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* Brooke Hogan. She is widely hated, as the only reason she was employed by TNA is because she was the daughter of Wrestling/{{Hulk|Hogan}}. She's basically a black hole, neither possessing or inheriting any of her father's personality or charisma, sucking the life right out of any segment whenever she opens her mouth. Getting put in a Main Event angle with [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Bully Ray]] as well as being in charge of the Knockouts only made the fanbase hate her more.

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* Brooke Hogan. She is widely hated, as the only reason she was employed by TNA is because [[{{Nepotism}} she was the daughter of of]] Wrestling/{{Hulk|Hogan}}. She's basically a black hole, neither possessing or inheriting any of her father's personality or charisma, sucking the life right out of any segment whenever she opens her mouth. Getting put in a Main Event angle with [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Bully Ray]] as well as being in charge of the Knockouts only made the fanbase hate her more.



* Rob Gronkowski. Him, a non-wrestler, winning the WWE 24/7 Championship Belt made the belt a FranchiseKiller. He held it for a record-breaking 57-67 days (longest title reign), but was inactive for all of those days. The belt's charm has not recovered since.

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* Rob Gronkowski. Him, a non-wrestler, winning the WWE 24/7 Championship Belt made the belt a FranchiseKiller. He held it for a record-breaking 57-67 days (longest title reign), but was inactive for all of those days. The belt's charm has not recovered since.until [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth]] revitalized it for a while before retiring it for good.
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* Wrestling/CharlotteFlair might be the first one to start the decade for this trope. Coming from a very divisive 2019 where the company lazily booked her as a tweener, fans soon began to unanimously turn against her following the Royal Rumble where she managed to get the victory in the women's match (over the favorite to win, NXT's Shayna Baszler). The hatred only increased after she defeated Rhea Ripley and won the NXT Women's Championship at [=WrestleMania=] 36, with many once again seeing it as a useless win to add to her ridiculously long list of accomplishments and as derailing Ripley's momentum in the process. To say nothing about her even more absurdly powerful booking into and throughout 2021, where she gained three more title reigns in the span of only ''three months'' (July-October). It would not be an understatement to say that Charlotte has alienated the majority of the fanbase not only as a result of WWE's ridiculous favoritism toward her, but her utter refusal to acknowledge it in real-life.
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* Bad Bunny. The WWE has been overpromoting the non-wrestler Bad Bunny to attract non-wrestling fans, much to the wrestling fan's anger. Bad Bunny has received the most sales, a lot of screen time, the 24/7 Championship, and very high rower rankings. The fans aren't mad at Bad Bunny in general, but mad at the WWE's priorities of not utilizing their roster. He himself would be rescued from the heap after some well-received matches, with his match against Damian Priest at Backlash being the best match of the night and showing off Bad Bunny's genuine love for wrestling.

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* Bad Bunny. The WWE has been overpromoting the non-wrestler Bad Bunny to attract non-wrestling fans, much to the wrestling fan's anger. Bad Bunny has received the most sales, a lot of screen time, the 24/7 Championship, and very high rower rankings. The fans aren't mad at Bad Bunny in general, but mad at the WWE's priorities of not utilizing their roster. He himself would be rescued from the heap after some well-received matches, with his match against Damian Priest at Backlash 2023 being the best match of the night and showing off Bad Bunny's genuine love for wrestling.
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* Creator/RondaRousey. Originally was a '''Guest''', she became a full-time star for the one year she was active in the WWE. Having no prior experience with professional wrestling outside of actual MMA, Ronda was given literally the royal treatment due to her mass popularity in the MMA. She was able to get massive training from professionals, go into Wrestlemania submitting Stephanie [=McMahon=], skip NXT, look like a monster, win the RAW Women's Championship (albeit not immediately), a near undefeated streak, and make history as one of the first women to main event Wrestlemania. While she initially started off relatively popular (in part due to her high-quality performances), wrestling fans gradually grew irritated by her borderline InvincibleHero booking as it made the rest of the Women's Division look bad (with the exception of [[Wrestling/BeckyLynch Becky Lynch]], who unexpected surged in popularity post-Summerslam). See below for present.

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* Creator/RondaRousey. Originally was a '''Guest''', she became a full-time star for the one year she was active in the WWE. Having no prior experience with professional wrestling outside of actual MMA, Ronda was given literally the royal treatment due to her mass popularity in the MMA. She was able to get massive training from professionals, go into Wrestlemania submitting Stephanie [=McMahon=], skip not even bothering to earn her stripes in NXT, look like a monster, win the RAW Women's Championship (albeit not immediately), a near undefeated streak, and make history as one of the first women to main event Wrestlemania. While she initially started off relatively popular (in part due to her high-quality performances), wrestling fans gradually grew irritated by her borderline InvincibleHero booking as it made the rest of the Women's Division look bad (with the exception of [[Wrestling/BeckyLynch Becky Lynch]], who unexpected surged in popularity post-Summerslam).post-Summerslam 2018). See below for present.
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* Brock Lesnar in 2022. Previously, he would have been classified as XPacHeat. However, this is a rather special case, considering that people like his farmer-like gimmick, his recent talk show interview with Pat McAfee, but hate the typical booking:

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* Brock Lesnar in 2022. Previously, he would have been classified as XPacHeat. However, this is a rather special case, considering that people like his farmer-like gimmick, his recent talk show interview with Pat McAfee, [=McAfee=], but hate the typical booking:
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* Bad Bunny. The WWE has been overpromoting the non-wrestler Bad Bunny to attract non-wrestling fans, much to the wrestling fan's anger. Bad Bunny has received the most sales, a lot of screen time, the 24/7 Championship, and very high rower rankings. The fans aren't mad at Bad Bunny in general, but mad at the WWE's priorities of not utilizing their roster.

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* Bad Bunny. The WWE has been overpromoting the non-wrestler Bad Bunny to attract non-wrestling fans, much to the wrestling fan's anger. Bad Bunny has received the most sales, a lot of screen time, the 24/7 Championship, and very high rower rankings. The fans aren't mad at Bad Bunny in general, but mad at the WWE's priorities of not utilizing their roster. He himself would be rescued from the heap after some well-received matches, with his match against Damian Priest at Backlash being the best match of the night and showing off Bad Bunny's genuine love for wrestling.
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* Roman Reigns yet again, post-Wrestlemania. While he still gets praise for the Tribal Chief gimmick, the current storylines have him as a part-timer with no more challengers to contend with for the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship. As of today, he has only put the belts on the line against Riddle, with Lesnar having his rematch at Summerslam, making this the 2nd time he will have a Pay-Per-View match since Wrestlemania Backlash. While Lesnar gained XPacHeat for part-timing as champ, many are seeing this as the fault of the WWE for not creating stars to contend with Reigns at this time, combined with critical releases and lack of booking efforts.

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* Roman Reigns yet again, post-Wrestlemania. While he still gets praise for the Tribal Chief gimmick, the current storylines have him as a part-timer with no more challengers to contend with for the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship. As of today, he has only put the belts on the line against Riddle, with Lesnar having his rematch at Summerslam, making this the 2nd time he will have a Pay-Per-View match since Wrestlemania Backlash. While Lesnar gained XPacHeat for part-timing as champ, many are seeing this as the fault of the WWE for not creating stars to contend with Reigns at this time, combined with critical releases and lack of booking efforts. Things also got worse as fans finally noticed that his title matches always have a dirty finish of his cousins interfering to bail him out without fail.

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