While the Wrestlers court is a thing of the past, there have been a couple of people who succeeded him in taking over the reins of the locker room, namely John Cena, and later on, Roman Reigns.

However, there have been multiple occasions where superstars, past and present, have taken a shot at the locker room for whatever reason. The most common jab towards the locker room is complacency. But as you’re going to see, there have been superstars, megastars and even some legends who have outright buried the locker room. Here are five such examples of when it happened.

#5. Batista

Batista got quite a bit of heat in early 2014 when he announced his return and entry into the Royal Rumble. It wasn’t his entry that caused heat, but rather a tweet that stirred up the locker room.

He was in a mini social media feud against Alberto Del Rio, who vowed to eliminate The Animal from the Royal Rumble. They were taking a lot of jabs at one another via Twitter, until Batista put out one particular tweet that may have ruffled quite a few feathers. He said:

Of course, the tweet was unsurprisingly deleted immediately after, but fans caught it before he took it down. That certainly wasn’t a good look for him, and PWInsider reported that he had some backstage heat, with many feeling he buried the whole locker room with one tweet.

#4. Drew McIntyre

Drew McIntyre’s memo since returning to the main roster in 2018 has been to insult the WWE locker room, constantly criticizing them for being complacent and losing the drive that was there when he was around last.

McIntyre used that as a part of his character, but recently, he doubled down on his comments, saying:

He would blame Roman Reigns for that because he reportedly leads “a pack of strays”.

#3. John Cena

That’s right. The former locker room leader and the leader of the Cenation John Cena did not hold back when going off on the locker room. Granted, he was a lot nicer about it than Drew McIntyre was, but even then, it wasn’t exactly pleasant coming from the franchise player. In an interview, he said:

It must be noted that Cena isn’t fully wrong about this. He does belong to a time where superstars would truly step up to the plate and take their opportunities.

#2. Conor McGregor

The biggest megastar in all of MMA Conor McGregor went out of his way to bury the WWE locker room. When asked about WWE, he admitted that there were some “dons” of the business. Despite Ric Flair commenting negatively about McGregor, the former UFC double-champion showed respect to Flair due to his veteran status.

He even called Triple H, Vince McMahon and The Rock “dons”, but didn’t have anything good to say about the rest of the WWE crew. He said:

In other instances, he would go out of his way to insult the former franchise player John Cena. However, Cena, being mature, didn’t bother responding to McGregor.

#1. Triple H

Today, Triple H is one of WWE’s top authority figures, responsible for bringing NXT to the fray and the level that it has become now. However, seven years ago at WrestleMania 28, Triple H had made a rather derogatory speech to the WWE locker room, essentially telling them that he was facing The Undertaker because there wasn’t anyone “good enough” to face him.

As recalled by former WWE announcer Justin Roberts, the incident went as follows:

Roberts said that nobody in the locker room was happy about his comments, but couldn’t say anything because he was the boss. However, Roberts said that The Undertaker was exactly the opposite, and didn’t have a bad word to say about him.

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