5 MORE Wrestling Stars Who Were Kicked Out Of The Locker Room
"AND STAY OUT!"
It's been a few years since WWE's biggest locker room snafus were detailed, with more either unearthed or occurring since the original offenders were handed in-house justice by their p*ssed off peers.
Wrestling - and WWE in particular - is littered with unwritten rules that nonetheless must be followed to the letter. A minefield for newcomers, inexperienced extras or those on the wrong end of ribs, there's fewer crimes greater in a wrestling locker room than a perceived lack of respect. By some accounts, the endless handshaking and platitude-spouting is starting to die out with the performers that proffered it. The company, at least through the all-seeing lenses of the WWE Network documentary team, just looks a more relaxed place than it used to.
Meanwhile, windows into the world via such mediums as Being The Elite and Colt Cabana's Wrestling Road Diaries present the Independent scene as a fun - if still rather gritty - place to ply a trade.
Alas, whilst wrestling is finally changing (if at at a snails pace), the wrestlers themselves are at least all changing in the same dressing room. Well, most of them are...
5. The Hardy Boyz
Matt and Jeff Hardy's 2003 'Exist 2 Inspire' joint autobiography was a surprisingly revealing look at the WWE locker room when it first landed, with lengthy sections on the various acts of anger, bullying and vitriol dressed up as "hazing" and "tradition" sticking out like sore thumbs at the end of a Hardy Boyz pose.
The duo admitted to having never drank before joining the main roster, but those morals were rapidly cast aside thanks to the intense peer pressure. That proved a rather dark gateway for them both to walk through, but it did at least give them a sense of acceptance after John 'Bradshaw' Layfield hauled them out of the dressing room for inadvertently disrespecting company veteran Kane.
The pair had unknowingly sat in the 'Big Red Machine's upgraded plane seats during a long flight between shows, triggering Bradshaw to slap on his self-appointed sheriff's hat. Following a 'Wrestler's Court' hearing about the matter, the North Carolinians were forced to do a number of chores and errands for the future WWE Champion as additional penance to the typical mass alcohol purchase.