Batisa Report: Backstage Heat on Smackdown Champion

Looks like CM Punk isn't the only superstar drawing heat in the locker room.

According to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, there is a lot of negativity towards Batista right now from the Smackdown crew. A lot of resentment stems from negative things he said about Smackdown while he was on the RAW roster.

Some feel that Batista was a guy hand-picked for stardom by Jim Cornette and Vince McMahon based off his physique alone, one who doesn’t have passion for wrestling that the Benoit and Mysterio types have. Most within the company attribute his popularity with fans to the rub he got from Triple H and Ric Flair. The feeling backstage is that he is lucky crowds haven’t completely turned on him already.

Kurt Angle wasthe first to publicly bash Batista when in a recent interview with Live Audio Wrestling he said that Batista is simply “horrible.”