When a WWE employee leaves the company for good or bad, they always have something to reveal. Often, the most newsworthy information comes from those former wrestlers, announcers and others who have been wronged by the company. However, not all ex-WWE family members have a gripe against their former employers.

The WWE's secrets make for great reading and listening. Bruce Prichard's Something to Wrestle With podcast, and others like it, benefit from the hosts pulling back the curtain. It truly makes for great listening, and when Prichard is forthcoming with information, he sheds light on a lot of backstage events. Some of wrestling's biggest moments have so many interesting backstories, and many times secrets are uncovered that paint talent and management in different lights.

Along with the rise in wrestling podcasts, more and more wrestling books are telling stories fans would never have heard before. Mick Foley's 2000 book Have a Nice Day, opened a door that had been closed by kayfabe. Go to Amazon or any other bookseller and you will find hundreds of wrestling books from ex-grapplers to fans who have never taken a bump in their lives.

Of course, learning the shocking details about a wrestler, angle or the WWE is a true gem of information. These 15 wrestlers have shared some information that the WWE may not want to be known. At least not by their hardcore fans.

15 CM Punk Alleges Medical Misdiagnosis

CM Punk's 2014 Art of Wrestling podcast shed light on his departure from the WWE. It also left him open to a lawsuit after making claims of malpractice against the WWE's doctor Chris Amman. According to Punk, Amman continually misdiagnosed a staph infection that could have resulted in the grappler's death. Amman continually gave Punk an antibiotic known as Z-Pak, which resulted in the wrestler pooping his trunks during a match. Punk says another doctor finally diagnosed the staph infection and treated it properly. Punk also claims Amman and WWE's concussion tests were flawed, and he wasn't treated correctly when he suffered head trauma. Since the 2014 appearance on AOW, Punk, show host Colt Cabana and Amman have reportedly been tangled in a lawsuit. In late 2017, Cabana - another ex-WWE employee – stated it is costing him a lot of money.

14 Scott Steiner And Inconsistent Testing

In 2002, as ex-WCW wrestlers joined the WWE's ranks, the company decided to enforce its wellness policy. Scott Steiner was one of the grapplers asked for a test sample. However, Steiner wasn't on board with the WWE's request. Steiner told the company he would only be tested if Triple H was tested too. The WWE immediately backed off their request, according to Steiner. In 2016, Brock Lesnar failed a UFC substance test. In the wake of his failure and subsequent ban, the WWE stated it didn't hold part-time wrestlers like Lesnar to the same stringent substance tests. Steiner's admission that the WWE didn't follow up on their request nor did they test Triple H continues to show a lacklustre Wellness Policy and substance testing regime.

13 Bret Hart Pulls Footage From WWE Network

There is a lot of bad blood between the WWE and Bret Hart. The Montreal Screwjob was just the start of the problem. Shortly thereafter, Bret's little brother Owen Hart passed away during a WWE pay-per-view event. According to Bret, he appeared on a 2005 DVD about his career to stop the company from burying him. That same year, the WWE released a DVD about The Ultimate Warrior that painted the wrestler in a poor light. Bret wanted to avoid the same fate as numerous interviews featured wrestlers the Canadian had heat with.

More recently in 2017, it was revealed that Bret and the WWE were at odds once more. The WWE had posted video footage of a Canadian wrestling company Stampede Pro Wrestling on the WWE Network. Turns out, Bret owns the footage after his late father Stu Hart – the former owner of Stampede – gave him all the rights to the content. Bret has stated the WWE never paid Stu the money for the footage.

12 Raven Sues For WWE Network Royalties

The WWE has stated that due to the WWE Network not being a physical product that can be sold in stores, they do not have to pay royalties to wrestlers featured on it. This hasn't stopped former WWE wrestler Raven from seeking payment. In 2017, Raven filed a lawsuit against the WWE seeking unpaid royalties for his match footage from ECW, WCW and the WWE. It is the second lawsuit Raven has brought against the company in recent years. The first was over his WWE contract verbiage and the lack of medical insurance coverage. After the WWE fought Raven in court and the statute of limitations ended on the first lawsuit, Raven claimed the judge was most likely paid off by the WWE. Raven wasn't the first wrestler to make that claim, and he probably won't be the last.

11 Jesse Ventura Tried To Unionize The Locker Room

Jesse "The Body" Ventura is more well-known today for being a former Minnesota governor and conspiracy theory crackpot than as an ex-WWE employee. However, Ventura had a run in the mid-1980s and was destined to be a top heel. However, a life-threatening blood clot in his lungs took him out of the ring and to the announce table. Ventura has had a strained relationship with the WWE and it all began when he attempted to unionize the locker room for better pay and healthcare benefits. According to Ventura, Hulk Hogan went to Vince McMahon and told him about the future governor's plan. Ventura hasn't been the only former WWE wrestler who has talked about unionizing the boys. "Rowdy" Roddy Piper spoke about the importance of healthcare for the wrestlers in the years leading up to his death. CM Punk has also spoken about a wrestler union.

10 Kamala Alleges Inappropriate Conduct With Ringboys

In 2014, James Harris, the man who portrayed the Kamala gimmick for decades, made a revelation about Vince McMahon and the WWE. In his book, Harris wrote about substance test failures being covered up by the company. However, Harris made an even more alarming allegation about WWE employees having inappropriate physical relationships with boys. The allegations of the WWE having employees abuse ringboys or male ring attendants wasn't new when Harris made the claim. The scandal engulfed the WWE in the early 1990s and caused Pat Patterson and others to lose their jobs. "Rowdy" Roddy Piper even made loose accusations in the years prior to his death. Although Piper's behaviour could have been seen as erratic with the way he acted in shoot interviews and on podcasts, several wrestlers from the 1980s have told stories of abuse to young people in the back of arenas.

9 Shoot Fights

Jake Hager, better known to most WWE fans as Jack Swagger, was an All-American amateur wrestler at Oklahoma University. Hager now wrestlers on the indie circuit after leaving the WWE in 2017. He is also signed to Bellator and big things are expected from the wrestler. Hager says he felt like he was the toughest wrestler in the locker room. His confidence was so high that he pitched the idea of a shoot fight to the WWE. Hager told them they could pick the opponent. The company declined, and Hager thinks it was possibly because they didn't think he could win. Hager is now planning to fight twice a year inside the octagon while wrestling as a weekend warrior the remainder of the time. Hager is currently under a six-fight contract with Bellator.

8 Miz Banned From The Locker Room

Former WWE superstar John Morrison has gone on to have a solid career after leaving the company. Morrison isn't shy about sharing stories from his time with the WWE. One story he has shared is about former WWE wrestler Chris Benoit kicking Miz out of the locker room. It was a ban that lasted for six months. Miz was eating chicken in the WWE locker room while standing over referee Scott Armstrong's bag. New to the company, Miz had already accumulated nuclear heat with the boys. Seeing Miz's faux pas, Benoit promptly kicked the wrestler out of the changing room. Morrison says that Miz still dressed in the hallways after Benoit's death in 2007 rather than with the rest of the boys. Miz had to be invited back into the locker room, which he eventually was by The Undertaker.

7 Bruce Prichard And Hulk Hogan's Hairline

Bruce Prichard often pulls back the curtain on certain aspects of the WWE during his time with the company. Prichard was Vince McMahon's right-hand man for 28 years, before Stephanie fired him in 2008. According to Prichard, the WWE had a policy about filming Hulk Hogan during matches in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Camera personnel were not to shoot the Hulkster receding hairline, and if they did, it was to be edited out in post-production. The WWE didn't want Hogan to look older than he actually was. Prichard also confessed Hogan's 1988 fist helmet was designed as a way to take eyes off his hair. It didn't really work as the Hulkster looked ridiculous in the gimmick.

6 Tony Schiavone Wanted To Go Back To The WWE

Tony Schiavone has one of the most downloaded wrestling podcasts in the world. On a 2017 episode of his What Happened When show, he spoke about his time in the WWE. Schiavone holds the company in great esteem. The former WCW announcer regularly talks about his biggest regret in the business, which was leaving the WWE in 1990. Schiavone was initially brought in as a play-by-play announcer the year prior. However, it was obvious to Schiavone that Vince McMahon hadn't heard him prior to hiring him. The announcer was later moved into a home video production role, although he did announce sparingly. In 1990, Schiavone decided to return to WCW and within days of arriving in Atlanta, he knew he had made a mistake. Schiavone called McMahon and asked for his job back but was told it wouldn't happen. Regardless, Schiavone remembers his time in the WWE fondly.

5 Muhammad Hussan In Wrestlers' Court

Wrestlers' court is not a new thing and it has been the way that many issues have been settled in the WWE locker room. The offending wrestler is guilty until proven innocent and it isn't often that occurs. Muhammad Hassan was one wrestler summoned to wrestlers' court and punished on at least two occasions. The rookie received a massive push as the WWE capitalized on tensions between non-Muslims and Muslims in 2004 and 2005. Hassan was initially charged with not selling Sgt. Slaughter's offense in a match. It was a bogus claim as Hassan, a 22-year-old monster heel, shouldn't have sold anything from a retired wrestler who was four decades older. Hassan's second offense was to confront Eddie Guerrero for using the camel clutch in a match. The move was Hassan's finisher, but Guerrero used it in the middle of his bout. Hassan's punishment was to cover a $4,000 bar tab the wrestlers racked up after the show.

4 Chris Benoit Was To Be Fired

On June 24, 2007, Chris Benoit's name went down in infamy after it was discovered he had killed his son, wife and himself. A lot of reasons have been given for Benoit's actions including brain trauma, performance enhancer use and conspiracies of other parties being involved. Former WWE World Heavyweight Champion "Psycho" Sid Eudy believes Benoit was suffering from work-related depression. Eudy feels the WWE was on the verge of firing Benoit, who had recently been moved to the failed ECW branded. Coupled with marital problems and being looked down upon by some in the business for taking Kevin Sullivan's wife Nancy "Women" Sullivan, the grappler may have hit a point he couldn't overcome. Whether the WWE was about to fire Benoit or not shouldn't have triggered what the deceased grappler did. But it may have still played a part.

3 Bullying Permitted By Vince McMahon

Justin Roberts revealed a number of secrets about the WWE in his autobiography. Roberts shed light on many of the bullying practices that were allowed to happen to him, and nearly all of them were done by JBL. The bullying was so well-known that even Vince McMahon knew about it, according to Roberts. In a 2017 interview, John Morrison said JBL attempted to get him and tag partner Joey Mercury to take Roberts' passport during a European tour. The duo refused, which landed them heat with JBL. Someone, most likely JBL, took Roberts' ID; which caused Roberts to change all of his travel plans, so he could acquire a new one. Once he had finally returned to the United States, Roberts was approached by McMahon, who laughed as he told the announcer to never forget his passport again.

2 Vince McMahon Out Of Touch

The WWE is often said to be out of touch with what wrestling fans want. It makes sense as the WWE is run from a wealthy Connecticut town that has little in common with the rest of America. In a 2013 interview, former WWE Creative Team member Dan Madigan let everyone know just how out of touch the WWE's owner Vince McMahon is. The team of writers proposed an angle in which The Big Show would be poisoned by a spiked burrito. According to Madigan, when McMahon heard the idea, he replied, "Burrito? Who the hell knows what a burrito is?" Turns out, McMahon ate burritos most days for lunch, but he wasn't being ironic. Stories like this again show how out of touch the WWE is and just why it continues to lose fans and ratings.

1 David Schultz Isn't Fake

"Dr D." David Schultz was blackballed from wrestling in the late 1980s after slapping 20/20 reporter John Stossel in the face. Stossel was working on an expose about wrestling being fake when WWE officials lined up an interview between Schultz and the reporter at Madison Square Garden. Schultz wasn't the man to ask if wrestling, or in fact Schultz himself, was fake. The grappler was fired not long after the incident despite stating Vince McMahon told him to rough up the reporter. McMahon paid Stossel $425,000 to keep the incident from going to court. According to Schultz in a recent interview with the 6:05 Superpodcast, McMahon then sued him for the same amount of money. It caused a long court battle between the two and Schultz was ready to blow the lid on some WWE secrets that allegedly would have brought down the company. Schultz recently released his first book, Don't Call Me Fake. He stated the WWE had worked to prevent him from writing a book for years, which is why he had to self-publish it. Schultz says in his second book, he plans to release information on the WWE that could cause a firestorm.