10 Wrestlers You Can Tell HATED Working For WWE

3. Braden Walker

Braden Walker
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Braden Walker visibly hated working for WWE. The feeling, you can infer, was mutual. The former 'Wildman', Chris Harris, was a strange WWE phenomenon in that he typified every outsider-comes-to-WWE cliché imaginable.

Non-specific, generic name any wrestler could feasibly be lumbered with? Check: Braden Walker.

Punished for making their name in another promotion by a jerk boyfriend insecure about his new girl's sexual history? Check: Harris starred for TNA, a company WWE perceived - quite rightly, in fairness - as a laughing stock. So why did they bring him in? Just to swing their d*cks around? That, sadly, isn't the joke it was intended to be.

Instructed to recite satirically lame, childish material? Check: Walker in a rare appearance introduced himself to Armando Estrada backstage with a knock-knock joke. "Knock-knock." "Who's there?" "Braden Walker - and I'm gonna beat your brains in!"

Walker knew this material was the pits. He sidled up to Estrada with his hands on his hips, bored, very much in the midst of an existential crisis. Harris to this day receives "Knock-knock/Who's There?/Braden Walker!" chants on the Indies.

It's no wonder Harris hated working for WWE. They utterly destroyed him.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!