10 Dumbest Reasons Wrestlers HATE Each Other For Real
7. Brian Pillman & The Undertaker
Rooted partly in conjecture from the era, but also addressed in Liam O'Rourke's excellent 2017 "Crazy Like A Fox" biography, The Undertaker and Brian Pillman were quietly at odds during the time the two shared a WWE locker room between 1996 and 'The Loose Cannon's untimely death in 1997.
The reasons? The same as usual; money, and The Undertaker's pathetic machismo bullsh*t everybody used to tug themselves blind over.
'The Deadman' was one of several colleagues who were less than impressed that Pillman had earned himself a sweet deal upon signing for the company in June '96. Typical of wrestlers - and in his case, one that should know better - Undertaker took issue with the man that had scored the great deal rather than his beloved boss that had been the one to sign the cheques. Others suffered similar grief at the time, but the hypocrisy of finding such fault within a system you're encouraged (and motivated) to game from your first day is obvious under the lightest scrutiny.
Pillman, to his immense credit, didn't give that much of a toss about it. Deferring again to O'Rourke's well-researched tome, the former Hollywood Blonde considered the locker room leader a "phony" and "fake biker" who never proved his toughness despite the size of the chip on his shoulder. Or maybe that was just a big gun, or a knife, it being the good old days and all.