YMMV / Shane Douglas

• Badass Decay: WCW in 2000, particularly his lame feud with Billy Kidman over Torrie Wilson and Viagra.
• Fridge Brilliance/Genius Bonus:
  • When Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko were displaced following the breakup of the Four Horsemen in 1999, Douglas brought them into the Revolution, along with Perry Saturn. Most ECW fans who watched WCW would remember right off that Douglas, Benoit, and Malenko were the original Triple Threat. Considering Douglas's goal for ECW was to redefine the wrestling business, he decided to do that same thing in WCW with two guys that he could trust. Likewise, the breakdown of the Horsemen was caused by Ric Flair's insistence to use Benoit and Malenko as dragons for his son, David, who was United States Heavyweight Champion at the time. Plus, one of the big reasons why Shane Douglas hated Flair was because he considered that Flair held young talent down. Ultimately, seeing Benoit and Malenko in that situation was enough for The Franchise to prove his point about Flair.
  • Douglas is from Pittsburgh. He has a pronounced Pittsburgh accent, his ring gear was normally black and gold, which are colors frequently identified with the city. He also would support Pittsburgh sports teams with caps for the Steelers, Penguins or Pirates. Keep in mind where ECW was based, Philadelphia. Two cities which have a deep rivalry (and in the case of the Penguins-Flyers fans) outright antipathy towards each other. Whenever ECW was in Western PA, the fans would cheer Douglas, but for the shows in the home base, Douglas was outright hated and it helped to make him more of a heel.
• Memetic Loser: In addition to the examples above, Shane's post-wrestling employment at Targets has been the subject of much ridicule.
  • There was also his great guerilla marketing campaign on WWE Raw, consisting of him standing up in the front row with a ECW shirt on, to no applause, and a free ticket out of the arena.
• The Scrappy:
  • The Dynamic Dudes were so hated that when Jim Cornette, who had surprised many by abandoning The Midnight Express for the Dudes, turned heel on them at NWA Clash of the Champions IX, the crowd cheered for Cornette.
  • At Extreme Reunion 2012 he got chants of "FUCK YOU SHANE" and "JUST RETIRE"
  • After Dixie Carter offered Tommy Dreamer a PPV with "one stipulation" attached (which became Hardcore Justice), one fan shouted "NO SHANE DOUGLAS!"
  • Even the other ECW vets seem to dislike him. Seems two decades of getting pounded in the head did Shane no favors, and he's become a bit paranoid.

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