The Mole / Professional Wrestling

• A conspiracy theory was suggested when Vince Russo arrived in WCW from WWF in October 1999, based on how, in his attempts to turn WCW Monday Nitro into Raw, he managed to take a product that was already in terrible shape, thanks to roughly a year of Kevin Nash as head booker, and made it EVEN WORSE!. Many believe Hulk Hogan (who famously served as the "Third Man" for the Outsiders during WCW's Bash at the Beach 1996, shocking the wrestling world and kicking off the NWO) would later become a mole in TNA.
• Rob Van Dam was called a Sell-Out in ECW for wrestling on Monday Night Raw while still under ECW contract, but it turned out that RVD was actually the mole for the ECW/WCW alliance to put the WWF out of business (said alliance ignored the fact ECW hated WCW more than the WWF, but no one called Invasion a great angle).
• Used and subverted in CHIKARA. One of the tecnicos had betrayed the others and gave rudo UltraMantis Black the counter to Mike Quackenbush's feared submission finisher the CHIKARA Special to pass on to bigger rudo Chris Hero. UltraMantis also hypnotized tecnico Tim Donst into joining his stable the Order of the Neo-Solar Temple. Except, Donst was faking the amnesia, and while one of the rudos he discovered that the traitor of the tecnicos was Shane Storm. Donst told Quackenbush, who attacked Storm before he could pull off a full fledged reveal and betrayal.
• Daizee Haze was a long time ally of Matt Sydal, so the idea of her being the mole of Generation Next to Prince Nana's Embassy was just a little unexpected.
• In WSU, Becky Bayless was a mole who pretended to hate Alicia's guts while secretly helping her win and retain the WSU Title.
• Claudio Castagnoli was the mole against Ring of Honor for Chris Hero, who instigated the ROH CZW feud.
• When Team 3D set out to destroy the X division of TNA, the Hand Wave for two men taking out an entire competitive division was that they had a mole inside it, who turned out to be Johnny Devine.
• Taylor Wilde brought Madison Rayne into TNA to aid her against The Beautiful People, which quickly backfired, as Rayne had been working for those very same Beautiful People. This happened to Wilde again when she worked with Rhaka Khan against The Kongtorage only to painfully learn Khan was one of their members.
• TNA's Aces And Eights was a whole angle about someone being the mole against TNA wrestling. It was D'Lo Brown, or so it seemed, but it actually went much deeper than that.
• When CHAOS invaded Pro Wrestling NOAH in 2013, MAYBACH Taniguchi revealed he was the mole in No Mercy when he attacked KENTA in favor of Takashi Iizuka and Toru Yano.
• During the CHAOS Bullet Club feud in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, Yujiro Takahashi turned out to be the mole against the former for the latter, betraying Kazuchika Okada to Prince Devitt.
• Amanda Rodriguez, the first woman Ivelisse Vélez recruited for Las Sicarias, was turned against the group by her Evil Mentor Amber O'Neal by preying on Rodriguez's dislike of newere recruit Thea Trinidad. Rodriguez distracted Velez during a SHINE title match against LuFisto of the rival C4 faction, but instead of being welcomed in LuFisto dumped Rodriguez and O'Neal for no longer being of any use now that no Sicarias were singles contenders.
• After the Zodiac (Brutus Beefcake) left the Dungeon of Doom in February 1996, he was repackaged as The Booty Man (sort of like Billy Gunn's "Mr. Ass" gimmick), now a Face and a Friend of Hogan. Hulk explained that he had sent him into the Dungeon as a "mole." However, it actually DOES make sense when you consider the finish of the War Games match between the Hulkamaniacs (Hogan/Savage/Sting/Luger) and the Dungeon of Doom (Kamala/Shark/Zodiac/Meng) at WCW Fall Brawl 95, September 17, 1995. The Hulkamaniacs won when Hogan forced Zodiac to submit. Hulk had to have Zodiac be the one to submit, since he was the weakest guy on the team, (also because Kamala didn't speak, Meng was/is a legitimate badass Monster and the Shark was too big) and because it would have looked suspicious if Hulk had fought with the other three guys but left Zodiac alone. The two might have planned for Hogan to not actually apply any pressure when he locked on the submission (so as not to hurt his friend any more than he had to), but for Zodiac to submit anyway (to give his friend Hogan the win against the DOD team). Kind of like a less stupid version of the Fingerpoke Of Doom.
• Toward the end of the much-despised Alliance angle where WCW and ECW tried to put the WWF out of business, Kurt Angle, who had been a major figure in Team WWF, suddenly joined the Alliance out of nowhere. After Vince tried making the Alliance believe Stone Cold was really a mole planted by him, it is revealed that it was Kurt Angle who was the actual mole, costing the Alliance their main event match, and ending the Alliance for good.
• Billy El Malo of La Milicia, which was in turn part of La Sociedad running amok over AAA, revealed in 2011 that two months after La Sociedad's founding he had been working in secret against the group from within on the behalf of Cibernético. He then officially left them for rival group Los Bizarros. Cibernético would later try to join La Sociedad as a mole himself but got beaten up by Los Perros Del Mal.
• While La Rosa Negra is a bad guy, she only joined Strength In Numbers when they approached her in the Pro Wrestling Syndicate so she could set them up to catch a beat down from the Backseat Girlz, the biggest good guy group in the Bombshell's division who S.I.N. was planning to ambush. She did this because she believed Missy Sampson and Annie Social to be worthy opponents.
• After spending the better part of 2013 getting screwed over by The Authority, Daniel Bryan publicly gave up fighting a machine he could not beat on his own and joined The Wyatt Family for supposed help on the last show of that year. He actually did this to get closer to Bray Wyatt, who had been giving him almost as much trouble as the Authority, taking revenge earlier than planned, in January 2014 after the Wyatts tried to pull a You Have Failed Me on him.

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