History HoYay / WWE

* Remember the Alliance's [[SaltAndPepper Shane and]] Wrestling/BookerT, from giving each other presents to interfering with matches, not to mention the glee they had in their eyes while looking at each other.

** Upon the victory of team Total Divas[[note]]Paige, Natalya, Eva Marie, Brie Bella and Alicia Fox[[/note]] at Wrestlemania 32, Alicia [[https://49.media.tumblr.com/20f476dd24742601ff5aa99231758c8b/tumblr_o543bd0UVA1tcrei5o1_400.gif goes immediately to hug Brie]], but sees her already hugging Paige and [[https://45.media.tumblr.com/b27184fccd9782a8f24a90d4dd12dff5/tumblr_o543bd0UVA1tcrei5o2_400.gif looks quite disappointed.]]

* Toni Storm and Kay Lee Ray. The WeUsedToBeFriends angle comes off less as Kay Lee being an old friend and more like her being a bitter, jealous ex who's still angry about Toni leaving her.

Depending on who you ask, ''all'' of ProfessionalWrestling is HoYay. Many of its detractors love to make this claim and, to be fair, two musclebound men in their underwear rolling on top of each other sounds suspicious out of context. The way matches between two women usually go down doesn't help matters, as they're often blatant {{Fanservice}}.

* Wrestling/MrPerfect and [[Wrestling/LannyPoffo The Genius]]. When Genius began managing and occasionally tagging with Perfect, WWE aired a vignette of Perfect practicing his dives at a pool, while Genius stood by practically drooling over his... athleticism, including a shot where Genius appears to be staring right at Perfect's crotch. Add in The Genius' fairly fey mannerisms and it really came across as less "Look at this badass fighter on my team" and more "Check out how hot my boyfriend is". The pair also did an in-character interview with Regis Philbin and Kathy Griffin, where Philbin essentialy asked them (as explicitly as [[TheEighties eighties]] broadcasting standards would allow) "Are you guys together?", to which Perfect replied "Mind your own business". Genius spent most of the interview gazing lovingly at Perfect, which Regis also pointed out.

* Wrestling/MrPerfect and [[Wrestling/LannyPoffo The Genius]]. When Genius began managing and occasionally tagging with Perfect, WWE aired a vignette of Perfect practicing his dives at a pool, while Genius stood by practically drooling over his... athleticism, including a shot where Genius appears to be staring right at Perfect's crotch. Add in The Genius' fairly fey mannerisms and it really came across as less "Look at this badass fighter on my side" and more "Check out how hot my boyfriend is". The pair also did an in-character interview with Regis Philbin and Kathy Griffin, where Philbin essentialy asked them (as explicitly as [[TheEighties eighties]] broadcasting standards would allow) "Are you guys together", to which Perfect replied "Mind your own business". Genius spent most of the interview gazing lovingly at Perfect, which Regis also pointed out.

* Any time a WWE wrestler retires, there are a lot of behind-the-scenes friendships revealed. {{Man Hug}}s abound, and ManlyTears are shed. Wrestling/RicFlair, Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, and Wrestling/{{Edge}}'s retirement speeches and send-offs on Raw/Smackdown have ridiculous amounts of some of the most SugarWiki/{{heartwarming|Moments}} HoYay around.

* Naturally, being best friends for 27 years would have this effect on {{Wrestling/Edge}} and {{Wrestling/Christian}}. Most notably when Edge had turned heel and Christian came off more like a jilted lover than an ex-tag partner.

** There's also Wrestling/{{Edge}} calling him a "pretty boy" when he confronted CM Punk and Jeff Hardy over the championship.

* Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr tends to attract this a lot. It was most obvious [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pTTy0HrHIM during his five-year relationship with]] Wrestling/{{Batista}} and on-again off-again partnership with Wrestling/BillyKidman, but it crops up with nearly every tag partner he has and pretty frequently in FoeYay contexts with his enemies, as in the Wrestling/CMPunk example above.

** Wrestling/KevinOwens and Wrestling/SamiZayn have always had HoYay between them, stemming from their tag team days back in the indies, when they were Kevin Steen and El Generico. It then turns into FoeYay when Steen/Owens inevitably betrays Generico/Zayn. After that, it almost feels as if their existences revolve each other, that they hate each other so much that they'll drop everything just to fight one another. Steen even point-blank stated during the build up to ''Final Battle 2012'' that he and Generico are destined to do this ''forever'', and it shows when they transitioned to Owens and Zayn.

** Even after Wrestling/SethRollins' betrayal, Wrestling/DeanAmbrose is still going after him. While it's out of anger at Seth, some can't help but see the FoeYay in this. Their interactions prior to the breakup and Dean acting like a [[WomanScorned Man Scorned]], even outright admitting he loved Seth (albeit as a brother), certainly does not help.

* Speaking of NXT UK, how about Toni Storm and Kay Lee Ray? Granted, it's more FoeYay than anything else, but the WeUsedToBeFriends angle comes off less as Kay Lee being an old friend and more like her being a bitter, jealous ex who's still angry about Toni leaving her.