The air has been cleared since then, but picking on young wrestlers hoping to land a job is a jerk move. According to multiple reports, Booker ridiculed many young wrestlers at a tryout including The Young Bucks before publicly burying them on social media. Booker returned to WWE years later and added more drama to his name. Instead, Booker used it as a vacation having some of the worst matches of his career and refusing to interact with the younger talent. Fans and management expected him to help push the company forward. The later years of Booker’s career however showed him starting to grow an ego.īooker joined TNA following his WWE in-ring career ending. Booker is also considered to be one of the coolest dudes to have lasted in the wrestling business this long. There’s no doubt he worked his way up to the top of the card in WCW earning everything he’d receive in both WCW and WWE. 14 Booker Tīooker T is generally viewed with a great reputation for his long career. The biggest face in the company insulting others for how much money they make is definitely not the right away to earn a good reputation. Reigns bragged about his earnings recently on Twitter again leading to John Cena of all people calling him out. Aside from questioning if fans have a right to criticize if never wrestling in the ring, Reigns also bragged about being the person that is getting rich at the end of the day. Reigns’ first public interview about the fans starting to boo him weekly saw him make some controversial comments. There have been instances of Reigns being an absolute jerk with his mentality towards critics. Even the fans that dislike Reigns have accepted that he’s kind of a cool dude. Younger fans love Reigns following WWE’s pushing to make him the face of the company. The reaction to Roman Reigns at live shows is polarizing, but you can’t argue he’s one of the most beloved stars in WWE. We’ll take a look at some of the wrestlers that are regarded in high esteem for their characters or reputations, but have proven to be jerks in real life. Other wrestlers are pillars of the wrestling community after an impressive career that makes fans want to believe that travels to their genuine personalities. They use those skills to fool you outside of the ring in real life as well. Some of these names have been known for playing a great face character proving the theory that acting helps hide a person’s true character. Many of the wrestlers viewed with respect and appreciation for the perception of being a good person have let us down. There is a popular belief that the kindest wrestlers make the best villains and the biggest jerks easily portray themselves in a positive light.
A wrestler providing you many great moments and finding association with being a highly respected figure is bound to make one believe in the performer to some extent. Younger fans believe the characters portrayed are who the wrestlers really are outside of the ring, but even the older fans follow that guideline a bit if they watch long enough.
15 15.Everyone who has ever watched professional wrestling believes into some aspect of the on-screen product. Either way, they are all most definitely unnecessarily homoerotic.
Some of these 15 wrestling maneuvers have become iconic on their own, while others are best left in the very back of fans' memories. Imagine one of his signature moves wasn’t the body slam but rather a combination of shameless spanking and humping on a helpless opponent, which he delivered to Andre the Giant at WrestleMania III - would that moment ever become as big as it is? Let's take Hulk Hogan, for example, who is by far the most well-known wrestling name there has ever been and likely ever will be. Whether intentional or not, these moves are hard to take seriously when it comes to crunch time in an important pay-per-view match with millions of people all across the world tuning in. While certain moves are truly devastating and, while not intended to cause serious harm or injury, look like they could cause some serious damage, there are others that just look awkward and unnecessarily like sexual acts. An old insult that has been used over the years to try and get a one-up over wrestling fans is that wrestling is a touch homoerotic. While there's absolutely nothing wrong with homosexuality, it's sometimes hard to argue that what is depicted inside the ring is a little on the man-on-man lovey-dovey side of things.Īfter all, professional wrestling generally features two or more excessively sweaty, half-naked men rubbing up against each other and pretending to inflict serious damage to one another.