Popular wrestlers you disliked

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Jun 11, 2022 16:32:18 GMT -5 evilone said:

Shawn Michaels since intercontinental days, Steve Austin since WCW days (marked so hard when Duggan beat him within 10 seconds for US belt), Ric Flair ever since I saw him and his metropolitan playboy antics that looked too southern and too cheap. I'm pretty sure there are a lot more. Was never a fan of Rock and Cena but I didn't hate them. Oomph Triple H ever since the day I saw him with his stupid blue blood gimmick. I always wondered why was he in WWF In Your House video game when he was low-mid card. I also couldn't stand Lord Steven Regal so maybe that's why I didn't like Triple H cause apparently I hate English royal gimmicks. I absolutely despised WCW rend and yellow Hulk Hogan.

Yeah red and yellow hulk didn't work in wcw at all

[Lizuka #BLM]

As a kid who started watching in 1998 I strongly disliked both Rock and Austin. Have warmed up to Austin over the years but still really only ever enjoyed Hollywood Rock.

Also I did like him up until mid-2004 or so but I have very little use for Cena, still look back at his peak as being largely horrendous television, and don't miss him being around at all. Same's going to go for Roman when he's gone, once he bounces I'm absolutely never going to want to see the dude wrestle again.

[nakedmideon]

Jun 11, 2022 16:39:09 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

As a kid who started watching in 1998 I strongly disliked both Rock and Austin. Have warmed up to Austin over the years but still really only ever enjoyed Hollywood Rock.

Also I did like him up until mid-2004 or so but I have very little use for Cena, still look back at his peak as being largely horrendous television, and don't miss him being around at all. Same's going to go for Roman when he's gone, once he bounces I'm absolutely never going to want to see the dude wrestle again.

Who did you like in 98?

[SmashTV]

Hogan during the prime Hulkamania years.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Jun 11, 2022 16:43:30 GMT -5 nakedmideon said:

Jun 11, 2022 16:39:09 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

As a kid who started watching in 1998 I strongly disliked both Rock and Austin. Have warmed up to Austin over the years but still really only ever enjoyed Hollywood Rock.

Also I did like him up until mid-2004 or so but I have very little use for Cena, still look back at his peak as being largely horrendous television, and don't miss him being around at all. Same's going to go for Roman when he's gone, once he bounces I'm absolutely never going to want to see the dude wrestle again.

Who did you like in 98?

Undertaker, Kane, and Shamrock were my main guys, also DX except Triple H.

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I've disliked pretty much any iteration of Hulk Hogan that wasn't in the nWo.

Even when I liked John Cena, I never liked him as much as WWE clearly wanted me to, and I flat-out hated his run from 2005-2015. I still maintain that Cena during that time frame is the biggest Mary Sue in wrestling history, more than Hogan or Roman or anyone else you'd care to name. He's had some incredible matches and he seems like a wonderful human being, but I have zero love for Cena as a wrestler.

[4real]

HHH & Cena are 2 obvious ones. Cena I did like when he was heel and at the start of his face run but by 2005 I’d tired of him.

Adam Cole is the big one right now. Just completely sick of him. I like his entrance that’s about it.

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Omega, his facial expressions are panto level silly, and his promos meh. In the ring he's very good, but I get very bored of the constant finishers and kickouts.

[koreycaskets]

Origin nwo ( outside the introduction of them I found it awful)

Sting
Kenny Omega
Young Bucks
Ted Dibiase
Not a wrestler but Tony Khan

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I've liked her characters before and since but the Stone Cold Becky Lynch run when she become "The Man" and made it to the main event was awfully forced for my liking.

I was a miserable old git even in my late teens/early twenties so when watching the attitude era and the crowd reacting to mediocre, immature mid card acts such as Val Venis, Too Cool and The Godfather like Beatlemania crazed 60s teen girls I couldn't help but snottily ask the TV, "Are you guys 7 or something?"

The Hardy Boyz get the best reactions when together but I've found them as dull as dishwater as a team, but I have enjoyed both of them on their solo adventures (and misadventures).

[nakedmideon]

Jun 11, 2022 17:53:52 GMT -5 @selhurst said:

I've liked her characters before and since but the Stone Cold Becky Lynch run when she become "The Man" and made it to the main event was awfully forced for my liking.

I was a miserable old git even in my late teens/early twenties so when watching the attitude era and the crowd reacting to mediocre, immature mid card acts such as Val Venis, Too Cool and The Godfather like Beatlemania crazed 60s teen girls I couldn't help but snottily ask the TV, "Are you guys 7 or something?"

The Hardy Boyz get the best reactions when together but I've found them as dull as dishwater as a team, but I have enjoyed both of them on their solo adventures (and misadventures).

Hardy boys really?i enjoyed them as a tag team,thought they had excellent matches

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Dislike is two strong a word but for the purpose of the threat i'll roll with the punches

Becky Lynch. Her "The Man" character was good for what it was but the shelf life for me ran pretty fast. People were shitting on themselves in the Mania build when she never really looked weak at all during the whole build and made to look like Charlotte and Ronda was not on her level. No telling how long the run would have actually gone since they really had no end and was forced to end it when she got pregnant

Kenny Omega. The dude can absolutely wrestle his ass and love how cartoony he can be but that also makes me dislike him as well if that makes sense. Disappointing IWGP title run after the big build (yes he was injured) and liked his AEW title run for what it was but got way too long in the tooth. I know I am going to get an insane Omega match when he wrestles but just like a lot of NJPW level main event matches, you can skip the first 15 mins

[nisidhe]

Shawn Michaels did enough selfish, cruel, politicking crap during the early to mid-1990s to ensure that I will go to my grave forever Team Bret.

Adam Cole, I don't get the hype for - maybe it's because his gimmick is too much like HBK's.

Jericho has had his moments when I liked him, but I can't abide by the aging rockstar shtick. It doesn't help that his politics away from the ring have proved somewhat problematic.

Hogan wasn't a big favourite of mine, really: when Jim Duggan came into WWE I was convinced that Duggan was the bomb (based on what I'd seen of him in UWF). As time passed you realized that Hogan could never really win clean: there was always some trick to his matches that was always justified somehow.

Those are it, really. There are probably others, but they're not nearly as prominent to my mind as these.

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Jun 11, 2022 10:32:47 GMT -5 nakedmideon said:

Jun 11, 2022 10:28:07 GMT -5 noobeast said:

There are several, but this subject begins and ends with the Rock for me.

Hated the catchphrases, delivery, look, hokey offense, just absolutely everything about him.

Honorable mentions: Brock Lesnar and Randy Orton

Even at the time?must admit when you watch the Rocks stuff back its corny but at the time i thought it was the best stuff going

I never liked the guy.

I think it just has a lot to do with the kind of stuff I'm into. When the Rock was hitting his stride in the Attitide Era, I was in my early teens and already into the skate punk scene and stuff. I wasn't into some dude spouting off about $500 shirts and shit like that. I was way more into Stone Cold giving the finger and DX telling people to suck it. Honestly, the Rock was exactly the kind of guy I hated.

And then there were the catchphrases, which always just seemed so corny to me. Some of them were just kinda old man sayings like "smell what I'm cooking", which only got worse once he added the tongue waving.

Others were just awful, like the whole roody pooh candy ass thing, or pie, or "how's your lips", or popcorn fart, or...pretty much anything else he ever said. Just so stupid.

But yeah, I just never got into the guy, and unless he was involved with Foley, him showing up on screen was an opportunity to check in on Nitro for me.

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Kenny Omega - Incredible ability but unbelievably silly. I don't hate him in the same way as Corny but dislike him for pretty much the same reasons.
Young Bucks - Same as with Omega but I really dislike their in-ring work and having the need to mark out for their own moves constantly.
Johnny Gargano - He was ok until they did the angle in NXT where he turned heel on Aleister Black and they had the 3 way feud with Chiampa for the NXT title. He just become very uninteresting and repetitive very quickly.
Adam Cole - Never was a fan but he was somewhat entertaining in NXT. His AEW run has been abysmal.
Britt Baker - Wish's version of Charlotte Flair.

[ppl591]

Oof I've got a few

I do not want to speak ill of the dead or anything but I was never a fan of Eddie guerrero. Just never interested me in any way

All of the elite. Not my cup of tea whatsoever

Really disliked face rock

Orton nor batista have ever interested me

Didn't like 98 DX or really any incarnation at all

Scott hall/razor ramon. His initial push in 92 made 7 year old me turn off wwf for a time until hogan came back in 93

HBK. Great wrestler but another one that made me tune out when he got his title run in 96

One I actually turned around on. I never liked randy savage when I was a kid. Watching his stuff as an adult he's a top 10 guy for me oddly enough

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

Stone Cold to a degree. He was good enough that I could still get into what he was doing when it was good, but I lived in rural East Tennessee. Do you know how many rednecks shaved their heads, grew goatees, bought jean shorts, and talked a lot about kicking everybody’s asses? I used to say that if I wanted to watch drunken rednecks with anger management problems try to start fights with everybody, I’d step outside.

“Rated R Superstar” Edge. His whole schtick just felt fake and forced, like someone with a passing knowledge of wrestling pretending to be a bad guy wrestler. The fact that he worked so much with Cena didn’t help because I never cared for him either.

CM Punk. I’ll qualify this by saying that I haven’t really seen his current run. His “I’m the best in the world at what I do,” bit felt generic and forced, which to be fair, could be on the writing. I never understood what the big deal was about the pipe bomb promo. He just always came across as, “Look at me! Aren’t I cool? Aren’t I edgy? “

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Recently, Wheeler Yuta.

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Goldberg
Charlotte Flair
Roman Reigns
John Cena
Triple H
The Legion of Doom/The Road Warriors
super god/unstoppable Roman Reigns

[Cyno]

I like Shawn Michaels' in ring work, but it's hard for me to separate all his personal baggage with him. I think that's why I do like Adam Cole so much. He has a lot of similarities to HBK in terms of ring work but seems like a really chill and nice guy as himself.