10 Untouchable WWE Stars Who Got Special Treatment

Certain WWE wrestlers getting preferential treatment over others in the locker room is nothing new.

Whip out your trusty time machine (everybody has a spare one knocking around the cupboards somewhere, right?), go back in time to even the earliest days of NWA or WWWF glory, and you'll find that gruff territorial promoters prioritised specific workers. World Champions, usually. That's no surprise. Those headliners were the promotion's meal ticket. Speaking of which, they normally shifted thousands of the things and put bums in seats everywhere they went, and that went a long way towards offsetting any private drama that gave bosses a real headache.

Their drawing power was absolutely reflected behind the curtain. Often, top tier talent like Bruno Sammartino or Ric Flair could call some shots and make some demands as they saw fit. If territories didn't acquiesce to it, then they were foolish. Protect those who bring in the business, and all that! 'There's money to be made, and money is the most important thing'. This mindset bled over into modern times, and it only heightened once WWE started printing their own cash during the 1980s Hulkamania/WrestleMania boom period, the cherished 'Attitude Era' revolution and beyond.

Yes, it's still going on today in WWE. Select wrestlers get special treatment for a variety of reasons. Key allies backstage in the office who overlook certain things, powerful job roles that make them Teflon and even romantic relationships helped these workers over the years. Some of them are still benefitting from favouritism. 

Here's who.

2025 Randy Orton would be the first one to admit that he was a complete pain to many during his formative years in WWE. If anything, yesterday's bratty, entitled young punk is exactly the kind of relative newbie today's locker room veteran version of Randy would pull aside and straighten out. Some of the horror stories about Orton from back then would never be tolerated now.

There are tales of Randy throwing his weight around like some high school jock bully, and one claim in particular is gross and unacceptable. You might have heard it. There was a rumour going around that Orton took a dump in a female wrestler's bag backstage. According to ex-Diva Rochelle Loewen, that wasn't true, but she did confirm during the same interview that Randy was a nuisance.

Orton got away with it because he was such a prized asset on the roster. WWE viewed him as one of the young stars they'd build around for years to come, and he bloody well knew it. That's why Randy made a lot of folk’s lives a misery behind the scenes. He’d eventually grow up and quit behaving badly, but not before leaving quite the path of carnage behind him - at one point, Orton even seemingly flexed his influence to get Mr. Kennedy fired in 2009.

John Cena was once incredibly open about how unlikeable “old Randy” was. JC has even been candid during official WWE docs, and didn't mince his words when saying "old Randy" (unlike "new Randy") was a "bit of a d*ck". People change, and Orton changed for the better.

Thank God he did.