10 Wrestlers Who Were Hated By The Locker Room

When the heat is nuclear, featuring Shane McMahon's favourite wrestler: Shane McMahon!

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WWE

Wrestling is polluted by d*ckheads.

Some seem nice from afar, but be wary of developing parasocial relationships with them. Firstly, because it is incredibly weird behaviour, but also, a lot of wrestlers are d*ckheads.

On a certain level, you almost have to be a d*ckhead to be a pro wrestler. Parading yourself in trunks, pretending to be a badass, giving yourself nicknames that are variations of "I'm better at the thing I do than any of the schlubs I share a locker room with" and "Aren't I incredibly sexy, everybody wants to suck me off"?

It's truly narcissistic behaviour.

The platform for this bragging, which itself rubs other wrestlers the wrong way, if they begin to live the gimmick, is the catalyst for conflict outside of the ring. If you're a complete stiff who doesn't know their ar*ehole from their elbow, and you unintentionally hurt your opponent (or massacre, in the case of Nia Jax), you're not likely to be invited on any vlogs any time soon. You run the risk of being branded a "sh*t disturber", which incidentally must make its way back into the wrestling lexicon post-haste.

But how much of a d*ckhead do you have to be to piss off an entire locker room...?

10. Shane McMahon

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Imagine you're at the office.

You beaver away at your intensive duties, frantically inputting keystrokes under immense pressure. You're overworked, your boss is wildly erratic and temperamental. You dreamed of this your whole life, but the word "reality" strikes rather too sobering a chord. As bad as it gets, there's one day worth the commute. It's your biggest day, one in which your efforts are finally rewarded with resounding feedback to an elusive, meaningful task.

Imagine now that you don't actually get to go to work on this day because a man who barely bothers to turn up most of the year - but is on considerably more money - takes your seat. He boots his computer up, mashes the screen because he can't even direct his fingers towards the keyboard, and takes a break after two minutes because the process of going to work is clearly beyond him. But, admiring his own efforts nonetheless, he screams "That'ssickohf*ckyeahyouguysI'msosickman".

Also, he's allowed to do this because he's the manager's kid.

This would piss you off, so naturally, the WWE locker room was reportedly unanimous in their fury of Shane McMahon at this year's infamous Royal Rumble PPV.

The man surveyed Riddle and said "If I was in UFC, this jabron wouldn't even be in my weight class" before deciding a fist-fight with Brock Lesnar was more his speed.

He couldn't even jump up to get eliminated, which was literally sack of sh*t levels of useless.

 
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