Rene Dupree spent time with WWE throughout the 2000s, and he has since been open about his time with the company. One particular story he has told speaks to the wider role Undertaker had backstage as a judge of the "Wrestler's Court," a system of peer assessment and reprimand in a less official capacity — one which others have simply called hazing. Dupree recalled a time where he had upset the balance backstage during "That 90s Wrestling Podcast" (H/T The Sun)
Advertisement"They took my $500 shoes and $1000 suit and ruined it in the shower because I didn't go out drinking at a bar the night before, because nobody invited me," he said. "That's just materialistic sh**, you can replace that, that doesn't bother me. What really bothered me is when in Italy the next night they took my French flag — my heritage — they shoved it in a toilet and p***ed and sh** all over it."
He continued, "I don't know what bullsh** world you live in but in my world that's called racial discrimination. That was really hurtful."
Dupree said he first went to Arn Anderson, who advised him not to sell it, and then he went to The Undertaker. He surmised after a conversation between them that it had been 'Taker behind the whole thing because he had declined to go out with them the night before. Dupree left WWE at his own request on July 26, 2007.
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