You do not, under any circumstances, want to p*** Bob Holly off. From around his return from major neck surgery in 2004, Bob Holly took it upon himself to become a locker room leader. After ten years with the company, he had certainly earned the right. Even before Bob started policing the backstage area, he was trying to separate the men from the boys during his infamous appearance on the second season of Tough Enough. When the prospective wrestlers weren't taking their training seriously enough, Holly (who had a broken neck at the time) got in the ring and worked extremely, erm, snug with them, giving Matt Cappotelli a black eye and a bloody lip. In late 2004 Holly also roughed up Rene Dupree during a tag match on a house show. Dupree had gotten a speeding ticket while driving Bob's rental car and, after neglecting to tell him, Holly had his licence suspended and a warrant issued for his arrest. Holly warned Dupree that he was going to come after him and, sure enough, he did, laying in some very real punches in the ring and then in the backstage area after the match. Holly also threw Ken Kennedy out of the locker room during the European tour in November 2005. Kennedy had neglected to thank the participants of a battle royal (one of which was Bob) for putting him over, which is the first thing you do after any match. Holly physically ejected Kennedy from the locker room, uttering the phrase 'get the f*** out of my locker room, you don't dress here until I say you can'. All of this and more is detailed in Holly's tell-all 2013 autobiography The Hardcore Truth. Holly also allegedly told Lance Storm to 'f*** off' once after the retired Canadian had told one of his former trainees to ignore a sentence that was handed to him by Holly and JBL in Wrestler's Court. Also in 2005, Holly threatened to beat up Matt Striker for comments that Striker had made about the Smackdown crew (he was coming over from Raw at the time). The Smackdown locker room was a dangerous place to be in the mid-2000s, and Holly wasn't the only wrestler doing things like this. He had help.
