10 WWE stars who disliked each other initially 

WWE stars work for years for the chance to be part of the company. Whilst wrestling is a very lonely business since only one star can be at the top at any one time, it's actually a team sport.

Wrestlers rely on each other in the ring to put on a good show and if they don't then it's hard to tell any kind of story. Of course, with any job, there are some employees who don't get along and find it hard when they are forced to work together.

Over the years there have been many stars who disliked working together in a WWE ring, but there are a handful of stars who disliked each other initially before becoming friends.

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#5. Billie Kay and Peyton Royce

Billie Kay and Peyton Royce have become a formidable team in both NXT and on WWE's main roster over the past few years. The former Women's Tag Team Champions have worked together throughout their WWE careers, so it's hard to believe that at one point the two women didn't actually get along.

Billie Kay spoke to Lilian Garcia on Chasing Glory back in 2018 where she confirmed that Kay and Royce knew each other in high school but they didn't like each other.

“We trained together at the same school. We went to the same high school. We had known each other. We had a little mini feud. We didn’t really like each other at first because we were the only two wrestling fans at our school, so we used to compete on who was the biggest fan. We used to see each other lining up to meet all the Superstars when they would come over to Australia. We really didn’t like each other at first. I was like, ‘She thinks she’s a bigger wrestling fan than me, oh sure her.’ We would line up for hours and hours meeting Rey Mysterio one time at a shopping center near us. She started training at the company I was at and as soon as we met we had this connection and this bond that is really indescribable. We became connected straight away.”

Luckily, the two women began working together in WWE rather than competing against one another and have now been able to become The IIconics.

#4. The Miz and Maryse

The Miz and Maryse are currently WWE's It Couple. The duo has their own reality TV show and has recently welcomed two children. Whilst Miz and Maryse seem to have a picture-perfect marriage, the couple didn't get off to the best of starts since Maryse confessed that she hated The Miz when she first met him.

Maryse auditioned for the WWE Diva Search back in 2006 and The Miz was one of the judges. Maryse didn't speak a lot of English at that time and The Miz made her life hard throughout the audition.

“He was so mean to me,” Maryse told WrestleTalk “Oh my God. I couldn’t speak English, and he was rubbing it in my face. He was just like, "You can’t speak English. What are you doing here? You can’t work with the biggest sports entertainment company in the world if you don’t speak a word of English."

The couple later went on to work together on WWE TV a few years later, which allowed them to bond and later start dating.

#3. Chris Jericho and Goldberg

Goldberg was a huge star throughout his time in WCW and was pitched to work a program with Chris Jericho. Y2J himself told DirtSheetNetwork this would have been a disaster because the star didn't want to do it since he saw Jericho as a Cruiserweight and not on his level.

When Goldberg came to WWE, Jericho was told that the former WCW star was buying him to other stars in the locker room and decided that he was going to stop that rumor as soon as it started.

Jericho confronted Goldberg in the locker room and told him that this is a different world and Goldberg accused him of burying him online. Goldberg put his hand on the former WWE Champion's throat and the argument turned physical until the whole fight was broken up by a number of guys in the dressing room.

Jericho later admitted that this was Goldberg's first week in WWE and he felt bad for him because he didn't want to fight him. The two men have since put their issues behind them and now respect one another and their in-ring work.

#2. Alexa Bliss and Sasha Banks

Alexa Bliss and Sasha Banks came through the ranks in NXT together and had numerous matches in developmental against one another before they both became stars on the main roster.

The two women then stepped into a feud on WWE TV where rumors began to surface about their real-life dislike for one another. Banks even went on to take a dig at Alexa Bliss in an interview with Pete Rosenberg, where The Boss made it clear that she had no desire to work with Bliss in the future, but would if she was told to by WWE.

Banks also took a dig at Bliss's wrestling ability by claiming that "I think I am really good at what I do". There have been a number of back and forths between The Boss and The Goddess over the years.

Banks and Bliss have since become two of the best-known female stars of the current generation and have since worked together numerous times on WWE TV without any issues. This means that the two women have found a way to put their issues behind them.

#1. Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder

Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins worked together for a number of years as a team and seemed to have incredible chemistry in the ring, so it's hard to believe that there was a time when The Major Brothers actually hated one another.

Whilst speaking to The SunSport back in 2019, Ryder revealed that when he and the former WWE star first met they actually hated each other, but they were able to bond over action figures.

"At first we hated each other – there was competition. We looked the same, we were the same age, had the same body type. But someone had the idea: ‘You look alike, so why not be a tag team?’ To be honest I don’t think anyone gets into the business to be tag team wrestlers. I certainly didn’t – I wanted to be WWE Champion. But we both loved wrestling and we loved wrestling action figures, so we bonded over that.

Ryder and Hawkins have since gone on to win WWE Tag Team Championships together and Ryder was an integral part of Hawkins' defeated streak storyline, so their friendship has worked out well for both men.