7. Walking Out On WWE In 2010, Criticized Product While Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D2fulVqmQc During The Rocks time away from a WWE ring, he always spoke positively about his time in the company and about how much he respected the business. He obviously has great reasons for this: hes a third-generation superstar who owes a fair amount of his early movie success to his wrestling career. Also, a lot of wrestling fans will go see a movie just because hes in it. Any added buzz helps. While Batista also genuinely respects the business and is grateful for the opportunities it gave him, he left the company in a huff in 2010 and lashed out against the product several times. He created a Twitter account and immediately criticized WWE. While a lot of fans probably agree with his criticisms (the PG stuff can be brutal at times), it looks like he was that grumpy former star who then came back for a paycheck, not because he wants that one last good run.
Scott Carlson
Contributor
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
See more from
Scott