10 Wrestlers Who Were Insulted By WWE Roles They Were Offered

Wrestling is one big simmering pot of ideas, and it occasionally boils over.

If that wordplay doesn't work for you and you now want to take said pot and thump this writer over the head with it, then you'll empathise with some of the workers here. They were left insulted, frustrated and sometimes totally disillusioned by what WWE's creative team (or Vince McMahon himself) had in mind for them, and they wanted to vent.

A few did just that in shoot interviews after the fact, but not everybody ended up losing out. In fact, there's only one example here of a wrestler knocking back WWE's suggestion and then dropping right down the pecking order because of it. To be fair, others had to leave the company completely to stop that from being their fate too.

McMahon is used to getting his own way - when he green-lights a creative team decision or comes up with it himself, then he typically expects wrestlers to shut up and get on with it. That's pretty unrealistic in an industry full of so much ego, character and opinion...

Give a (dead) guy a break.

The Undertaker was rightly miffed at the WWF during a torturous stretch in the early-to-mid-90s. One of the most popular gimmicks around was handed weak opponent after weak opponent and expected to make the best of it. For example, between 1993-1995, 'Taker had to contend with Giant Gonzales, a doppelgänger, King Kong Bundy and more.

That'd be enough to p*ss anyone off, and even a company man like 'Taker had his breaking point. Bruce Prichard once admitted on his 'Something To Wrestle With' pod that his pal cornered him backstage, sighed and asked why the heck he was repeatedly asked to make magic with such a string of duffers when he was capable of so much more.

So, almost-hilariously, the company programmed him against another one. 'King' Mabel was someone Vince had stupidly high hopes for, and it was The Undertaker who had to try and give the big lump some worthwhile matches.