O antigo lutador da WWE Evan Bourne deu uma entrevista ao Kayfabe Commentaries e questionado sobre quem eram as maiores “bitches” na WWE em termos de autoridade, Bourne respondeu:
"I don't think you could call any of the producers little bitches at all. Every now and then they try and get the referees to be snitches on us. Not the agents, in the Talent Relations chain, someone would leverage a referee for information. I always felt like that might have been a thing that went on."
Bourne afirmou que os árbitros recebiam bónus por desqualificarem talentos em combate pré-determinados:
"Referees weren't always with wrestlers. On the house shows they would do the ring crew so they would travel completely separately. There was certainly... they'd try to pit us against each other. They did stuff like, if you're doing something totally illegal, like if you have a 5 count in the corner and you're punching the guy, the ref counts to 5 and he disqualifies you. He got a bonus for that DQ because he followed the rules and we didn't. I'm dead serious, that was a thing. They would bonus the ref for applying the rule set."
