History VillainDecay / ProfessionalWrestling

* Wrestling/{{Tazz}} came into Wrestling/{{TNA}} as the {{evil mentor}} of Wrestling/SamoaJoe. After Joe joined the Main Event Mafia though, Tazz became redundant. They attempted to reverse this when Tazz was inducted into Wrestling/AcesAndEights, but that amusing lead to Joe himself forcing Tazz break ties with the group after it was forced out of TNA.

* Wrestling/{{Rusev|andLana}} and Wrestling/BrayWyatt were both at first present as very major foes to everyone they faced-scoring big wins and for both of them, after losing their feuds with Wrestling/JohnCena became completely Nerfed. Rusev for instance kept losing to Wrestling/DolphZiggler. Bray Wyatt while having better luck at winning his mid-card feuds aganist guys like Wrestling/{{Ryback}}, loses every real major feud he is in weather it be against Undertaker or Wrestling/RomanReigns.

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d with Wrestling/{{Edge}}. After winning the World Heavyweight Championship in December 2007 (which he had never lost, as it had been stripped from him earlier that year due to an injury), he decided to safeguard his title by forging a strategic relationship with ''[=SmackDown=]!'' General Manager Wrestling/VickieGuerrero. Although at first he only ''pretended'' to fall in love with her, as time went on he [[BecomingTheMask genuinely became enamored with her]] and transformed into a [[SissyVillain slightly effeminate character]] who swooned over Vickie every chance he got. In any event, the strategy was an enormous success: Edge had Vickie set up numerous scenarios in which his chief rival, Wrestling/TheUndertaker, couldn't possibly win, and persuaded her to have 'Taker banished from WWE entirely. Edge proposed marriage to Vickie in the summer of 2008, but the ceremony ended in disaster after it was revealed that he had been cheating on Vickie with Wrestling/AliciaFox, the wedding planner. Vickie told Edge that she hated him, which led to a brief period of CryForTheDevil as Edge begged Vickie for forgiveness. But Vickie would have none of it, and decided to avenge herself further by having Undertaker reinstated to WWE and booking him against Edge in a Hell in a Cell Match at Wrestling/SummerSlam. This turned Edge into a wild-eyed coward who didn't believe he could win the match without help, and so he sought advice from Wrestling/MickFoley on how to win a Hell in a Cell Match. Foley flat out told Edge that he was going to lose the match, because ever since he had fallen in love with Vickie he had been a complete sissy....

* Wrestling/CMPunk by the end of his run in IWA Mid-South. While he failed in what he later revealed to be his on going attempt to be stabbed by a fan upon his entry into the promotion, he did initially get several fans angry enough to try and physically attack him. By 2005 however, his attempts to agitate the audience had [[CrossesTheLineTwice crossed so many lines]] that they instead [[ActuallyPrettyFunny started laughing his jokes]] and he went out with a half serious half comedy feud with Wrestling/MattSydal and [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]].

** Her problems began back in 2002. When she did her FaceHeelTurn, she revamped herself as a [[SourPrudes self-righteous prude]] and never got any heat because she was always easily silenced by the hot girls she ranted at by them just taking their tops off, leaving her with her jaw hanging open in shock. It didn't help that Molly wanted to play it for laughs, intentionally wearing the most matronly-looking outfits possible in situations where something sexy was called for. It got still worse when WWE unleashed the infamous "Molly's got a big butt" angle and was unmercifully ridiculed, even though she was Women's Champion (WordOfGod is it was a punishment for her real-life refusal to be MissFanservice). WWE eventually realized they made a mistake and she temporarily TookALevelInBadass in 2003.

* Wrestling/{{Ryback}}, as a {{face}}, was a guy who never lost without a lot of interference and anyone only came out over him they had a big numbers advantage. Almost every match he was in was a complete SquashMatch, and in pay-per-view main events, he was in control the majority of the time, with his losses mostly being caused by being screwed over by forces beyond his control. When he turned heel after Wrestling/WrestleMania 29, his opponents generally got in a lot more offense against him, although he still won non-title matches. The real decay set in when ''Wrestling/JustinGabriel'' injured his leg, which led to him having to quit a match against Wrestling/TheMiz of all people the following week. At the same time, he ended up in a feud with Wrestling/ChrisJericho, which did nothing but make him look like a spineless coward, and indeed, only beats Jericho with a roll-up pin during the pay-off match. He also walked out on a match with Wrestling/MarkHenry. Rather than being a WrestlingMonster, he merely acts as TheBully to non-wrestlers backstage.

** ....which briefly galvanized Edge into regaining some of his badass status by murmuring [[WorldOfCardboardSpeech "I....understand"]] - and then [[HesBack climbing a ladder and elbow-dropping Foley through a table]].

* Wrestling/{{Ryback}}, as a {{face}}, was a guy who never lost without a lot of interference and anyone only came out over him they had a big numbers advantage. Almost every match he was in was a complete SquashMatch, and in pay-per-view main events, he was in control the majority of the time. When he turned heel after Wrestling/WrestleMania 29, his opponents generally got in a lot more offense against him, although he still won non-title matches. The real decay set in when ''Wrestling/JustinGabriel'' injured his leg, which led to him having to quit a match against Wrestling/TheMiz of all people the following week. At the same time, he ended up in a feud with Wrestling/ChrisJericho, which did nothing but make him look like a spineless coward, and indeed, only beats Jericho with a roll-up pin during the pay-off match. He also walked out on a match with Wrestling/MarkHenry. Rather than being a WrestlingMonster, he merely acts as TheBully to non-wrestlers backstage.

* Averted with The Great Khali. Although he ''was'' marginalized a bit following the loss of his World Heavyweight Championship to Wrestling/{{Batista}} late in 2007, Wrestling/{{WWE}} managed to keep him sufficiently menacing up until his HeelFaceTurn a year later....and ''then'' [[RedemptionDemotion the decay set in]].

* Wrestling/{{Tazz}} came into Wrestling/{{TNA}} as the {{evil mentor}} of Wrestling/SamoaJoe. After Joe joined the Main Event Mafia though, Tazz became redundant.