Memes / Professional Wrestling

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Even the world of wrestling is not safe from memes, most of which were started either by WrestleCrap and their original Message Board (now the Freakin Awesome Network forums), their rivals over at 420chan's /wooo/, Botchamania, or r/SquaredCircle.

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General

• One common in some wrestling boards is to post a picture of a promotions' booker looking smug, sometimes subtitled "Problem, IWC?" when insane booking decisions come up. Vince McMahon◊ and Vince Russo◊ are most common.
  • Alternatively, a Cornette face will be used.
  • On Something Awful's wrestling forum this has come to be represented by one very specific picture of Vince (McMahon, that is): vinceflex.jpg◊.
  • Kevin Nash, thanks to Botchamania.
• Professional wrestling fandom's favorite Butt-Monkey, Kent Jones, the self-proclaimed YouTube "shooter".
• SUPER DRAGON! * clap clap clap* SUPER DRAGON! * clap clap clap* SUPER DRAGON! * clap clap clap* SUPER DRAGON! * clap clap clap* SUPER DRAGON! * clap clap clap* SUPER DRAGON! * clap clap clap* SUPER DRAGON! * clap clap clap* SUPER DRAGON! * clap clap clap* SUPER DRAGON! * clap clap clap* SUPER DRAGON! * clap clap clap* SUPER DRAGON! * clap clap clap* SUPER DRAGON! * clap clap clap* SUPER DRAGON! * clap clap clap* SUPER DRAGON! * clap clap clap*^Explanation Stems from a clip where a fan chants the name of an independent wrestler far past the point of tolerance...
  • OH SHI-^Explanation After the match ended, said wrestler immediately came over to said fan to get him to finally shut his mouth.
    • SUPER DRAGON! *SHUT THE FUCK UP!* SUPER DRAGON! *SHUT THE FUCK UP!* SUPER DRAGON!^Explanation A counter-chant that starts up eventually.
• Then there's the tendency of some commentators to talk like living thesauruses. ("[Name] has been completely embarrassed....and humiliated!")
• You've still got it! ^Explanation  Fan chant after a Legend or former wrestler appears (usually in the Royal Rumble) and performs one or two moves.
• Charlie Brown from Outta Town memes:
  • Curry Man is not Christopher Daniels.
  • Ricochet is not Helios.
  • Eric Young is not Super Eric.
  • Hulk Hogan was not Mr. America, brother.
  • Shane Helms was not The Hurricane.
  • Christopher Daniels is not Suicide... anymore.
    • And neither is Kaz.
  • Giant Machine is not André the Giant. It could be Giant Baba, however.
  • Super Strong Machine is not Junji Hirata.
  • The Badd Boys are not Jagged and Shane Matthews. in Inter Species Wrestling, anyway.
  • Chief Morley is not Val Venis.
  • The Romantic Touch is not Rhett Titus
  • R-Truth is not K-Kwik.
  • The Miz is not the Calgary Kid.
  • Lin Bairon is not Ray
  • Juan Cena is not John Cena.
  • Amazing Red is not Sangriento.
  • (Lord) Tensai is not Albert/A-Train.
  • Everyone is Doink the Clown. No exceptions.
  • Sin Cara Negro is not, was not, and will never be Hunico.
  • Ryback is not Skip Sheffield.
  • Ricardo Rodriguez is not El Local, nor is he Chimaera
  • Fandango is not Johnny Curtis.
  • Damien Sandow is not Idol Stevens.
  • Curtis Axel is not Michael McGillicutty
  • Bray Wyatt is not Husky Harris.
  • Sami Zayn is not El Generico (and we'll likely never know who was).
    • El Generico has retired from wrestling and is running an orphanage in Tijuana. ^Explanation The cover story for Generico's disappearance from the world of wrestling, and a frequently-used response to anybody who talks about Zayn and Generico being the same person.
  • Primo and Epico are not Los Matadores.
    • Number 116 - Armbar
• And, let us never forget that Sho Funaki and Taka Michinoku are EEEEEEEEVIL~!
  • IIIINDEEEEEEEED~!
• * CORNETTE FACE*
  • FUCK THIS COMPANY.
    • After it became an Ascended Meme: (I) FUCK(ING LOVE) THIS COMPANY!
• MINUS! FIVE! STARS!
• Yeah, I don't know either, dude. ^Explanation This caption appears on many entries in WrestleCrap when the previous caption ends with a question being set up. It is accompanied by a picture of Man Mountain Rock shrugging.
  • That's awesome on every conceivable level! ^Explanation The same gag as the Man Mountain Rock one mentioned above, only featuring a picture of Tiffany looking needlessly ecstatic.
  • Dennis Stamp wasn't booked!^Explanation A Forced Meme created by the original WrestleCrap forums (now the Freaking Awesome Network forums), involving a clip from the 1999 wrestling documentary, Beyond the Mat.
• Non-western example. The wrestler Hard Gay is memetic both in Japan and overseas. HOOOOOOOOOOOO~!
• Clean as a Whistle^Explanation Used to describe shocking wins and losses without any shenanigans such as ref bumps and cheating among others. Popularized by WhatCulture when it described Roman Reigns' pinfall loss to Seth Rollins at Money in the Bank 2016 (later revealed to be Wellness related) and became real popular after SummerSlam 2016 when AJ Styles #BeatUpJohn Cena.
• Brimstone's CUSTOM BOOTS. ^Explanation Brimstone, a wrestler who hasn't wrestled anywhere or done anything anyone cares about, had an immense promotional Wikipedia article that lauded, among other things, his custom designed wrestling boots. The page was eventually deleted - a mirror of it, minus the images, can be found here
• June 2022^note The month of June in the year of 2022 became notorious for the sheer amount of breaking (and oftentimes scandalous) news that rocked the wrestling world. For example, in the span of one week, we had Jeff Hardy getting arrested for a DUI, rumors of a Sasha Banks release, several Mexican AEW stars (notably Andrade "Cien" Almas) being banned from being booked for the cross-promotional Forbidden Door due to wrestling politics, and perhaps most infamously of all, The Wall Street Journal reporting on Vince McMahon having a consensual affair with a paralegal (and allegedly also "sharing" her with John Laurinaitis while they were together) and abusing his powers to double her salary before paying her off with $3 million from his personal funds and forcing her to sign an NDA after the relationship ended. This culminated in Vince being forced to temporarily step down as CEO and Chairman of the board, and install his daughter Stephanie McMahon as his interim replacement, before legitimately retiring a month later.

AEW

• ADRENALINE, IN MY SOUL, SOMETHING SOMETHING CODY RHODES ^Explanation A parody of Cody Rhodes' theme sung by The Dark Order on Being the Elite.
  • ADRENALINE, IN MY SOUL, TURNED IT INTO THIS SNOWCLONE ^Explanation After Cody Rhodes sensationally left AEW, any SquaredCircle thread that had speculation about Cody usually had the top comment as this.
• "HE/SHE DID THE DEAL!" ^Explanation Said by Excalibur on commentary whenever a wrestler performs a Falcon Arrow (a vertical suplex transitioned into a sitout slam). Carried over from Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, the line is reference to the late Mitch Ryder, who did the Falcon Arrow as a Finishing Move dubbed "Doing the Deal" and when he referred to having sex with a woman as such, as described here by Chris Hero
  • 'NO ONE KICKS OUT OF THE FALCON ARROW!' is often mentioned whenever someone kicks out of the aforementioned move and is said in disbelief, with the idea being that the Falcon Arrow is such a powerful move, no competitor should be able to kick out of it.
• 👉🤪 ^Explanation A reference to the signature pose of "Japanese Deathmatch Legend and Original Death Dealer" Dr. Luther. He first showed up as part of the Nightmare Collective storyline, and some thought he was only signed as a favor to his longtime friend Chris Jericho. However, he soon gained a following, particularly on Reddit and among fans of the Deadlock podcast, thanks to his mannerisms.
• Dark days ahead for AEW. ^Explanation When AEW was struggling, particularly during the early period of the pandemic, an anti-AEW troll used this phrase. Other trolls took it up to mock AEW's struggles. AEW has since righted its course, but the phrase is still used by trolls whenever something goes wrong, and also used ironically by AEW fans when something small goes wrong.
• Cody Rhodes ended racism ^Explanation During Cody's much-derided feud with Anthony Ogogo, he cut a tone-deaf promo implying he'd ended racism by having a mixed-race child. The irony of him doing this to lead up to a match with a Black British man was not lost.
  • "You're a black belt, well I'm a Black Bitch" ^Explanation Brandi Rhodes' cringeworthy line to Dan Lambert of American Top Team. Fans liked to parody this by imagining Brandi shoehorning herself into feuds with variations on that line. Example: "You're Malakai Black, well..."
• “IT’S CALLED THE MIDWEST BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE THING IN IT IS MID!” ^Explanation A rant done by MJF during a match in Cincinnati complaining about the Midwest has become far and away the most mainstream exposure the AEW has received. After the rant occurred in September 2021, it started to become a subject for lip-synching on TikTok, peaking in December of that year. Usually it is used to express frustration about personal situations the person filming finds are also “mid”.
• Armed Anderson/Glock Anderson ^Explanation On the September 29, 2021 episode of Dynamite, Arn Anderson, as the coach of the Nightmare Family, got in the ring and interrupted a post-match interview following a victory for his charges Cody Rhodes and Lee Johnson, cutting a Get a Hold of Yourself, Man! / Dare to Be Badass speech aimed squarely at Cody's shortcomings and the dismal state of the Nightmare Family at the hands of Malakai Black. Arn's reputation as an O.G. had already been credible enough to feed the believability of the segment, but then he contrasted his and Cody's approaches to a hypothetical carjacking scenario. "You pull up to a red light, a man jerks your door open, says 'Outta the car, I'm takin' your car!' You say, 'Okay, take it. Just don't hurt me!' You know what I do? I pull out the Glock, put it on his forehead, and spill his brains all over the concrete!" As this is 2021, not 1996, cutting an "I'm ready to kill you if you mess with me" promo is far more likely to turn heads in one way or another. Cue instant memes.
• Keith Lee looks like he reads this page and softly chuckles.^Explanation A 2022 Twitter trend playing on Keith Lee's well-spoken nature, portraying him doing something wholesome and somewhat cheesy.
• "Your father is dead." ^Explanation A trend during Christian Cage's Heel run in AEW is for him to target a wrestler's deceased father and just trash them for Heel heat. It started with "Jungle Boy" Jack Perry, and continued to Wardlow and Brian Pillman Jr. This led to fans claiming that Christian only goes after wrestlers with dead fathers so he can proceed to bury them live. When Christian showed up to a cut a promo on Nick Wayne and brought up that Wayne had a father, the entire audience went into a collective gasp knowing what Christian was about to say.
• Crying CM Punk fan

AWA

• Baron von Raschke's "That is all the people need to know."

NWA

• Not everyone realizes the reference anymore, but wrestlers who were on the losing end of particularly one sided fights or squashes would be called "Destroyed", in reference to a wrestler called The Destroyer.
• "It couldn't happen to a nicer guy." in reference to misfortune befalling someone you don't like. This is mutated from Buddy Rogers's original quote upon winning the world title.
• "IT'S STILL REAL TO ME DAMMIT~!" as bellowed by an tearful, overenthusiastic fan at an NWA press conference. That guy is known as KongaDave, and he occasionally posts at the WrestleCrap forums.
  • Became an Ascended Meme thanks to his Web Redemption on Tosh.0.
• Iceman King Parsons: "Like Mama says, it be's that way sometimes. MERCY!"
• "Trevor Murdoch is so tough he could strap Vince Russo to the back of moped, ride through Jim Cornette's house, and come out unscathed!"

All Japan / New Japan

• Anything to do with Kenta Kobashi and "burning," "chops," and/or "cancer." Especially him defeating his own cancer (in actuality a tumor which cost him his right kidney) with wrestling moves.
• LARIATOOOOOOOOO!!!!!^Explanation Chalk this up to a) the gratuitous Engrish of Japanese puroresu announcers and b) their efforts to convey just how intense Kobashi's clotheslines are. This also applies to Stan Hansen's ridiculously stiff lariats.
  • AKUSU BOMBAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
• VERY VERY VERY BREAKY BREAKY BREAKY BISHI BISHI!!!^explanation Shinpei Nogami's reaction to a table being broken. See the FMW folder for the significance
• KAZE NI NAREEEEEE!!!!!^explanation NJPW audiences are known for singing aloud this particular lyric, which translates to "Become the wind" in English, during Suzuki's entrance music just as he is getting into the ring.
• FUCK 'EM!!!^Explanation Bad Luck Fale's new catchphrase after he confirmed to be aligned with Bullet Club OG/Firing Squad at a G1 Climax 28 press conference.
• Okada's Longboys^note In January 2018, Kazuchika Okada went through an unusual phase where he began wearing long pants as opposed to trunks, which became known as his "Longboys" almost immediately.
• "X" Pervert: ^note After Chuckie T joined up with CHAOS at the tail end of 2017, the Kentucky Gentleman began to have some shenanigans with the members. First, after Okada took his phone when he left in in the locker room and took a selfie, Chuck referred to him as a "phone stealing pervert." When Jay White returned from excursion with his Switchblade gimmick and became a member of CHAOS, he was dubbed "Knife Pervert" (which persists to this day). Okada would become "Balloon Pervert" in the second half of 2018, when he started coming out to the ring with balloons during his entrance. This extends to Chuck in All Elite Wrestling, where he and his tag team partner Trent? referred to the Dark Order as "spooky perverts."

WCW

• You are only half the man Sid is and he has half the brain you do.
• A Lex Luger T-shirt promo in 2005 gave birth to many memes, such as "I DON'T KNOOOW!" or "Billy what'shisname."'
• He got a BICYCLE!!!^Explanation One of Dusty Rhodes' most memorable quotes during his stint as a commentator, in reference to Big Bubba Rogers attacking Jerry Lynn with a bicycle on an episode of WCW Saturday Night. Received a resurgence in popularity after Hunico started riding a bicycle to the ring.
• Ric Flair is the one-man meme-machine:
  • WOOOOOO! (Especially in response to someone getting a "knife edge chop" to the chest)
    • *stagger-faceplant*
  • "To be the man, you gotta beat the man"
  • Using "Also sprach Zarathustra" as an entrance theme
  • Elbow-dropping his own coat.
  • According to my rowlex...
  • Many a little brother was tortured by the Figure Four Leg Lock because of him.
    • Many a college fratboy was ICE'd because of his group, Fortune.
  • "Time to ride Space Mountain!"
  • "Now we go to school!" (usually before he applied the Figure Four Leg Lock)
  • "MY SHOES...COST MORE...THAN YOUR HOUSE!!!"
  • "Shut up, fat boy!"
  • "GOD!"
  • "You better shut up or I'll make a woman out of your girl!" Usually said to someone in the audience sitting by a female.
  • Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park but it's still got the longest line!
  • "Leave the memories alone..."^Explanation This song by Fuel, which was used during Ric Flair's retirement, became an unofficial theme song of releases and firings.
  • GO TO BED!^Explanation A line taken out of context from Flair's victory speech. The full line is "Read what you wanna read, believe what you wanna believe, but go to bed every night of your life knowing that there is only ONE world heavyweight champion, and it's the NATURE BOY!" Used in a lot of YouTube Poops and YTPMVs.
• *takes guitar shot* "Never drew a dime!"^explanation Mike Graham said this of Jeff Jarrett in the Fall of WCW DVD, complaining that he "broke 6,000" guitars and never got over.
  • This has led to a wrestler who one thinks is obviously a draw (real or potentially) or even just generally awesome as being "dimes". Alternately, "dimeless" for a wrestler one holds a low opinion of.
• Hold 25: Armbar!
• *Ron Simmons observes this foolishness* "DAMN!"
  • On the Dating Game: "If you were to bring me breakfast in bed, what would it be?" "SPAM!"
    • "If you could go back and time, and stop any war, what would it be?" "'NAM!"
    • "Who do you think is Jim Halpert's soulmate?" "PAM!"
    • And just what does he usually show up for? BLAM!invoked
• We comin' fo' YOU, nigga! *facepalm* *Sherri corpses*
  • You're lookin at the six time, six time, six time, six time, six time, six time WCW World Champion!
  • Oh mah guut-ness!
    • Aaaaaaaaaaaaaw here we go!
    • What da hale?!
  • Shucky, ducky, quack, quack!
  • WE GOT A NEW CHAMP!^Explanation Booker T said this after Dean Ambrose won... a seemingly meaningless handicap match against J&J Security.
  • This list is now in Booker T's Fave Five.
  • You lookin' real jacked, baby!
• DDT Digest knows that you cannot powerbomb (Billy) Kidman.
• David Kalla: "There is a reason I have 8 trillion dollars in debt."
  • David won't lose in Canada.
    • Number 100: Kalla Crossbody
    • OOF! OOF! OOF!
    • He is Canadian. Not Canadian.
• I wonder what Vampiro's doing right now.
  • Vampiro merchandise is not available in Mexico, because Vampiro refuses to sell ANYTHING there.
• Bret Hart: "Who are you t-to... to doubt El Dandy?"
• Hold 175: ARMBAR!!!
• "CALL THE WCW HOTLINE, I DON'T GIVE A FUCK"^Explanation Gene Okerlund would deflect questions about the booking in order to flog his 900 number.
  • "Don't talk Mexican to me!"
• "That'll put a lot of butts in seats..."^Explanation On the night of WCW's Fingerpoke Of Doom incident, announcer Tony Schiavone spoiled the results of Mick Foley's title match, sarcastically daring viewers to change the channel (at the behest of Eric Bischoff). They did, and it cost WCW dearly in the Monday Night Wars.
  • MICK FOLEY PUT MY ASS IN THIS SEAT ^Explanation  Tony Schiavone's extremely smarmy comment about how former WCW wrestler Cactus Jack is going to win the title on RAW (RAW was a taped episode that week) and how "that'll put asses in the seats". It backfired. Horribly.
  • "THIS IS THE GREATEST [placeholder] IN THE HISTORY OF OUR SPORT!"
• Hold 327: ARM! BAR!

FMW

• Besides being the trope namer for Garbage Wrestler, Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling also gave rise to the notion that Japanese tables were indestructible. One of the oddest examples was when W*ING Kanemura jumped off a scaffold and the only thing that broke was one of the table's metal legs, suggesting it's Japanese wood that can't be broken.

ECW

• From the Harley Races, to the Barry Windhams, to the Ric Flairs...
  • ...here comes MONGO!
  • Speaking of Shane Douglas, everything must be blamed on "Dick" Flair.
• WHAT ABOUT HIM? WHAT ABOUT RAVEN?!
• AND HERE COMES NEW JACK!
• Not even Joey Styles can escape this:
  • OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!
    • AY DIOS MIO!!!
    • CAT FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!
    • That clueless putz, Stevie Richards!

CZW

• JEEZUS! ^Explanation The most recognizable clip of audio from this video of CZW's John Zandig cutting a rather intense and indecipherable promo. Has become a regular gag in Botchamania, usually to introduce or used during CZW botches.

ROH

• "WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT SHRIMP COCKTAIL, HANH?" ^Explanation Prince Nana is true Ashanti royalty, and nobody interviewing him, much less watching in the audience, could relate to being able to have shrimp cocktail anytime they wanted as he could.
• lol ill pretend u said 18^explanation a reference to the scandal that caused ROH to ditch founder Rob Feinstein and split from RF Video, the company it was created to make money for, which involved him approaching what he thought was a fourteen year old boy for sex after claiming to compete for Pro Wrestling Guerilla.
• Did someone mention Matt Taven?^explanation : The Kingdom and Taven by extension aren't very popular but got pushed anyway, leading to his detractors to sarcastically act as if he were a bad ass they all loved.
• Teddy Hart and cats^explanation Hart likes to travel with his cats and once got a criminal charge when someone let a cat out of a hotel room and it found its way into a bar.

TNA/Impact Wrestling

• Scott Steiner, who first made it big in WCW, had one of the most memorable/quoted/parodied promos of all time in TNA, as well as becoming a Fountain of Memes.
  • Ladies, Gentlemen, and Tropers, I present to you, "Steiner math".
    • You only have a 8 1/3% chance of beating him, while he has a 141 2/3% chance of beating you!
    • Señor Joe, the numbahz don't lie!
  • "WHO'S THE MAN? HUH? YOUR MOTHER SUCKS! HUH? I'M HUNGRY! HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH?"
  • Scott's thoughts on Samoa Joe? "HE'S FAT!"
    • Lampshaded by Steiner himself at Turning Point 2011, when describing Abyss' fictional girlfriend.
  Scott Steiner: "And not only is she ugly, SHE'S FAT!" *three seconds later* "SHE'S FAT!" *End of the promo* "And don't bring her any food, 'cause SHE'S FAT!"
  • He also comes from a highly educated university... BITCH!!!!.
  • Throughout my career, I've wrestled a lot of countries...
    • REMEMBER WHEN PEARL HARBOR BOMBED THE GERMANS!
  • Team 3D, you got some FAAAAAAAAAAAT ASSES!
  • "GIMME A FUCKING MIC!!!"
  • Scott Steiner's not a hard man to find.
  • I'M THE GREATEST TAG TEAM OF ALL TIME!
  • I HATE DUCKS!
• Kennedy...AAANNNDERRRRSON!
  • MISTEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! ANDERSON!
  • ...
  • ...
  • ...ANDERSON!
    • And now we wait for The Matrix jokes.
    • It is inevitable, Mr. Anderson.
• Rellik is Killer spelled backwards, which mutated into "Rebboj is Jobber spelled backwards." in the hands of Smart Marks.
• You ain't on THE LIST, bro!^Explanation Robbie E went from X-Pac Heat in 2010-11 to delightfully obnoxious in 2012 onward, coinciding with his partnership with Rob Terry, and so his catchphrases were memed hard.
  • You're a total hamster, bro!
  • OHH! (fist-pumps)
• "You can't wrestle!" "I disagree!" "You can't wrestle!" "I'm very good!" ^Explanation The fans have occasionally shout that Ethan Carter III can't wrestle, but EC3 responds to them that he can.
• Jeff Hardy: "Austin, my nuts hurt..." ^Explanation Jeff had won a match against Bobby Roode by disqualification when Roode gave him a low blow. Also, the guy he's talking to is Austin Aries, who had turned heel before their big match at Bound For Glory 2012.
• Soon a surprise is coming to TNA/Impact Wrestling that will change it on every level FOREVER!!!
  • Repeat every four to six weeks.
• The Impact Zone thinks this is bullshit!^Explanation Very rarely does the paying audience at the Impact Zone get angry at the in-ring product, but they all turned on the show after the main event of Victory Road 2011, where a drug-addled Jeff Hardy was forcibly pinned down by Sting for the safety of everyone involved. As he walked out of the ring after the match, a visibly pissed-off Sting shouted "I agree" on camera, believing the audience deserved better.
• Any reaction from TNA color commentator Don West:
  Don West: DID YOU SEE THAT?! DID YOU SEE THAT?! PELE! PELE! HE HIT THE PELE! FROM OUT OF NOWHERE! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!!!
  • The smarks would strike again, as one sign could clearly be seen that read, "YES, DON WEST, WE DID SEE THAT."
    • YOU SELFISH PRICK!
  • And, of course Mike Tenay has to answer every "This is awesome!" chant with a "You're DAMN RIGHT this is awesome!"
  • Let us not forget Tazz and his desire to "Let the pigeons LOOSE!"
    • ...Not to be confused with... "release the doves!"
• Magnus is a Paper Champion!
• "What is Fad Metamorphosis: Vocational Grappling doing in the Impact Zone?"^Explanation Refers to how most people who were fired from WWE jumped ship to TNA after the expiration of a "no-compete" clause. The wrestlers would usually take a Captain Ersatz of their WWE name due to copyright reasons.
• TNA Knockout Champion Taylor Wilde was so underpaid she works at Sunglasses Hut.
• Death puns and TNA, and or demands that Sabu return to TNA with a new gimmick called Genocide, after Homicide "cashed in" his Feast or Fired briefcase on Suicide. TNA has since renamed Suicide Manik, perhaps to try and cut back on this.
  • Which is funny, since ECW billed Sabu as being "homicidal, genocidal, and suicidal."
• Lil Kaval is the only reason for some TNA^Explanation On an episode of WWE NXT, Kaval performed a rap which he finished by indirectly mentioning TNA.
• You haven't seen my brother Chris? You know, (hand) Abyss!^Explanation Abyss's on-off gimmick, which he appears as his supposed "brother", a lawyer, Joseph Park.
• "Tag of the Waaah!!!" ^Explanation On the June 19th edition of TNA, MVP, in his willingness to abuse his power as Director of Wrestling Operations, botched his line in announcing a TNA World Tag Team Championship match between The Wolves and the team of Austin Aries and Samoa Joe.
• HE'S NOT READY BROTHER DUDE JACK ^Explanation Following the disappointing ending to TNA's 2011 Bound For Glory where Bobby Roode lost his TNA title match against Kurt Angle despite a huge hype machine promoting Roode's rise to the top, a dirtsheet report came out claiming that Hulk Hogan personally changed the ending of the event because he personally felt Roode wasn't ready to be a star. Angry smarks turned it into the preceding quote, with it jokingly applied to up and coming stars in wrestling, and older established stars conversely described as "ready".
  • Bobby Roode spitting. ^Explanation Bobby Roode has done some spitting during some of his promos when he's pissed.
  • Bobby Rooooooo!!!^Explanation Some ring announcers forget to say all of Roode's last name, leading to it sounding like this.
• Bram has just signed to a multi-year deal with TNA/Impact Wrestling.^Explanation Amid rumors of long-time TNA wrestlers like AJ Styles and Samoa Joe leaving the company in 2013 and 2014, the Impact brass sent out a tweet assuring their fans they weren't about to lose another one of their rising stars. Of course, they had already mentioned a "multi-year deal" with Bram previously, making it sound like he'd been signed to multiple multi-year contracts.
• Here's the reason why Wes Brisco turned heel and revealed himself as one of the members of the Aces And Eights:
  "It's because of you, Hawk Hogan!"
• Blackolution ^Explanation Some fans have been comparing the newly formed alliance of MVP, Bobby Lashley, and Kenny King to Evolution, especially since their formation came not long after Evolution came back as a stable in WWE.
• LOLTNA ^Explanation Disparaging nickname for TNA, mostly used on /wooo/ during particularly embarrassing moments for the promotion.
  • Following TNA's acquisition by Anthem Sports and Entertainment in January 2017, Anthem spelled backwards is "MEH TNA".
• OVER! YOUR! DEAD! BODY! ^Explanation Bully Ray says this to EC3 which led to him challenging him in a Texas Death Match at Slammiversary 2014.
  • "Did I use the tacks?"
• "And fuck that owl."^Explanation Shortly after the Hardys (a few months removed from the unexpected hit of the "Final Deletion" match and subsequent "Broken" angle) were released from their TNA contracts, Matt's wife Reby tweeted her displeasure with Anthem brass and the contract negotiations, as well as Anthem/TNA claiming that they, not the Hardys, owned the rights to the "Broken" universe, thus preventing them from using the gimmick when they later returned to the WWE. "That owl" refers to the owl on the "A" of the Anthem Media Group logo.
• Alisha Edwards is the greatest wrestler of all time.^Explanation Alisha, who is notably outclassed in both in-ring and promo stakes, and is mostly still with the company to be with her husband, is often talked about like she's up there with the legends, and her rare moments on TV are deliberately ironically overhyped.
• I mean, folks... where's the lie? silence^Explanation Bobby Fish briefly appeared in Impact in 2022. He was not as over as he hoped he would be, leading to this moment where he asked for a reaction from the crowd and got none.
  • ONE YEAR, JOSH. NO POL^Explanation From the same episode, this meme arose on a certain less-than-legal wrestling watching site, as during a Steve Maclin promo on Josh Alexander the stream froze and skipped for a solid hour. "No pol" has become a shorthand for something going wrong with Impact streams, or whenever Maclin is on screen.

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