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** Taven and Bennett have since brought this act to Wrestling/{{AEW}} and have been met with apathy more than anything else, and reuniting with Cole hasn't really helped. Though whether this is because of how they've been presented or because people just don't care (or both) is up for debate.
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* Wrestling/LexLuger's "Made in the USA" [[TheGimmick gimmick]] in the WWF was pretty much the definition of the Creator's Pet in wrestling. He was over well enough in Wrestling/{{WCW}} as a main event heel, and was getting good reactions from his [[TheFightingNarcissist "Narcissist"]] gimmick he was playing in the midcard, before he was quickly given a HeelFaceTurn and pushed to the top after Wrestling/HulkHogan finally "left for good" (well, for 8+ years, anyway), plugged directly into Wrestling/HulkHogan's feud with Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}}, and given a hugely over-the-top AllAmericanFace gimmick, in hopes to get him massively over. It completely failed on every level possible; the casual fans saw Luger as a poor imitation of the departed Hogan, and the [[SmartMark smarks]] detested Luger's lack of mobility and failure to grasp even basic WrestlingPsychology, to the extent that body slamming the 640 pound Yokozuna still didn't get him over. Tellingly, after he got a title match with Yokozuna, with the stipulation that it would be Luger's only shot at the championship, then won the match by count-out (meaning the title didn't change hands), the fan reaction was less "clamoring for a rematch" and more "the idiot blew his one shot". Luger would return to WCW shortly after.
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* Wrestling/LexLuger's "Made in the USA" [[TheGimmick gimmick]] in the WWF was pretty much the definition of the Creator's Pet in wrestling. He was over well enough in Wrestling/{{WCW}} as a main event heel, and was getting good reactions from his [[TheFightingNarcissist "Narcissist"]] gimmick he was playing in the midcard, before he was quickly given a HeelFaceTurn and pushed to the top after Wrestling/HulkHogan finally "left for good" (well, for 8+ years, anyway), plugged directly into Wrestling/HulkHogan's feud with Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}}, and given a hugely over-the-top AllAmericanFace gimmick, in hopes to get him massively over. It completely failed on every level possible; the casual fans saw Luger as a poor imitation of the departed Hogan, and the [[SmartMark smarks]] detested Luger's lack of mobility and failure to grasp even basic WrestlingPsychology, to the extent that body slamming the 640 pound Yokozuna still didn't get him over. Tellingly, after he got a title match with Yokozuna, with the stipulation that it would be Luger's only shot at the championship, then won the match by count-out (meaning the title didn't change hands), the fan reaction was less "clamoring for a rematch" and more "the idiot blew his one shot". [[note]]According to Wrestling/JimCornette this was very much intentional and the whole idea was to make sure Luger was firmly '''out''' of the title picture. Vince didn't want anyone clamoring for a match between Luger and Wrestling/BretHart (who won the title from Yoko later that night) since he quite rightly believed a Luger-Bret match wouldn't draw, and he didn't want anything mucking up the angle Bret already had going with [[Wrestling/OwenHart his younger brother]].[[/note]] Luger would return to WCW shortly after.
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* When [[Wrestling/BrodusClay Tyrus]] joined the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]] in 2021, he quickly won the Television Championship and dominated the scene, eventually racking up enough wins to challenge for and win the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship, where he continued to destroy all challengers in brief {{Squash Match}}es. Tyrus by this point was pushing fifty and visibly over the hill, to the point he couldn't even run the ropes let alone do wrestling moves, and it was blatantly obvious that NWA head honcho [[Music/TheSmashingPumpkins Billy Corgan]] was trying to leverage Tyrus' side gig on Fox News for mainstream attention. Despite significant fan backlash Corgan stubbornly refused to take the belt off Tyrus for the better part of a year, claiming that fans simply didn't like Tyrus' politics and mocking them as "not wrestling fans" for letting political considerations colour their enjoyment of wrestling, whilst liberal and conservative fans alike repeatedly made it clear that they didn't want Tyrus as champion because he ''couldn't wrestle''. Tyrus finally lost the belt in February 2023 and retired for real, citing age and [[DentedIron mounting injuries]], demonstrating what a bad idea it was to have a man in his condition at the top of the promotion. Tyrus' reign alienated a significant number of fans at a time when the NWA was particularly vulnerable, only just returning from an enforced hiatus during the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic. It also drove away Wrestling/NickAldis, the company's top star and the man who had spent years painstakingly bringing some kind of credibility back to the title and spearheaded its well-received {{Revival}} from 2017 to 2019.
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* When [[Wrestling/BrodusClay Tyrus]] joined the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]] in 2021, he quickly won the Television Championship and dominated the scene, eventually racking up enough wins to challenge for and win the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship, where he continued to destroy all challengers in brief {{Squash Match}}es. Tyrus by this point was pushing fifty and visibly over the hill, to the point he couldn't even run the ropes let alone do wrestling moves, and it was blatantly obvious that NWA head honcho [[Music/TheSmashingPumpkins Billy Corgan]] was trying to leverage Tyrus' side gig on Fox News for mainstream attention. Despite significant fan backlash Corgan stubbornly refused to take the belt off Tyrus for the better part of a year, claiming that fans simply didn't like Tyrus' politics and mocking them as "not wrestling fans" for letting political considerations colour their enjoyment of wrestling, whilst liberal and conservative fans alike repeatedly made it clear that they didn't want Tyrus as champion because he ''couldn't wrestle''. Tyrus finally lost the belt in February 2023 and retired for real, citing age and [[DentedIron mounting injuries]], demonstrating what a bad idea it was to have a man in his condition at the top of the promotion. Tyrus' reign alienated a significant number of fans at a time when the NWA was particularly vulnerable, only just returning from an enforced hiatus during the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic. It also drove away Wrestling/NickAldis, the company's top star and the man Wrestling/NickAldis, who had spent was understandably upset at being unceremoniously cast aside in favour of a barely mobile former WWE comedy midcarder after spending years painstakingly bringing some kind of credibility back to the title and spearheaded its well-received {{Revival}} from 2017 to 2019.spearheading the NWA's {{Revival}}.
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* As bad as Trips was, Wrestling/JeffJarrett in Wrestling/{{TNA}} was (is?) a lot worse, especially in 2005, when fans were pleading with him to "DROP THE TITLE!" Not to mention the fact that he is also the head booker, as well as a wrestler. However, this all started in 1999 when Jarrett was pushed big time in WCW because of his friendship with Vince Russo, the then-current "[[InsistentTerminology writer]]" for WCW. While Wrestling/TripleH does have a lot of pull in WWE thanks to his marriage to Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon, it is Vince [=McMahon=] who gets the final word on everything. Not to mention, Jarrett is inferior in both {{wrestling psychology}} and cutting promos to Trips, making his over-the-top prominence that much more obnoxious.
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* As bad as Trips was, Wrestling/JeffJarrett in Wrestling/{{TNA}} was (is?) a lot worse, especially in 2005, when fans were pleading with him to "DROP THE TITLE!" Not to mention the fact that he is was also the head booker, booker (and minority owner and co-founder), as well as a wrestler. However, this all started in 1999 when Jarrett was pushed big time in WCW because of his friendship with Vince Russo, the then-current "[[InsistentTerminology writer]]" for WCW. While Wrestling/TripleH does have a lot of pull in WWE thanks to his marriage to Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon, it is Vince [=McMahon=] who gets the final word on everything. Not to mention, Jarrett is inferior in both {{wrestling psychology}} and cutting promos to Trips, Trips,[[note]]Though the former is pretty debatable, Jarrett is actually a brilliant in-ring worker (and in a vacuum probably a better one than HHH) who has been around wrestling since birth, both his father and grandmother were promoters in Memphis, and knows wrestling psychology as well as anyone... when he wants to, but he's usually more concerned with getting himself over[[/note]] making his over-the-top prominence that much more obnoxious.
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** This may also explain Wrestling/ShaneDouglas' perpetual push in ECW, despite never showing an ability to do anything but say "fuck" a lot in promos and get heat on himself in the locker room. The latter is why he left WCW and the WWF on bad terms and why neither Wrestling/VinceMcMahon nor Wrestling/EricBischoff would touch him with a ten foot pole, though he'd later return to WCW under the Russo regime.
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* Wrestling/JackSwagger. A decent wrestler who's in good shape but rather boring to watch and with a lisp that severely affects his promos. He got two absolutely random main event pushes, the first of which being his Money In The Bank win in 2010. After roughly about three months as World Champion, he dropped it and was never in the title picture again. Then in 2013 he returned after a long absence and got ''another'' push for the title, this one he didn't win.[[note]]It's generally believed that Swagger was originally slated to defeat champion Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 29'', but those plans were shot down when Swagger got a DUI ([[TheStoner for marijuana]]) on the way back to the hotel from the ''Elimination Chamber'' PPV where he won the title shot. Considering that Wrestling/DolphZiggler cashed in his Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank briefcase and won the title from Del Rio the very next night Swagger's title reign might have been very short lived even if he had won[[/note]] Most fans find him boring to watch, especially when he is frequently overshadowed by his more talented partner [[Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli Antonio Cesaro]].
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* Wrestling/JackSwagger. A decent wrestler who's in good shape but rather boring to watch and with a lisp that severely affects his promos. He got two absolutely random main event pushes, the first of which being his Money In The Bank win in 2010. After roughly about three months as World Champion, he dropped it and was never in the title picture again. Then in 2013 he returned after a long absence and got ''another'' push for the title, this one he didn't win.[[note]]It's generally believed that Swagger was originally slated to defeat champion Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 29'', but those plans were shot down when Swagger got a DUI ([[TheStoner for marijuana]]) on the way back to the hotel from the ''Elimination Chamber'' PPV where he won the title shot. Considering that Wrestling/DolphZiggler cashed in his Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank briefcase and won the title from Del Rio the very next night Swagger's title reign might have been very short lived even if he had won[[/note]] Most fans find him boring to watch, especially when he is frequently overshadowed by his more talented partner [[Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli Antonio Cesaro]]. Both Swagger and Cesaro have moved on to Wrestling/{{AEW}}, though they've yet to interact with each other there.
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** Taven and Bennett have since brought this act to Wrestling/{{AEW}} and have been met with apathy more than anything else, and reuniting with Cole hasn't really helped. Though whether this is because of how they've been presented or because people just don't care (or both) is up for debate.
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* When [[Wrestling/BrodusClay Tyrus]] joined the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]] in 2021, he quickly won the Television Championship and dominated the scene, eventually racking up enough wins to challenge for and win the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship, where he continued to destroy all challengers in brief {{Squash Match}}es. Tyrus by this point was pushing fifty and visibly over the hill, to the point he could barely walk to the ring let alone wrestle, and it was blatantly obvious that NWA head honcho [[Music/TheSmashingPumpkins Billy Corgan]] was trying to leverage Tyrus' side gig on Fox News for mainstream attention. Despite significant fan backlash Corgan stubbornly refused to take the belt off Tyrus for the better part of a year, claiming that fans simply didn't like Tyrus' politics and mocking them as "not wrestling fans" for letting political considerations colour their enjoyment of wrestling, whilst liberal and conservative fans alike repeatedly made it clear that they didn't want Tyrus as champion because he ''couldn't wrestle''. Tyrus finally lost the belt in February 2023 and retired for real, citing age and [[DentedIron mounting injuries]], demonstrating what a bad idea it was to have a man in his condition at the top of the promotion. Tyrus' reign alienated a significant number of fans at a time when the NWA was particularly vulnerable, only just returning from an enforced hiatus during the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic. It also drove away Wrestling/NickAldis, the company's top star and the man who had spent years painstakingly bringing some kind of credibility back to the title and spearheaded its well-received {{Revival}} from 2017 to 2019.
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* When [[Wrestling/BrodusClay Tyrus]] joined the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]] in 2021, he quickly won the Television Championship and dominated the scene, eventually racking up enough wins to challenge for and win the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship, where he continued to destroy all challengers in brief {{Squash Match}}es. Tyrus by this point was pushing fifty and visibly over the hill, to the point he could barely walk to the ring let alone wrestle, and it was blatantly obvious that NWA head honcho [[Music/TheSmashingPumpkins Billy Corgan]] was trying to leverage Tyrus' side gig on Fox News for mainstream attention. Despite significant fan backlash Corgan stubbornly refused to take the belt off Tyrus for the better part of a year, claiming that fans simply didn't like Tyrus' politics and mocking them as "not wrestling fans" for letting political considerations colour their enjoyment of wrestling, whilst liberal and conservative fans alike repeatedly made it clear that they didn't want Tyrus as champion because he ''couldn't wrestle''. Tyrus finally lost the belt in February 2023 and retired for real, citing age and [[DentedIron mounting injuries]], demonstrating what a bad idea it was to have a man in his condition at the top of the promotion. Tyrus' reign alienated a significant number of fans at a time when the NWA was particularly vulnerable, only just returning from an enforced hiatus during the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic. It also drove away Wrestling/NickAldis, the company's top star and the man who had spent years painstakingly bringing some kind of credibility back to the title and spearheaded its well-received [[TheRevival revival]] from 2017 to 2019.
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* When [[Wrestling/BrodusClay Tyrus]] joined the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]] in 2021, he quickly won the Television Championship and dominated the scene, eventually racking up enough wins to challenge for and win the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship, where he continued to destroy all challengers in brief {{Squash Match}}es. Tyrus by this point was pushing fifty and visibly over the hill, to the point he could barely walk to the ring let alone wrestle, and it was blatantly obvious that NWA head honcho [[Music/TheSmashingPumpkins Billy Corgan]] was trying to leverage Tyrus' side gig on Fox News for mainstream attention. Despite significant fan backlash Corgan stubbornly refused to take the belt off Tyrus for the better part of a year, claiming that fans simply didn't like Tyrus' politics and mocking them as "not wrestling fans" for letting political considerations colour their enjoyment of wrestling, whilst liberal and conservative fans alike repeatedly made it clear that they didn't want Tyrus as champion because he ''couldn't wrestle''. Tyrus finally lost the belt in February 2023 and retired for real, citing age and [[DentedIron mounting injuries]], demonstrating what a bad idea it was to have a man in his condition at the top of the promotion. Tyrus' reign alienated a significant number of fans at a time when the NWA was particularly vulnerable, only just returning from an enforced hiatus during the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic. It also drove away Wrestling/NickAldis, the company's top star and the man who had spent years painstakingly bringing some kind of credibility back to the title and spearheaded its well-received [[TheRevival revival]] {{Revival}} from 2017 to 2019.
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* During Wrestling/RingOfHonor's HD Net era, Dave Prazak was joined on commentary by Mike Hogewood, who they later learned would be hard to replace after they found better people for the job due to Hogewood being friends of HD Net staff members.
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* During Wrestling/RingOfHonor's HD Net Net[[note]]Which would later become AXS TV, which would later still be purchased by the company that owns Wrestling/ImpactWrestling[[/note]] era, Dave Prazak was joined on commentary by Mike Hogewood, who they later learned would be hard to replace after they found better people for the job due to Hogewood being friends of HD Net staff members.
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* Pick any wrestler who is on the booking team, or better yet, a relative of someone on the booking team. Some American examples: June Byers (daughter-in-law of Billy Wolfe), [[Wrestling/{{Goldust}} Dustin Rhodes]] (son of Wrestling/DustyRhodes), Wrestling/TripleH (son-in-law of Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s Wrestling/VinceMcMahon), Wrestling/ShawnMichaels (suspected closet-''lover'' of Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s Wrestling/VinceMcMahon), Wrestling/JeffJarrett (co-owner and son of Jerry Jarrett) in Wrestling/{{TNA}}, Erik Watts (son of Bill Watts), David Sammartino (son of Wrestling/BrunoSammartino, not part of the booking team but pushed in an attempt by them to please his father), David Flair (son of Wrestling/RicFlair, see Sammartino), Wrestling/KevinNash (booker in 1998-1999) in Wrestling/{{WCW}}, Greg Gagne and Larry Zbyszko (son and son-in-law of Verne Gagne, respectively) in the [[Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation AWA]]. Such wrestlers are usually pushed far beyond their ability levels or to the point where fans become sick of seeing them. Other countries' promotions are not immune to this either.
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* Pick any wrestler who is on the booking team, or better yet, a relative of someone on the booking team. Some American examples: June Byers (daughter-in-law of Billy Wolfe), [[Wrestling/{{Goldust}} Dustin Rhodes]] (son of Wrestling/DustyRhodes), Wrestling/TripleH (son-in-law of Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s Wrestling/VinceMcMahon), Wrestling/ShawnMichaels (suspected closet-''lover'' of Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s Wrestling/VinceMcMahon), Wrestling/JeffJarrett (co-owner and son of Jerry Jarrett) in Wrestling/{{TNA}}, Erik Watts (son of Bill Watts), David Sammartino (son of Wrestling/BrunoSammartino, not part of the booking team but pushed in an attempt by them to please his father), David Flair (son of Wrestling/RicFlair, see Sammartino), Wrestling/KevinNash (booker in 1998-1999) in Wrestling/{{WCW}}, Greg Gagne and Larry Zbyszko (son and son-in-law of Verne Gagne, respectively) respectively[[note]]Though in the case of Zbyszko Verne didn't have much of a choice, if he put the title on anyone else they likely would have shown up at MSG with it a couple weeks later after Vince stole them for the WWF. This kind of worked - Zbyszko ended up taking the belt to WCW instead when he left a now basically dead AWA to become one of their announcers[[/note]]) in the [[Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation AWA]]. Such wrestlers are usually pushed far beyond their ability levels or to the point where fans become sick of seeing them. Other countries' promotions are not immune to this either.
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* Wrestling/JackSwagger. A decent wrestler who's in good shape but rather boring to watch and with a lisp that severely affects his promos. He got two absolutely random main event pushes, the first of which being his Money In The Bank win in 2010. After roughly about three months as World Champion, he dropped it and was never in the title picture again. Then in 2013 he returned after a long absence and got ''another'' push for the title, this one he didn't win.[[note]]It's generally believed that Swagger was originally slated to defeat champion Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 29'', but those plans were shot down when Swagger got a DUI on the way back to the hotel from the ''Elimination Chamber'' PPV where he won the title shot. Considering that Wrestling/DolphZiggler cashed in his Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank briefcase and won the title from Del Rio the very next night Swagger's title reign might have been very short lived even if he had won[[/note]] Most fans find him boring to watch, especially when he is frequently overshadowed by his more talented partner [[Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli Antonio Cesaro]].
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* Wrestling/JackSwagger. A decent wrestler who's in good shape but rather boring to watch and with a lisp that severely affects his promos. He got two absolutely random main event pushes, the first of which being his Money In The Bank win in 2010. After roughly about three months as World Champion, he dropped it and was never in the title picture again. Then in 2013 he returned after a long absence and got ''another'' push for the title, this one he didn't win.[[note]]It's generally believed that Swagger was originally slated to defeat champion Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 29'', but those plans were shot down when Swagger got a DUI ([[TheStoner for marijuana]]) on the way back to the hotel from the ''Elimination Chamber'' PPV where he won the title shot. Considering that Wrestling/DolphZiggler cashed in his Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank briefcase and won the title from Del Rio the very next night Swagger's title reign might have been very short lived even if he had won[[/note]] Most fans find him boring to watch, especially when he is frequently overshadowed by his more talented partner [[Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli Antonio Cesaro]].
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* Wrestling/JackSwagger. A decent wrestler who's in good shape but rather boring to watch and with a lisp that severely affects his promos. He got two absolutely random main event pushes, the first of which being his Money In The Bank win in 2010. After roughly about three months as World Champion, he dropped it and was never in the title picture again. Then in 2013 he returned after a long absence and got ''another'' push for the title, this one he didn't win. Most fans find him boring to watch, especially when he is frequently overshadowed by his more talented partner [[Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli Antonio Cesaro]].
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* Wrestling/JackSwagger. A decent wrestler who's in good shape but rather boring to watch and with a lisp that severely affects his promos. He got two absolutely random main event pushes, the first of which being his Money In The Bank win in 2010. After roughly about three months as World Champion, he dropped it and was never in the title picture again. Then in 2013 he returned after a long absence and got ''another'' push for the title, this one he didn't win. [[note]]It's generally believed that Swagger was originally slated to defeat champion Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 29'', but those plans were shot down when Swagger got a DUI on the way back to the hotel from the ''Elimination Chamber'' PPV where he won the title shot. Considering that Wrestling/DolphZiggler cashed in his Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank briefcase and won the title from Del Rio the very next night Swagger's title reign might have been very short lived even if he had won[[/note]] Most fans find him boring to watch, especially when he is frequently overshadowed by his more talented partner [[Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli Antonio Cesaro]].
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** Erik Watts, the son of veteran wrestler "Cowboy" Bill Watts had a very poorly recieved run in WCW during the early 90's, which [[SarcasmMode miraculously occurred during the period his father was on the booking commitee]].
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** Erik Watts, the son of veteran wrestler "Cowboy" Bill Watts had a very poorly recieved received run in WCW during the early 90's, which [[SarcasmMode miraculously occurred during the period his father was on the booking commitee]].
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* It's one thing to keep using a man when your fans say they don't want anymore of him. It's another when the news media portrays your company as [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity a laughingstock due to you associating with him]], his own NFL franchise puts a restraining order against your use of him and you respond by not only continuing to use him, but having your baby{{face}}s talk about [[CharacterShilling how great he is]] and give him one half of the {{tag team}} titles, as TNA did with Adam "Pacman" Jones. Despite his first "run" doing nothing for the company they actually brought him in a second time.
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* It's one thing to keep using a man when your fans say they don't want anymore of him. It's another when the news media portrays your company as [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity a laughingstock laughing-stock due to you associating with him]], his own NFL franchise puts a restraining order against your use of him and you respond by not only continuing to use him, but having your baby{{face}}s talk about [[CharacterShilling how great he is]] and give him one half of the {{tag team}} titles, as TNA did with Adam "Pacman" Jones. Despite his first "run" doing nothing for the company they actually brought him in a second time.
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* Bubba the Love Sponge became this in Wrestling/{{TNA}} the very ''moment'' he showed up on television, mainly due to the fact that the only reason he was there is because he was one of Wrestling/HulkHogan's friends. He certainly didn't do any favors for his popularity with his reported bullying of TNA talents off camera, which was only (sort of) tolerated because of said friendship with Hogan. Then it got worse when he made disparaging comments about [[DudeNotFunny the victims of the earthquake in Haiti]]. He was then involved in an incident (Read: He got beat up) that lead to [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Awesome Kong]] leaving the company. Bubba lasted a few months after Kong's departure, but he didn't let that grudge against her go. She was invited on a radio show, which turned out to be a setup by Bubba and the host, one of his friends. Abusive, racist language was hurled. Once word got out, Bubba was immediately fired from TNA. [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing The news was met with near-total approval and joy from the Internet wrestling community.]] His very last appearance for the company saw Wrestling/MickFoley, normally one of the [[GentleGiant kindest and most respectful grapplers]] in the industry, punch him right in the face ''[[EnforcedMethodActing for real]]'' so hard [[KickTheSonOfABitch busted Bubba's face open]].
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* Bubba the Love Sponge became this in Wrestling/{{TNA}} the very ''moment'' he showed up on television, mainly due to the fact that the only reason he was there is because he was one of Wrestling/HulkHogan's friends. He certainly didn't do any favors for his popularity with his reported bullying of TNA talents off camera, which was only (sort of) tolerated because of said friendship with Hogan. Then it got worse when he made disparaging comments about [[DudeNotFunny the victims of the earthquake in Haiti]]. He was then involved in an incident (Read: He got beat up) that lead to [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Awesome Kong]] leaving the company. Bubba lasted a few months after Kong's departure, but he didn't let that grudge against her go. She was invited on a radio show, which turned out to be a setup by Bubba and the host, one of his friends. Abusive, racist language was hurled. Once word got out, Bubba was immediately fired from TNA. [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing The news was met with near-total approval and joy from the Internet wrestling community.]] His very last appearance for the company saw Wrestling/MickFoley, normally one of the [[GentleGiant kindest and most respectful grapplers]] in the industry, punch him right in the face ''[[EnforcedMethodActing for real]]'' so hard [[KickTheSonOfABitch busted Bubba's face open]].open.
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* Daniel Garcia and Wheeler Yuta are coming dangerously close to being the first examples of this in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, who are usually [[AuthorsSavingThrow pretty responsive]] to fan reactions. Fans don't exactly hate Garcia and Yuta, the general consensus is that they're perfectly fine young wrestlers who could one day be main event stars for the company. Operative word "could", as in "are not yet". However, every episode of Dynamite has a segment featuring at least one of the pair, they're in high-profile spots as stablemates with the biggest stars in the company, and they've worked competitive main event matches against top guys despite being rookies. AEW seems determined to push them as the Next Big Things, even ahead of the actual up and coming young stars that are already over with the fans such as Wrestling/DarbyAllin and Wrestling/{{MJF}}.
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*** Wrestling/TripleH managed to become an even bigger Creator's Pet than he was before with his on camera COO position, to the point where the entire roster save for a few face main eventers pulled a FaceHeelTurn (a temporary one in the case of face wrestlers) and voted "No Confidence" on him, to which he responded by saying a broom could do a better job than all of them, and the remaining face wrestlers who stayed behind kissed his ass, including Wrestling/CMPunk, the guy he had been feuding with for months. Even Wrestling/VinceMcMahon himself came back to [[CharacterShilling shill]] his son-in-law/future heir as COO, even as he is stripping him of his duties of running RAW. The entire purpose was just to put over how amazing HHH is as kayfabe COO and will be as Vince's successor in RealLife when Vince steps down/dies.
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*** Wrestling/TripleH managed to become an even bigger Creator's Pet than he was before with his on camera COO position, to the point where the entire roster save for a few face main eventers pulled a FaceHeelTurn (a temporary one in the case of face wrestlers) and voted "No Confidence" on him, to which he responded by saying a broom could do a better job than all of them, and the remaining face wrestlers who stayed behind kissed his ass, including Wrestling/CMPunk, the guy he had been feuding with for months. Even Wrestling/VinceMcMahon himself came back to [[CharacterShilling shill]] his son-in-law/future heir as COO, even as he is stripping him of his duties of running RAW. The entire purpose was just to put over how amazing HHH is as kayfabe COO and will be as Vince's successor in RealLife when Vince steps down/dies.down/dies... which indeed did happen when Vince was ousted in 2022 thanks to a sex scandal and Triple H was named "Content Director", or in wrestling-speak, the booker[[note]]Though CEO Nick Khan (no relation to Wrestling/{{AEW}} founder/CEO/booker Tony Khan) runs the business side of the company[[/note]]. The creator's pet is now the creator.
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* Daniel Garcia and Wheeler Yuta are coming dangerously close to being the first examples of this in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, who are usually [[AuthorsSavingThrow pretty responsive]] to fan reactions. Fans don't exactly hate Garcia and Yuta, they're each in major stables the general consensus is that they're perfectly fine young wrestlers who could one day be main event stars for the company. Operative word "could", as in "are not yet". However, every episode of Dynamite has a segment featuring at least one of the pair, they're in high-profile spots as stablemates with the biggest stars in the company, and they've worked competitive main event matches against top guys despite being rookies. AEW seems determined to push them as the Next Big Things, even ahead of the actual up and coming young stars that are already over with the fans such as Wrestling/DarbyAllin and Wrestling/{{MJF}}.
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* Daniel Garcia and Wheeler Yuta are coming dangerously close to being the first examples of this in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, who are usually [[AuthorsSavingThrow pretty responsive]] to fan reactions. Fans don't exactly hate Garcia and Yuta, they're each in major stables the general consensus is that they're perfectly fine young wrestlers who could one day be main event stars for the company. Operative word "could", as in "are not yet". However, every episode of Dynamite has a segment featuring at least one of the pair, they're in high-profile spots as stablemates with the biggest stars in the company, and they've worked competitive main event matches against top guys despite being rookies. AEW seems determined to push them as the Next Big Things, even ahead of the actual up and coming young stars that are already over with the fans such as Wrestling/DarbyAllin and Wrestling/{{MJF}}.
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* Daniel Garcia and Wheeler Yuta are coming dangerously close to being the first examples of this in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, who are usually [[AuthorsSavingThrow pretty responsive]] to fan reactions. Fans don't exactly hate Garcia and Yuta, the general consensus is that they're perfectly fine young wrestlers who could one day be main event stars for the company. Operative word "could", as in "are not yet". However, every episode of Dynamite has a segment featuring at least one of the pair and they've worked competitive matches with the promotion's biggest stars despite being rookies. AEW seems determined to push them as the Next Big Things, even ahead of the actual up and coming young stars that are already over with the fans such as Wrestling/DarbyAllin and Wrestling/{{MJF}}.
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* Daniel Garcia and Wheeler Yuta are coming dangerously close to being the first examples of this in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, who are usually [[AuthorsSavingThrow pretty responsive]] to fan reactions. Fans don't exactly hate Garcia and Yuta, they're each in major stables the general consensus is that they're perfectly fine young wrestlers who could one day be main event stars for the company. Operative word "could", as in "are not yet". However, every episode of Dynamite has a segment featuring at least one of the pair pair, they're in high-profile spots as stablemates with the biggest stars in the company, and they've worked competitive main event matches with the promotion's biggest stars against top guys despite being rookies. AEW seems determined to push them as the Next Big Things, even ahead of the actual up and coming young stars that are already over with the fans such as Wrestling/DarbyAllin and Wrestling/{{MJF}}.
