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13 | * This is, of course, an important part of ProfessionalWrestling, with the {{Heel}}s often giving out brutal punishment after losing a match. |
14 | ** On a related note, in the older territory days, when kayfabe was far stronger and 99 percent of fans wholly believed wrestling was as real as boxing, the very best heels were often able to invoke this with ''the fans'': they would get local crowds so riled up (by beating up some guy they liked, remember) that they would push past booing/throwing garbage and go right to mob mentality and would attempt to literally murder the heels. Old-time wrestlers and managers from the 50's to the 70's would often tell stories about being stabbed or slashed, having acid thrown on them, and having the ring surrounded by masses of people and having to fight their way to the back with chairs.[[note]]What's really ironic is such stories are almost always presented as nostalgic glimpses at 'the good old days' that modern times simply can't replicate, the storytellers often not seeming to realize that they barely escaped being brutally murdered by people for the crime of 'beating someone else up', which they weren't even actually doing to begin with.[[/note]] |
15 | * During a match between Wrestling/ChrisBenoit and Wrestling/MarkHenry, Chris managed to lock the [[FinishingMove Crippler Crossface]] on the big guy. After Mark escaped from the hold, he proceeded to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown pummel]] Chris, then lock him in a camel clutch, while at the same time, choking him with the ring rope. He got disqualified for using the rope, but he refused to break the hold, even after Benoit gave BloodFromTheMouth. When the referee and security finally got Mark off him, Mark was screaming, "He hurt me! He hurt me!" I know the Crippler Crossface hurts, but ''Jesus Christ''. |
16 | ** Happens again when Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} beats him. Despite being furious that no one had been able to put up a [[BloodKnight good fight against him]], the fact that Sheamus actually defeated him [[VillainousBreakdown sends Henry into a berserk rage]]. He pretty much tries to maim Sheamus (though due to Sheamus still having a lot of fight left in him, he fails). |
17 | * Chris Jericho received some pretty violent beatdowns from newcomer Wrestling/{{Fandango}} in early 2013 for his mockery of the latter's name (something he tends to be a stickler about, even insisting on correcting people ''after'' he's taken a beating). This went onto spark a match at [=WrestleMania=], which Jericho actually ended up losing. |
18 | * Starting in May 2012, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Raw General Manager]] Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis has been making Wrestling/BigShow's life a living hell just because Show made fun of his voice, even after Show apologized. On the May 14, 2012 episode of ''[[Wrestling/{{WWERaw}} Raw]]'', Show got on his hands and knees and begged for forgiveness, but Laurinaitis fired him anyways. Thankfully, Wrestling/JohnCena [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calls him out BIG time]]. Unfortunately for Cena, Laurinaitis was able to able to manipulate Show to joining his side by convincing him that nobody really cared about him being fired, and promising him immunity from firing if he helped him beat Cena at ''Over The Limit'' and save his GM job. |
19 | * And we can't forget the late 2000 feud between Wrestling/{{Kane}} and Wrestling/ChrisJericho which was basically two months of Kane beating the piss out of Jericho at every single turn. Why? Because Jericho accidentally spilled coffee on Kane at the catering table. |
20 | ** To be fair, Jericho did then make a snarky comment about hoping Kane wasn't burned. Given Kane's history, well... And DisproportionateRetribution was always sorta Kane's schtick. |
21 | * At ''Wrestling/{{WCW}} [=WrestleWar=] 91'', [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-us-h.html WCW United States Heavyweight Champion]] Wrestling/LexLuger defended the title against Wrestling/DanSpivey. After the match, [[Wrestling/NikitaKoloff "The Russian Nightmare" Nikita Koloff]] attacked Luger and ranted about wanting revenge for a match between Koloff and Luger from ''1987.'' |
22 | ** That's nothing compared to veteran manager "Playboy" Gary Hart (no relation to the former U.S. Senator) sending [[Wrestling/NelsonErazo Homicide]] and Wrestling/LowKi to attack Wrestling/TerryFunk at [[Wrestling/{{MLW}} Major League Wrestling]]'s ''Reloaded Tour 2004'', January 10, 2004, out of revenge for Funk having lost the "I Quit" match to Wrestling/RicFlair at ''Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA Clash of the Champions IX'', on November 15, ''1989''. |
23 | * In a later October 2006 episode of ''Raw'', Wrestling/MariaKanellis accidentally spilled coffee on Wrestling/EricBischoff's shirt. His response: You will wrestle Wrestling/{{Umaga}} or you will be fired. Needless to say, Maria was seriously injured, and the only thing that saved her from being the hottest woman ever to be laid to rest in her hometown's cemetery was John Cena running in to run Umaga off. |
24 | ** This actually happened about a year earlier when Maria just asked an innocent question to a seething Bischoff who ordered her to be in a match with Wrestling/KurtAngle. She got hit with a brutal Angle Slam before, once again, John Cena came to save the day. It should also mention that Eric had more than enough reasons to get Maria some payback: she pretty much chewed him out over his control over Raw in a way that no one expected: using a ''very'' extensive vocabulary (her character at the time was TheDitz) and pretty much stated "Bischoff's been causing chaos in RAW and he should be fired." |
25 | * Maven. Wrestling/TheUndertaker. ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble 2002''. Seriously, one can understand Taker being pissed at being eliminated in the RR by a dropkick from behind, but that was largely his fault for not paying attention, and it REALLY didn't warrant the horrifying beatdown he spent the next twenty minutes doling out on poor Maven's sorry carcass, including ''plowing him headfirst'' through a popcorn machine's glass. |
26 | ** The most hilarious part of this was that [[MediumAwareness the Royal Rumble Match]] ''[[MediumAwareness actually stops]]'' [[MediumAwareness for a few minutes]] so that the camera can remain focused on 'Taker's beatdown of Maven, right up to the smashing glass and [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments 'Taker helping himself to a handful of popcorn]] in a quite literal demonstration of EvilTastesGood. |
27 | * In 2009, Wrestling/RandyOrton made it his goal in life to not only beat Wrestling/TripleH for the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-h.html WWE Championship]] but to systematically destroy every member of HHH's [[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon wife]]'s family aka the [=McMahons=]. He punts her father [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]] and her brother [[Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon Shane [=McMahon=]]], RKO's her (and then [[DudeShesLikeInAComa all but rapes her while she's unconscious]]), and eventually beats HHH and punts him too. Why? Because HHH kicked Orton out of Wrestling/{{Evolution}} five years earlier. |
28 | ** Which was DR in itself; the night prior (''Wrestling/{{SummerSlam}} 2004''), Orton faced then [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-h.html WWE World Heavyweight Champion]] Wrestling/ChrisBenoit in a title match, and won. You'd think HHH would be proud of him. The problem? Orton's victory had derailed HHH's big plan, which was for Orton to soften the champ up so that Wrestling/TripleH could swoop in, finish off a weakened Benoit, and take the title for himself. So what does HHH do? He tricks Orton into celebrating in the middle of the ring, only to turn on him and subject him to a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutal 3-on-1 beatdown]] before kicking him out of Evolution and, a few weeks later, taking the title anyway. |
29 | ** Lesson of the story: Triple H and Randy Orton are not good people, and if you cross them in any way, they will give you hell. Just ask them. About themselves, or each other. |
30 | * In the original Wrestling/{{ECW}}, Wrestling/{{Raven}} dedicated his entire life to destroying Wrestling/TommyDreamer in every way possible -- injuring him in any way he could, either by himself or sending members of his [[PowerStable Nest]] to do it for him, all because Tommy had [[{{Kayfabe}} been mean to Beulah McGillicutty when she was the fat girl at summer camp]].[[note]]What makes this hilarious on a meta-level is that Tommy Dreamer ended up MARRYING Trisa "Wrestling/BeulahMcGillicutty" Hayes the year after ECW folded.[[/note]] |
31 | * [[Wrestling/ScottHall Razor Ramon]] used to exact brutal vengeance whenever someone broke his toothpick. |
32 | * Early in his 1985 WWF run, to help get him over as a dirty, foul-mouthed heel with an itchy trigger-finger temper, Wrestling/TerryFunk beat up ring announcer/attendant Mel Phillips, bruising his ribs and tearing all his clothes off. Phillips' crime: putting on Funk's cowboy hat as he collected it before Funk's match; his hands were full with Funk's other gear. |
33 | * The October 10, 2006 episode of Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s ECW show featured an "Extreme Strip Poker" competition involving a mix of [[Characters/WWEDivas Divas]] from Wrestling/{{WWE Raw}}, Wrestling/{{WWE Smackdown}} and ECW. After each girl is in their underwear (and [[{{Wrestling/KellyKelly}} one is topless]] but using HandOrObjectUnderwear), Wrestling/CandiceMichelle loses a match. She looks like she is about to go topless but she stops. Maria then asks if she is embarrassed. And, just for that one comment, she is stripped completely naked on national TV by the first who claimed she "cheated". |
34 | ** Right before stripping Maria, Candice mocked her for her inane NonSequitur "I love ponies!" when the other Divas had been verbally drooling over Wrestling/JohnCena and Wrestling/{{Batista}} earlier on the show. |
35 | * The Wrestling/{{R|ingOfHonor}}OH "Ring Of Homicide" angle, where the titular Homicide when on a quest of revenge, which mostly involved stabbing with a fork everyone who so much as annoyed him. |
36 | * In 2015, Wrestling/JamesStorm asked Wrestling/MickieJames, who had announced her retirement to raise her son, not to retire and to join his stable. When she declined, he threw her into the path of a train. |
37 | * Wrestling/BrockLesnar violently destroys both Wrestling/ReyMysterio and his son Dominick with multiple F-5's and suplexs. Why did he do this? All because Rey had snatched the microphone from Lesnar's hand, even though Lesnar had interrupted him in the first place and had snatched the microphone from Rey's hand first. |
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