As far as the wrestling business goes, you pretty much have to be the best of the best of the best in world to get to the WWE. The criteria for a WWE Superstar is pretty strict and Vince's employees are expected to perform lest they perish in the cleansing fire of being future endeavoured. Occasionally though, some buck the trend. Some continue to survive and persevere in spite of either their own in-ring ineptitude (by WWE standards of course) or their appalling behavior backstage. Thankfully this doesn't happen as much any more due to stricter employee policy and the fantastic training coure that is NXT, but that doesn't mean it's non existant, or that we can ignore the awkward wrestlers of days gone by. Ranked in order of just how much of a hindrance the person was and the extent to which they got away with, the criteria here is simple: Be a colossal douchebag outside the ring or a gigantic waste of space inside of it. Or maybe a heady concoction of the two.
Honorable Mentions
Several names that often get banded about when this conversation is had often do not deserve it as there is undoubtedly a distinction between merely working stiff in the ring and being a full on danger to your opponent. Brock Lesnar is often cited as being too rough with his opponents, just watch the opening few minutes of his bout with John Cena at Extreme Rules 2012 to watch Lesnar open up Cena's head UFC style. Granted, Cena probably agreed to it but still, that's pretty hardcore. He isn't however, a danger to anyone else, the only major botch he had was a now infamous shooting star press attempt in which he severely injured his own neck. Others include JBL, mainly for the incident in which he beat up The Blue Meanie for no apparent reason in a huge free for all brawl at a pay per view, Owen Hart for dropping Steve Austin on his head and seriously shortening his career and then never apologising for it, Goldberg for similar reason to Lesnar, Sin Cara who is only really a danger to himself and Sabu for very much the same reason, the man even having torn open his own bicep on a broken table. Our last honorable mention is CM Punk, what with his recent issues with creative, we've concluded that his grievances come from a place of professional pride rather than greed as most backstage complications tend to: he walked away from a LOT of money because he was unhappy with creative and we think that speaks to his artistic integrity as opposed to any sort of need to be the top guy for the sake of a big pay packet. As stated before, all these names are ones that crop up when discussing this topic with wrestling fans, but we feel they are unjustified. The real ten troublemakers lie ahead.