History Website / Botchamania

* StupidStatementDanceMix: The various intros throughout the years overlay some of the most popular sound clips from the series, like Dusty Rhodes's "HE'S GOT A BITHCYLE!", over the intros of WWE and AEW television shows, past and present.

* {{Corpsing}}: "Someone's corpsing? Send for the man!" This is a RunningGag throughout the series where anytime someone laughs or smiles when they shouldn't, footage of an incident in WCW where Wrestling/RandySavage walked into a room and slapped Wrestling/TorrieWilson in the face when she started corpsing to get her to stop laughing will be shown. Past Botchamania 380 or so, this can also get replaced with footage of Wrestling/BeckyLynch, whose RedBaron nickname is "The Man." These will always be set to a chiptune of "Beat It" from ''VideoGame/MichaelJacksonsMoonwalker''.

* SpiritualSuccessor[=/=]StartMyOwn: [[http://botchamania.com/botchamania-12-and-3/ According to Maffew,]] Botchamania in its current form was created in response to three poor-quality compilations of wrestling bloopers called "Botchamania" created by two different people. He reasoned that he could do better and so came up with Botchamania 4 the next day, then 5, then 6, etc. Eventually, he compiled the best-quality clips he could find from the original videos into a new entry called "Botchamania 1, 2, & 3 Maffew Edition."

He was featured on ''Website/{{Reviewtopia}}'', but was part of the mass exodus when it reformed into RVT in early 2013. Also in 2013 he became a featured contributor for ''Website/{{WrestleCrap}}''. He's also been guest-hosting ''WebVideo/OSWReview'' of late and has also contributed to ''WebVideo/Cultaholic''.

He was featured on ''Website/{{Reviewtopia}}'', but was part of the mass exodus when it reformed into RVT in early 2013. Also in 2013 he became a featured contributor for ''Website/{{WrestleCrap}}''. He's also been guest-hosting ''WebVideo/OSWReview'' of late.

** At ''National Pro Wrestling Day 2013,'' there was a CHIKARA ''atomicos'' (8-man tag) with The Colony (Fire Ant and Green Ant) and Wrestling/ThreePoint0 ("Big Magic" Shane Matthews and Scott "Jagged" Parker) vs. F.I.S.T. (Icarus and Wrestling/ChuckTaylor) and Los Ice Creams (Ice Cream Jr. and El Hijo Del Ice Cream). Early in the match, Matthews and Hijo did a bullfight sequence with one of the Colony's capes. Matthews wrapped Hijo's head in the cape and climbed up for a crossbody. It missed. Specifically, Hijo was standing with the cape around his head and Matthews landed at Hijo's feet. A fan stood up with a sign that read "CORNETTE FACE". However, given the participants, everything in the match was PlayedForLaughs.

* SpiritualSuccessor[=/=]StartMyOwn: [[http://botchamania.com/botchamania-12-and-3/ According to Maffew,]] Botchamania in its current form was created in response to three poor-quality compilations of wrestling bloopers called "Botchamania" created by two different people. He reasoned that he could do better in his sleep and so came up with Botchamania 4 the next day, then 5, then 6, etc. Eventually, he compiled the best-quality clips he could find from the original videos into a new entry called "Botchamania 1, 2, & 3 Maffew Edition."

** {{Inverted|Trope}}, actually. Once in a while there will be a match in which the victory stipulations will be one thing and the finish will be SomethingCompletelyDifferent. For example: a stretcher match (you have to wheel your unresponsive opponent out of the arena on a stretcher) ends with a clean pinfall finish; or a new, young wrestler is set to beat an older, somewhat established star, and the older, somewhat established star cooperates by no-selling and sandbagging his opponent. There will be captions pointing this out (for example, in the first case, '''"A STRETCHER MATCH ENDS WITH A PINFALL"'''), and these are just ''a few'' such moments.

Even though ProfessionalWrestling might be "fake", it still requires a lot of athleticism and discipline on the part of all the performers involved. And granted, it's hard to watch what would look like a really cool move fail and fall apart--which usually amounts to things from selling a kick that doesn't really hit to high-risk-high-reward routines that crash and burn horribly-- but if a performer does it repeatedly, and develops a reputation for screwing up frequently, well then... it becomes entertaining (especially in regions like the Northeast US, where "[[TheFreelanceShameSquad You fucked up!]]" chants can spring up the very second someone botches).

Website/YouTube user Maffew compiles botches sent in from many of its viewers, usually set to video game music and/or remixes of video game music (with actual rock music thrown in every now and again). Wrestling/{{WWE}}, Wrestling/{{WCW}}, Wrestling/{{TNA}}, and a cavalcade of obscure indie and foreign promotions are all represented in Botchamania. Notably absent are Wrestling/RingOfHonor, EVOLVE and Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, who sent cease-and-desist notifications to Maffew - and, really, anyone who uses their material without their consent - which forced him to take down several of his videos, which he re-released with the compromising footage excised. The number of subscribers to his videos grows with each new video, and he regularly comments on them in the movie description.

Maffew had a website dedicated solely to Botchamania - botchamania.net - but towards the end of March 2010, there was a sudden surge in the cost of hosting, and Maffew needed $500 to cover the traffic the site was getting. Donations poured in, covering the cost in roughly two days, but other technical difficulties caused the site to basically stall out; Maffew eventually started up [[http://botchamania.com/ botchamania.com,]] and fans are hoping the site will actually stick around this time. And now that it's sponsored by Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}, that's looking more likely. Maffew's first Website/YouTube account has long been suspended, and while Maffew promised ''not'' to "Wrestling/BillyGunn" his second account (i.e., get it deleted by posting non-Botchamania videos), the copyright overlords at Website/YouTube eventually suspended it anyway. He is currently on his ''tenth'' Website/YouTube account for uploading new Botchamanias.