10 Wrestlers Who Were Hated By The Locker Room
5. The Outsiders
In the 1980s, the WWF locker room actively loved working shows that Hulk Hogan headlined. He was a gigantic draw, and the money trickled down to their envelopes.
It was an altogether different time in the 1990s; Kevin Nash and Scott Hall were massive draws, but they could barely be bothered to work house shows. Eric Bischoff has claimed on 83 Weeks that this decision was purely storyline: how would it look, were the renegade Outsiders promoted ahead of time?
Regardless of where the truth lies, Nash and Hall weren't exactly popular amongst the locker room. Not only did they smirk at their own rep as aloof, work-shy stars, they actively antagonised the wrestlers whose hard-bumping performances set the tone on those halcyon Mondays.
Hall was considered the more abrasive of the two; when he wasn't pissing on Chris Benoit's boots, just because he had the power to do it, he, for no reason at all other than pitiful jealousy, told Chris Jericho that he shouldn't bother working long matches. Do five minutes and f*ck off; nobody is there to see you.
And while Nash has evolved into a beloved meme figure for his piss-funny shoot interviews and self-deprecating social media presence, he was loathed back then, too: Eddie Guerrero famously despised him, even going as far as to call his ego-centric booking "evil".