History TheScrappy / ProfessionalWrestling

** The biggest scrappy, however, isn't a commentator but rather Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, largely because he's telling his commentators what to say. The biggest evidence to support this is the ''Beast in the East'' special, which [=McMahon=] didn't produce and saw Cole & Saxton (Yes, the same two men mentioned above) praised for their work.

* While Chad Gable himself is one of the biggest EnsembleDarkhorse in the company, almost no one liked his run as Shorty G, as it was pretty much a joke name that only poked fun of his height, and many fans considered it a waste of Gable's skills.

* While Chad Gable himself is one of the biggest EnsembleDarkhorses in the company, almost no one liked his run as Shorty G, as it was pretty much a joke name that only poked fun of his height, and many fans considered it a waste of Gable's skills.

* The WWE 24/7 Championship belt became this in the pandemic era. The segments with it and R-Truth were initially seen as legitimately funny and entertaining, but by the time the pandemic hit, most of the IWC agree that the joke has become repetitive and are tired of how much time is being devoted to the thing, with many wishing that the WWE would just retire the belt already. [[note]] It remains to be seen whether Reggie's run with the belt can redeem it. [[/note]]

* Ronda Rousey. Her winning the Royal Rumble 2022 after a long absence was a massive spit in the face to the current surviving female roster. It is likely that the fans will see a Becky Vs. Ronda rematch, but 1-on-1 this time but instead, Ronda chooses Charlotte Flair, another person in the company with significance XPacHeat. While after 2019 Rhonda Rousey sometimes cheered by fans when she being as a face, however, at [=SummerSlam=] 2022, after a match where Liv Morgan winning by pinfall despite submitting to Rousey's armbar while her shoulders were down, Rousey turned heel since 2019 by attacking Morgan and the referee, receiving a massive hatred by fans that took XPacHeat and TheScrappy UpToEleven.

* Ronda Rousey. Her winning the Royal Rumble 2022 after a long absence was a massive spit in the face to the current surviving female roster. It is likely that the fans will see a Becky Vs. Ronda rematch, but 1-on-1 this time but instead, Ronda chooses Charlotte Flair, another person in the company with significance XPacHeat. While after 2019 Rhonda Rousey was always cheered by fans when she being as a face, however, at [=SummerSlam=] (2022), after a match where Liv Morgan winning by pinfall despite submitting to Rousey's armbar while her shoulders were down, Rousey turned heel by attacking Morgan and the referee, receiving a massive hatred by fans that took XPacHeat and TheScrappy UpToEleven.

* Ronda Rousey. Her winning the Royal Rumble 2022 after a long absence was a massive spit in the face to the current surviving female roster. It is likely that the fans will see a Becky Vs. Ronda rematch, but 1-on-1 this time but instead, Ronda chooses Charlotte Flair, another person in the company with significance XPacHeat. While after 2019 Rhonda Rousey was always cheered by fans when she being as a face, however, at [=SummerSlam=] (2022), after a match where Liv Morgan winning by pinfall despite submitting to Rousey's armbar while her shoulders were down, Rousey turned heel by Morgan and the referee, receiving a massive hatred by fans that took XPacHeat and TheScrappy UpToEleven.

* Ronda Rousey. Her winning the Royal Rumble 2022 after a long absence was a massive spit in the face to the current surviving female roster. It is likely that the fans will see a Becky Vs. Ronda rematch, but 1-on-1 this time but instead, Ronda chooses Charlotte Flair, another person in the company with significance XPacHeat. While after 2019 Rhonda Rousey was always cheered by fans when she being as a face, however, at SummerSlam (2022), after a match where Liv Morgan winning by pinfall despite submitting to Rousey's armbar while her shoulders were down, Rousey turned heel by Morgan and the referee, receiving a massive hatred by fans that took XPacHeat/TheScrappy UpToEleven.

* Ronda Rousey. Her winning the Royal Rumble 2022 after a long absence was a massive spit in the face to the current surviving female roster. It is likely that the fans will see a Becky Vs. Ronda rematch, but 1-on-1 this time but instead, Ronda chooses Charlotte Flair, another person in the company with significance XPacHeat.

* Lacey Evans in 2002. Oh boy. So, the WWE gave her Vignettes for Smackdown sharing her personal (and believable) story that involved childhood struggles. This got the fans making her go over. And then the WWE drafts her to Raw as a heel. There is no way the fans are going to give her XPacHeat for this.

** Lacey Evans in 2002. Oh boy. So, the WWE gave her Vignettes for Smackdown sharing her personal (and believable) story that involved childhood struggles. This got the fans making her go over. And then the WWE drafts her to Raw as a heel. There is no way the fans are going to give her XPacHeat for this.

* [[FatBastard Bubba The Love Sponge]] ([[DumbassDJ a trashy net radio personality]]). See

* 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=]'' and NXT. 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.

* Doudrop. Piper Niven was known for her wrestling background in other promotions and WWE NXT. The name sounds catchy. however, being paired with Eva Marie and having terrible scripts place her in [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter something more than a scrappy]].

* Bubba the Love Sponge. He 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.

* Ronda Rousey. Her winning the Royal Rumble 2022 after a long absence was a massive spit in the face to the current surviving female roster. It is likely that the fans will see a Becky Vs. Ronda rematch, but 1-on-1 this time.

** Royal Rumble 2022. It does have its similarities with Ronda Rousey, being a part-timer winning the Rumble. However, Brock's sneaky number 30 entrant and being the one to win the Rumble created multiple rage from wrestling fans and exposing WWE's weakness to create proper storylines and proper character development with the current roster that they keep releasing. Normally, a person who is world champion at the Royal Rumble PPV time should not enter the Rumble due to backlash; Reigns entering after losing a championship in 2017 was evident of that. However, history repeats of disappointment with Lesnar losing the title, but only this time Lesnar entered number 30 and actually won it. This is actually not the fault of Lesnar, but the backstage producers for changing the Rumble results multiple times. This was supposedly the result of what Day 1 was supposed to be at that timeline, but the writing was very poorly handled.

* Brock Lesnar. Previously, he would have been classified as XPacHeat. However, this is a rather special case. It does have its similarities with Ronda Rousey, being a part-timer winning the Rumble. However, Brock's sneaky number 30 entrant and being the one to win the Rumble created multiple rage from wrestling fans and exposing WWE's weakness to create proper storylines and proper character development with the current roster that they keep releasing. Normally, a person who is world champion at the Royal Rumble PPV time should not enter the Rumble due to backlash; Reigns entering after losing a championship in 2017 was evident of that. However, history repeats of disappointment with Lesnar losing the title, but only this time Lesnar entered number 30 and actually won it. This is actually not the fault of Lesnar, but the backstage producers for changing the Rumble results multiple times. This was supposedly the result of what Day 1 was supposed to be at that timeline, but the writing was very poorly handled.

* Brock Lesnar. Previously, he would have been classified as XPacHeat. However, this is a rather special case. It does have its similarities with Ronda Rousey, being a part-timer winning the Rumble. However, Brock's sneaky number 30 entrant and being the one to win the Rumble created multiple ClusterFBombs from wrestling fans and exposing WWE's weakness to create proper storylines and proper character development with the current roster that they keep releasing. Normally, a person who is world champion at the Royal Rumble PPV time should not enter the Rumble due to backlash; Reigns entering after losing a championship in 2017 was evident of that. However, history repeats of disappointment with Lesnar losing the title, but only this time Lesnar entered number 30 and actually won it. This is actually not the fault of Lesnar, but the backstage producers for changing the Rumble results multiple times. This was supposedly the result of what Day 1 was supposed to be at that timeline, but the writing was very poorly handled.

* 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).

* 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."
* 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/CharlotteFlair might be the first one to start the decade for this trope. Coming from a very divisive 2019 where the company had begun to lazily book her as a tweener, she finally managed to stop getting completely negative reactions by getting plenty of losses from the likes of Becky Lynch and Bayley (while still heavily protected). This, however, reverted completely back after 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 crowd completely booed the outcome of the match, leaving Charlotte no choice but to definitively turn heel. 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.

* 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 Alexa 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.

* 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.

* The WWE 24/7 Championship belt became this in the pandemic era. The segments with it and R-Truth were initially seen as legitimately funny and entertaining, but by the time the pandemic hit, most of the IWC agree that the joke has become repetitive and are tired of how much time is being devoted to the thing, with many wishing that the WWE would just retire the belt already.

* [[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'').

** The biggest scrappy, however, isn't a commentator but rather Wrestling/{{Vince McMahon}}, largely because he's telling his commentators what to say. The biggest evidence to support this is the ''Beast in the East'' special, which [=McMahon=] didn't produce and saw Cole & Saxton (Yes, the same two men mentioned above) praised for their work.

* 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.

* 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 a bad combination of questionable booking and comments he made in real life 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.

* The Smackdown Women's Division during and after Summerslam, most notably Wrestling/BeckyLynch. It was recently scheduled to have Sasha Banks and Bianca Belair to showcase another wonderful match between 2 women who received critical acclaim at Wrestlemania. It was noted that Sasha Banks was not cleared to wrestle, but announcement happened unexpectedly. So, Carmella was going to take place, much to the fans not liking the replacement. Then, comes Becky Lynch's return. This part was exciting to see. People were expecting a good matchup between the 2. What happened? The match ended in 1 move and less than 30 seconds, with Becky Lynch winning the prestigious title. This re4ceived negative acclaim and negative attention to all sports fans to have a championship match end that quick, especially with bianca Belair having built momentum since the Royal Rumble. Many accuse Vince McMahon for trying to deliver shock value to combat CM Punk's return in AEW. If that were the case, this came at the expense to the females and is similar to the downcarding of Koif Kingston via Brock Lesnar.