5 WWE Superstars who complained about another wrestler post-match

WWE Superstars usually show respect to each other after a match by shaking hands when they return to the backstage area.

Of course, that time-honored tradition only takes place when a match has gone according to plan. On rare occasions, an incident can occur during an in-ring encounter which causes issues between superstars backstage. In some cases, WWE management even has to get involved to settle a disagreement.

For example, in 1991, a backstage complaint was made about The Undertaker’s ability to safely execute his iconic tombstone piledriver finisher. A decade later, Chris Jericho’s alleged carelessness was also discussed backstage after he gave an opponent a black eye.

In this article, let’s count down five WWE Superstars who complained about another wrestler after a match.

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#5 Hulk Hogan complained about The Undertaker in WWE

One of The Undertaker’s first major WWE moments took place at Survivor Series 1991 when he defeated Hulk Hogan for the WWE Championship. Six days later, Hogan won the title back from his rookie opponent at This Tuesday In Texas.

In 2020, The Undertaker was asked by ESPN’s Pete Rosenberg to explain why he immediately lost the title. The WWE legend confirmed that Hogan complained about suffering a neck injury during their tombstone spot at Survivor Series.

“That was crazy. It started out bad, and it progressively got worse. Hogan claims that I hurt him on the tombstone during the pay-per-view. So I’m thinking to myself, like I didn’t find out until Tuesday. I knew there was going to be another pay-per-view, but I didn’t know I was going to drop the belt back, or what was going on. That came up out of nowhere,” The Undertaker said. [H/T 411mania]

Following the match, The Undertaker returned backstage to find Hulk Hogan laying on Vince McMahon’s office floor claiming to be in pain. Paramedics even attended to Hogan, who asked for someone to get his wife and kids on the phone.

The Undertaker initially felt “devastated” about hurting Hogan, but his attitude changed when other superstars accused his opponent of faking the injury. From that moment on, ‘Taker said he was polite around Hogan but his “radar was always up” whenever they interacted.

#4 Dolph Ziggler allegedly complained about Sin Cara in WWE

Dolph Ziggler won the World Heavyweight Championship Money in the Bank ladder match at WWE Money in the Bank 2012. The match also featured Christian, Cody Rhodes, Damien Sandow, Santino Marella, Sin Cara, Tensai, and Tyson Kidd.

Following the event, the Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer reported that Ziggler “vocally complained backstage” about Sin Cara “working stiffly” during the match.

Meltzer clarified that, in his opinion, Sin Cara was not to blame for a high-risk Spanish Fly move which almost injured Ziggler.

“Ziggler slipped halfway through the move when Sin Cara's back was already bent far enough he could do nothing but fall. It's only Sin Cara's fault if he had ESP and would have known Ziggler was about to slip,” Meltzer wrote. [H/T Wrestling Inc.]

The original Sin Cara, better known as Mistico, frequently made mistakes while performing as the masked superstar in WWE between 2011 and 2013. He was later replaced by Hunico, who portrayed the Sin Cara character from 2013 to 2019.

Sin Cara’s in-ring mistakes were often pointed out by WWE fans on social media. After the incident with Ziggler at Money in the Bank 2012, the phrase “Botch Cara” even trended on Twitter.

#3 Randy Orton complained about Kofi Kingston in WWE

Randy Orton famously complained about Kofi Kingston following a Triple Threat match (also involving John Cena) on WWE RAW in January 2010.

The Viper was supposed to hit Kingston with a Punt Kick during the match, but his opponent kept getting back to his feet. This led Orton to repeatedly yell “Stupid! Stupid!” at Kingston in the middle of the ring.

Speaking to FOX News in 2019, Kingston confirmed rumors that Orton's backstage politics played a part in his WWE push ending almost a decade earlier.

“It was a very real thing, not a storyline thing, when Randy Orton didn't want me to get to a certain point in WWE. As you saw 10 years ago, I was kind of on the rise and logic would suggest that I would have become Champion based on the run I was having at the time and Randy Orton put a stop to all of that,” Kingston said.

Orton pinned Kingston after hitting an RKO instead of a Punt Kick. He then went on to feud with Sheamus for the WWE Championship, while Kingston disappeared from World Championship storylines for the next nine years.

A year before the incident with Kingston, Orton also complained about Mr. Kennedy's safety in the ring after a botched suplex spot on RAW. Orton "blew up in front of all the talent," according to Mr. Kennedy, and the former United States Champion received his release four days later.

#2 Sycho Sid complained about The Ultimate Warrior in WWE

Sycho Sid, also known as Sid Justice and Sid Vicious, quit WWE in 1992 due to The Ultimate Warrior’s erratic behavior and in-ring selfishness.

Sid said in an interview with Title Match Wrestling that Warrior wanted to dominate their matches and kick out of his finisher. The two-time WWE Champion also amusingly revealed that Warrior spoke to him backstage as though he was cutting a promo.

“I left out of the room and went to one of the agents and said, ‘Come on, guys.’ ‘No, this is real.’ I go back in and [Warrior promo impression], ‘When the stars align…’ I said, ‘Okay, the first night I did it.’ We went to Boston the next night, I told them, ‘No, he’s not kicking out my finish. If he kicks out my finish tonight, I go home tomorrow morning and I never come back.’ And that’s what happened,” Sid said.

Sid left WWE in April 1992 and began working for WCW again in May 1993. He later returned to WWE between 1995 and 1997, during which time he main-evented WrestleMania 13 against The Undertaker.

The Ultimate Warrior never faced Sid again after their disagreement in 1992.

#1 Triple H complained about Chris Jericho in WWE

Triple H once raised concerns backstage about Chris Jericho after his fellow WWE Superstar accidentally gave Chyna a black eye during a match.

Jim Ross, WWE’s former Head of Talent Relations, said on his Grilling JR podcast that Triple H asked Vince McMahon to talk to Jericho.

“I just think that Vince is then able to go tell Triple H, who we were counting on – he was going to become a huge star, great heel – that, ‘I talked to Jericho, I got that cleared up.’ So that’s one squeaky wheel that moves on to something else. So I think that’s kind of what it was... Triple H’s influence,” Ross said.

Ross explained that Triple H was protective of Chyna during her storyline with Jericho because he was dating her at the time.

The former WWE executive also recalled how he warned Jericho about possible negative reactions in the locker room after the incident with Chyna. According to Ross, Jericho had a “fearless” and “undaunted” attitude, and he was not intimidated by any of his WWE co-workers.