History TheScrappy / ProfessionalWrestling

* Wrestling/DanaBrooke made her NXT TV debut in early 2015. She wasn't very well-liked due to being seen as simply far too green to deserve a regular spot on the NXT roster. The fact she was almost instantly added to the opening title sequence following her debut (while some big names such as Enzo Amore still were not present and others like Finn Balor took weeks or months to be added to it) put her dangerously close to being a CreatorsPet. Thankfully, between her finding a spot as TheDragon to Emma, her vast improvement both in and out of the ring shown on ''Breaking Ground'', and an incredibly well-received match with [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]] at ''Takeover: Respect'', she seems to have won over some of the viewers. However, she quickly fell back into scrappy status following her call-up to the main roster in 2016. Emma went down with a back injury so Dana was paired with then women's champion Wrestling/{{Charlotte}} instead. Without Emma to cover up her weaknesses, her inexperience showed itself and many accuse her of being a CreatorsPet and completely undeserving of being on TV. Being paired together with Charlotte only made this worse given Charlotte's perception as a CreatorsPet herself with an overly long stint as the top ladies' champion laced with dirty finishes galore which was so hated it was the start of ''Wrestling/RicFlair''[='=]s slide into Scrappydom before Dana was even involved.

** She's also easily manipulated and delusional, ignoring the problems going on in TNA, a DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck being her calling out the roster and telling them to step it up when at that time TNA was putting on quality shows and matches, and it went down the drain once she wanted to take a more active role in the company despite having no clue how to run the business. Dixie Carter's FaceHeelTurn did help out somewhat, when it culminated in Bully Ray putting her through a table.

* David Arquette winning the Wrestling/{{WCW}} title caused "[[Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro Nitro]]" ratings to plummet a full five points. Ticket sales dropped off as fans boycotted the show. Arquette would [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap redeem himself in the eyes of the fan base]] by quietly donating his WCW salary to injured wrestlers and/or the families of dead wrestlers, but his run remains one of the most spectacular failures in the history of the industry. The booker responsible, Wrestling/VinceRusso, has never been forgiven, and by giving himself an onscreen role where he also won the WCW title, he condemned himself to be forever a scrappy in the eyes of pro wrestling fans, [[{{Understatement}} especially]] to Wrestling/JimCornette. Also helping Arquette's case but hurting Russo's at the same time is that fact that Arquette himself voiced that it was a terrible idea, knowing fans would hate it, but Russo insisted on it and he reluctantly went with it when he realized there was no budging. When the man who your plan will put in place as your champion tells you himself that said plan is a bad idea, maybe that's a cue that you should adjust it to work, if not pull the plug altogether.

* Wrestling/DanaBrooke made her NXT TV debut in early 2015. She wasn't very well-liked due to being seen as simply far too green to deserve a regular spot on the NXT roster. The fact she was almost instantly added to the opening title sequence following her debut (while some big names such as Enzo Amore still were not present and others like Finn Balor took weeks or months to be added to it) put her dangerously close to being a CreatorsPet. Thankfully, between her finding a spot as TheDragon to Emma, her vast improvement both in and out of the ring shown on ''Breaking Ground'', and an incredibly well-received match with [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]] at ''Takeover: Respect'', she seems to have won over some of the viewers. However, she quickly fell back into scrappy status following her call-up to the main roster in 2016. Emma went down with a back injury so Dana was paired with then women's champion Wrestling/{{Charlotte}} instead. Without Emma to cover up her weaknesses, her inexperience showed itself and many accuse her of being a CreatorsPet and completely undeserving of being on TV. Being paired together with Charlotte only made this worse given Charlotte's perception as a CreatorsPet herself with an overly long stint as the top ladies' champion laced with dirty finishes galore which was so hated it was the start of ''Wrestling/RicFlair''[='=]s slide into Scrappydom before Dana was even involved.

* The Great Khali, who pulls double duty as TheGiant and a CaptainEthnic. His horrible accent quickly dropped him to EthnicScrappy, and though he's the tallest guy on the roster, that's basically the only thing he has. Like many giants, he's got acromegaly, but unlike, say, Wrestling/AndreTheGiant, who either [[LightningBruiser managed to be incredibly agile anyway]] or [[ImplacableMan countered his slowness with a sense of purpose and weight]], the Great Khali can't wrestle. Period. He moves like he's about to keel over. He seems to have a hard time with putting one foot in front of the other. He's been called "the worst wrestler to win the heavyweight belt," and he's only gotten worse since that win. He's [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales popular in India,]] but anywhere else, he's dueling [[BaseBreaker Cena]] for the title of top Scrappy.
* Try and find one fan of Wrestling/{{Hornswoggle}} in the IWC. It would be easier to find a needle in a haystack. In particular, there are four specific angles of his [[SoBadItsHorrible that make smarks sick to their stomach;]] namely, being the final WWE Cruiserweight Title holder, the "Illegitimate Son" angle, his one-sided feud with Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr, and being the Anonymous RAW General Manager. To give a good example how much people hate Hornswoggle, '''two''' of the aforementioned angles won Website/WrestleCrap's Gooker Award for the worst angle of the year (the Illegitimate Son and Hornswoggle/Chavo angles).

* Wrestling/TheMiz was absolutely hated when he debuted on WWE TV in 2006. Then, he was RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap via his team with Wrestling/JohnMorrison. Then he became a BaseBreaker when WWE chose to push him even though Morrison seemed to have a higher ceiling. Then once again completely escaped Morrison's shadow and established himself as a breakout solo heel. Then he won the WWE title and again reached Base Breaker status. Nowadays, The Miz is looked back upon in an extremely negative light; as one of the biggest embarrassments in WWE history with both his title reign and Wrestling/WrestleMania defense against John Cena cited amongst the worst of all time.

* A strong case could be made for Mojo Rawley in NXT, whose gimmick consists mostly of running and jumping around while yelling things. The fact that his moveset consisted mostly of clotheslines and basic moves didn't help, along with his having what some felt was the lamest finishing move around, which was just landing ass-first on a downed opponent's chest. Many fans consider him the worst example of WWE's tendency of pushing former football players over actual wrestlers, stemming from his being pushed very strongly in 2013. Mojo's gimmick has even been described as being the UltimateWarrior minus any of the things that made Warrior entertaining.

* Wrestling/{{LayCool}} [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap were used to be this]]: not very talented, often mean-spirited and hateful and {{Generic Doomsday Villain}}esses (due to one of them being married to Wrestling/TheUndertaker). An unholy combination of Scrappiness. The only major saving grace for them is Layla TookALevelInBadass while Michelle is a gifted and charismatic comedian.

** Wrestling/MichaelCole is the name that pops up most frequently when people are asked who WWE's worst commentator is. He frequently makes boneheaded comments like referring to Wrestling/BretHart breaking his leg as the worst night of his life (why, yes, this was years after his brother [[Wrestling/OwenHart Owen's]] fatal accident) and referring to Wrestling/VickieGuerrero's tribute to her late husband at Wrestlemania XXVI as a "hog splash." Despite all this, Cole has maintained a unbroken commentary position with the WWE since 1999, something none of the other current commentators can say. Thus whenever anyone puts a [[TakeThatScrappy beating on him]], be it Wrestling/BryanDanielson or Wrestling/JimRoss, expect cheers. Lots and lots of cheers. This is also not to forget Cole's stint in late 2010 and early 2011 where he turned heel and seemed to be so obsessed with TheMiz that some fans interpreted it as Cole literally being in love with him. His heel gimmick in general was hated for going on far too long and being far too obnoxious, and even won the 2011 Gooker Award.

* [[Wrestling/RomanReigns Roman Reigns]] became this following his winning of the 2015 Royal Rumble Match, since he won over the extremely popular [[Wrestling/DanielBryan Daniel Bryan]] and a number of other [[EnsembleDarkhorse Ensemble Darkhorses]] like Wrestling/DolphZiggler, Wrestling/DeanAmbrose, and Wrestling/DamienSandow, and his victory made it obvious that WWE was trying to push him as the next top babyface of the company. Many people felt he hadn't been around long enough to deserve this, and he subsequently became a CreatorsPet. It took Reigns and his family [[XPacHeat receiving]] [[DudeNotFunny death threats]] from {{Troll}}s in real life that the fans are starting to [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap reconsider Reigns not only as a character, but as a person]], citing that he's just doing his job in WWE, [[spoiler:even though he's forced to end [[Wrestling/TheUndertaker The Undertaker's]] in-ring career (although The Undertaker is already willing to retire prior to the ''[=WrestleMania 33=]'' main event) as Vince instructed]]. It also helps that he's getting TheWorfEffect in the latter parts of 2017 and his feud Cena fixes the flaws of his character.

* Wrestling/JohnCena is the franchise's biggest example of a BaseBreakingCharacter and remained that way, walking back and fourth between EnsembleDarkhorse and TheScrappy over and over again. As a heel, he worked a PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy gimmick and was extremely popular... then suddenly he turned face and the fans were expected to take the formerly phony hip-hop posturing seriously. Then the WWE bookers started pushing him specifically to appeal to younger fans, giving him a PeripheryHatedom. Nowadays, fans mainly like Cena - he regularly gets awards in wrestling magazines - but they continue to boo him mainly because the WWE bookers try so hard to get the fans to cheer for him, to the point of eventually resorting to having a few legends from past eras either putting him over or even outright jobbing for him, a move that alienated a good portion of WWE's old-time fandom.

* Wrestling/{{LayCool}}. Unliked, not very talented, often mean-spirited and hateful and {{Generic Doomsday Villain}}esses (due to one of them being married to Wrestling/TheUndertaker). An unholy combination of Scrappiness.

* [[Wrestling/RomanReigns Roman Reigns]] became this following his winning of the 2015 Royal Rumble Match, since he won over the extremely popular [[Wrestling/DanielBryan Daniel Bryan]] and a number of other [[EnsembleDarkhorse Ensemble Darkhorses]] like Wrestling/DolphZiggler, Wrestling/DeanAmbrose, and Wrestling/DamienSandow, and his victory made it obvious that WWE was trying to push him as the next top babyface of the company. Many people felt he hadn't been around long enough to deserve this, and he subsequently became a CreatorsPet.

* Wrestling/JohnCena has been TheScrappy at periods of his career. As a heel, he worked a PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy gimmick and was extremely popular... then suddenly he turned face and the fans were expected to take the formerly phony hip-hop posturing seriously. Then the WWE bookers started pushing him specifically to appeal to younger fans, giving him a PeripheryHatedom. Nowadays, fans mainly like Cena - he regularly gets awards in wrestling magazines - but they continue to boo him mainly because the WWE bookers try so hard to get the fans to cheer for him, to the point of eventually resorting to having a few legends from past eras either putting him over or even outright jobbing for him, a move that alienated a good portion of WWE's old-time fandom.

** Well, Wrestling/JohnCena did state in a promo before ''One Night Stand'' that he knew he wouldn't be welcomed in any ECW arena and would probably spark a riot if he won. Then said he was going to win. Maybe that reaction was wanted. That said, even taking into account the lessened vitriol toward Cena personally over the years, there are plenty of wrestling fans who hate him legitimately. He's even been booed at shows hosted by promotions he's never worked for, and likely never will if there is any honesty in his promo about working for another promotion "tarnishing" the WWE title belt.

* Try and find one fan of Wrestling/{{Hornswoggle}} in the IWC. It would be easier to find a needle in a haystack. In particular, there are four specific angles of his [[SoBadItsHorrible that make smarks sick to their stomach;]] namely, being the final WWE Cruiserweight Title holder, the "Illegitimate Son" angle, his one-sided feud with Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr, and being the Anonymous RAW General Manager. To give a good example how much people hate Hornswoggle, '''two''' of the aforementioned angles won WrestleCrap's Gooker Award for the worst angle of the year (the Illegitimate Son and Hornswoggle/Chavo angles).

* Wrestling/DanaBrooke made her NXT TV debut in early 2015. She wasn't very well-liked due to being seen as simply far too green to deserve a regular spot on the NXT roster. The fact she was almost instantly added to the opening title sequence following her debut (while some big names such as Enzo Amore still were not present and others like Finn Balor took weeks or months to be added to it) put her dangerously close to being a CreatorsPet. Thankfully, between her finding a spot as TheDragon to Emma, her vast improvement both in and out of the ring shown on ''Breaking Ground'', and an incredibly well-received match with [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]] at ''Takeover: Respect'', she seems to have won over some of the viewers. However, she quickly fell back into scrappy status following her call-up to the main roster in 2016. Emma went down with a back injury so Dana was paired with then women's champion Wrestling/{{Charlotte}} instead. Without Emma to cover up her weaknesses, her inexperience showed itself and many accuses her of being a CreatorsPet and completely undeserving of being on TV. Being paired together with Charlotte only made this worse given Charlotte's perception as a CreatorsPet herself with an overly long stint as the top ladies' champion laced with dirty finishes galore which was so hated it was the start of ''Wrestling/RicFlair''[='=]s slide into Scrappydom before Dana was even involved.

* The ur-example of wrestling would be Sean (Wrestling/XPac/Syxx/1-2-3 Kid) Waltman. Best known for naming the trope XPacHeat. To explain this a bit - Waltman had been part of the mega-popular Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}}, and gotten very popular as part of it. His star faded though, but his gimmick didn't evolve. He took up plenty of TV time and rarely lost, despite not really getting a push or doing anything interesting. Pretty soon the fans just didn't want to watch him. There were actually a few incidents where Waltman pulled himself out of the Scrappy Heap briefly, such as teaming with Wrestling/JeffHardy and doing the Hardy Boyz trademark double team moves with him, or a very good television match against Wrestling/EddieGuerrero. But his gimmick still wouldn't evolve.

* Bubba The Love Sponge (a trashy net radio personality) had absolutely no business being on a wrestling show. However, he did simply because he's a total mark for [[HulkHogan Hulk Hogan]] and The Hulkster proceeded to cram the obnoxious jerk down everyone's throat.

* Wrestling/TripleH. From 2002-2005 he was the most hated man in wrestling because of how Raw always focused around him. Even when he wasn't the champ, he was still the focal point of and whenever he did lose it, it'd only be a matter of time before he got it back. Every show pretty much opened with him cutting a long promo (One time bringing out a a chair to sit on letting you know [[ThisIsGonnaSuck he'll be out there for a while]]) Booked to be invincible, and squashing guys effortlessly, you can count the number of times he was on the losing end of a show on one hand. One time he lost the title, only for it to be vacated due to controversy surrounding the finish and winds up winning it back! Fans in the audience and IWC grew to hate him and even today there are those who can't stand him. Later, his penchant for inserting himself into hot feuds (most recently Wrestling/CMPunk vs. John Cena and Wrestling/BryanDanielson vs. John Cena), as well as leading a reviled stable in Wrestling/TheAuthority, caused the hatred to rise again.

* Wrestling/EvaMarie from ''Series/TotalDivas'' has gotten a lot of hate from fans for a few reasons. One of the reasons for the hatred is because Eva Marie has absolutely no in-ring skills (if you watch her wrestle, first of all sorry, but you'll notice any move she does besides weak-looking punches and kicks are botched in some way about 90% of the time), yet she's a newbie who is able to automatically be on {{WWE RAW}} while more talented female wrestlers are still on Wrestling/{{WWE NXT}} or FCW. Another reason why Eva Marie gets hate is because of her ignorance of the wrestling business, which is mainly demonstrated in ''Series/TotalDivas'' when she refers to Jinder Mahal as "Ginger Mahal" and hometown of Wrestling/RandyOrton as Los Angeles. Fans question whether Eva Marie is in the wrestling business for the passion or for the title of a "Diva". There's even an internet meme dedicated to Eva Marie's ignorance about wrestling, titled [[http://www.memegeneokerlund.com/character/clueless-eva-marie "Clueless Eva Marie"]].

* Wrestling/EvaMarie from ''Series/TotalDivas'' has gotten a lot of hate from fans for a few reasons. One of the reasons for the hatred is because Eva Marie has absolutely no in-ring skills (if you watch her wrestle, first of all sorry, but you'll notice any move she does besides weak-looking punches and kicks are botched in some way about 90% of the time), yet she's a newbie who is able to automatically be on {{WWE RAW}} while more talented female wrestlers are still on Wrestling/{{WWE NXT}} or FCW. Another reason why Eva Marie gets hate is because of her ignorance of the wrestling business, which is mainly demonstrated in ''Series/TotalDivas'' when she refers to Jinder Mahal as "Ginger Mahal" and hometown of {{Randy Orton}} as Los Angeles. Fans question whether Eva Marie is in the wrestling business for the passion or for the title of a "Diva". There's even an internet meme dedicated to Eva Marie's ignorance about wrestling, titled [[http://www.memegeneokerlund.com/character/clueless-eva-marie "Clueless Eva Marie"]].

* David Arquette winning the Wrestling/{{WCW}} title caused "[[Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro Nitro]]" ratings to plummet a full five points. Ticket sales dropped off as fans boycotted the show. Arquette would [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap redeem himself in the eyes of the fan base]] by quietly donating his WCW salary to injured wrestlers and/or the families of dead wrestlers, but his run remains one of the most spectacular failures in the history of the industry. The booker responsible, Wrestling/VinceRusso, has never been forgiven, and by giving himself an onscreen role where he also won the WCW title, he condemned himself to be forever a scrappy in the eyes of pro wrestling fans, [[{{Understatement especially]] to Wrestling/JimCornette. Also helping Arquette's case but hurting Russo's at the same time is that fact that Arquette himself voiced that it was a terrible idea, knowing fans would hate it, but Russo insisted on it and he reluctantly went with it when he realized there was no budging. When the man who your plan will put in place as your champion tells you himself that said plan is a bad idea, maybe that's a cue that you should adjust it to work, if not pull the plug altogether.

* David Arquette winning the Wrestling/{{WCW}} title caused "[[Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro Nitro]]" ratings to plummet a full five points. Ticket sales dropped off as fans boycotted the show. Arquette would [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap redeem himself in the eyes of the fan base]] by quietly donating his WCW salary to injured wrestlers and/or the families of dead wrestlers, but his run remains one of the most spectacular failures in the history of the industry. The booker responsible, Wrestling/VinceRusso, has never been forgiven, and by giving himself an onscreen role where he also won the WCW title, he condemned himself to be forever a scrappy in the eyes of pro wrestling fans. Also helping Arquette's case but hurting Russo's at the same time is that fact that Arquette himself voiced that it was a terrible idea, knowing fans would hate it, but Russo insisted on it and he reluctantly went with it when he realized there was no budging. When the man who your plan will put in place as your champion tells you himself that said plan is a bad idea, maybe that's a cue that you should adjust it to work, if not pull the plug altogether.

* The Wrestling/BellaTwins, particularly Nikki, have become this thanks in large part to Nikki's relationship with John Cena.

* CFO$, who has taken over for long-runner Jim Johnston as WWE's in-house theme song composer. Unfortunately, most of their songs from when they first took over are seen as generic, repetitive, and overly electric. However, as of 2016, these criticisms have faded away due to their output improving in quality.

* The ur-example of wrestling would be Sean (X-Pac/Syxx/1-2-3 Kid) Waltman. Best known for naming the trope XPacHeat. To explain this a bit - Waltman had been part of the mega-popular Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}}, and gotten very popular as part of it. His star faded though, but his gimmick didn't evolve. He took up plenty of TV time and rarely lost, despite not really getting a push or doing anything interesting. Pretty soon the fans just didn't want to watch him. There were actually a few incidents where Waltman pulled himself out of the Scrappy Heap briefly, such as teaming with Wrestling/JeffHardy and doing the Hardy Boyz trademark double team moves with him, or a very good television match against Wrestling/EddieGuerrero. But his gimmick still wouldn't evolve.

* Wes Brisco and Garrett Bischoff, another example of Nepotism. Garrett even was Captain of a Lockdown team in 2012 being captain of guys like Wrestling/AJStyles, Wrestling/AustinAries, Wrestling/RobVanDam, and Mr. Anderson which obviously didn't go so well with the fans.

* Wrestling/DoinkTheClown's monster heel run in 1993 is seen as one of the best things about the New Generation era, and "Evil Doink" is remembered almost universally positively. As a {{face}}, though, he is just as hated as heel Doink is loved, primarily for being a slapstick kid-appeal character.

* Brooke Hogan, is widely hated as the only reason she was employed by TNA is cause she was the Daughter of Wrestling/{{Hulk|Hogan}}. She's basically a black hole neither possessing or inheriting any of her father's personailty or charsima, the life out of any segment sucks right out 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.

** She's also easily manipulated and delusional ignoring the problems going on in TNA, a DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck being her calling out the Roster and telling them to step it up when at that time TNA was putting on quality shows and matches and it went down the drain once she wanted to take a more active role in the company despite having no clue how to run the business. Dixie Carter's FaceHeelTurn did help out somewhat, when it culminated in Bully Ray putting her through a table.

** When Wrestling/{{Konnan}} went to Wrestling/RingOfHonor he got the same treatment. For that matter, so did Wrestling/MattHardy, although he stuck around for a few more matches and put some of the Wrestling/RingOfHonor regulars over, [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap redeeming himself]] in their eyes.

* As for wrestlers who had an extended stay in Ring Of Honor, the most obvious example is poor Xavier. Already seen as an inferior version of Wrestling/LowKi, Xavier went on to be become the focal point of the otherwise well received Prophecy stable, even over TheLeader Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels, when he began feuding with the more popular Ki and ''won''. On the plus side, his hatred made the ascension of Wrestling/SamoaJoe all the more appreciated.

* Wrestling/JohnCena has been TheScrappy at periods of his career. As a heel, he worked a PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy gimmick and was extremely popular... then suddenly he turned face and the fans were expected to take the formerly phony hip-hop posturing seriously. Then the WWE bookers started pushing him specifically to appeal to younger fans, giving him a PeripheryHatedom. Nowadays, fans mainly like Cena - he regularly gets awards in wrestling magazines - but they continue to boo him mainly because the WWE bookers try so hard to get the fans to cheer for him to the point of eventually resorting to having a few legends from past eras either putting him over or even outright jobbing for him, a move that alienated a good portion of WWE's old-time fandom.
** This whole attitude towards Cena may be best exemplified by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-PkYVxM_d0 ECW country]]
** Well Wrestling/JohnCena did state in a promo before ''One Night Stand'' that he knew he wouldn't be welcomed in any ECW arena and would probably spark a riot if he won. Then said he was going to win. Maybe that reaction was wanted. That said, even taking account the lessen vitriol toward Cena personally over the years, there are plenty of wrestling fans who hate him legitimately. He's even been booed at shows hosted by promotions he's never worked for, and likely never will if there is any honesty in his promo about working for another promotion "tarnishing" the WWE title belt.

* In Wrestling/{{Progress Wrestling}} there's Lion Kid, a wrestler who was on only two shows, whenever someone jokingly suggests he returns on the Facebook group, the idea is met with disdain from pretty much everyone.

* David Arquette winning the Wrestling/{{WCW}} title caused "[[Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro Nitro]]" ratings to plummet a full five points. Ticket sales dropped off as fans boycotted the show. Arquette would [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap redeem himself in the eyes of the fan base]] by quietly donating his WCW salary to injured wrestlers and or the families of dead wrestlers but his run remains on of the most spectacular failures in the history of the industry. The booker responsible, Wrestling/VinceRusso, has never been forgiven and by giving himself an onscreen role where he also won the WCW title, he condemned himself to be forever a scrappy in the eyes of pro wrestling fans. Also helping Arquette's case but hurting Russo's at the same time is that fact that Arquette himself voiced that it was a terrible idea, knowing fans would hate it, but Russo insisted on it and he reluctantly went with it when he realized there was no budging. When the man who your plan will put in place as your champion tells you himself that said plan is a bad idea, maybe that's a cue that you should adjust it to work if not pull the plug altogether.
* The ur-example of wrestling would be Sean (X-Pac/Syxx/1-2-3 Kid) Waltman. Best known for naming the trope XPacHeat. To explain this a bit - Waltman had been part of the mega-popular Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}}, and gotten very popular as part of it. His star faded though, but his gimmick didn't evolve. He took up plenty of TV time and rarely lost despite not really getting a push or doing anything interesting. Pretty soon the fans just didn't want to watch him. There were actually a few incidents where Waltman pulled himself out of the Scrappy Heap briefly, such as teaming with Wrestling/JeffHardy and doing the Hardy Boyz trademark double team moves with him, or a very good television match against Wrestling/EddieGuerrero. But since his gimmick still wouldn't evolve.

* Wrestling/{{Kane}} can be a "love him or hate him" type of wrestler, but there are very few people who like his "Corporate Kane" schtick.

* The ur-example of wrestling would be Sean (X-Pac/Syxx/1-2-3 Kid) Waltman. Best known for naming the trope XPacHeat. To explain this a bit - Waltman had been part of the mega-popular Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}}, and gotten very popular as part of it. His star faded though, but his gimmick didn't evolve. He took up plenty of TV time and rarely lost despite not really getting a push or doing anything interesting. Pretty soon the fans just didn't want to watch him. There were actually a few incidents where Waltman pulled himself out of the Scrappy Heap briefly, such as teaming with Wrestling/JeffHardy and doing the Hardy Boyz trademark double team moves with him, or a very good television match against Wrestling/EddieGuerrero. But since his gimmick still wouldn't evolve.
* Wrestling/TripleH. From 2002-2005 he was the most hated man in wrestling because of how Raw always focused around him. Even when he wasn't the champ, he was still the focal point of and whenever he did lose it, it'd only be a matter of time before he got it back. Every show pretty much opened with him cutting a long promo (One time bringing out a a chair to sit on letting you know [[ThisIsGonnaSuck he'll be out there for a while]]) Booked to be invincible, and squashing guys effortlessly, you can count the number of times he was on the losing end of a show on one hand. One time he lost the title, only for it to be vacated due to controversy surrounding the finish and winds up winning it back! Fans in the audience and IWC grew to hate him and even today there are those who can't stand him.
** Now that he has a penchant for inserting himself into hot feuds (most recently Wrestling/CMPunk vs. John Cena and Wrestling/BryanDanielson vs. John Cena), the hatred is on the rise again.

* CFO$ seems to be taking over for long-runner Jim Johnston at making WWE theme songs. Unfortunately, most of their songs are generic, repetitive, and overly electric. Some are just flat-out awful such as Cesaro's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuO1rpuIWOI "Swiss Made"]] which is basically ambulance sounds and a guitar rift, and is not worthy of being the theme song of amazing talent like him. This is just one example of why everyone seems to hate the new theme songs and want Jim Johnston back.

* CFO$ seems to be taking over for long-runner Jim Johnston at making WWE theme songs. Unfortunately, most of their songs are generic, repetitive, and overly generic. Some are just flat-out awful such as Cesaro's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuO1rpuIWOI "Swiss Made"]] which is basically ambulance sounds and a guitar rift. This is just one example of why everyone seems to hate the new theme songs and want Jim Johnston back.

* In Wrestling/{{Progress Wrestling}} there's Lion Kid, a wrestler who was on only two shows, whenever someone jokingly suggests he returns on the Facebook group, the idea is met with disdain from pretty much everyone.