4) Ultimate Warrior
The Ultimate Warrior is a name that had issues with a few members of the Kliq throughout their years together working in WWE. In a random video posted online, the Ultimate Warrior unloaded on Kliq members Kevin Nash and Triple H for their backstage politicking and burying of younger talent.
In regards to Kevin Nash, he says that everyone in the wrestling business, including the people working the concession stands, knew the kind of person that he was:
“They know what kind of phony motherf**cker that you are, they know what kind of wicked, nasty, dirty means that you will go to, to hold onto your spot in the organization. Holding other people down”
On Triple H:
“He has done everything within his means to hold young, promising talent down. Totally snuff out entirely their chance at having success in the business”
3) Jim Cornette
Jim Cornette is known as a very old-school type of guy when it comes to the professional wrestling business. You can imagine that he didn’t take too kindly to the Kliq’s infamous ‘Curtain Call’ at Madison Square Garden where they broke character and hugged in the ring. On an episode of his old podcast: Corny’s Drive-Thru, he rips the group for the incident and says that he would have fired Triple H on the spot.
Cornette On Why He Hated The Kliq:
“Yeah, I would have fired [Triple H], because he was an underneath mid card guy at best, that wasn’t necessarily really getting over at that f*****g point like gangbusters. And why the f**k that he would think that he had the status in the community just because he hung around with these guys and rode in a car with them and liked him being around because that way they could preserve their pecking order … There’s a hundred – a thousand other wrestlers who would love to be in Madison Square Garden tonight. And you think that you’re a special motherf****er after being here only a year or 18 months that you can go out … and expose the business?”
He also says that he would have been wary about Shawn Michaels and his loyalty to WWE after the incident:
“I would have said, ‘Okay, his two f**king friends are gone to WCW and they’re going to have some influence because they’ve got these big money contracts.’ They’re going to be pitching him so they can all be together. … My champion—his loyalty is going to be suspect because he’s never proven to be loyal anyway … So while I’ve got him under contract right now, I need to figure out who is going to carry the belt in his place, I need to systematically get that guy over and get him ready to take it off [Michaels] and then I need to start beating the f**k out of this guy to get some other people over on his way out and then get rid of that f**king mental case, too, and then I’ll have much more peace and quiet in my f*****g locker room”
Cornette has also expressed his displeasure with Shawn Michaels in various shoot interviews. It is clear that he wasn’t the biggest fan of the group.
2) Dan Spivey
You might remember Dan Spivey for his two runs with the WWE in the late 1980’s and 1995 (under the gimmick: Waylon Mercy).
Spivey was interviewed by Wrestling Inc where he spoke on a wide variety of topics about his wrestling career. One of the questions was if he felt like the Kliq was against him backstage:
“Yeah, I feel like they were definitely against me. I just thought it was a bad deal and bad for business. We did a tour in Europe and the Harris Brothers beat Shawn Michaels up. I thought that was pretty funny. I never heard the full story”
Spivey admits that he disliked the group for being prima-donnas
“There’s never been anything like that in wrestling before, the whole Kliq thing. I just didn’t like prima-donnas”
We don’t know the full story about what happened with Spivey and the Kliq backstage. It is clear that there were some issues between both sides.
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