5 little-known WWE backstage disagreements

#3 WWE director Bruce Prichard and Simon Dean

Bruce Prichard has an important role these days in WWE. The Executive Director positions that were given to Paul Heyman (RAW) and Eric Bischoff (SmackDown) in 2019 no longer exist. Prichard has essentially taken over both jobs, which means he now works alongside Vince McMahon as one of WWE’s top creative decision-makers.

As well as his WWE role, Prichard discusses his three decades in the wrestling business on his Something to Wrestle With podcast. Over 20 of those years were spent working in WWE, so Prichard has told plenty of stories about past and present WWE Superstars.

One of his most interesting recent stories came during the WWE No Mercy 2005 episode, which aired on October 9, 2020.

The No Mercy event featured a Bobby Lashley squash match against Simon Dean (aka Nova). Prichard’s podcast co-host, Conrad Thompson, mentioned that Dean famously made a derogatory remark about Prichard (01:06:00 in the video above):

“I’d take a bullet for Dr. Tom [Tom Prichard, Bruce’s brother] and put one in Bruce.”

Prichard did not know he had heat with Dean until that quote was brought up one time in a shoot interview. The WWE director added that he hardly worked with Dean, if at all, and he has no idea why there should be any animosity.