5 More WWE Tales From Wrestlers' Court

Whether you're chained to a desk all day or dancing around a wrestling ring in front of thousands of people, drama is generally an accepted part of the workplace.

For most of us, there are grievance procedures to follow, put in place by the HR team precisely to prevent disgruntled employees from taking matters into their own hands. That doesn't totally stop the spread of malicious gossip, of course, but it at least keeps everyone firmly in their place.

In the bizarre world of professional wrestling, however, there is no such protocol. Instead of HR, it's a kangaroo court often headed (or so we're told) by The Undertaker which adjudicates on any backstage disputes between members of the locker room.

This obviously wouldn't fly in a conventional workplace, but in the context of WWE - where wrestlers spend most of their time on the road - it kind of makes sense. You'd probably want to kill some of your co-workers too, if you had to spend every waking moment in their company. They need to have a way of blowing off steam.

There's also one giant upside to Wrestlers' Court: all the crazy stories that are leaked to the internet years after the fact.

It would probably not be unfair to say that Simon Dean - a man remembered chiefly for the fact that he rode to the ring on a Segway - had a more eventful WWE career behind the camera than he did in front of it.

The best example of this, so we hear, was during an overseas tour when Dean took it upon himself to tell the legendary Roddy Piper how their planned Piper's Pit segment could be improved. In doing so, he forgot one of wrestling's golden rules: never speak down to your elders.

Piper himself was said to be fairly unfazed by the incident (if you can call it an incident) but the rest of the locker room didn't share his indifference. They took Dean to Wrestlers' Court immediately and, well, their alleged punishment perhaps wasn't their most creative effort.

Instead of having him pay a penalty of his own volition, they were said to have just destroyed some of his belongings in the shower. It sounds like Dean wasn't exactly popular backstage, which may explain why his main roster run was so short-lived.