History TheScrappy / ProfessionalWrestling

* Like above, can a title belt be a scrappy? If so, the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-univ.html WWE Universal Championship]] has been one ever since it was first unveiled after the reintroduction of the brand split in 2016. First it was due to its gaudy, [[Wrestling/EvaMarie all red everything design]] and silly name; however, it soon became even more hated when there wasn't a ''single'' decent championship reign to be had with it. The first champion, Wrestling/FinnBalor, was forced to vacate it literally the day after he won it thanks to injury. Wrestling/KevinOwens won the vacated title, but his reign was overshadowed by his friendship storyline with Wrestling/ChrisJericho (particularly "The List"), not helped by Owens being a chicken shit heel instead of the badass sociopathic killer heel that made him a star, and it unceremoniously ended in a CurbStompBattle against Wrestling/{{Goldberg}}, who himself only won it so the company could have an excuse to do a rematch between him and Wrestling/BrockLesnar at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 33''. Lesnar's reign was by far the longest, exceeding even Wrestling/CMPunk's historic 434-day reign as WWE Champion, but was tarnished by the fact that Lesnar barely showed up for even a ''quarter'' of that, and that the only reason he even had it that long was because the fans still refused to accept Wrestling/RomanReigns as the top face. When Reigns finally won it, the fans were relieved, as that meant they had a champion who showed up every week, and it helped that Reigns was more likely to lose it than Lesnar in a reasonable time frame. Reigns did in fact lose the title about two months later...[[YankTheDogsChain after being forced to vacate it]] [[WhamEpisode and go on hiatus to battle his leukemia]]. The company then put the title back on Lesnar, who would hold on to the title until dropping it to Wrestling/SethRollins at [=WrestleMania=] 35. However, this didn't last long as Lesnar cashed in his Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank contract at ''Extreme Rules 2019'' to once again become champion. Thankfully, the following month at ''[=SummerSlam=]'', Rollins defeated Lesnar to become champion for the second time...only for bad booking to finally reach its zenith and hit him with XPacHeat, forcing him to drop the title and turn heel. It was around this point that people were seriously considering the possibility that the belt might be cursed.

* [[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]] 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 with Cena fixes the flaws of his character.

* Can a title be a scrappy? If so, then the WWE World heavyweight Championship, merged in late-2014 became this in 2014 post-Summerslam became this. Why? Because Brock Lesnar won the championship and started the era of '''no-showing''' while champion, causing even more inconsistencies with the 30-day clause. Normally, if a wrestler is unable to wrestle within 30-days, they would be forced to vacate the title. Lesnar didn't even appear on TV for 4 months, causing backlash with favoritism within fans and wrestlers. Later in the years, it was Vince McMahon who made that decision for '''business reasons''', redirecting X-Pac Heat to him instead.

* Wrestling/BraunStrowman. This decade has been very inconsistent with him. While he did win the title from Goldberg at Wrestlemania 36, the creative went downhill for his character and OutOfFocus and BadassDecay. Losing to Bray Wyatt with focus on Alex Bliss's new character. Getting pinned by Roman Reigns, who became heel. Tapping out for the first time to Roman Reign's new Submission hold. Being out of television a lot. Coming back to demand a match for the title, only to lose to Lashley clean and quickly.

* Can a title belt be a scrappy? If so, the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-univ.html WWE Universal Championship]] has been one ever since it was first unveiled after the reintroduction of the brand split in 2016. First it was due to its gaudy, [[Wrestling/EvaMarie all red everything design]] and silly name; however, it soon became even more hated when there wasn't a ''single'' decent championship reign to be had with it. The first champion, Wrestling/FinnBalor, was forced to vacate it literally the day after he won it thanks to injury. Wrestling/KevinOwens won the vacated title, but his reign was overshadowed by his friendship storyline with Wrestling/ChrisJericho (particularly "The List"), not helped by Owens being a chicken shit heel instead of the badass sociopathic killer heel that made him a star, and it unceremoniously ended in a CurbStompBattle against Wrestling/{{Goldberg}}, who himself only won it so the company could have an excuse to do a rematch between him and Wrestling/BrockLesnar at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 33''. Lesnar's reign was by far the longest, exceeding even Wrestling/CMPunk's historic 434-day reign as WWE Champion, but was tarnished by the fact that Lesnar barely showed up for even a ''quarter'' of that, and that the only reason he even had it that long was because the fans still refused to accept Wrestling/RomanReigns as the top face. When Reigns finally won it, the fans were relieved, as that meant they had a champion who showed up every week, and it helped that Reigns was more likely to lose it than Lesnar in a reasonable time frame. Reigns did in fact lose the title about two months later...[[YankTheDogsChain after being forced to vacate it]] [[WhamEpisode and go on hiatus to battle his leukemia]]. The company then put the title back on Lesnar, who would hold on to the title until dropping it to Wrestling/SethRollins at [=WrestleMania=] 35. However, this didn't last long as Lesnar cashed in his Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank contract at ''Extreme Rules 2019'' to once again become champion. Thankfully, the following month at ''[=SummerSlam=]'', Rollins defeated Lesnar to become champion for the second time...only for bad booking to finally reach its zenith and hit him with XPacHeat, forcing him to drop the title and turn heel. It was around this point that people were seriously considering the possibility that the belt might be cursed.

* Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis is the most recent example. In RealLife he was already disliked for being an incompetent stooge of Vince [=McMahon=] who primarily only has a job because [[YesMan he's such a suck-up]]. But it wasn't until 2011 that Laurinaitis made his WWE television debut, and currently most people wish he had just stayed behind-the-scenes. Initially it seemed like he was going to play Vince's right-hand {{evil minion|s}} similar to Brisco and Patterson back in the AE in order to mirror his RealLife role. However Vince went on another hiatus from television yet Laurinaitis remained behind. It quickly became clear that he was a terrible onscreen performer due to his lack of mic ability, [[DullSurprise poor acting skills]], and having zero charisma. Despite this he stayed on TV and was played up as [[TheManBehindTheMan the person behind the conspiracy against]] Vince's son-in-law, Wrestling/TripleH. This [[AbortedArc arc was scrapped]], but Vince still came back and appointed Laurinaitis as the new GM of RAW. He INSTANTLY became a one-dimensional and bland [[TyrantTakesTheHelm heel general manager]], and finally ended up feuding with Wrestling/CMPunk. It didn't last long as the feud was a flop, and they teased Laurinaitis being fired, only for him to not only keep his job, but become permanent GM of RAW. Things went downhill when he feuded with Smackdown GM Teddy Long for control of both shows, [[ForegoneConclusion which obviously Laurinaitis won, making him GM of both shows]]. After this Laurinaitis became the center of attention for the show. It's finally reached the point where now he's headlining a PPV against John Cena [[ShockingSwerve and winning]]. He's a blatant [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Mr. [=McMahon=]]] [[BigBadWannabe wannabe]], but is really just an {{Expy}} of Vickie Guerrero, as in an annoying and untalented performer is pushed to the moon and made the center of attention and focus of the program simply and only manages to get XPacHeat due to them being a terrible performer, though WWE pretends it's heel heat and uses it as an excuse to push them.

* Creator/RondaRousey. Originally was a '''Guest''', she became a full-time star for 1 year at 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 quickly), a near undefeated streak, and make history as one of the 3 females to main eventing Wrestlemania in a triple threat match. Wrestling fans weren't too fond of this, thinking that the WWE had little faith in the Women's Division as a whole, with the exception of [[Wrestling/BeckyLynch Becky Lynch]]'s unexpected surging popularity post-Summerslam.

* Wrestling/BraunStrowman. This decade has been very inconsistent with him. While he did win the title from Goldberg at Wrestlemania 36, the creative went downhill for his character and OutOfFocus and BadassDecay. Losing to Bray Wyatt with focus on Alex Bliss's new character. Getting pinned by Roman Reigns, who became heel. Tapping out for the firs time to Roman Reign's new Submission hold. Being out of television a lot. Coming back to demand a match for the title, only to lose to Lashley clean and quickly.

* Wrestling/DanielBryan. Many believed that Wrestlemania 37 was going to guarantee a 1-on-1 match between Edge Vs. Roman Reigns, given that Edge won the Royal Rumble and Roman Reigns was the champion, billing it as Spear Vs. Spear match. The audience was content with that, unlike Wrestlemania 30 where Batista took boos due to the Royal Rumble win. Daniel Bryan's addition as a Triple Threat match was mixed. On one side, Daniel Bryan did win the Elimination Chamber, which can sometimes be used as an alternative tradition to be added to the main event at Wrestlemania. On the other hand, veteran fans dislike the motive of being added to Wrestlemania main event pointlessly since the winner of Elimination Chamber match was a shot at the title belt at the same night. Due to how poorly this was portrayed, it makes Daniel Bryan's appearance seem like to make the match look good, but there as a placeholder of getting pinned by either Roman or Edge so the other won't look weak after the match. If Daniel Bryan were to win it, however, it would once again moot the point of even a Royal Rumble winner and a Champion at a Wrestlemania main event because it gives the audience "just bitch and win" mindset.

* Wrestling/TheGreatKhali, 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 Cena for the title of top Scrappy.

* Creator/RondaRousey. Originally was a '''Guest''', she became a full-time star for 1 year at the WWE. Having no prior experience with professional wrestling outside of actual MMA, Ronda was given literally the royal treatment, from skipping NXT, winning the RAW Women's Championship, a near undefeated streak (. Wrestling fans can't really blame her, but the company.

* RondaRousey.

* 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.
* 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.

* David Arquette. '''See Non-Wrestlers below.'''

* Brooke Hogan. '''See Non-Wrestlers below.'''

* [[FatBastard Bubba The Love Sponge]] ([[DumbassDJ 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 Wrestling/HulkHogan and The Hulkster proceeded to cram the obnoxious jerk down everyone's throat.

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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.

* Brooke Hogan 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.

* David Arquette winning the Wrestling/{{WCW}} title caused "[[Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro Nitro]]" ratings to plummet a full five points, as pretty much everyone took umbrage at a guy who wasn't actually a professional wrestler becoming the World Heavyweight Champion of such - all to promote [[Film/ReadyToRumble a film]] that few saw and fewer liked. 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. What made fans respect Arquette even more is that he went in the indies to work as in the wrestling business.

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* [[Wrestling/VonErichFamily Lacey Von Erich]] is regarded as one of the worst wrestlers in ''all of history'' to step into the ring. She's arguably even more incompetent in the ring than the WWE Divas, botches moves as often as she connects with them, and a failure at selling even the most basic of moves. The only person ever to display less in-ring talent than her in TNA history is Jenna Morasca. The worst part? She's got enough natural athleticism that there's no reason she couldn't pull a Trish Stratus and become good, but because of her wrestling pedigree (being part of the Von Erich family), she has never actually gone through wrestling training. It didn't help that she insisted on following in her family's tradition by using the Iron Claw as her FinishingMove. Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}}, a 7'0, 350 lbs. monster, had started using it back in late 1997 in WWE, calling it TheParalyzer, and wasn't able to get it over. If Kurrgan, with his huge hands, couldn't get people to buy into the move, then there was no way Lacey, at 5'10 and 155 lbs., with noticeably small hands, was going to make it believable. It also didn't help that she was a member of Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople, who had each been the scrappy at some point of their career (unless you consider hired gun Moose to be a member, [[Wrestling/BillyGunn Cute Kip]] got enough for being another WWE transplant, Wrestling/AngelinaLove for being "too skinny", Wrestling/VelvetSky for "botching" and Wrestling/MadisonRayne for a screechy voice, for a ''summary'').
* Wrestling/{{LayCool}} [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap 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/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 divisive 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. Though The Miz is nowadays highly respected among the roster, his run as WWE Champion 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.
* As Rocky Maivia, [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] had many haters. After his FaceHeelTurn, he became the guy we all know and love.

* Wrestling/VickieGuerrero, at least as a character. An untalented, shrill and downright ugly woman that had multiple segments of a SINGLE Smackdown! dedicated to her and whatever she was doing at the time. As "GM" of the Smackdown! brand, Guerrero hogged the spotlight on a show that was mainly know for featuring a lot of up-and-coming stars and giving them shots at the big time. Her inability to act and properly play a crowd, besides some of the cheapest-brand Heat you could find, turned many off to the Smackdown! brand during her tenure as its GM.
** It doesn't help that she constantly yells "EXCUSE ME!" in that shrill voice.

* Most of the IWC really does not like Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon, especially her run in Wrestling/TheAuthority. While many people can appreciate that she inherited at least some of the promo skills that made her father such a great "[[InsistentTerminology character]]", almost nobody in the IWC likes her character. It is almost unheard of for Stephanie to ''not'' use those promo skills to verbally humiliate and emasculate every person she talks to, regardless of who they are; whether it's jobbers, champions, or John Cena, no matter if she or the person she's talking to is heel or face, it doesn't matter, as she almost always makes whoever she's talking down to look like a complete fool. However, probably the thing people hate most about Stephanie is that [[KarmaHoudini she's essentially untouchable]] in almost everything she does. While male wrestlers are understandably not allowed any physical retribution against her, they normally aren't allowed any ''other'' kind of retaliation either and the best they can do is refute her insults or insult them back. The women, on the other hand, are normally completely cowed by her dressing downs, regardless if they are heel or face.
* The Wrestling/BellaTwins, particularly Nikki, have become this thanks in large part to Nikki's relationship with John Cena. Nikki later became rescued after having to take time off to recover from a career-threatening neck injury.

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** A more recent example of a wrestler who is TheScrappy as face and EnsembleDarkhorse as heel: [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth]]. Once he was turned back face and especially once he reverted to his original gimmick in 2013, he fell right back into the Scrappy heap.

* Once Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio won the WWE Championship from CM Punk and cut the latter's red-hot angle short, he went from being viewed as the next big heel to near universally hated by the IWC. Backstage troubles really soured the IWC on him, including an incident where Del Rio allegedly slapped a WWE worker and his also alleged domestic abuse of Wrestling/{{Paige}}. Going up against fan-favorite Wrestling/CMPunk didn't do Del Rio any favors.

* Wrestling/{{WWE NXT}}'s Wrestling/BoDallas, especially on /wooo/, as despite being in WWE development his entire career, he has failed to live up to the push he's gotten (he even has a win over Wade Barrett). In fact, when he defeated [[EnsembleDarkhorse Big E Langston]] for the NXT Championship, ''the audience turned their backs on him''.
** The writers eventually gave up on getting him popular as a fan favorite, and his gimmick became a Scrappy who thinks everyone loves him.
** And now he's firmly in EnsembleDarkhorse territory. [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap Not bad for someone who was firmly on top of the Scrappy heap just a year prior.]]
* 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 Wrestling/{{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"]].

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* David Arquette winning the Wrestling/{{WCW}} title caused "[[Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro Nitro]]" ratings to plummet a full five points, as pretty much everyone took umbrage at a guy who wasn't actually a professional wrestler becoming the World Heavyweight Champion of such - all to promote [[Film/ReadyToRumble a film]] that few saw and fewer liked. 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. What made fans respect Arquette even more is that he went in the indies to work as in the wrestling business.
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* Then there are those cases where the problem isn't that the ''audience'' rejects someone, it's that the other ''wrestlers'' hate that person.

** [[Wrestling/GlennGilbertti Disco Inferno]] was a rare case of this happening ''InUniverse'', where it was the ''wrestlers'' who felt this way about him. On the August 23, 2000 ''WCW Thunder'', [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure WCW Commissioner]] [[Wrestling/ErnestMiller Ernest "The Cat" Miller]] insisted that, despite the other wrestlers' wishes, he couldn't fire Disco because he had a "no-cut contract." This led to a scene of the Filthy Animals walking out of Miller's office and coming face to face with Wrestling/JimmyHart and a hallway full of wrestlers and other WCW employees. Hart asked and the Animals had to tell everyone that they couldn't do anything.
** Disco's tag team partner Wrestling/AlexWright went through this as well, as a lot of wrestlers resented him being pushed so hard for someone so young.
** Miss Patricia, a valet in Wrestling/RavensNest in ECW, qualifies for reasons similar to those for Alex Wright. Apparently, the rest of the roster didn't exactly feel bad when she left.
* Wrestling/BaronCorbin became ''hated'' during his run as Raw General Manager in the fall of 2018. Though fans would have to argue that the creative team had placed his character in an incredibly difficult position by the end of the year (having been put in a recycled heel-authority storyline), many people had noted how his in-ring/promo work during this time had become much more lazy and average in comparison to his run on ''[=SmackDown=]''. It went to the point that all bad things happening at ''Raw'' began to be blamed squarely on him ''in-universe and on-screen''. Even after being removed from power, many agree his role in a heel stable with Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre and Wrestling/BobbyLashley isn't working either, due to its utterly generic and dull booking.
* Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon has gradually devolved into one of the most despised people in the entire company ever since becoming the "Best in the World" (in which he won a tournament that he didn't even enter in the first place). The main criticism was the fact that he took up significant time on both RAW and [=SmackDown=] (despite being the apparent [=SmackDown=] Commissioner). Another complaint was his feud with The Miz, in which Shane never lost a match to Miz and is somehow being build as an InvincibleVillain despite being way older and less in shape (he wins most of his matches by sheer luck). It doesn't help he emasculates much of the roster, constantly bragging how he is the Best in the World with the gag having ''long'' overstayed its welcome. This reign of terror came to an end on the October 4, 2019 episode of ''[=SmackDown=]'', when Shane lost a Career vs. Career Ladder match against Kevin Owens and he disappeared for months before resurfacing as the host of "RAW Underground."

* Vampiro is one of the most popular foreign luchadors to ever work in Mexico, but there was one enterprise in the country where the fans didn't accept him. Lucha Libre Internacional's fan base disliked Vampiro so much that many swore off LLI and The Universal Wrestling Association entirely after he defeated El Canek, who had been LLI's top star for over a decade, and won the UWA Heavyweight Championship belt. LLI/UWA realized their mistake soon enough and had Canek win the belt back, but LLI's ratings, merchandise and ticket sales never recovered as the newer enterprise Wrestling/{{AAA}} gradually pushed it out of business. To Vampiro's benefit and LLI's detriment, Vampiro experienced his usual popularity while working for AAA.

* Wrestling/BrianAdams as Crush of Wrestling/{{Demolition}}, as the three-man team era marked the beginning of the end of the team, as Ax would soon leave and Crush and Smash jobbed out.
* After he was finally out of Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling affairs, consensus was Tadao Yasuda was the most hated IWGP champion of all time. That doesn't change the fact Wrestling/BrockLesnar's run with the belt was loathed. From the get go he was brought by Simon Inoki, [[CreatorsPet the son-in-law]] of Wrestling/AntonioInoki who almost led NJPW to bankruptcy and Lesnar's very presence was seen as a ripoff of Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling's use of Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} two years before hand, which itself was seen as a failure. Booking didn't help as Lesnar won the belt in a triple threat match, which the New Japan fan base felt was an insult to Puroresu tradition and then, as would later become characteristic, Brock Lesnar did not work a full-time schedule, giving the impression he was a slacker(former and succeeding outsider champions would at least defend the belt overseas or something when they weren't at NJPW shows). Lesnar's title matches were well below the quality expected of an IWGP champion and he refused to drop the belt, trying to hold on to it even after being officially stripped of it. But perhaps worst of all, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking he refused]] to take Antonio Inoki's fighting spirit slap.
* Brooke Hogan 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.
* Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s Dixie Carter. The woman has no charisma or business sense and would not work {{heel}}, even though TNA's fans and haters alike despised her. She had Wrestling/TommyDreamer beg on national TV for one last chance to show the world about Wrestling/{{ECW}} (something that did not happen for WWE's ''One Night Stand'', because if it did, the Mutants would have destroyed [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]]). Oh, and as pointed out by [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], she has only one facial expression, which is now known as "Dixie Carter Face".
** She's also easily manipulated and delusional, ignoring the problems going on in TNA, 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, finally ending her career.
* Although the promotion Wrestling/DragonGate is popular with fans, it is something of a Scrappy to many other pro wrestlers. Dragon Gate's matches generally end with flat out barrages of finishing moves rather than a finisher. Many other Japanese wrestlers see this particular style as flat out disrespectful to the business itself.
* 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. This is likely because the who wrestled as Heel Doink was a great worker whereas Face Doink's worker had less attitude and ability.
** A more recent example of a wrestler who is TheScrappy as face and EnsembleDarkhorse as heel: [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth]]. Once he was turned back face and especially once he reverted to his original gimmick in 2013, he fell right back into the Scrappy heap.

* Wrestling/JeffHardy during the early part of the 21st century. He was mainly MrFanservice, and the male fanbase resented him for this. Also he was demotivated and drugged up. Things bottomed out when he made an appearance at Wrestling/RingOfHonor. High pitched squeals of female fans who'd gone to the show [[JustHereForGodzilla just to see Jeff]], mixed with the roughly 1000 [=ROH=] regulars {{c|rowdChant}}hanting "We Want Matt" and "Don't Come Back" at him.
** 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.
** The EpicFail that was the Victory Road PPV, where Jeff came out to wrestle for TNA's title completely destroyed on drugs. After that, people have started to migrate away from Jeff.
* 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 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.

* Lince Dorado, best known for wrestling in Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}. When he debuted he was pushed as a very big deal face, and ended up coming down with the nickname "Cena Dorado." Chikara then went through a period of alternating between pushing Lince like any other face rookie and pushing him like a top of the card wrestler. He fairly quickly became TheScrappy of the promotion. This attitude was in full effect at ''King of Trios 2009'', when Lince's team (The Future is Now) was defeated by the eventual winners of the tournament (Friends in Similar Tights, aka Team [=FIST=]); despite being the heels, [=FIST=] ''got cheered'' for taking out [=TFiN=]. Lince was eventually depushed. A string of generally improved performances and a well executed FaceHeelTurn nearly resulted in Lince being RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap. Then he got fired for no-showing a card and/or appearing in a video without his mask.

* 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 [[Wrestling/KenAnderson Mr. Anderson]] which obviously didn't go so well with the fans.

* [[FatBastard Bubba The Love Sponge]] ([[DumbassDJ 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 Wrestling/HulkHogan and The Hulkster proceeded to cram the obnoxious jerk down everyone's throat.

* 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, as pretty much everyone took umbrage at a guy who wasn't actually a professional wrestler becoming the World Heavyweight Champion of such - all to promote [[Film/ReadyToRumble a film]] that few saw and fewer liked. 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/ShaneMcMahon has gradually devolved into one of the most despised people in the entire company ever since becoming the "Best in the World" (in which he won a tournament that he didn't even enter in the first place). The main criticism was the fact that he took up significant time on both RAW and Smackdown (despite being the apparent Smackdown Commissioner). Another complaint was his feud with The Miz, in which Shane never lost a match to Miz and is somehow being build as an InvincibleVillain despite being way older and less in shape (he wins most of his matches by sheer luck). It doesn't help he emasculates much of the roster, constantly bragging how he is the Best in the World with the gag having ''long'' overstayed its welcome. This reign of terror came to an end on the October 4, 2019 episode of ''[=SmackDown=]'', when Shane lost a Career vs. Career Ladder match against Kevin Owens.

* Can a title belt be a scrappy? If so, the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-univ.html WWE Universal Championship]] has been one ever since it was first unveiled after the reintroduction of the brand split in 2016. First it was due to its gaudy, [[Wrestling/EvaMarie all red everything design]] and silly name; however, it soon became even more hated when there wasn't a ''single'' decent championship reign to be had with it. The first champion, Wrestling/FinnBalor, was forced to vacate it literally the day after he won it thanks to injury. Wrestling/KevinOwens won the vacated title, but his reign was overshadowed by his friendship storyline with Wrestling/ChrisJericho (particularly "The List"), not helped by Owens being a chicken shit heel instead of the badass sociopathic killer heel that made him a star, and it unceremoniously ended in a CurbStompBattle against Wrestling/{{Goldberg}}, who himself only won it so the company could have an excuse to do a rematch between him and Wrestling/BrockLesnar at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 33''. Lesnar's reign was by far the longest, exceeding even Wrestling/CMPunk's historic 434-day reign as WWE Champion, but was tarnished by the fact that Lesnar barely showed up for even a ''quarter'' of that, and that the only reason he even had it that long was because the fans still refused to accept Wrestling/RomanReigns as the top face. When Reigns finally won it, the fans were relieved, as that meant they had a champion who showed up every week, and it helped that Reigns was more likely to lose it than Lesnar in a reasonable time frame. Reigns did in fact lose the title about two months later...[[YankTheDogsChain after being forced to vacate it]] [[WhamEpisode and go on hiatus to battle his leukemia]]. The company then put the title back on Lesnar, who would hold on to the title until dropping it to Wrestling/SethRollins at [=WrestleMania=] 35. However, this didn't last long as Lesnar cashed in his Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank contract at ''Extreme Rules 2019'' to once again become champion. Thankfully, the following month at ''[=SummerSlam=]'', Rollins defeated Lesnar to become champion for the second time...only for his bad booking and off-screen antics (particularly on Twitter) to finally reach its zenith and hit him with XPacHeat, forcing him to drop the title and turn heel. It was around this point that people were seriously considering the possibility that the belt might be cursed.

* Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon has gradually devolved into one of the most despised people in the entire company ever since becoming the "Best in the World" (in which he won a tournament that he didn't even enter in the first place). The main criticism was the fact that he took up significant time on both RAW and Smackdown (despite being the apparent Smackdown Commissioner). Another complaint was his feud with The Miz, in which Shane never lost a match to Miz and is somehow being build as an InvincibleVillain despite being way older and less in shape (he wins most of his matches by sheer luck). It doesn't help he emasculates much of the roster, constantly bragging how he is the Best in the World with the gag having ''long'' overstayed its welcome. This reign of terror came to an end on the October 4, 2019 episode of ''[=SmackDown=]'', when Shane lost a Career vs. Carrer Ladder match against Kevin Ownes.

* David Arquette winning the Wrestling/{{WCW}} title caused "[[Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro Nitro]]" ratings to plummet a full five points, as pretty much everyone took umbrage at a guy who wasn't actually a professional wrestler becoming the World Heavyweight Champion of such - all to promote a film that nobody saw and fewer liked. 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/ShaneMcMahon has gradually devolved into one of the most despised people in the entire company ever since becoming the "Best in the World" (in which he won a tournament that he didn't even enter in the first place). The main criticism was the fact that he took up significant time on both RAW and Smackdown (despite being the apparent Smackdown Commissioner). Another complaint was his feud with The Miz, in which Shane never lost a match to Miz and is somehow being build as an InvincibleVillain despite being way older and less in shape (he wins most of his matches by sheer luck). It doesn't help he emasculates much of the roster, constantly bragging how he is the Best in the World with the gag having ''long'' overstayed its welcome.