History Main / XPacHeat

* The No Limit Soldiers were hated because they were a rap group in a promotion whose audience were primarily white Southern males who dislike {{rap}}. Even though they were supposed to be faces, they acted like heels, couldn't wrestle, had a bloated roster of ten wrestlers, and most were less than pleasant in real life (particularly Swoll, an obese and unlikeable man eventually arrested for dodging child support while making $100K a year from WCW), and, even with Master P, had terrible raps. Their rivals, the West Texas Rednecks, were an inversion of this trope, as they were supposed to be heels but appealed to the fans more, particularly when they recorded a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments downright hilarious]] song titled "Rap is Crap", held their own against the No Limit Soldiers with only four wrestlers, and had Wrestling/CurtHennig, widely considered one of the best ever in the business and a really nice guy to boot, as their leader. It's no surprise the latter stable became a collective EnsembleDarkHorse, and, of the former, only ReyMysterioJr and Konnan ever went on to any kind of success.

** Though the latter was more due to revulsion with the WWE creative team than Batista himself (case in point, when Wrestling/ReyMysterio came out at number 30 the boos started hard and heavy, which ''never'' happens to Rey). Batista winning was just twisting the knife (since it was only his second appearance since his 2014 return), although he certainly took it poorly (reportedly flipping off fans and mocking the "YES!" chants with his middle fingers before walking backstage). By February 2014, his appearances were literally greeted by fans chanting "BOO-TISTA!" and by cheers for his opponents Roman Reigns, Alberto Del Rio, and Randy Orton - the last of which was ''the top heel of the company'' at the time.

* Fans of TNA wrestling have been so disgusted with how matches are booked, that some fans have started "Fire Russo!" chants, aimed at writer [[{{Wrestling/VinceRusso}} Vince Russo]]. Russo's not the only one behind the shows, of course, but his track record with WWE and [[{{Wrestling/WCW}} WCW]] makes him a convenient lightning-rod for fans' wrath. He ''was'' fired in February 2012, so it's left to the fans to come up with new chants.

** Though the latter was more due to revulsion with the WWE creative team than Batista himself (case in point, when Wrestling/ReyMysterio came out at number 30 the boos started hard and heavy, which ''never'' happens to Rey). Batista winning was just twisting the knife (since it was only his second appearance since his 2014 return), although he certainly took it poorly (reportedly flipping off fans and mocking the "YES!" chants with his middle fingers before walking backstage).

* The trope namer had a stablemate named Justin Credible who suffered the same fate. In ECW, he was pushed as a solid ex-jobber who was "actually very skilled", though his workrate was artificially inflated by giving him good workers to wrestle with (like Jerry Lynn). Eventually, as one of the last reasonably-big names in the company, he got the ECW World Title, which resulted in ''massive'' overexposure. Even his former fans began seeing him as a mediocre worker with a terrible look and bad mic skills (he had a catchphrase and a fake "angry voice" that involved him hissing his words out in a loud whisper all the time), and X-Pac Heat resulted. ECW died not soon after his Title win (coincidence?), and he promptly got similar reactions in the WWF, culminating with X-Factor and his eventual removal from the company. He was so bad that some fans even blame him for the death of ECW, though that wasn't truthfully his fault any more than anyone else.

** This is actually an interesting example, as the hatred of Cole seems to have at least mostly died down, although not to the point where people like him, more like neutrality, while it's Jerry Lawler himself who seems to be much more widely hated nowadays. The dislike for King was present before his heart attack, died down for a while afterward out of respect for him, and then quickly returned to where it was (if not even further) shortly afterward, when it was apparent that his gimmick really hadn't changed at all. To elaborate, a solid number of people find Jerry's commentary incredibly annoying and boring, often resorting to unfunny (and occasionally outright offensive) jokes, many of which have no semblance of originality at all, and being the #1 shiller of already disliked people and features.

* Wrestling/BoDallas (Taylor Rotunda, real-life son of [[Wrestling/MikeRotunda Mike "Irwin R. Schyster" Rotunda]] and brother of [[Wrestling/TheWyattFamily Windham "Husky Harris/Bray Wyatt" Rotunda]]) has been seeing a lot of this through 2013. In January he was entered into the Royal Rumble where he proceeded to eliminate Wrestling/WadeBarrett (the reigning Intercontinental champion at the time), get into a feud with Barrett about this, and proceed to go over him clean in a singles non-title match. While WWE tried to recreate Maven's infamous elimination of the Undertaker and push Dallas right out of the gate, most fans saw him as a generic, incredibly green babyface who made Barrett look bad. WWE did catch onto this after awhile and took him back to NXT. But even there he continues to be a powerful force, winning the NXT Championship by defeating legit fan favorite Big E Langston (an act that caused the live audience to turn their back to the ring following the victory and any other time Bo is seen). It's clear regardless of where he is and how unsavory he is to the fans, Bo Dallas is meant for great things in WWE.

** Batista is just the latest in a growing trend of fans turning on what they see as "part-time" wrestlers, similar to Triple H, Brock Lesner, and others, who burst onto the scene in a titanic comeback and leap into the main event scene while performing only a handful of dates each year. But while [[Wrestling/TheUndertaker the Undertaker]] is one of the most popular superstars of the past two decades and fans expect him to focus on his famous Wrestlemania winning streak matches, and Brock Lesner and [[Wrestling/The Rock the Rock]] wrestle in special marquee matches and stay far from the world title scene with their appearances being that of "special guests", Batista reappeared after a four year absence and won the Royal Rumble less than a month later over several more popular and tenured wrestlers, putting himself into the Wrestlemania main event. Fans turn on these types of appearances because they feel that even though they used to be main event stars, these part-timers haven't earned the main event status they're given back as though they never left. The fact that the past several Wrestlemanias have been headlined primarily by part-time performers only adding fuel to the fire, and this latest example at the Royal Rumble is a popular reason given in wrestling news sites for [[Wrestling/CMPunk CM Punk]] walking out on the company the day after the event.

* Wrestling/{{Batista}}'s been getting X-Pac heat for a while. Some of the more infamous incidents include his match with Big Show on ECW and him winning the Royal Rumble in 2014 when Internet-favorite [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] wasn't in the match.

* Wrestling/{{Batista}}'s been getting X-Pac heat for a while. Some of the more infamous incidents include his match with Big Show on ECW and him winning the Royal Rumble in 2014 when Internet-favorite Wrestling/DanielBryan wasn't in the match.

* Wrestling/{{Batista}}'s been getting X-Pac heat for a while. Some of the more infamous incidents include his match with Big Show on ECW and him winning the Royal Rumble in 2014 when IWC favorite Daniel Bryan wasn't in the match.

** Though the latter was more due to revulsion with the WWE creative team than Batista himself (case in point, when Wrestling/ReyMysterio came out at number 30 the boos started hard and heavy, which ''never'' happens to Rey). Batista winning was just twisting the knife, although he certainly took it poorly (reportedly flipping off fans and mocking the "YES!" chants with his middle fingers before walking backstage).

** Though the latter was more due to revulsion with the WWE creative team than Batista himself (case in point, when Rey Mysterio came out at number 30 the boos started hard and heavy, which ''never'' happens to Rey). Batista winning was just twisting the knife, although he certainly took it poorly (reportedly flipping off fans and mocking the "YES!" chants with his middle fingers before walking backstage).

* Wrestling/Batista's been getting X-Pac heat for a while. Some of the more infamous incidents include his match with Big Show on ECW and him winning the Royal Rumble in 2014 when IWC favorite Daniel Bryan wasn't in the match.

Unfortunately for those who were sick of X-Pac, "[Wrestler name] sucks" chants are frequently the result of regular heel heat (i.e. "[[{{Wrestling/TheRock}} Rocky]] Sucks"), so X-Pac's push continued, to the point where he received his own stable (X-Factor) comprised of himself and the similarly-hated Justin Credible and Albert. The hatred for X-Pac eventually reached a point where fans would chant "X-Pac sucks" when there was nothing else to chant, even when Waltman wasn't booked on the show. In the end, Waltman ended his tenure with the company with an awful reputation amongst fans ''and'' wrestlers. One that would continue to deteriorate due to domestic violence charges during is relationship with Chyna ([[BrainBleach along with a]] [[{{Filth}} very disgusting]] videotape the two released) and a crystal meth addiction that got him fired from TNA after botching a match with AJ Styles. To this day, the phrase "X-Pac Heat" is given to performers who "aren't getting the right kind of heat".

Unfortunately for those who were sick of X-Pac, "[Wrestler name] sucks" chants are frequently the result of regular heel heat (i.e. "[[{{Wrestling/TheRock}} Rocky]] Sucks"), so X-Pac's push continued, to the point where he received his own stable (X-Factor) comprised of himself and the similarly-hated Justin Credible and Albert. The hatred for X-Pac eventually reached a point where fans would chant "X-Pac sucks" when there was nothing else to chant, even when Waltman wasn't booked on the show. In the end, Waltman ended his tenure with the company with an awful reputation amongst fans ''and'' wrestlers. To this day, the phrase "X-Pac Heat" is given to performers who "aren't getting the right kind of heat".

* A classic of this trope were the Dynamic Dudes, who were skateboarding wrestlers. When they received a face push by having manager Wrestling/JimCornette betray them for an opposing heel tag team (the Midnight Express), the audience cheered Cornette.

* The TropeNamer had a stablemate named Justin Credible who suffered the same fate. In ECW, he was pushed as a solid ex-jobber who was "actually very skilled", though his workrate was artificially inflated by giving him good workers to wrestle with (like Jerry Lynn). Eventually, as one of the last reasonably-big names in the company, he got the ECW World Title, which resulted in ''massive'' overexposure. Even his former fans began seeing him as a mediocre worker with a terrible look and bad mic skills (he had a catchphrase and a fake "angry voice" that involved him hissing his words out in a loud whisper all the time), and X-Pac Heat resulted. ECW died not soon after his Title win (coincidence?), and he promptly got similar reactions in the WWF, culminating with X-Factor and his eventual removal from the company. He was so bad that some fans even blame him for the death of ECW, though that wasn't truthfully his fault any more than anyone else.

* JohnCena is a case of not having any heat to begin with, becoming very popular, getting X-Pac Heat with both barrels, shaking it off in an odd way, and then getting it back. Fans were pretty apathetic to Cena up until WWE decided to run with a Halloween joke impression he did of Vanilla Ice, turning him into the very over Doctor of Thuganomics. Then came his first world championship win at [=WrestleMania 21=] against [[JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]], where a lot of people became convinced he just couldn't wrestle. Between feuds with Chris Jericho and Kurt Angle, his X-Pac Heat really took off (not helped at all by his abandonment of the Thuganomics gimmick, which if nothing else had been a good source of legitimately funny smack-talk whenever Cena cut a promo, replaced by the WWE using him as a generic 80s-style babyface with no actual gimmick at all). His matches also became rather generic, with most amounting to him getting beat up the entire time before suddenly [[HeroicSecondWind "overcoming the odds"]] with his FiveMovesOfDoom. The X-Pac Heat died down (but never completely disappeared) for a while after smarks noticed a 2006 interview from Cena himself saying he'd rather drop down the card and redevelop his character but hasn't been allowed to but is once again on the rise after he became the top star of the WWE. The way the WWE booked almost every single one of his feuding opponents in recent years only serves to fuel the sentiment even further.

* JohnCena is a case of not having any heat to begin with, becoming very popular, getting X-Pac Heat with both barrels, shaking it off in an odd way, and then getting it back. Fans were pretty apathetic to Cena up until WWE decided to run with a Halloween joke impression he did of Vanilla Ice, turning him into the very over Doctor of Thuganomics. Then came his first world championship win at [=WrestleMania 21=] against [[JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]], where a lot of people became convinced he just couldn't wrestle. Between feuds with Chris Jericho and Kurt Angle, his X-Pac Heat really took off (not helped at all by his abandonment of the Thuganomics gimmick, which if nothing else had been a good source of legitimately funny smack-talk whenever Cena cut a promo, replaced by the WWE using him as a generic 80s-style babyface with no actual gimmick at all). His matches also became rather generic, with most amounting to him getting beat up the entire time before suddenly "overcoming the odds" with his FiveMovesOfDoom. The X-Pac Heat died down (but never completely disappeared) for a while after smarks noticed a 2006 interview from Cena himself saying he'd rather drop down the card and redevelop his character but hasn't been allowed to but is once again on the rise after he became the top star of the WWE. The way the WWE booked almost every single one of his feuding opponents in recent years only serves to fuel the sentiment even further.

* Bo Dallas (Taylor Rotunda, real-life son of [[Wrestling/MikeRotunda Mike "Irwin R. Schyster" Rotunda]] and brother of [[Wrestling/TheWyattFamily Windham "Husky Harris/Bray Wyatt" Rotunda]]) has been seeing a lot of this through 2013. In January he was entered into the Royal Rumble where he proceeded to eliminate Wrestling/WadeBarrett (the reigning Intercontinental champion at the time), get into a feud with Barrett about this, and proceed to go over him clean in a singles non-title match. While WWE tried to recreate Maven's infamous elimination of the Undertaker and push Dallas right out of the gate, most fans saw him as a generic, incredibly green babyface who made Barrett look bad. WWE did catch onto this after awhile and took him back to NXT. But even there he continues to be a powerful force, winning the NXT Championship by defeating legit fan favorite Big E Langston (an act that caused the live audience to turn their back to the ring following the victory and any other time Bo is seen). It's clear regardless of where he is and how unsavory he is to the fans, Bo Dallas is meant for great things in WWE.

* Eva Marie. She's getting boos just for getting tagged into a match. She's getting a lot of exposure in the ring and on Total Divas, but it's led to her getting her own hatedom. If they gave her a mic, she could reach Vickie Guerrero levels of heat soon.

* JohnCena is a case of not having any heat to begin with, becoming very popular, getting X-Pac Heat with both barrels, shaking it off in an odd way, and then getting it back. Fans were pretty apathetic to Cena up until WWE decided to run with a Halloween joke impression he did of Vanilla Ice, turning him into the very over Doctor of Thuganomics. Then came his first world championship win at [=WrestleMania 21=] against [[JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]], where a lot of people became convinced he just couldn't wrestle. Between feuds with Chris Jericho and Kurt Angle, his X-Pac Heat really took off (not helped at all by his abandonment of the Thuganomics gimmick, which if nothing else had been a good source of legitimately funny smack-talk whenever Cena cut a promo, replaced by the WWE using him as a generic 80s-style babyface with no actual gimmick at all). His matches also became rather generic, with most amounting to him getting beat up the entire time before suddenly "overcoming the odds" with his FiveMovesOfDoom. The X-Pac Heat died down (but never completely disappeared) for a while after smarks noticed a 2006 interview from Cena himself saying he'd rather drop down the card and redevelop his character but hasn't been allowed to but is once again on the rise after he became the top star of the WWE.

** It's getting so bad in recent years that by the go-home show of 2013's TLC Pay-Per-View, the audience practically ignored the in-ring characters and commentators' efforts to sell Cena's title-unification match against Randy Orton, the slated main event of TLC 2013, and instead kept chanting for Daniel Bryan (who is relegated to a mid-card match in the PPV).

** It's getting so bad in recent years that by the go-home show of 2013's TLC Pay-Per-View, the audience kept chanting for Daniel Bryan (who is relegated to a mid-card match in the PPV) even as in-ring characters and commentators were trying to sell Cena's title-unification match against Randy Orton, the slated main event of TLC 2013.

** It's getting so bad in recent years that by the go-home show of 2013's TLC Pay-Per-View, the audience is chanting for Daniel Bryan (who is relegated to a mid-card match in the PPV) despite TLC 2013 being focused on John Cena's title-unification match against Randy Orton.

* JohnCena is a case of not having any heat to begin with, becoming very popular, getting X-Pac Heat with both barrels, shaking it off in an odd way, and then getting it back. Fans were pretty apathetic to Cena up until WWE decided to run with a Halloween joke impression he did of Vanilla Ice, turning him into the very over Doctor of Thuganomics. Then came his first world championship win at [=WrestleMania 21=] against [[JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]], where a lot of people became convinced he just couldn't wrestle. Between feuds with Chris Jericho and Kurt Angle, his X-Pac Heat really took off (not helped at all by his abandonment of the Thuganomics gimmick, which if nothing else had been a good source of legitimately funny smack-talk whenever Cena cut a promo, replaced by the WWE using him as a generic 80s-style babyface with no actual gimmick at all). His matches also became rather generic, with most amounting to him getting beat up the entire time before suddenly "overcoming the odds" with his FiveMovesOfDoom. The X-Pac Heat died down (but never completely disappeared) for a while after smarks noticed a 2006 interview from Cena himself saying he'd rather drop down the card and redevelop his character but hasn't been allowed to but is once again on the rise after he became the top star of the WWE, to the point that, by the go-home show of 2013's TLC Pay-Per-View, the audience is chanting for Daniel Bryan despite the PPV being centered around John Cena's feud with Randy Orton.

* JohnCena is a case of not having any heat to begin with, becoming very popular, getting X-Pac Heat with both barrels, and then shaking it off in an odd way. Fans were pretty apathetic to Cena up until WWE decided to run with a Halloween joke impression he did of Vanilla Ice, turning him into the very over Doctor of Thuganomics. Then came his first world championship win at [=WrestleMania 21=] against [[JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]], where a lot of people became convinced he just couldn't wrestle. Between feuds with Chris Jericho and Kurt Angle, his X-Pac Heat really took off (not helped at all by his abandonment of the Thuganomics gimmick, which if nothing else had been a good source of legitimately funny smack-talk whenever Cena cut a promo, replaced by the WWE using him as a generic 80s-style babyface with no actual gimmick at all). His matches also became rather generic, with most amounting to him getting beat up the entire time before suddenly "overcoming the odds" with his FiveMovesOfDoom. The X-Pac Heat died down (but never completely disappeared) once smarks noticed a 2006 interview from Cena himself saying he'd rather drop down the card and redevelop his character but hasn't been allowed to.

* When Wrestling/{{Lita}} [[RealLifeWritesThePlot cheated on]] Wrestling/MattHardy with Wrestling/{{Edge}}, both Lita and Edge were showered with legitimate anger from the fans -- which only intensified after Vince [=McMahon=] fired ''Hardy'' for complaining about the situation online. Their respective storylines had to be scrapped, and Lita was forced to turn heel. Edge, a natural heel, was able to turn the X-Pac Heat into regular heel heat relatively quickly, and Hardy getting re-hired calmed things down a lot. Lita did not get the fans' approval back so easily -- she was still showered with boos and vicious insults a few years later, and actually quit wrestling entirely over it -- but she was [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments well received when she made a one night return in 2007]]. She was ''very'' well received when she returned for the 1000th episode of ''Raw'' when she performed her infamous moonsault on [[Wrestling/ThreeMB Heath Slater]]. During the latter, she was referenced as a legendary "Diva" (what the WWE calls its female wrestlers), a far cry from [[SlutShaming another four-letter word she was once referred to as]].