History VillainousBreakdown / ProfessionalWrestling

* The feud {{Wrestling/Edge}} had with Wrestling/TheUndertaker in 2008. He went from [[TheStoic a rather calm and collected fellow]] to an AxCrazy raving lunatic. Edge performed the breakdown without any assistance from TheUndertaker at all.

* Wrestling/HulkHogan has been showing signs of this since "the network" began interfering with his Immortal stable's domination of {{TNA}}. While he puts on a facade of a SmugSnake in the ring, a backstage scene had him in a paranoid rage over the networks interfering, claiming they "know too much" about how wrestling works and demanding Eric do something about it. It's been getting worse each week and Eric has also began to head into a VillainousBreakdown of his own for the same reason.

* CMPunk, himself an earlier victim of a breakdown in 2011 (see above), causes Executive Vice President of Talent Relations and Interim Raw General Manager Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis to suffer one hell of a breakdown, as he unleashed the mother of all [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "The Reason You Suck" Speeches]] to the guy on the January 16, 2012 edition of Raw.

* On the account of failing to win the WWE Championship on several occasions, as well as being left at the altar by (eventual WWERaw General Manager) Wrestling/AJLee, [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] had spiraled into a breakdown of unimagined proportions in 2012, snapping at fans for "stealing" his signature BigYes chants, and instead embracing "NO! NO! NO!" as his catchphrase.
* After messing with Wrestling/ZackRyder to get what she wants, ManipulativeBitch Wrestling/EveTorres tells the Wrestling/BellaTwins to record her sucking up to Wrestling/JohnCena and use him like she did with Ryder. But the Bella Twins [[EvenEvilHasStandards look a bit nervous about what she said and refuse the offer]]. So she turns around...and there's Cena, who had heard the entire thing. Later that night, she comes out to him and pretends to be upset about him rejecting her, but Cena sees through this act and calls her out, roaring "I lost a broski to a hoeski!" And when she starts to throw herself at him, he gets her away by saying this:

* Whenever one of his guys would lose championships or fail to beat Wrestling/HulkHogan, [[Wrestling/BobbyHeenan Bobby "The Brain" Heenan]] would always suffer a meltdown and rant and rave about how he's been robbed and make up all sorts of excuses about what happened. A spectacular one came at WrestleMania VIII (1992) when "Macho Man" Wrestling/RandySavage rallied back against Wrestling/RicFlair and Heenan goes from smug and confident to breaking down and panicking with each blow The Macho Man connected and losing it when Savage uses one of Flair's own tricks (hooking the trunks) to win the WWE Championship (then called the WW'''F''' Championship).
* On the July 26, 2013 episode of '''Wrestling/WWESmackDown''', Wrestling/DamienSandow threw a temper tantrum after his former BFF Wrestling/CodyRhodes threw his Money in the Bank briefcase for a future World Heavyweight Championship match into [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GBZcxqby-k the Gulf of Mexico.]]

* On the July 26, 2013 episode of '''SmackDown''', Wrestling/DamienSandow threw a temper tantrum after his former BFF Wrestling/CodyRhodes threw his Money in the Bank briefcase for a future World Heavyweight Championship match into the Gulf of Mexico. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GBZcxqby-k]]

* [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]] infamously suffered a breakdown in 2007 after losing the ECW Championship at ''One Night Stand 2007''[[hottip:*:Though one could argue it began after his hair was shaved at WrestleMania by Donald Trump]], with Vince acting increasingly erratic in following weeks. This ultimately culminated on a Raw that was billed as "Vince [=McMahon=] Appreciation Night", where the complete opposite happened and anyone and everyone got their shots in on Vince. The night would end his "death" after his limousine exploded[[hottip:*:Of course, the untimely Chris Benoit incident put the kibosh on the angle before it could truly continue on.]]

* The feud {{Edge}} had with TheUndertaker in 2008. He went from [[TheStoic a rather calm and collected fellow]] to an AxCrazy raving lunatic. {{Edge}} performed the breakdown without any assistance from TheUndertaker at all.
* EddieGuerrero used this as part of a FaceHeelTurn in 2005. He claimed to be the biological father of ReyMysterioJr's son, Dominic, among other things. It was truly a sight to behold, since Eddie had been a face for so long that he had to nearly take Rey's head off to get fans to boo him.
* Vickie Guerrero gets one when {{Edge}} gets her fired after she abused her power to make his life a living nightmare. She breaks down in tears and starts begging everyone, even a cameraman to help get her job back. She finally ends up begging at Edge's feet for him to help her. He doesn't listen. On the July 8, 2013 episode of RAW, Guerrero throws a fit after she was "fired" by Stephanie McMahon.
* HulkHogan has been showing signs of this since the network began interfering with his Immortal stables domination of {{TNA}}. While he puts on a facade of a SmugSnake in the ring, a backstage scene had him in a paranoid rage over the networks interfering, claiming they "know too much" about how wrestling works and demanding Eric do something about it. It's been getting worse each week and Eric has also began to head into a VillainousBreakdown of his own for the same reason.
* MichaelCole has one on the April 11th Raw. After JerryLawler defeats Jack Swagger, earning himself a match at Extreme Rules with Cole, with Jerry chosing the match, Cole for the first time in weeks is left completely speechless. After a few minutes of silence, he snaps and explodes on his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Jack Swagger, blaming him for everything and slapping him. This instantly comes back to bite him when Jerry reveals their match will be a tag team match, and Cole's partner is the man he just ticked off.
** Had another one on the July 27, 2011 episode when TripleH reveals he'd rehired JimRoss. Michael goes on a major tangent, screaming his head off about how he refused to work with Ross at all. Too bad for him, TripleH was already about nine steps ahead of him and knew he'd probably do that.
* On the May 23 episode of Raw, Kharma, a monster heel Diva who had been tormenting and bullying the roster for weeks, comes out to the ring as per usual. But this time, she finds the entire Divas locker room surrounding her, having been fed up with her attacks, showing no fear. While confident at first, she breaks down in tears and has an emotional breakdown when she realizes they no longer fear her and she can't beat all of them at once. The announcers even refer to it as a breakdown afterwards.

* CMPunk has one on the July 11th episode of Raw. After showing his MagnificentBastard self the whole night, JohnCena comes out and gives Punk a perfect KirkSummation, calling Punk out on his chronic {{Hypocrite}} status and asking him an ArmorPiercingQuestion: if you care so much about the WWE Universe, why are you walking out on them? Punk's response is to get furious and try to find something to one up Cena's arguement, but his comeback ultimately devolves into trying to pin his leaving on JohnCena, which due to the contract he had wrote up, no longer makes any sense because he'd been offered everything he'd wanted that Cena had on a silver platter and kept MovingTheGoalPosts (something Cena had already called him out on), supporting Cena's point of him being a {{Hypocrite}} instead of countering it. He ultimately angerly tears up the contract, doing ''exactly'' what Cena was calling him out on.
** He has another one in 2013 after [[spoiler: his loss of the WWE Championship to [[DwayneJohnson The Rock]]. He went ''absolutely ballistic'' the next night on Raw, outright screaming at the fans in attendance and attacking everyone at ringside]].
* [[RonKillings R-Truth]]'s FaceHeelTurn consists of this. He lost his title shot and then...[[SanitySlippage well his mind]]. He's been getting steadily more and more insane since then.
* MarkHenry has one after being beaten by {{Sheamus}}. He ''snaps'' and goes ''even more berserk'' than he [[BloodKnight already was]].
* CMPunk, himself an earlier victim of a breakdown (see above), causes Executive Vice President of Talent Relations and Interim Raw General Manager John Laurinaitis to suffer one hell of a breakdown, as he unleashed the mother of all [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "The Reason You Suck" Speeches]] to the guy on the 1/16/2012 edition of Raw.
* VinceMcMahon infamously suffered a breakdown in 2007 after losing the ECW Championship at ''One Night Stand 2007''[[hottip:*:Though one could argue it began after his hair was shaved at WrestleMania by Donald Trump]], with Vince acting increasingly erratic in following weeks. This ultimately culminated on a Raw that was billed as "Vince [=McMahon=] Appreciation Night", where the complete opposite happened and anyone and everyone got their shots in on Vince. The night would end his "death" after his limousine exploded[[hottip:*:Of course, the untimely Chris Benoit incident put the kibosh on the angle before it could truly continue on.]]
* On the account of failing to win the WWE Championship on several occasions, as well as being left at the altar by (eventual Raw General Manager) AJ Lee, Daniel Bryan has spiraled into a breakdown of unimagined proportions, snapping at fans for "stealing" his signature BigYes chants, and instead embracing "NO! NO! NO!" as his catchphrase.
* After messing with ZackRyder to get what she wants, ManipulativeBitch EveTorres tells the Bella Twins to record her sucking up to JohnCena and use him like she did with Ryder. But the Bella Twins [[EvenEvilHasStandards look a bit nervous about what she said and refuse the offer]]. So she turns around...and there's Cena, who had heard the entire thing. Later that night, she comes out to him and pretends to be upset about him rejecting her, but Cena sees through this act and calls her out, roaring "I lost a broskie to a hoeskie!" And when she starts to throw herself at him, he gets her away by saying this:

* After losing the WWE Championship to the Rock at the Royal Rumble, Punk goes on a tear the next night, screaming he got screwed out of the title. Far as he's concerned, he's still the champion.
* Whenever one of his guys would lose championships or fail to beat Hulk Hogan, Bobby The Brain Heenan would always suffer a meltdown and rant and rave about how he's been robbed and make up all sorts of excuses about what happened. A spectacular one came at Wrestlemania VIII when Randy Savage rallied back against Ric Flair and Heenan goes from smug and confident to breaking down and panicking with each blow Macho connected and losing it when Savage uses one of Flair's own tricks (hooking the trunks) to win the WWF Belt.

* Vickie Guerrero gets one when {{Edge}} gets her fired after she abused her power to make his life a living nightmare. She breaks down in tears and starts begging everyone, even a cameraman to help get her job back. She finally ends up begging at Edge's feet for him to help her. He doesn't listen.

** Thus, this starts her VillainousBreakdown.

* After messing with ZackRyder to get what she wants, EveTorres tells the Bella Twins to record her sucking up to JohnCena and use him like she did with Ryder. But the Bella Twins [[EvenEvilHasStandards look a bit nervous about what she said and refuse the offer]]. So she turns around...and there's Cena, who had heard the entire thing. Later that night, she comes out to him and pretends to be upset about him rejecting her, but Cena sees through this act and calls her out, roaring "I lost a broskie to a hoeskie!" And when she starts to throw herself at him, he gets her away by saying this:
->'''John Cena''': For your information, I'm disease-free. I'd like to keep it that way!

* On the May 23 episode of Raw, Kharma, a monster heel Diva who had been tormenting and bullying the roster for weeks, comes out to the ring as per usual. But this time, she finds the entire Divas locker room surrounding her, having been fed up with her attacks, showing no fear. While confedient at first, she has breaks down in tears and has an emotional breakdown when she realizes they no longer fear her and she can't beat all of them at once. The announcers even refer to it as a breakdown afterwards.

* MichaelCole has one on the April 11th Raw. After JerryLawler defeats Jack Swagger, earning himself a match at Extreme Rules with Cole, with Jerry chosing the match, Cole for the first time in weaks is left completely speechless. After a few minutes of silence, he snaps and explodes on his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Jack Swagger, blaming him for everything and slapping him. This instantly comes back to bite him when Jerry reveals their match will be a tag team match, and Cole's partner is the man he just ticked off.

* CMPunk, himself an earlier victim of a breakdown (see above), causes Executive Vice President of Talent Relations and Interim Raw General Manager John Laurinaitis, as he unleashed the mother of all [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "The Reason You Suck" Speeches]] to the guy on the 1/16/2012 edition of Raw.

* A notable case of this trope was the feud {{Edge}} had with TheUndertaker in 2008. He went from [[TheStoic a rather calm and collected fellow]] into an AxCrazy raving lunatic.
** Especially notable because {{Edge}} performed the breakdown without any assistance from TheUndertaker at all.

* Vickie Guerrero gets one when {{Edge}} gets her fired after she abused her power to make his life a living nightmare. She breaks down in tears and starts begging everyone, even a cameraman to help get her job back. She finally ends up literally begging at Edge's feet for him to help her. He doesn't listen.

* On the May 23 episode of Raw, Kharma, a monster heel Diva who had been tormenting and bullying the roster for weeks, comes out to the ring as per usual. But this time, she finds the entire Divas locker room surrounding her, having been fed up with her attacks, showing no fear. While confedient at first, she has breaks down in tears and has an emotional breakdown when she realizes they no longer fear her and even she can't beat all of them at once. The announcers even refer to it as a breakdown afterwards.

* [[RonKillings R-Truth]]'s FaceHeelTurn pretty much consists ''entirely'' of this. He lost his title shot and then...[[SanitySlippage well his mind]]. He's been getting steadly more and more insane since then.

* EddieGuerrero used this as part of a FaceHeelTurn in 2005. He claimed to be the biological father of Rey Mysterio's son, Dominic, among other things. It was truly a sight to behold, since Eddie had been a face for so long that he had to nearly take Rey's head off to get fans to boo him.

* CMPunk has one on the July 11th episode of Raw. After showing his MagnificentBastard self the whole night, JohnCena comes out and gives Punk a perfect KirkSummation, calling Punk out on his chronic {{Hypocrite}} status and asking him an ArmorPiercingQuestion: if you care so much about the WWE Universe, why are you walking out on them? Punk's response is to get furious and try to find something to one up Cena's arguement, but his comeback ultimately devolves into trying to pin his leaving on John Cena, which due to the contract he had wrote up, no longer makes any sense because he'd been offered everything he'd wanted that Cena had on a silver platter and kept MovingTheGoalPosts (something Cena had already called him out on), supporting Cena's point of him being a {{Hypocrite}} instead of countering it. He ultimately angerly tears up the contract, doing ''exactly'' what Cena was calling him out on.
* R-Truth's FaceHeelTurn pretty much consists ''entirely'' of this. He lost his title shot and then...[[SanitySlippage well his mind]]. He's been getting steadly more and more insane since then.
* [[WorldsStrongestMan Mark Henry]] has one after being beaten by {{Sheamus}}. He ''snaps'' and goes ''even more berserk'' than he [[BloodKnight already was]].

* CMPunk, himself an earlier victim of a breakdown (see above), causes Executive Vice President of Talent Relations and Interim Raw General Manager John Laurinaitis, as he unleashed the mother of all TheReasonYouSuckSpeeches to the guy on the 1/16/2012 edition of Raw.

* MichaelCole has one on the April 11th Raw. After Jerry defeats Jack Swagger, earning himself a match at Extreme Rules with Cole, with Jerry chosing the match, Cole for the first time in weaks is left completely speechless. After a few minutes of silence, he snaps and explodes on his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Jack Swagger, blaming him for everything and slapping him. This instantly comes back to bite him when Jerry reveals their match will be a tag team match, and Cole's partner is the man he just ticked off.

* HulkHogan has been showing signs of this since the network began interfering with his Immortal stables domination of {{TNA}}. While he puts on a facade of a SmugSnake in the ring, a backstage scene had him in a paranoid rage over the networks interfering, claiming they "know too much" about how wrestling works and demanding Eric do something about it..