at one another via Twitter, until Batista put out one particular tweet that may have ruffled quite a few feathers. He said:

Seems 2 me that some C level stars in a B level star era have bought into their own hype. Don't turn a work into a shoot. #realitycheck"

Of course, the tweet was unsurprisingly deleted immediately after, but fans caught it before he took it down. That certainly wasn't a good look for him, and PWInsider reported that he had some backstage heat, with many feeling he buried the whole locker room with one tweet.

#4. Drew McIntyre

Drew McIntyre's memo since returning to the main roster in 2018 has been to insult the WWE locker room, constantly criticizing them for being complacent and losing the drive that was there when he was around last.

McIntyre used that as a part of his character, but recently, he doubled down on his comments, saying:

I just walked through our locker room, and what do I hear? Oh, the usual complaining! But you know all about that, you follow all those Superstars on social media. They don't keep it back here, they broadcast it to the world. "Oh, I don't like how I'm being used right now, say something nice about me.", not bettering themselves, like I don't know- say go to the gym, get in shape, get better in the ring, get better at verbalizing themselves! No, they would rather just complain, because they are completely entitled!

He would blame Roman Reigns for that because he reportedly leads "a pack of strays".

#3. John Cena

That's right. The former locker room leader and the leader of the Cenation John Cena did not hold back when going off on the locker room. Granted, he was a lot nicer about it than Drew McIntyre was, but even then, it wasn't exactly pleasant coming from the franchise player. In an interview, he said:

The amount of complacency is staggering. I mean, these guys are all so gifted and there’s never been a better time, ever, to make a name for yourself in WWE. With all of the platforms that we have, with Raw, with SmackDown, with NXT, we’re increasing our number of pay-per-views, we’re throwing so much content at the Network it’s obscene.

I think nowadays we have the reverse where the Superstars are in such a ‘well, I’m just going to wait to see what they have for me’ when that’s not what it is. I totally agree with that. You get a rough outline, you get such a basic character sketch, and you get all this freedom to make it your own, and I’m not just blowing smoke.

It must be noted that Cena isn't fully wrong about this. He does belong to a time where superstars would truly step up to the plate and take their opportunities.

#2. Conor McGregor

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The biggest megastar in all of MMA Conor McGregor went out of his way to bury the WWE locker room. When asked about WWE, he admitted that there were some "dons" of the business. Despite Ric Flair commenting negatively about McGregor, the former UFC double-champion showed respect to Flair due to his veteran status.

He even called Triple H, Vince McMahon and The Rock "dons", but didn't have anything good to say about the rest of the WWE crew. He said:

The McMahon’s? They’re dons. Triple H is a don, The Rock is a don, but the rest of them are f—— p——. I happen to enjoy it, but that’s a little more show business. This is the fight business.”

In other instances, he would go out of his way to insult the former franchise player John Cena. However, Cena, being mature, didn't bother responding to McGregor.

#1. Triple H

Today, Triple H is one of WWE's top authority figures, responsible for bringing NXT to the fray and the level that it has become now. However, seven years ago at WrestleMania 28, Triple H had made a rather derogatory speech to the WWE locker room, essentially telling them that he was facing The Undertaker because there wasn't anyone "good enough" to face him.

As recalled by former WWE announcer Justin Roberts, the incident went as follows:

Yeah. It basically says that everybody else sucks so I need to work with the Undertaker. It was his promo that he just buried the whole locker room and that he needed to work with the Undertaker.

Roberts said that nobody in the locker room was happy about his comments, but couldn't say anything because he was the boss. However, Roberts said that The Undertaker was exactly the opposite, and didn't have a bad word to say about him.