10 Pro Wrestling Stablemates Who Hated Each Other

While a stable may look harmonious and work like a well-oiled machine in the ring, things are not always rosy behind the curtain.

In an ego-driven business like professional wrestling, egos are bound to get in the way and personalities often clash when three or more performers are asked to coexist. 

These are 10 Pro Wrestling Stablemates Who Hated Each Other.

10. Juventud Guerrera & The Rest Of The Mexicools

The Mexicools - that’s Juventud Guerrera, Psicosis and Super Crazy - were signed and sent to SmackDown in the Summer of 2005 to help freshen up the blue brand’s stagnant Cruiserweight division. 

It didn’t take Juventud long to win the Cruiserweight Title and alienate his colleagues – including his fellow luchadores. The Juice’s ego is legendary and, though, he was quite obviously a mid-card act that WWE didn’t really devote much time or effort to, Guerrera believed he should have been pushed like The Rock. 

This, coupled with him showing up late, being unreliable, and having a generally bad attitude led to Psicosis and Super Crazy distancing themselves from Juventud, who at one point was so isolated that the only person who would ride with him was the laidback ‘Cowboy’ Bob Orton.

Crazy and Psicosis (the latter of which had had a tenuous relationship with Juvy for years) actually went to WWE management and asked to be split from him, out of fear that they may lose their jobs due to being guilty by association. Guerrera himself was released shortly after causing one headache too many.

9. Kevin & Lance Von Erich

Thanks to The Iron Claw film, many are now familiar with the tragic tale of the Von Erich family. One subplot that was dropped from the movie, however, was the saga of Lance Von Erich. 

Back in the mid-1980s, Lance Von Erich was played by aspiring grappler William Kevin Vaughan in World Class Championship Wrestling. 

Fritz’s kayfabe nephew had been brought into the territory to wrestle in place of Mike Von Erich, who had been diagnosed with toxic shock syndrome. The rest of the Von Erichs were against the idea since it would mean lying to and breaking the trust of their rabid fans, but Fritz persisted until Vaughan eventually left World-Class over money issues. 

Kevin was the most vocal naysayer at the time and continued to bury Lance for a perceived lack of passion and ability for years afterwards in interviews. The feelings thawed and Kevin did eventually reach out to his fake sibling via email, essentially thanking him for helping out the family when he did, while apologising for the heat and wishing him the best for the future. 

8. Rick Rude & Shawn Michaels

While many fans (and often WWE themselves) point to the trio of Shawn Michaels, Triple H and Chyna as being the ‘original’ D-Generation X, it’s certainly worth remembering that Rick Rude was also in the mix at the beginning as DX’s ‘insurance policy’. 

Ravishing Rick’s stoic, suit-and-tie style was noticeably at odds with the other members’ approach, and it wasn’t just in front of the camera that Rude and Michaels had their differences. 

There’s plenty of rumour and innuendo that suggests Rude wasn’t a fan of being around The Heartbreak Kid at the time due to his close friendship with the staunch anti-HBK Bret Hart. Indeed, Rude was so incensed over the Montreal Screwjob that he decided to jump to WCW, famously appearing on both a taped Raw and live Nitro on the same night. 

During his Nitro promo, Rude made sure to throw a couple of barbs at Michaels during his worked-shoot promo.

7. Santana & Ortiz

Santana and Ortiz may be best known as a tag team, but they also have a history of being in factions together. 

In TNA, they were members of the rebooted LAX, while in AEW they were part of Chris Jericho’s Inner Circle. 

It was while riding the coattails of Le Champion that Santana and Ortiz seemingly started to have issues with one another and things only got worse from there. The beef between them got so bad that, according to mutual friend Konnan, there was almost a fight between Santana and Eddie Kingston about it after Blood and Guts 2022. 

Not only were there hinted-at professional disagreements over whether to remain a team or pursue singles careers, but Santana admitted that there were a lot of personal issues between the pair as well. 

Reality was, ultimately, incorporated into the fantasy, with Proud N’ Powerful breaking up and feuding with each other, which ended with Santana beating Ortiz in a No Disqualification match that proved to be Santana’s AEW swansong. 

Despite their personal issues, both men agreed to be professionals and work together for the sake of business. 

6. The Godfather & Steven Richards

It was a stroke of genius to take sponsor-unfriendly characters Val Venis and The Godfather, have them renounce their deviant ways and join moral crusaders the Right to Censor in the fight against filth. 

Though Charles Wright’s playful pimp may have become The Goodfather, the man himself was genuinely very upset at the gimmick change and even threatened to quit the company at one point. 

According to the man himself, he took his frustrations out on RTC’s white-socks-wearing leader Steven Richards, going as far as to admit that he ‘bullied’ the former ECW star despite the fact he knew his own plight had nothing to do with Richards personally.

Realising his role in the backstage pecking order, Richards didn’t give as good as he got and mostly just took the abuse, which extended to Wright’s clique the BSK. 

Stevie wasn’t happy about it, obviously, and spent the Right to Censor run depressed and bitter at the way he was being treated (while also having no real clue why it was happening to him). 

Richards has since said that, while he now understands where the WWE Hall of Famer was coming from, it still wasn’t right.

5. Raven & Stevie Richards

Stevie Richards had experience when it came to being in a stable where one of the members had it in for him. Years prior to his WWE run, Richards was a member of Raven’s Nest in ECW and then Raven’s Flock in WCW. 

Things got off to a frosty start when an enthusiastic Richards introduced himself and vowed to work hard and do his best in the role, only for Raven to blow him off. 

Richards realised rather quickly that the stable’s leader was, in his own words, a ‘jerk-off’. He wanted the more experienced Scott Levy to be a mentor and help his career, but Raven was not interested in that and had his own substance abuse issues to deal with.

Stevie was Raven’s lackey not just in the storyline, but also on the road, and would do things like drive him around and carry his bags in the hope of learning about the business. It didn’t really work as he’d like, with Raven continuing to browbeat and throw Richards under the bus at every opportunity, making Stevie miserable. 

Their relationship was, thankfully, a lot better when their paths crossed later in TNA.

4. Luke Harper & Erick Rowan

You may assume that being tall, bearded blokes who love professional wrestling might help two people become fast friends. According to Wyatt Family members Luke Harper and Erick Rowan, they were not kindred spirits and spent a long time resentful of one another, however. 

Per Harper, he didn’t appreciate that they were ‘forced’ to room together on the road, citing Rowan’s intense snoring as the source of many restless nights. 

Rowan confirmed that he, too, did not like his stablemate and noted that they frequently butted heads backstage. However, over time they became closer, with Bray Wyatt’s calming presence helping to ease tensions and get them back on track when things came to a boil.

Towards the end of the Wyatt Family’s run and before they successfully partnered as the Bludgeon Brothers, Harper and Rowan came to the realisation that they would always be ‘stuck together’ and decided to make the best of it, eventually becoming genuinely close friends.

3. Paul Roma & The Rest Of The Four Horsemen

On WWE’s Four Horsemen DVD profile, there are two minutes dedicated to completely burying Paul Roma, who joined the illustrious group in 1993. 

A host of talking heads deride Roma as the worst Horsemen ever, a sentiment that is echoed by founding members Ric Flair and Arn Anderson. Flair and Double A criticised Roma’s lack of star power and charisma, concluding that he should have never been given the opportunity to throw up the famous four fingers. 

According to Roma, though, Flair was jealous of him because he was younger and had a better body, meaning he stole away some of Flair's spotlight in the nightclub. With regards to The Enforcer (who called Roma nothing more than a ‘glorified gym rat’), the former WCW Tag Team Champion likened his physique to the Pillsbury Doughboy.

Roma has been especially critical of Flair, going so far as to (in as many words) challenge him to a fight.

2. Bobby Heenan & The Red Rooster

Bobby Heenan was such a good and accomplished manager that, by the time he was in full flow in mid-to-late 1980s WWE, he could get just about anyone over. Not everyone, though. 

The Brain had a loose group of wrestlers he called ‘The Heenan Family’. Though they may not have been a stable in the traditional sense, members did occasionally team up and were linked by their connection with the brilliant Bobby. 

Among the future Hall of Famers he managed, however, there was a notable outlier in the feathery form of The Red Rooster. In the storyline, Heenan was determined to take the clueless clucker from the bottom to the top, but behind the scenes, The Brain did not like being paired with Terry Taylor. 

In his book and in shoot interviews, Heenan derided the Red Rooster character, which he called ‘an embarrassment’, while also offering a less-than-flattering assessment of Taylor as a performer. 

He also claimed that Taylor lied to him over trivial things when the two later worked together in WCW. Taylor, for his part, never fully hit back at Heenan but admitted his relationship with Heenan was ‘strained’.

1. Ahmed Johnson & Faarooq

Once viewed as a potential future WWE Champion, Ahmed Johnson torpedoed his own pro-wrestling career due to being an injury-prone heat magnet. 

Many who shared a locker room with the Pearl River powerhouse during the 1990s have attested to his arrogant demeanour and penchant for rubbing people the wrong way. 

One of those people was Ron Simmons. The tension between the two carried over into the ring, with both men working noticeably stiff in matches together. 

According to Ahmed, Simmons gave him a hard kick to the midsection during a run-in one time, which led to Johnson needing to take a few months off to recuperate. 

From Ahmed’s account, he got his receipt when they clashed in a six-man street fight at WrestleMania 13, the bad blood persisting as Johnson was added to the Nation of Domination. 

That addition didn’t last, but Ahmed and Faarooq’s dislike for each other did and they continued warring in the months that followed, which included another Simmons-administered beating at a Madison Square Garden house show. 

Johnson didn’t last long after that, with much of the locker room happy to see him go.