History HarsherInHindsight / ProfessionalWrestling

* On Wrestling/ColtCabana's ''Art of Wrestling'' podcast (and his own documentary), Nigel [=McGuiness=] tragically predicts that the current generation of wrestlers will become "zombies" with post-concussion syndrome. Then Wrestling/{{Daffney|Unger}} was forced out of the ring due to concussions. Her nickname in TNA was "Zombie Hot", and based on recent interviews, it's becoming more of a fitting name per Nigel's definition.

** During their match at No Way Out 2004, Wrestling/BrockLesnar tells Eddie to "just die". It is extremely uncomfortable to hear to say the least.

* During Wrestling/CodyRhodes' current run as "Stardust" and his feud with half-brother Wrestling/{{Goldust}}, their legendary father Wrestling/DustyRhodes made a special guest appearance on the February 16, 2015 episode of Wrestling/Raw to try and get the brothers back on the same page. It doesn't go well, with Stardust ending his rant by saying "[[ThatManIsDead Cody Rhodes is dead]] and so is my father!" As it turns out, this would be Dusty's very last appearance on Raw before passing away for real almost four months later.

* During Wrestling/CodyRhodes' current run as "Stardust" and his feud with half-brother Wrestling/Goldust, their legendary father Wrestling/DustyRhodes made a special guest appearance on the February 16, 2015 episode of Wrestling/Raw to try and get the brothers back on the same page. It doesn't go well, with Stardust ending his rant by saying "[[ThatManIsDead Cody Rhodes is dead]] and so is my father!" As it turns out, this would be Dusty's very last appearance on Raw before passing away for real almost four months later.

** Update: he's still as popular as ever, but fans are reacting extremely negatively to Wrestling/RomanReigns being pushed as the would-be slayer of [[Wrestling/BrockLesnar the Beast Incarnate]] instead of him. Roman Reigns is also tall, handsome, and part of a prestigious WrestlingFamily...like Wrestling/RandyOrton, who was Wrestling/TheAuthority's pet champion. The uncomfortable RealitySubtext might play a part in the hatred for this particular booking decision, among other things.

** When he was in WCW, Benoit had a feud with Wrestling/KevinSullivan over Woman...the future Nancy Benoit. At Clash of the Champions XXXIV in 1997, Wrestling/DustyRhodes referred to it as a "domestic dispute". Ouch...

* On Wrestling/ColtCabana's ''Art of Wrestling'' podcast (and his own documentary), Nigel [=McGuiness=] tragically predicts that the current generation of wrestlers will become "zombies" with post-concussion syndrome. Recently, Daffney has been forced out of the ring due to concussions. Her nickname in TNA was "Zombie Hot", and based on recent interviews, it's becoming more of a fitting name per Nigel's definition.

* In TNA, Taylor Wilde defeated Awesome Kong to win the Knockouts Championship and $25,000 in {{Kayfabe}}. Emphasis on the last word. It would later come out that Taylor had been seriously underpaid by TNA and was discovered working a minimum wage job at Sunglass Hut while she was Knockouts Champion.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNg95xuwuCs Back in 1991]], Wrestling/TheUndertaker locked Wrestling/UltimateWarrior in a casket. Cut to 2014, and, [[http://sports.yahoo.com/news/former-wwe-champion-ultimate-warrior-dead-at-54-054718423.html well....]]
** To twist the knife further, he last appeared on April 7, 2014 (The night after Wrestlemania XXX) talking about how one's spirit can become immortal (Full quote can be found on his page). ''Ouch''.
* TheUndertaker's entrance at WrestleMania XXX featured caskets with the names of every opponent he's defeated at past Wrestlemanias. The problem is that includes caskets for Giant Gonzales and BigBossman, who are actually dead.

* Look up a MickFoley match and you'll get the commentary team makes several jokes at how many concussions Foley had gotten and how many brain cells of his are dead. Now that Foley has talked about his memory issues due to his career it's hard to laugh.
* DanielBryan getting screwed out of his titles as many times as he did, being told that he wasn't physically able to be a WWE champion, and the kayfabe injury all seem to look that much harsher when his title reign was cut short by a legit neck injury.

** Although, on the positive side, he DID have his WrestleMania moment, which can never be taken away from him.

* DanielBryan getting screwed out of his titles as many times as he did, being told that he wasn't physically able to be a WWE champion, and the kayfabe injury all seem to look that much harsher when his title reign was cut short by a legit neck injury.

* Look up a MickFoley match and you'll get the commentary team makes several jokes at how many concussions Foley had gotten and how many brain cells of his are dead. Now that Foley has talked about his memory issues due to his career it's hard to laugh.

* TheUndertaker's entrance at WrestleMania XXX featured caskets with the names of every opponent he's defeated at past Wrestlemanias. The problem is that includes caskets for Giant Gonzales and BigBossman, who are actually dead.

*** This led to the clumsy AuthorsSavingThrow of Vince [[ReallyGetsAround supposedly having an "illegitimate son"]], who was, [[SarcasmMode of course]], revealed to be...Hornswoggle.[[note]]It was supposed to be [[Wrestling/KenAnderson Mr. Kennedy]]--even by his name, they were angling for it from his very arrival at WWE--but a wellness policy suspension scrapped that idea.[[/note]]

*** This led to the clumsy AuthorsSavingThrow of Vince [[ReallyGetsAround supposedly having an "illegitimate son"]], who was, [[SarcasmMode of course]], revealed to be...Hornswoggle.

** To twist the knife further, he last appeared on April 7, 2014 (The night after Wrestlemania XXX) talking about how one's spirit can become immortal (Full quote can be found on his page). ''Ouch''.

** To twist the knife further, he last appeared on April 7, 2014 (The night after Wrestlemania XXX) talking about how one's spirit can become immortal. ''Ouch''.
** Another Undertaker one. Ultimate Warrior once stated he would die once he saw Undertaker's streak ended. It happened at Wrestlemania XXX, just ''two days'' before his death.

** To twist the knife further, he last appeared on April 7, 2014 (The night after Wrestlemania XXX) talking about how one's spirit can become immortal. ''Ouch''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNg95xuwuCs Back in 1991]], Wrestling/TheUndertaker locked Wrestling/UltimateWarrior in a casket. Cut to 2014, and, [[http://sports.yahoo.com/news/former-wwe-champion-ultimate-warrior-dead-at-54-054718423.html well....]]

* Back in 1991, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNg95xuwuCs]] Wrestling/Undertaker locked Wrestling/UltimateWarrior in a casket. Cut to 2014, and, [[http://sports.yahoo.com/news/former-wwe-champion-ultimate-warrior-dead-at-54-054718423.html well....]]

* Back in 1991, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNg95xuwuCs Wrestling/Undertaker locked Wrestling/UltimateWarrior in a casket. Cut to 2014, and, [[http://sports.yahoo.com/news/former-wwe-champion-ultimate-warrior-dead-at-54-054718423.html well....]]

* In TNA, Taylor Wilde defeated Awesome Kong to win the Knockouts Championship and $25,000 in {{Kayfabe}}. Emphasis on the last word. It would later come out that Taylor had been seriously underpaid by TNA and was discovered working a minimum wage job at Sunglass Hut while she was Knockouts Champion.

* After JerryLawler suffered a thankfully non-lethal heart attack, it makes some of his jokes about Jose Lothario a bit hard to listen to, especially the one about Lothorio's heart being clogged with a jalapeno in the aorta.

* Storyline-wise, Wrestling/CMPunk's whole "Voice of the Voiceless/Pipe Bomb" speech where he announced his leaving WWE once he won the belt effectively made him a household name and helped make him the hottest star in the WWE. But then you find out that the whole thing is a recycled storyline from Wrestling/RingOfHonor from when Punk departed ROH for the WWE, with Punk basically NOT being the "voice of the voiceless" but a prima donna asshole who was leaving ROH with the belt simply for the evilulz. So not only was it a recycled storyline but one where it was watered down when the WWE found out just how popular Punk was because of it.
** Similarly it's hard to take Wrestling/JohnCena seriously when working against Punk since Cena has the tendency to outright distort and lie about Punk and Punk's actions to paint Punk in the worst possible light. Ironically this makes Cena look like an even bigger asshole, especially since the Rock has made a point to point out what a hypocrite Cena is during their interactions. Granted, it's part of Cena's character as he often twists the truth to deliberately press a rival's {{BerserkButton}} but it still doesn't make him anymore [[SmugSuper sympathetic]].

* At the first ''Wrestling/{{ECW}} One Night Stand'', Mike Awesome does a Suicide Dive onto Wrestling/MasatoTanaka, and Wrestling/JoeyStyles said "It's a damn shame he didn't really take his own life!" A few years later, Awesome killed himself.

* At the first ''Wrestling/{{ECW}} One Night Stand'', Mike Awesome does a Suicide Dive onto Masato Tanaka, and Wrestling/JoeyStyles said "It's a damn shame he didn't really take his own life!" A few years later, Awesome killed himself.

* After JerryLawler suffered a thankfully non-lethal heart attack, it makes some of his jokes about Jose Lothario a bit hard to listen to, especially the one about Lothorio's heart being clogged with a jalapeno in the aorta.

* One such example deals with Wrestling/MuhammadHassan being carried off by several masked men as though he were a suicide bomber after a beatdown on Wrestling/TheUndertaker. The footage was taped a few days before 7/7, but it wound up airing ''on'' 7/7.
** For reference to those who don't know, July 7th 2005 was the day of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings London Underground (subway) suicide bombings.]] The backlash from this destroyed Hassan's career, with the Undertaker giving him the Last Ride powerbomb through the stage at ''The Great American Bash'' to send him out of the company and into retirement.

* A promo for ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 19'' had a voice-over talking about what wrestlers go through to make their mark on history and become immortals, and when it says "Someday, we will die", it focuses on Wrestling/EddieGuerrero. It's rather uncomfortable to watch these days, because of his death two years later.
** During their match at No Way Out 2004, Wrestling/BrockLesnar tells Eddie to "just die". It is extremely uncomfortable to hear to say the least.
** An issue of ''RAW Magazine'' with an open letter from "Good Ol' JR" Wrestling/JimRoss, about ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 21, tells how proud every wrestler should be of the work they accomplished getting to the event. He also advises all of them to enjoy it because "none of us are guaranteed to make it to ''[=WrestleMania=] 22''." Whether he was talking about employment or not, the words sting knowing that this was Eddie Guerrero's final [=WrestleMania=].

* On a 1989 episode of ''Saturday Night's Main Event'', the Blue Blazer said he would (paraphrasing) "jump from the rafters" if he needed to, to defeat [[Wrestling/TedDiBiase Ted [=DiBiase=]]]. The Blue Blazer, of course, was Wrestling/OwenHart.

* On a 1989 episode of ''Saturday Night's Main Event'', the Blue Blazer said he would (paraphrasing) "jump from the rafters" if he needed to, to defeat [[Wrestling/TedDiBiase Ted [=DiBiase=]]]. The Blue Blazer, of course, was Wrestling/OwenHart.