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* AEW Commentator Tony Schiavone has become this. He is often relegated to interview duty with hostile wrestlers who range from being disrespectful to physically abusive toward him.

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* AEW Wrestling/{{AEW}} Commentator Tony Schiavone Wrestling/{{Tony Schiavone}} has become this. He is often relegated to interview duty with hostile wrestlers who range from being disrespectful to physically abusive toward him.
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* Ever since joining the main roster in 2015, Byron Saxton has become this. Whether he'd be insulted by Wrestling/{{JBL}}, Wrestling/CoreyGraves, and even his fellow babyface announcer Wrestling/MichaelCole, Saxton is the commentator treated with [[TheFriendNobodyLikes the least respect]]. He's also a target of insults and mistreatment by the heel superstars, especially Wrestling/KevinOwens and Wrestling/TheWyattFamily, the latter of whom take his chair for Wrestling/BrayWyatt to sit on (substituting his rocking chair, which was destroyed by Wrestling/TheUndertaker) whenever they have their matches, forcing him to either stand or, at one time, be on his knees to call their matches.

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* Ever since joining the main roster in 2015, Byron Saxton has become this. Whether he'd be insulted by Wrestling/{{JBL}}, Wrestling/CoreyGraves, and even his fellow babyface announcer Wrestling/MichaelCole, Saxton is the commentator treated with [[TheFriendNobodyLikes the least respect]]. He's also a target of insults and mistreatment by the heel superstars, especially Wrestling/KevinOwens and Wrestling/TheWyattFamily, the latter of whom take his chair for Wrestling/BrayWyatt to sit on (substituting his rocking chair, which was destroyed by Wrestling/TheUndertaker) whenever they have their matches, forcing him to either stand or, at one time, be on his knees to call their matches.matches.
* AEW Commentator Tony Schiavone has become this. He is often relegated to interview duty with hostile wrestlers who range from being disrespectful to physically abusive toward him.

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IUEO. Also, one other example is a bit crufty.


* Ben Dejo and Marty Con Dejo from the [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoyz Team 3D Academy]]. Their are [[AwesomeMcCoolName pretty cool]] to those who speak Spanish but unfortunately are also single letters away from translating into the trope title and they often are.
* Oh, boy, Wrestling/JillianHall. Hell she could even be the new trope namer, crossed with TheWoobie. Around 2007 they gave her a HollywoodToneDeaf gimmick that Hulk Hogan viewed as TakeThat to daughter Brooke Hogan who was trying to have a music career. When Jillian got moved to Raw she became a joke and jobber and existed for four years being made fun of for her bad singing. The problem was this ''not'' being a mockery of Brooke and Jillian was just sent out to look like an idiot who had idea how badly she came off to people. In both 2009 and 2010 she had only one pinfall victory that she got herself. She actually managed to capture the Divas' title from Wrestling/MickieJames...only to lose it to Melina about two minutes later. Then there's that one-sided feud with the Wrestling/BellaTwins.

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* Ben Dejo and Marty Con Dejo from the [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoyz Team 3D Academy]]. Their They are [[AwesomeMcCoolName pretty cool]] cool to those who speak Spanish but unfortunately are also single letters away from translating into the trope title and they often are.
* Oh, boy, Wrestling/JillianHall. Hell she could even be the new trope namer, crossed with TheWoobie.Wrestling/JillianHall. Around 2007 they gave her a HollywoodToneDeaf gimmick that Hulk Hogan viewed as TakeThat to daughter Brooke Hogan who was trying to have a music career. When Jillian got moved to Raw she became a joke and jobber and existed for four years being made fun of for her bad singing. The problem was this ''not'' being a mockery of Brooke and Jillian was just sent out to look like an idiot who had idea how badly she came off to people. In both 2009 and 2010 she had only one pinfall victory that she got herself. She actually managed to capture the Divas' title from Wrestling/MickieJames...only to lose it to Melina about two minutes later. Then there's that one-sided feud with the Wrestling/BellaTwins.
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* Ben Dejo and Marty Con Dejo from the [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoyz Team 3D Academy]]. Their are [[AwesomeMcCoolName pretty cool]] to those who speak Spanish but [[UnfortunateNames unfortunately are also single letters away from translating into the trope title]] and they often are.

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* Ben Dejo and Marty Con Dejo from the [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoyz Team 3D Academy]]. Their are [[AwesomeMcCoolName pretty cool]] to those who speak Spanish but [[UnfortunateNames unfortunately are also single letters away from translating into the trope title]] title and they often are.
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** He eventually came to form a stable with fellow Butt Monkeys Jinder Mahal and Drew [=McIntyre=] called [[Wrestling/ThreeMB 3MB]] in hopes of improving their fortunes. If anything, it made them worse.

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** He eventually came to form a stable with fellow Butt Monkeys Jinder Mahal and Drew [=McIntyre=] called [[Wrestling/ThreeMB 3MB]] in hopes of improving their fortunes. If anything, it made them worse. However, Jinder and Drew would both break out of this role later into their careers (both of them getting world title runs, although Jinder's was tarnished by the fact that he never won any of his matches cleanly).
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* Wrestling/DragonGate's Naoki Tanizaki. He came from through the Toryumon training system[[note]]Wrestling/UltimoDragon started a promotion called Toryumon in Mexico and Japan, he later left/was forced out of the Japanese branch but kept Toryumon trademark in Mexico, forcing it to rename itself Dragon Gate[[/note]] and apparently someone's unwilling to let him forget it. He's been put in way more than his share of humiliating angles, e.g. being forced to wear an olympic-style speedo swimsuit and then lose cleanly to Stalker Ichikawa. More recently, he lost the rights to his ''name'' to the former Tomahawk T.T., who got more of a push impersonating Naoki than Naoki ever did. And he was forced to change his name to Mr. Kyukyu Toyonaka Dolphin. Even after winning the rights to his name back, he "decided" to keep Kyukyu Toyonaka Dolphin in it.

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* Wrestling/DragonGate's Naoki Tanizaki. He came from through the Toryumon Wrestling/{{Toryumon}} training system[[note]]Wrestling/UltimoDragon started a promotion called Toryumon in Mexico and Japan, he later left/was forced out of the Japanese branch but kept Toryumon trademark in Mexico, forcing it to rename itself Dragon Gate[[/note]] and apparently someone's unwilling to let him forget it. He's been put in way more than his share of humiliating angles, e.g. being forced to wear an olympic-style speedo swimsuit and then lose cleanly to Stalker Ichikawa. More recently, he lost the rights to his ''name'' to the former Tomahawk T.T., who got more of a push impersonating Naoki than Naoki ever did. And he was forced to change his name to Mr. Kyukyu Toyonaka Dolphin. Even after winning the rights to his name back, he "decided" to keep Kyukyu Toyonaka Dolphin in it.
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* For Wrestling/{{TNA}} it's Eric Young, at least until he pulled a WhosLaughingNow style FaceHeelTurn.

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* For Wrestling/{{TNA}} it's Eric Young, Wrestling/EricYoung, at least until he pulled a WhosLaughingNow style FaceHeelTurn.
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* [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Tara]] could have possibly been considered one since she arrived in TNA. First she had to face ridicule from then-Knockouts Champion ODB for being a "(Wrestling/{{WWE}}) [[TakeThat Diva]]," even after beating her for the title. Afterwards, her [[{{Mascot}} pet spider Poison]] is stolen by Wrestling/DaffneyUnger and only manages to get it back via an event which also leads to her losing her title in very ridiculous manner and when she does get a chance to get the title back, it's via a tag match in which she gets pinned! That in particular seemed to be the last straw as, like Eric Young above, she had pulled a WhosLaughingNow style FaceHeelTurn. Her tenure in TNA columnated in losing a career vs. title match against Wrestling/MadisonRayne...

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* [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Tara]] could have possibly been considered one since she arrived in TNA. First she had to face ridicule from then-Knockouts Champion ODB [[Wrestling/JessicaKresa ODB]] for being a "(Wrestling/{{WWE}}) [[TakeThat Diva]]," even after beating her for the title. Afterwards, her [[{{Mascot}} pet spider Poison]] is stolen by Wrestling/DaffneyUnger and only manages to get it back via an event which also leads to her losing her title in very ridiculous manner and when she does get a chance to get the title back, it's via a tag match in which she gets pinned! That in particular seemed to be the last straw as, like Eric Young Wrestling/EricYoung above, she had pulled a WhosLaughingNow style FaceHeelTurn. Her tenure in TNA columnated in losing a career vs. title match against Wrestling/MadisonRayne...
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* Oh, boy, Wrestling/JillianHall. Hell she could even be the new trope namer, crossed with TheWoobie. Around 2007 they gave her a HollywoodToneDeaf gimmick that Hulk Hogan viewed as TakeThat to daughter Brooke Hogan who was trying to have a music career. When Jillian got moved to Raw she became a joke and jobber and existed for four years being made fun of for her bad singing. The problem was this ''not'' being a mockery of Brooke and Jillian was just sent out to look like an idiot who had idea how badly she came off to people. In both 2009 and 2010 she had only one pinfall victory that she got herself. She actually managed to capture the Divas' title from Wrestling/MickieJames...only to lose it to Melina about two minutes later. Then there's that one-sided feud with the {{Jerk Sue}}s the Wrestling/BellaTwins.

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* Oh, boy, Wrestling/JillianHall. Hell she could even be the new trope namer, crossed with TheWoobie. Around 2007 they gave her a HollywoodToneDeaf gimmick that Hulk Hogan viewed as TakeThat to daughter Brooke Hogan who was trying to have a music career. When Jillian got moved to Raw she became a joke and jobber and existed for four years being made fun of for her bad singing. The problem was this ''not'' being a mockery of Brooke and Jillian was just sent out to look like an idiot who had idea how badly she came off to people. In both 2009 and 2010 she had only one pinfall victory that she got herself. She actually managed to capture the Divas' title from Wrestling/MickieJames...only to lose it to Melina about two minutes later. Then there's that one-sided feud with the {{Jerk Sue}}s the Wrestling/BellaTwins.
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* Ever since joining the main roster in 2015, Byron Saxton has become this. Whether he'd be insulted by Wrestling/{{JBL}}, Wrestling/CoreyGraves, and even his fellow babyface announcer Wrestling/MichaelCole, Saxton is the commentator treated with [[TheFriendNobodyLikes the least respect]]. He's also a target of insults and mistreatment by the heel superstars, especially Wrestling/KevinOwens and Wrestling/TheWyattFamily, the latter of whom take his chair for Wrestling/BrayWyatt to sit on (substituting his rocking chair which was destroyed by Wrestling/TheUndertaker) whenever they have their matches, forcing him to either stand or, at one time, be on his knees to call their matches.

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* Ever since joining the main roster in 2015, Byron Saxton has become this. Whether he'd be insulted by Wrestling/{{JBL}}, Wrestling/CoreyGraves, and even his fellow babyface announcer Wrestling/MichaelCole, Saxton is the commentator treated with [[TheFriendNobodyLikes the least respect]]. He's also a target of insults and mistreatment by the heel superstars, especially Wrestling/KevinOwens and Wrestling/TheWyattFamily, the latter of whom take his chair for Wrestling/BrayWyatt to sit on (substituting his rocking chair chair, which was destroyed by Wrestling/TheUndertaker) whenever they have their matches, forcing him to either stand or, at one time, be on his knees to call their matches.
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* Ever since joining the main roster in 2015, Byron Saxton has become this. Whether he'd be insulted by Wrestling/{{JBL}}, Wrestling/CoreyGraves, and even his fellow babyface announcer Wrestling/MichaelCole, Saxton is the commentator treated with [[TheFriendNobodyLikes the least respect]]. He's also a target of insults and mistreatment by the heel superstars, especially Wrestling/KevinOwens and Wrestling/TheWyattFamily, the latter of which take his chair for Wrestling/BrayWyatt to sit on whenever they have their matches, forcing him to either stand or, at one time, be on his knees to call their matches.

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* Ever since joining the main roster in 2015, Byron Saxton has become this. Whether he'd be insulted by Wrestling/{{JBL}}, Wrestling/CoreyGraves, and even his fellow babyface announcer Wrestling/MichaelCole, Saxton is the commentator treated with [[TheFriendNobodyLikes the least respect]]. He's also a target of insults and mistreatment by the heel superstars, especially Wrestling/KevinOwens and Wrestling/TheWyattFamily, the latter of which whom take his chair for Wrestling/BrayWyatt to sit on (substituting his rocking chair which was destroyed by Wrestling/TheUndertaker) whenever they have their matches, forcing him to either stand or, at one time, be on his knees to call their matches.
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* Ever since joining the main roster in 2015, Byron Saxton has become this. Whether he'd be insulted by Wrestling/{{JBL}}, Wrestling/CoreyGraves, and even his fellow babyface announcer Wrestling/MichaelCole, Saxton is the commentator treated with [[TheFriendNobodyLikes the least respect]]. He's also a target of insults and mistreatment by the heel superstars, especially Wrestling/KevinOwens and Wrestling/TheWyattFamily, the latter of which take his chair for Wrestling/BrayWyatt to sit on whenever they have their matches, forcing Saxton to either stand or, at one time, be on his knees to call their matches.

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* Ever since joining the main roster in 2015, Byron Saxton has become this. Whether he'd be insulted by Wrestling/{{JBL}}, Wrestling/CoreyGraves, and even his fellow babyface announcer Wrestling/MichaelCole, Saxton is the commentator treated with [[TheFriendNobodyLikes the least respect]]. He's also a target of insults and mistreatment by the heel superstars, especially Wrestling/KevinOwens and Wrestling/TheWyattFamily, the latter of which take his chair for Wrestling/BrayWyatt to sit on whenever they have their matches, forcing Saxton him to either stand or, at one time, be on his knees to call their matches.
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* Ever since joining the main roster in 2015, Byron Saxton has become this. Whether he'd be insulted by Wrestling/{{JBL}}, Wrestling/CoreyGraves, and even his fellow babyface announcer Wrestling/MichaelCole, Saxton is the commentator treated with [[TheFriendNobodyLikes the least respect]]. He's also a target of insults and mistreatment by the heel superstars, especially Wrestling/KevinOwens and Wrestling/TheWyattFamily, the latter of which take his chair for Wrestling/BrayWyatt to sit on when they have their matches, forcing Saxton to either stand or, at one time, be on his knees to call their matches.

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* Ever since joining the main roster in 2015, Byron Saxton has become this. Whether he'd be insulted by Wrestling/{{JBL}}, Wrestling/CoreyGraves, and even his fellow babyface announcer Wrestling/MichaelCole, Saxton is the commentator treated with [[TheFriendNobodyLikes the least respect]]. He's also a target of insults and mistreatment by the heel superstars, especially Wrestling/KevinOwens and Wrestling/TheWyattFamily, the latter of which take his chair for Wrestling/BrayWyatt to sit on when whenever they have their matches, forcing Saxton to either stand or, at one time, be on his knees to call their matches.
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* Ever since joining the main roster in 2015, Byron Saxton has become this. Whether he'd be insulted by Wrestling/{{JBL}}, Wrestling/CoreyGraves, and even his fellow babyface announcer Wrestling/MichaelCole, Saxton is the commentator treated with [[TheFriendNobodyLikes the least respect]]. He's also a target of insults by the heel superstars, especially Wrestling/KevinOwens.

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* Ever since joining the main roster in 2015, Byron Saxton has become this. Whether he'd be insulted by Wrestling/{{JBL}}, Wrestling/CoreyGraves, and even his fellow babyface announcer Wrestling/MichaelCole, Saxton is the commentator treated with [[TheFriendNobodyLikes the least respect]]. He's also a target of insults and mistreatment by the heel superstars, especially Wrestling/KevinOwens.Wrestling/KevinOwens and Wrestling/TheWyattFamily, the latter of which take his chair for Wrestling/BrayWyatt to sit on when they have their matches, forcing Saxton to either stand or, at one time, be on his knees to call their matches.
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* Byron Saxton seems to exist on the ''RAW'' announce team for the purpose of being insulted by Wrestling/{{JBL}} and even his fellow babyface announcer Wrestling/MichaelCole.

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* Ever since joining the main roster in 2015, Byron Saxton seems to exist on the ''RAW'' announce team for the purpose of being has become this. Whether he'd be insulted by Wrestling/{{JBL}} Wrestling/{{JBL}}, Wrestling/CoreyGraves, and even his fellow babyface announcer Wrestling/MichaelCole.Wrestling/MichaelCole, Saxton is the commentator treated with [[TheFriendNobodyLikes the least respect]]. He's also a target of insults by the heel superstars, especially Wrestling/KevinOwens.
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* [[Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]] later pulled the same trick, rigging a poll in order to beat up Moore, which he did rather easily. Poor Shannon

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* [[Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]] later pulled the same trick, rigging a poll in order to beat up Moore, Wrestling/ShannonMoore, which he did rather easily. Poor Shannon
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** Vengeful: During an installment of a TalkShowWithFits called "Blackjack's [=BBQ=]" (with [[Wrestling/TheBlackjacks Blackjack Mulligan]] as host), Mulligan invited Heenan (by now, bitter enemies), along with Ken Patera and Wrestling/BigJohnStudd, onto his show to try out saddles. Various saddles didn't fit Heenan, but then one did ... and only after Heenan made himself comfortable did Mulligan reveal ... that it was a woman's saddle. Heenan's expression turned to disgust as he was made a fool, and immediately he, Studd and Patera beat the living daylights out of Mulligan ... until Wrestling/AndreTheGiant (in his first U.S. televised appearance since his famous haircut, at Studd and Patera's hands) ran the heels off.

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** Vengeful: During an installment of a TalkShowWithFits TalkShowWithFists called "Blackjack's [=BBQ=]" (with [[Wrestling/TheBlackjacks Blackjack Mulligan]] as host), Mulligan invited Heenan (by now, bitter enemies), along with Ken Patera and Wrestling/BigJohnStudd, onto his show to try out saddles. Various saddles didn't fit Heenan, but then one did ... and only after Heenan made himself comfortable did Mulligan reveal ... that it was a woman's saddle. Heenan's expression turned to disgust as he was made a fool, and immediately he, Studd and Patera beat the living daylights out of Mulligan ... until Wrestling/AndreTheGiant (in his first U.S. televised appearance since his famous haircut, at Studd and Patera's hands) ran the heels off.
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* Wrestling/BobbyHeenan was probably the trope definer in wrestling, with his reactions depending on the context. It ranged from:
** Vengeful: During an installment of a TalkShowWithFits called "Blackjack's [=BBQ=]" (with [[Wrestling/TheBlackjacks Blackjack Mulligan]] as host), Mulligan invited Heenan (by now, bitter enemies), along with Ken Patera and Wrestling/BigJohnStudd, onto his show to try out saddles. Various saddles didn't fit Heenan, but then one did ... and only after Heenan made himself comfortable did Mulligan reveal ... that it was a woman's saddle. Heenan's expression turned to disgust as he was made a fool, and immediately he, Studd and Patera beat the living daylights out of Mulligan ... until Wrestling/AndreTheGiant (in his first U.S. televised appearance since his famous haircut, at Studd and Patera's hands) ran the heels off.
** Bumbling fool: In a memorable skit on ''Prime Time Wrestling'' where Gorilla Monsoon, unknown to "the Brain," removed the microphone from the telephone and watched as Heenan couldn't figure out why nobody could hear him on the phone (itself a running gag). As Heenan still couldn't figure out what happened -- with audible laughter coming from offstage and Monsoon also laughing out loud -- the phone then began falling apart ... and Heenan still tried talking into the phone!
** How Monsoon and Wrestling/VinceMcMahon introduced Heenan to Jamison, with no preparation. In latter-day interviews, comedian, improv actor and producer Andrew Kindler (who played Jamison) recalled that he met [=McMahon=] at a nightclub and asked if he would play this ultimate mark, who dresses like a nerd and acts as though he had autism ... but not tell Heenan (who at the time was the host of a ''Prime Time Wrestling'' segment called "The Bobby Heenan Show," where outrageous guests came on to rib Heenan). The first meeting between Heenan and Jamison, and Heenan's reactions to Jamison's mannerisms, was genuine ... he was not told of him beforehand. Later, after a debriefing, Heenan and Kindler struck up a friendship that lasted until Heenan's passing ... and Heenan was the butt monkey of many a skit involving Jamison.
** A year after Wrestling/AndreTheGiant turned face, he came onto ''Prime Time Wrestling'' to discuss wine making, including the old-fashioned way: stomping grapes. Who do you think he volunteered ... on a day where he was showing off his brand new sweater?
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** His daughter, the Billion Dollar Princess [[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon Stephanie [=McMahon=]]], was also a Butt Monkey herself during much of the AttitudeEra, especially at the hands of Wrestling/ChrisJericho and [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] who never missed an opportunity to give her a verbal beatdown. One year, they even made a compilation of her [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1xvdy_stephanie-most-embarassing-moments_sport#.UbMVypz4L-q most embarrassing moments]].

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** His daughter, the Billion Dollar Princess [[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon Stephanie [=McMahon=]]], was also a Butt Monkey herself during much of the AttitudeEra, Wrestling/AttitudeEra, especially at the hands of Wrestling/ChrisJericho and [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] who never missed an opportunity to give her a verbal beatdown. One year, they even made a compilation of her [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1xvdy_stephanie-most-embarassing-moments_sport#.UbMVypz4L-q most embarrassing moments]].
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* [[Characters/{{TNA}} Ken Anderson]]. In just one week, he was assaulted by: Wrestling/{{Sting}}, Sting again, Wrestling/MattHardy, Abyss, Sting again again, Sting a fourth time, Wrestling/HulkHogan, Sting yet again, and Wrestling/RobVanDam. Seems like people just can't resist beating up the asshole like Sting.

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* [[Characters/{{TNA}} Ken Anderson]].Wrestling/KenAnderson. In just one week, he was assaulted by: Wrestling/{{Sting}}, Sting again, Wrestling/MattHardy, Abyss, Sting again again, Sting a fourth time, Wrestling/HulkHogan, Sting yet again, and Wrestling/RobVanDam. Seems like people just can't resist beating up the asshole like Sting.
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* Wrestling/SethRollins became this, as WWE World Heavyweight Champion no less. He's hated by every other main eventer on the show, gets his ass kicked and pinned on RAW way more than he should, and gets humiliated rather frequently. However, considering how much of a DirtyCoward SmugSnake he's been since he stabbed the rest of Wrestling/TheShield in the back and turned heel, including the manner in which he won the title in the first place, a lot of it can be seen as LaserGuidedKarma.

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* Wrestling/SethRollins became this, as WWE World Heavyweight Champion no less. He's hated by every other main eventer on the show, gets his ass kicked and pinned on RAW way more than he should, and gets humiliated rather frequently. However, considering how much of a DirtyCoward SmugSnake he's been since he stabbed the rest of Wrestling/TheShield in the back and turned heel, including the manner in which he won the title in the first place, a lot of it can be seen as LaserGuidedKarma.LaserGuidedKarma.
* Byron Saxton seems to exist on the ''RAW'' announce team for the purpose of being insulted by Wrestling/{{JBL}} and even his fellow babyface announcer Wrestling/MichaelCole.

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