10 Wrestlers Who Were Kicked Out Of The Locker Room

Few jobs go well if colleagues can't coexist. Even more so when your colleagues are respect-obsessed professional wrestlers.

It's not the dream of many aspiring wrestlers to make such a bad impression on their peers that they're not even permitted to be around them. But then why would the living nightmare of labyrinthian backstage etiquette feature in anybody's dreams?

Wrestling is full of unwritten rules that must be followed to the letter that doesn't technically exist. A total minefield for newcomers, inexperienced extras or those on the wrong end of ribs, there are fewer crimes greater in a locker room than the perceived lack of respect that comes with not shaking the right hand or sitting in the right seat from your first day onwards.

The industry, at least through the all-seeing lenses of the WWE Network documentary team and what we're able to gleam about AEW from the likes of Being The Elite, just looks a more relaxed place than it used to. Perhaps all the platitudes are dying out with the performers that proffered it, but plenty of those have passed along lessons.

God forbid those new locker room leaders disrespect the old d*ckheads by not being d*ckheads themselves, eh?

It's perhaps the most famous of all these tales, not least because of the before and after fame of the victim.

Landing in WWE having previously been a reality TV star did Mike Mizanin no favours, especially considering the loudmouth persona he'd protrayed just to get in the door in the first place. It barely stayed behind the scenes - John Bradshaw Layfield was a SmackDown announcer at the time and made no secret of the loathing he harboured towards the future WWE Champion whenever he appeared on-screen.

But it was fellow locker room steward Chris Benoit who Miz fell most a-fowl of after a regrettable incident involving...chicken.

Unaware of the rules of where to sit and what to do when he first arrived on the heavily policed B-show, Miz supposedly ate some chicken too close to Benoit's bag. 'The Crippler' b*llocked him for it, but the 'The A Lister' errantly saw the whole thing as a bit of fun, and ignored it.

Predictably, this escalated things and he was later loudly castigated by Benoit before being relegated to changing in corridors and quiet corners for the better part of his first year on the brand.