Nobody wants to be paired up to work alongside a person they don't like. This is something we learn early on in our schooling, as teachers may not care much about who's friends with who – in fact, they'd oftentimes separate best buddies from each other when it comes to group or pair activities. This too can happen at work, when your boss would put you in a project with someone you despise, and give you two the whole pep talk about your strengths as employees complementing each other. It's a fact of life we often have to deal with, and that also applies in the world of professional wrestling.

Sometimes, these tag teammates or stablemates started out as friends before they got fed up with each other, and sometimes, they weren't friends at all to begin with. Either way, they all got on each other's nerves, and in almost all cases, were working alongside each other in the same tag team or stable, much to their eternal chagrin. We may, however, make some exceptions and include some cases where the heat started when they were no longer teammates or stablemates.

So with that said, here they are – 12 tag teammates and 11 pairs of stablemates who had to grind their teeth and force themselves to work together, despite their dislike or outright hatred for each other.

23 Enzo Amore And Big Cass (Tag Team)

This would probably be cheating it, because there was a time when Eric Arndt and Bill Morrissey, or Enzo Amore and Big Cass to WWE fans, shared a bond of friendship that dated back to their days as teenagers who met while playing pick-up basketball. There wasn't much to suggest that their friendship had deteriorated at the time WWE broke them up on TV, but since they currently appear to be estranged from each other, we're guessing there was at least some tension leading up to their breakup as a tag team.

Allegedly, the straw that broke the camel's back for Amore was the fact that Big Cass wasn't able to finish his match against Enzo due to an ACL tear he suffered during the match. Now that's just cold – wrestlers may be expected to compete in pain, but an ACL tear is a very serious injury that could take you out for months.

22 Rick Rude And Shawn Michaels/Triple H (Stablemates: DX)

On television, "Ravishing" Rick Rude was back in the WWE to serve as the newly formed D-Generation X's "insurance policy." Instead of rocking long hair and taking off his robe to flex his muscles, Rude wasn't an in-ring competitor, as he wore a short hairdo and a business suit, carrying a briefcase as an enforcer to Shawn Michaels and Triple H. In storyline, his goals were in perfect alignment with those of DX, despite his serious, man-of-a-few-words new gimmick. But in real life, he was one of many wrestlers who couldn't stand Michaels, Triple H, and the rest of the Kliq.

The final straw for Rude came during the Montreal Screwjob, as he left for WCW out of loyalty to his friend, Bret Hart. That allowed him to make "history" in a way by appearing on a live Nitro and a taped Raw, all on the same Monday night. Sadly, Rude passed away just a few years later, dying of an alleged prescription drug overdose in 1999 at the young age of 40.

21 La Resistance (Tag Team)

At the tender age of 19, Rene Dupree became the youngest person to ever hold a title in the WWE, as he and Sylvain Grenier, aka La Resistance, became World Tag Team Champions in June 2003, at the Bad Blood pay-per-view. Due to the plethora of forgettable tag teams to sprout like mushrooms in WWE's Ruthless Aggression Era, La Resistance may not be brought up too often by today's wrestling fans, but the kayfabe Frenchmen (and real-life French-Canadians) did quite well for themselves in their foreign heel role.

While La Resistance can also qualify as a stable, due to Robért Conway's later membership, we filed them in the tag team category because, as far as we know, it was only the two original members who had, and still have beef with each other. Dupree kept it short and sweet in his 2015 appearance on The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast, simply saying, "no, I didn't like the guy" when referring to Grenier, and admitting that they no longer talk to each other. Interestingly, Dupree was far more complimentary toward his other prominent tag team partner in the WWE, Kenzo Suzuki, whom he says he enjoyed working with.

20 Stephanie McMahon And Paul Heyman (Stablemates: The Alliance)

Ah, the Invasion angle – a great opportunity for fantastic storytelling that ended up being all about the McMahons, not to mention a gaggle of mostly nondescript WCW mid-carders. Not even the arrival of Paul Heyman could make things interesting, as the man behind the original ECW joined forces with the woman who bought the promotion in storyline, Stephanie McMahon. While they were both on the same page in storyline, nothing could have been farther from the truth in real life.

As both Heyman and Stephanie were strong-willed, experienced members of WWE's creative team, the two butted heads infamously, as Paul E. had no qualms calling BS on some of the Billion Dollar Princess' ideas. That must have made for several uneasy moments onscreen, though they were definitely on opposite sides of the coin many years later in the run-up to Triple H's match against Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam 2012.

19 The Eliminators (Tag Team)

In the early 1990s, Perry Saturn was a nightclub manager when one of his bouncers, George Caiazzo, asked for his assistance in getting into the wrestling business. Not long after, Caiazzo was renamed John Kronus, and he was Saturn’s teammate in The Eliminators – a name Jerry Lawler suggested to the two youngsters because he felt fans wouldn’t get the mythological (and Metallica) references behind the name “Harvesters of Sorrow.” They then steamrolled their way through the indies, eventually ending up in ECW, where they won the company’s Tag Team Championships three times.

While Saturn and Kronus seemed to mesh quite well in the ring, they eventually began to get sick of each other, with Saturn in particular disappointed with what he saw as Kronus’ poor work ethic. Fed up with his former friend’s attitude, Saturn jumped ship to WCW (which, in turn, led to an underwhelming WWE run in the early 2000s), and remained estranged from Kronus until the latter’s death in 2007.

18 Bubba Ray Dudley And Stacy Keibler (Stablemates: The Dudleyz)

The Dudley Boyz are generally thought of as a tag team, if you only consider the two would-be Hall of Famers, Bubba Ray and D-Von Dudley. But with all the storyline brothers they had in ECW, they were definitely a stable in their early days. And thanks to their alliance with Stacy Keibler, who was then known as the "Duchess of Dudleyville," they were briefly a stable during their WWE heyday. That didn't sit well with legendary curmudgeon Bubba Ray, who felt that Keibler didn't deserve to turn their tag team into a faction, as she didn't have much of a wrestling background to begin with, and as he also saw it, didn't have the right attitude for the business.

When time came for Bubba Ray and D-Von to turn on Stacy, Bubba made sure to let his feelings about the Duchess of Dudleyville be known, as the kayfabe brothers powerbombed Keibler through a table. In a recent interview, Bubba Ray put Keibler over as a "nice girl" who eventually learned how to adjust to her role, but he remained as disdainful as ever when he said she's a perfect example of someone "who came up in this business the wrong way."

17 William Regal And Tajiri (Tag Team)

On air, William Regal and Tajiri were already an odd enough couple as it is. Apparently, that was also how it was in real life, as the kayfabe English snob and the Japanese Buzzsaw disagreed on just about everything. And what do we mean by “everything”? As Regal related in a recent WWE Network appearance, it was seemingly trivial things such as Tajiri’s rather odd preference to drive without any music playing. And his apparent dislike for Spam – no, not the dude or lady parts-enhancement ads or “Nigerian prince” emails a lot of us get. Everybody hates that spam. As it turns out, Tajiri hated the popular canned meat, which was something else Regal couldn’t get. (And neither can we.)

Evidently, Tajiri’s odd quirks were enough to drive Regal up the wall (and in total silence, of course). Fortunately, the two are now getting along well, years after their unusual tag team partnership – after all, it wouldn’t make sense for a current WWE employee to shoot extra-hard on an estranged former colleague on a WWE Network show.

16 Buff Bagwell And Scott Steiner (Stablemates: nWo)

To be fair, Buff Bagwell and Scott Steiner are not among the more forgettable members of the nWo. They had the look, the charisma, and the success that eluded so many latter-day members of the stable, and as the faction kept growing, they teamed up in the ring as part of the nWo, arguably more similar on the outset than Big Poppa Pump and his older brother Rick ever were. But as both men had notoriously large egos behind the scenes, they would soon butt heads – no shocker, as neither of them were known to get along well with their tag team partners. (With the exception of Rick Steiner for Scott, of course.)

Although Bagwell and Steiner were originally good friends, and may have reconciled in recent years, they definitely had heat with each other while they were teaming up. Apparently, Bagwell felt that the fame was getting to Steiner's head as he began to enjoy a main event push with his new Big Poppa Pump persona, and if he is to be believed, Steiner might have also been a bit jealous of "The Stuff" having a similarly jacked physique, even if he looked like he could back up his claim of having the "largest awms (arms) in the world"

15 LOD 2005 (Tag Team)

The fans knew it was a bad idea, and as it turns out, Road Warrior Animal himself wasn't a fan of it either. A few years after the untimely death of his longtime friend and tag team partner Hawk, Animal returned to the WWE in 2005, and was partnered with one of the company's worst workers of the time, Jon Heidenreich. As LOD 2005, the new version of the iconic tag team mostly feuded with MNM, briefly had Christy Hemme as their valet (probably a callback to Sunny uncharacteristically managing LOD 2000), and held one Tag Team Championship. By the time Heidenreich was released by WWE early in 2006, Animal was glad that it was over.

Money was the main reason why Animal and Heidenreich had such a testy relationship in their brief time together as a tag team, but things got outright bizarre not long after their run as LOD 2005 ended. Apparently, Heidenreich released a video where he called out Animal's family; this incensed the respected veteran wrestler, who had tried to treat his younger teammate like a protege and a friend, only to be met with a difficult attitude.

14 Raven And Stevie Richards (Stablemates: Raven's Nest/The Flock)

It may have seemed as if Raven enjoyed a good relationship with the weirdos who made up his stables in ECW and WCW. That's why it may be strange to some that Scott Levy didn't get along too well with the man who had impersonated his many gimmicks (Johnny Polo, Scotty Flamingo, Raven) – Stevie Richards.

As the stories suggest, Raven and Richards got into a major backstage incident shortly before the latter was released from WCW, and it may have been because Richards was unhappy with Raven's constant patronizing, and how he'd keep reminding Richards about his comedic role as a low man in Raven's Nest, and later on in The Flock. We're not sure if the heat has completely cooled down in the years since then, but this is yet another example of why Raven had a reputation as a difficult person to deal with backstage.

13 The Soul Patrol (Tag Team)

Rocky Johnson and Tony Atlas, aka The Soul Patrol, made history for the WWE in the early 1980s, becoming the first African-American pair to win the company’s Tag Team Championships. They were popular with the fans and quite charismatic in their own right, though obviously not as electrifying as Johnson’s young son would grow up to be. And they did a great job making kayfabe-era fans believe that all was well between them, because behind the scenes, it obviously wasn’t.

On Johnson’s end, he supposedly felt that WWE was undervaluing him by pairing him with another black man, while also having little patience for Atlas’ drug habit at the time. Atlas, on the other hand, accused Johnson of sabotaging him in the ring by preventing him from pinning their opponents, and alleged that the Soul Man often failed to pick him up when they’d be riding together. This friction reportedly culminated in a few fistfights, and that must have forced WWE to take the tag belts off of them, after an eight-month reign with the titles.

12 Randy Orton And Manu (Stablemates: The Legacy)

The Legacy was a great stable in concept – combine the talents of some of the WWE's most skilled next-generation Superstars, including Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes, and Ted DiBiase Jr. Then you had the likes of Sim Snuka, who was nowhere as talented a wrestler or compelling a character as his father, the Superfly. He failed his storyline tryout with The Legacy, and so did Manu, the young son and real-life namesake of Wild Samoan Afa.

We're not sure why the former Deuce of Deuce 'n' Domino was booked to flunk his tryout, but Orton once offered his own shoot insights on why Manu didn't make the cut. As the Viper related, Manu didn't have a very good work ethic backstage, allegedly carrying himself in an entitled way, on account of his being a second-generation WWE Superstar. It's not like he would have made much of an impact on The Legacy anyways, as Manu is often considered to be one of the more forgettable members of the Anoa'i family, in almost every aspect of wrestling.

11 The Dicks (Tag Team)

Ever the connoisseur of juvenile humor, Vince McMahon gave Chad Wicks and Tank Toland a Chippendale dancer gimmick, and, much like most any sixth-grade fantasy booker would, renamed them The Dicks – Chad Dick and James Dick. Not only were they a joke tag team from the get-go; they also turned out to have quite the attitude for newcomers, which exposed them to backstage ribbing from some of SmackDown's veterans. Furthermore, the tension between both men exploded into nuclear heat when Wicks went to management to complain about the brutal hazing he was receiving.

Concerned about the team's already dicey future in the WWE, Toland didn't take kindly to Wicks' decision to squeal, and as both men continued to butt heads over the issue, their animosity exploded in the form of a backstage fistfight. Regardless of who threw the first punch, WWE decided they weren't worth the trouble, and promptly released the duo, ending what had been a WWE run that lasted mere months.

10 Triple H And Ken Shamrock (Stablemates: The Corporation)

We mentioned elsewhere in this list that when it came to stables in WCW, it was a case of "the more members, the merrier." Not to be outdone, WWE had its share of oversized stables, and these included The Corporation, the faction that arguably planted the seeds for what today's WWE fans know as The Authority. With the evil Vince McMahon as its leader, the group's membership included, among many others, Triple H and Chyna, who betrayed DX to go "corporate," Mr, McMahon's "stooges" Gerald Brisco and Pat Patterson, and UFC fighter-turned wrestler Ken Shamrock.

Many believe Shamrock had what it took to become a credible main eventer in the WWE, but for some reason, he never made it past the upper mid-card. That "some reason," allegedly, is none other than The Game himself, who wasn't too pleased when the World's Most Dangerous Man tried to warn Mark Henry after he had just been ribbed by Triple H. Meanwhile, Shamrock has often said through the years that Triple H doesn't like him because he doesn't like doing the job, which he did when it was time for him and Shamrock to feud with each other. Is there any wonder why people still imagine short-haired executive/occasional wrestler Triple H with long hair and a shovel in his hand?

9 The Bad Breed (Tag Team)

Few tag teams epitomized the original ECW better than Axl and Ian Rotten, a pair of storyline brothers who took part in their share of gory, violent matches in 1993 and 1994 as The Bad Breed. In 1994, they lost to The Pitbulls, with the stipulation being that the losing team had to split up. As it turns out, this was more than just a storyline device to lead into a "sibling rivalry" feud, which it did. Instead, it was something ECW had to do, as the kayfabe Rotten brothers' relationship had become contentious behind the scenes.

Thanks to their real-life dislike of each other, Axl and Ian's matches against each other were among the bloodiest and most brutal matches ECW had in those days. They did briefly reconcile in 1996, but the beef remained well after their heyday, with Axl being one of Ian's many colleagues to bury him in shoot interviews for his allegedly unscrupulous business practices as a promoter, and questionable ethics as a pro wrestler.

8 Arn Anderson And Sid Vicious (Stablemates: The Four Horsemen)

Many fans may be very familiar with the "scissors incident" involving Arn Anderson and Sid Vicious. But we're also guessing that there are many others who aren't even aware that Sid was once a member of The Four Horsemen, hence this entry in the list. Following Ole Anderson's retirement, Vicious was drafted to join the legendary stable, where he continued to be what he usually is – wrestling's equivalent of a car crash, where you don't want to look (at his matches) or listen (to his promos), but do so anyway.

Sid's time with the Horsemen was very brief, as he lasted just a year with the faction before making his first of several back-and-forth moves from WCW to WWE. And this is the point in this entry where we admit that we made a bit of an exception – yes, Sid and Arn were stablemates, but the scissors incident actually took place in 1993, two years after Vicious was last a member of the Horsemen. Still, the notoriety behind that fight, which started at a bar and ended at a hotel room, is more than enough for us to cite them as an example of two stablemates who hated each other.

7 The British Bulldogs (Tag Team)

You would think that two men who were cousins, and who also came up in the business together, would have gotten along fabulously. Alas, that was not the case for The British Bulldogs. From the start, Dynamite Kid and Davey Boy Smith had a tenuous partnership, with Dynamite unwilling at first to take his younger cousin under his wing. And while they would eventually bond over a shared love of partying, cruel pranks, and performance-enhancing substances, the tensions between them became so bad that they weren't on speaking terms at the time of Smith's passing in 2002.

For starters, Davey Boy oftentimes found himself embarrassed by Dynamite's penchant for alcohol and/or steroids-driven temper tantrums, which dated back to their days in Stampede Wrestling. On Dynamite's end, he felt slighted that Davey Boy returned to the WWE from All Japan without him, and, to make matters worse, trademarked the "British Bulldog" name for himself, completely estranging the two cousins from each other once and for all.

6 Bret Hart And Kevin Nash (Stablemates: nWo)

The heat between Bret Hart and Kevin Nash dated back to their days in the WWE, as Nash, who was then known as Diesel and known backstage as part of Shawn Michaels' Kliq, began to join HBK in resenting the Hitman. As Hart recalls it, Nash was none too pleased over having to drop his WWE Championship to Bret at Survivor Series 1995, allegedly telling him, "don't forget who did you the f'n favor" when the match was over.

Years later, the Hitman found himself in the same faction as his former WWE rival, as he, Nash, Scott Hall, and Jeff Jarrett reformed the New World Order in a development that nobody who loved the nWo in its original incarnation really cared about. By that time, it wasn't just the nWo that was in shambles, but the entire WCW, and that meant throwing so many things at the wall to see what would stick. That included turning Hart into an official nWo member, and teaming him up with two men (Nash and Hall) who had been on his opposite side of the political coin for the longest time.

5 The Rock 'N' Roll Express (Tag Team)

This one might come as a bit of a shocker – I know I was surprised when I first heard about it. Despite teaming together for over three decades, Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson, aka The Rock 'n' Roll Express, didn't always have the best of relations in their long career as one of wrestling's greatest tag teams of all-time. And while anything New Jack says is best taken with a grain of salt, he did have some interesting comments about the legendary duo in an interview. Something along the lines of Gibson and Morton hating each other, and only teaming up with each other because of the money.

If The Rock 'n' Roll Express really hated (or hate) each other as much as New Jack claims they did (or do), that's got to make it an amazing feat for both of them. Many of the tag teams in this list didn't last longer than a couple of years, and in some cases, lasted only a few months before disbanding. Ricky and Robert, on the other hand, are in their 35th year as a tag team, and believe it or not, they still wrestle on occasion, despite being in their early 60s!

4 Kimberly Page And Tammy Sytch (Stablemates: The New Breed)

Most longtime fans know about the real-life heat Scott Steiner and Diamond Dallas Page had with each other in the final years of WCW. But you might not be aware that the trouble apparently started with a pair of women, one of them being DDP's then-wife, Kimberly.

Due to WCW's penchant for ginormous stables, it's easy to forget that Kimberly and Tammy Sytch, aka Sunny in the WWE, were both part of The New Breed, a faction that was supposed to represent the younger, hungrier, and inexplicably villainous generation of WCW wrestlers. Both women didn't seem to like each other from the start, but the tensions exploded when Kimberly accused Sytch of drug use, which the latter fiercely denied.

Reports claim that Steiner defended Sytch in a rather unusual way – by chasing Kimberly out of the building in a fit of rage. Naturally, this upset DDP, and eventually led to an infamous backstage fight, and an even more infamous shoot promo, where Big Poppa Pump all-out insulted Page and questioned his manhood on WCW Nitro.