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The brainchild of "The Real Deal" RD Reynolds and "The Worldwide Menace" Merle Vincent, WrestleCrap was created as a "hall of shame" for Professional Wrestling, a place where they could stretch their comedic muscles by poking fun at the pseudo-sport. It has since grown into wrestling fandom's anti-Serious Business, a place where people can remind themselves that wrestling is inherently silly. In short, it's the conscience of the Internet Wrestling Community.Each week, the WrestleCrap staff post an induction that tears one of wrestling's stranger or sillier gimmicks, feuds, or storylines apart. The site also has classic inductions as well.note There was formerly an archive that you had to subscribe to, but that has since been retired. Originally, the inductions were written by RD (or Merle Vincent, before his suicide); RD handed head writing duties over to his protégé Triple Kelly for a couple years. Triple Kelly subsequently left the site, and now the inductions are mainly written by Art0Donnel and occasionally Justin Henry.WrestleCrap has grown greatly since its inception, and has come to host the following additional features: Current content: It Came From YouTube: Where the gang takes a look at a weird and wacky video from wrestling's past. Someone Bought This?!: A look at the wrestling merchandise that was, but should not have been. WrestleCrap Headlies: In a parody of various less reputable wrestling newz sites, WrestleCrap decides to take a crack at making up their own wrestling news. Ye Olde Christmas Movies: Each December, WrestleCrap takes a break from wrestling to take a look at the worst Christmas movies of all time. Squash of the Week: A new column, introduced in 2022 as a successor to Jobber of the Week, focusing on Squash Matches. RD's Mailbag: A section where RD responds to the emails he receives. What Didn't You Understand, BRO!?: Introduced in 2022, former wrestling booker Vince Russo talks about some of the infamous crappy booking decisions he was a part of. From The Pages Of...: A section where RD goes through his stash of WWF and other Wrestling Magazines and talks about interesting or weird things found in them. Art Is War: Art O'Donnell recaps old episodes of WWF Raw Is War, starting from the April 14, 1997 episode. Former content: Burgan's Gimmick Table: Derek Burgan's look at the wrestling merchandise that never was. Retired as of the 2013 site redesign. Weird World of Wrestling: Formerly a separate site, Madison Carter would take a look at the weird stuff that happened in the independent circuit. Retired as of the site redesign, and now included as part of the Inductions section. RD's Book and DVD Reviews: A section where RD would review wrestling related books and DVDs. Retired as of the site redesign. Rewriting the Book: Jed Shaffer's Alternate History Fan Fic series that explored how wrestling's past might have gone differently with a key nudge in the opposite direction from time to time. The entire Rewriting the Book archive disappeared from the site following the 2023 redesign, although RD Reynolds has promised that Rewriting the Book will return to the site although are "just trying to figure out the best way to do it." Jobber of the Week: Blade Braxton's weekly salute to the men who lose for a living. The RD and Blade Show: A podcast featuring RD and Blade Braxton musing on wrestling and life in general (with the occasional interview). The RD and Blade Show was revived as a separate series exclusive to Patreon in 2019. WrestleCrap Radio: A podcast featuring RD musing on wrestling and life in general (with the occasional interview). WrestleCrap Radio ran from 2005 to 2012, when the show was retired in favor of the new RD and Blade Show; the latter show itself was retired in 2015 to revive the old format. It was retired again in 2021 following Blade's passing.WrestleCrap also gives out an annual Gooker Award in the first couple of months of a new year to the most horrid thing to happen in wrestling in the previous year. The award is named after The Gobbledy Gooker, which was possibly the worst thing ever in the World Wrestling Federation: they hyped the hatching of a giant egg for months going into Survivor Series 1990, where it finally hatched and gave us Hector Guerrero in a bad turkey suit dancing with "Mean" Gene Okerlund. With the exception of the 2001 and 2002 winners, which were chosen by RD himself, all of the winners have been decided by polling the site's visitors. The list of "winners" of the Gooker Award is a list of the worst modern pro wrestling angles ever: 2000: David Arquette, WCW Champion. 2001: The Invasion. 2002: The Katie Vick debacle. 2003: Al Wilson, Torrie Wilson's father. 2004: The 2004 Raw Diva Search. 2005: Jim Ross' (kayfabe) firing and the resulting colonoscopy skit. 2006: WWE's exploitation of Eddie Guerrero following his death, a.k.a. "Eddiesploitation". 2007: Hornswoggle is revealed to be Vince McMahon's son. 2008: Mike Adamle's stint in WWE. 2009: The Chavo Guerrero/Hornswoggle feud. 2010: The NEW Monday Night Wars. 2011: All things Michael Cole. 2012: TNA's Claire Lynch angle. 2013: Heel Dixie Carter. 2014: The Bella Twins feud / Vince McMahon's "brass rings" (co-winners). 2015: The Rusev-Lana-Dolph Ziggler-Summer Rae Love Trapezoid.note Even though both the Divas Revolution and the Rusev-Lana-Dolph Ziggler-Summer Rae Love Trapezoid were tied percentage wise, the latter won the Gooker Award by 17 votes. The Divas Revolution was later inducted nonetheless as first runner-up. 2016: WrestleMania 32. 2017: Jinder Mahal, WWE Champion.note RD Reynolds preemptively declared the House of Horrors match between Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt at Payback 2017 to be the winner on May 4, 2017, on the belief that nothing else could possibly top it that year. Mahal's reign began a few weeks after the match. The actual vote did not have the House of Horrors as a candidate, though it did have the Wyatt/Orton feud that contained the match. 2018: WWE's Crown Jewel. 2019: Seth Rollins vs. The Fiend at Hell in a Cell 2019. 2020: Retribution. 2021: NXT 2.0. 2022: Ric Flair's Last Matchnote Specifically, the match itself won the Gooker Award, not the overall event that hosted it, also titled Ric Flair's Last Match. 2023: CM Punk's AEW run / Father James Mitchell doing drugs at NWA Samhain (co-winners).Not only has WrestleCrap become a popular online destination for wrestling fans, but its name itself has entered the Smart Mark lexicon. It's also gathered quite a following inside the business, as several wrestlers have written in to say how much they love the site, including no less than Chris Jericho. John Tenta, known to fans as "Earthquake", gave the site an exclusive interview and wrote the foreword to RD's first book.Book? Yes, there have been two books based on the site, WrestleCrap: The Worst of Wrestling and The WrestleCrap Book of Lists!, and the notoriety gained from the site allowed RD to co-author the book, The Death of WCW.Every December, the site has posted inductions of some of the worst Christmas movies of all-time, including Hulk Hogan's Santa with Muscles, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, the 1959 Mexican movie Santa Claus, a 1986 remake of the classic holiday operetta Babes in Toyland (featuring Drew Barrymore, Keanu Reeves, Pat Morita, and an actor named Googy Gress as Georgie Porgie with a cameltoe), and a Goldberg-as-a-murderous-Santa film called Santa's Slay.The site was redesigned in 2013 to become more of a blog format.The site has also inspired several other sites which deal with other subjects in the same format- ie. Game Show Garbage. | |
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Second-Hand Storytelling: Blade always had some kind of story about his childhood friend Don........Don Mason. Such stories included having Don using the date rape drug on himself at a concert, taking a trip to a farm and seeing a man have sex with a horse, molesting Cabbage Patch Kid dolls, among other wonderful topics. | |
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My Friends... and Zoidberg | |
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The induction on WWE's 2021 Netflix movie tie-ins featured one in My Friends... and Zoidberg form: | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: Every once in a while, commentary in matches or segments covered during inductions ends up sounding like this: There's this one from the infamous Goldberg v. Undertaker main event at Super ShowDown 2019: Lampshaded more directly in the Shane McMahon vs. The Miz induction from WrestleMania 39: | |
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Gratuitous Spanish: The site made one induction for Rambo y sus titanes ("Rambo and His Titans"), an Argentine wrestling TV show based on the action figures made from the Rambo children's cartoon, and as such it includes the occasional Spanish word. Same goes for the induction of MÃstico's WWE run as the original Sin Cara, which is divided in chapters, all but one of which have titles in Spanish. The 2022 April Fools' Day induction was an induction made entirely in Spanish of 100% Lucha, la pelÃcula ("100% Wrestling: The Movie"), the film of the Argentine wrestling TV show 100% Lucha. | |
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The induction of the Pro Wrestling Episode of The X-Files makes it clear that Art hates Kathy Griffin, who guest stars in the episode invoked playing two identical sisters who create a Hate Plague in their surroundings whenever they are together, which Art rationalizes as "I'd be pissed too if I saw the most annoying woman in the world twice in one afternoon." | |
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Anti-Humor | |
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Anti-Humor: We get this instance during the Raw Underground induction: | |
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Defeat Means Friendship | |
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Defeat Means Friendship: While they never really "defeated" Vince Russo, RD and the site were certainly critical of him, but he has been on their podcast, and quite cordial, twice. Once for an interview over how he got in the business and why he did what he did, and another to talk about anything out of the oridinary. | |
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During the induction for Professional Gay Wrestling, Art mentions the promotion's kayfabe owner Francis Minks and his son Montgomery, who describe themselves, respectively, as an "avid heterosexual" and "incredibly heterosexual" (and the latter does so seemingly unprompted during a phone call), yet are very obviously played as Camp Gay caricatures. | |
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Nepotism | |
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Nepotism: Discussed in the George Gulas induction, which revolves around an inept wrestler who was booked as the top star of NWA Mid-America (including a time-limit draw in a 60-minute match against then-NWA World Heavyweight Champion Harley Race) mostly for being the promoter's son, and mentions that the territory went under because of it. | |
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Message Board | |
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Message Board: After much demand, The Craphole was created on May 2011, around half a year after the website and its old message board (now The Freakin Awesome Network forums) parted ways in October 2010. | |
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Speak of the Devil | |
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Speak of the Devil: "Speaking of" segues turn up in the inductions and radio shows. | |
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Arch-Enemy: Kent Jones, or any so-called YouTube "shooter"; they really look down on them. They declared war on former wrestler Damien Demento, who took a shot at them in his YouTube videos. They've since reconciled. Averted with Vince Russo. While the website is one of Russo's fiercest critics, he and RD are actually on good terms, leading to RD appearing on Russo's podcast and Russo plugging the 10th anniversary edition of The Death of WCW. The two even eventually co-created a separate podcast, The Joker's Mustache, focused on recaps of episodes of Batman (1966), to celebrate their shared love for the series. Ultimately, Russo would start his own column on the site, titled What Didn't You Understand, Bro?!? | |
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A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma | |
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A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma: In the induction for TNA's Last Rites Match from 2007, on the matter of Sting describing death as a "choice" where one of those choices is, in fact, life, RD calls the meaning and exact point of Sting's remarks a "riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a crummy TNA storyline". | |
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What Could Have Been: Invoked: The "Rewriting the Book" columns are usually an example of this. For example, "What if Goldberg had defeated Kevin Nash at Starrcade?" or "What if the Montreal Screwjob never happened?" | |
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Butt-Monkey: "Like most WrestleCrap inductions, this one is about Kane..." Blade was the regular victim of potshots from the rest of the staff, including Triple Kelly. When someone made a reference to (filthy) hobos, a remark that "Blade isn't here to defend himself!" usually followed. | |
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"I've seen better [something] on Are You Being Served?". This actually became a Running Gag after the first time it was used, after the comment section pointed out the sheer weirdness of seeing the British sitcom being referenced on a site such as WrestleCrap. This eventually resulted in a wrestling episode of the Australian remake of Are You Being Served? (essentially a Shot-for-Shot Remake of the original show's wrestling episode) being inducted. | |
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: The /wooo/ board on 420chan. Despite being the original WrestleCrap message board before the split, Freakin Awesome Network averts this because there is still plenty of crossover in members. | |
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Author Appeal: Every Christmas, RD spends an update or two dissecting terrible movies, with an annual tradition of inducting a horrible Christmas movie in lieu of a wrestling angle/gimmick. RD has said several times that he loves Trish Stratus. Every induction involving her will always contain a line about how much RD loves her. RD is a big fan of "crooner" style theme songs, e.g. Kerwin White's. He says such songs do a great job establishing the characters and what they're about. | |
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Punny Name: Mike "Mic" Check. A radio DJ who rambles about the good old days and whether he would play well in your market. Almost all spellings of the name is "Mike" and not "Mic". The induction on WWE: The Official Cookbook covers how most of the recipes are named with wrestler-based puns: "Prawn Michaels", "Bayley's Chicken Huggets", "Ric Flair's Wooooopie Pies" and so on. | |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Whenever there is something in an induction that sounds too far-fetched, an audio clip and/or screenshot will be used to confirm that the story is indeed true. Often complete with some variation of the phrase "I can't make this stuff up". | |
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Dog Got Sent to a Farm: Referenced in the NXT 2.0 induction: | |
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Forced Meme: In 2009, RD tried to force "Basketball Jones" (Triple Kelly's nickname for Batista) as a meme, even going as far as to filter Batista's name as "Basketball Jones" on the original forums. It failed. | |
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Ban on Politics | |
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Ban on Politics: One of the major rules on the message board is to never discuss politics or religion, though the rule was temporarily relaxed during the 2008 Presidential Election. That being said, they did re-promote the entry on Donald Trump buying Raw, written in 2013, throughout his presidential campaign and presidency. | |
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Celebrity Star: The site occasionally highlights wrestling's worst uses of these: Actor David Arquette's controversial stint as WCW Champion was the very first Gooker Award winner. The LaVar Ball incident from 2017, where he essentially ad-libbed his whole appearance on a Miz TV segment alongside his sons Lonzo and LaMelo, failed to build up to the intended payoff for the angle, Dean Ambrose endorsing their sportswear brand, and had LaMelo throw racial slurs, was inducted in January 2020. | |
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News Parody | |
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News Parody: The "Headlies" section. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: Blade, in the early days, did the WrestleCrap Radio podcasts wasted. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Gay Popeye and Angry Jim Ross. | |
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Deconstruction | |
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Deconstruction: Of the very concept of WrestleCrap itself, if you can believe it. It was the 2006 Gooker Award winner: "Eddiesploitation." Aside from regretting offering it as a nominee, knowing it'd be the most difficult induction he'd have to write, RD noted that the site's tagline is "The Very Worst of Pro Wrestling." And "Eddiesploitation" was just that. | |
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Even Beggars Won't Choose It | |
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Even Beggars Won't Choose It: With TNA's long-standing reputation for happily picking up any WWE reject available, whether actually talented or not, this is implied when discussing Jenna Morasca's release from the company after her abysmal match with Sharmell at Victory Road 2009: | |
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Designated Girl Fight | |
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Designated Girl Fight: Mentioned during Retribution's Gooker Award induction: | |
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Literal Metaphor | |
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Literal Metaphor: In the induction about the 1995 edition of WCW's Uncensored PPV, Art uses this to note that WCW darkened the footage from the King of the Road match: | |
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Chirping Crickets | |
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Chirping Crickets: Employed by RD on WrestleCrap Radio any time one of Blade's jokes fell flat. The WrestleCrap Radio Crickets have their own Facebook page and, back in the day, had their own MySpace page. | |
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Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today? | |
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Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: When the 2004 Raw Diva Search won the Gooker Award, RD noted that his fanbase was primarily males who (presumably) enjoyed looking at attractive women, and yet that didn't stop them from voting the Diva Search as the worst of the year, because when you tune into a wrestling show, the first thing you assume you'll see is... well, wrestling. He has mentioned in separate inductions about the WWE Divas and WCW's Nitro Girls how wrestling has the uncanny ability to take some of the most gorgeous women and make them almost unwatchable. He's not sure how they do that, but they do. During the induction for Professional Gay Wrestling, Art mentions the promotion's kayfabe owner Francis Minks and his son Montgomery, who describe themselves, respectively, as an "avid heterosexual" and "incredibly heterosexual" (and the latter does so seemingly unprompted during a phone call), yet are very obviously played as Camp Gay caricatures. | |
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Rogues Gallery | |
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Rogues Gallery: The TNA Correspondents, Johnny 6, Johnny 4, Megatrolla, Angry Jim Ross, Viewing Booth Bill Cosby, Nathaniel, Honky Tonk Mailman, Stubby, Mic Check and others. | |
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Grumpy Old Man | |
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Grumpy Old Man: Mic Check, the TNA correspondent, is an old man who has lived forever and working in the radio market. Angry Jim Ross. | |
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Jobber | |
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Jobber: The mostly inactive Jobber of the Week section focuses on the more "memorable" ones. A truly baffling amount of them were entrants during the 1995 Royal Rumble, most being part of absurdly bad tag teams with trash gimmicks like the Men on a Mission, The Headshrinkers and the Heavenly Bodies. The only main eventers at the Rumble were eventual winner Shawn Michaels, the British Bulldog, runner-up Lex Luger, Owen Hart and Bob Backlund (the last two were attacked by Bret Hart on their way to the ring and as a result didn't last very long): | |
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Accentuate the Negative | |
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Accentuate the Negative: As expected for a website with "Crap" in its name. | |
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Totally Radical | |
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On the Raw Underground induction, RD advises readers to never use the term "cool & hip" because "You'll sound like a 52 year old man writing on a website that's been around forever talking about the worst in pro wrestling." | |
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Small Reference Pools | |
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Small Reference Pools: Any Todd Pettengil segment. "Note to self – ask around to folks not as ancient as I if Austin Powers references are now considered nostalgic or simply dated. I like to think the former…but fear the latter." Art's "Carnac the Magnificent" gags. RD's non-stop Simpsons references. "I've seen better [something] on Are You Being Served?". This actually became a Running Gag after the first time it was used, after the comment section pointed out the sheer weirdness of seeing the British sitcom being referenced on a site such as WrestleCrap. This eventually resulted in a wrestling episode of the Australian remake of Are You Being Served? (essentially a Shot-for-Shot Remake of the original show's wrestling episode) being inducted. | |
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Retcon | |
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Retcon: Stubby's death. He was killed in a BBQ fire, but brought back, somehow. When questioned about it he spun a double entendre-laden story about being snatched by a beaver. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Whenever RD mentioned Wikipedia, he'd reference some of the most outrageous things he has ever read on the site. The character Nintendo John was made specifically to dig at John Cena who one night came out on Raw and made numerous references to Nintendo games to crowd cheers. Any time Nintendo John would even mention Nin-Ten-Do!, applause would play. Art describes Step by Step as "consistently the second-least funny show on ABC's Friday night lineup — and that's only if you included 20/20". The induction of the Pro Wrestling Episode of The X-Files makes it clear that Art hates Kathy Griffin, who guest stars in the episode invoked playing two identical sisters who create a Hate Plague in their surroundings whenever they are together, which Art rationalizes as "I'd be pissed too if I saw the most annoying woman in the world twice in one afternoon." The induction on WWE's 2021 Netflix movie tie-ins featured one in My Friends... and Zoidberg form: | |
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Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond | |
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Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: During the Gooker Award induction of Jinder Mahal's WWE Championship reign, Art argues that Mahal became this upon arriving at a SmackDown brand that had been massively shortchanged in the Superstar Shakeup, losing several of its main-eventers (Dean Ambrose, The Miz, Bray Wyatt) to Raw while AJ Styles was thrown into a United States Championship feud with another new SD arrival, Kevin Owens, leaving the brand scrambling to build up a new viable WWE title contender. | |
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Westminster Chimes | |
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Westminster Chimes: The sound effect used for the short-lived Clocktrolla device on the WrestleCrap Radio podcast. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: Used intentionally in the beginning of the Cena vs. Laurinaitis induction to point out that John Cena is unfairly criticized for most of the things that he does. At the beginning of the "brass rings" induction, RD and Art crack a joke about Vince McMahon looking like Barney Fife, then later give us this: | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: RD had a huge disdain for Wikipedia. This was due to the site declaring that he had died three times. He has since let up of it, though he still takes an occasional shot. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: Mentioned in an anecdote about Nikolai Volkoff auditioning for a film and losing the role because he couldn't read the script properly: | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms - "Nathaniel Edward Rodham Davis," "NERD" a none to subtle shot at internet fans who worship TNA Impact. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comment | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comment: During the Gooker Award induction of Crown Jewel 2018, after mentioning all the controversies surrounding the event: At the beginning of the Football Helmet Match induction in June 2022, RD seems to be addressing complaints that no AEW inductions have been made, and announces they are finally listening to those complaints by doing their first ever induction... of Stampede Wrestling.note That said, immediately after this comment, RD did announce WrestleCrap's first AEW induction for the following week, and the site followed through this promise by inducting the Casino Battle Royale from Double or Nothing 2019. | |
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Description Cut | |
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Description Cut: Twice in the "Eddiesploitation" induction. First, after Chavo turns heel on Rey Mysterio: Then, immediately after: | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: Remember, folks, no matter what sort of crap you actually bought, you'll never be as big a dork as RD and Blade, who shelled out $200 for Katie Vick's cheerleading outfit — signed by Triple H. On the Raw Underground induction, RD advises readers to never use the term "cool & hip" because "You'll sound like a 52 year old man writing on a website that's been around forever talking about the worst in pro wrestling." | |
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Beyond the Impossible | |
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Beyond the Impossible: RD has stated that the site has a rule against inducting anything that happens in the same calendar year that it occurred. His reason behind this is that he feels that it's best to take a wait-and-see approach with a storyline before passing judgment. For the House of Horrors match between Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton at Payback 2017, however, not only did he break the rule and induct it almost immediately, as he saw nothing worthy about it, but he also preemptively gave it the Gooker Award in the belief that nothing else could possibly top it that year. Then Jinder Mahal's WWE Championship run happened, which proved him very wrong. note The Wyatt/Orton feud that contained the House of Horrors match did finish second in the voting, though. | |
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Footnote Fever | |
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Footnote Fever: The occasional "Note from RD" appears in inductions done by someone other than him. | |
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Medal of Dishonor | |
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Medal of Dishonor: The site's annual Gooker Award is presented to the worst angle or gimmick of the year. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: In the HLA induction, one of the most troubling things that's mentioned is how many of the male wrestlers were excited about watching the lesbians backstage, yet when Eric Bischoff told 3 Minute Warning to beat them up, none of the wrestlers bothered to go out to the ring and help them. | |
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Sarcasm Failure | |
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Sarcasm Failure: What RD put on the Eddiesploitation induction. Needless to say, it was not a happy induction: | |
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Tradesnarkâ„¢ | |
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Tradesnarkâ„¢: Used early on in the Money in the Bank 2020 induction: | |
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History Repeats | |
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History Repeats: A special induction revolving around an article in the July 1995 issue of Pro Wrestling Illustrated was made specifically because RD noticed that a number of the problems the article pointed out about the pre-Attitude Era WWF of those days (excessive amount of rematches, bad announcers, lack of attention to the women's and tag team divisions, etc.) were once again plaguing WWE in 2021. | |
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G.I.R.L. | |
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G.I.R.L.: The message boards were pranked by the "female" poster "Miss Kendrick" in 2009, and by "Starwolf", who was dubbed "Starwang" by some posters, in 2007. This post pretty much describes it: | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The Gooker Award page for Eddiesploitation is devoid of any images and audio, simply because RD didn't want to re-live any of it, much less subject his readers to it. | |
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Artistic License – Geography | |
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Artistic License – Geography: The induction of the 2019 angle of Roman Reigns' attacker points out that, contrary to what wrestling announcers have been telling us for years, there is no "Isle of Samoa", the nation actually being a ten-island archipelago. However, the "ten-island archipelago" description applies to the sovereign state of Samoa, while Reigns' family roots are in American Samoa, which consists of six other inhabited islands plus a couple of uninhabited ones. | |
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April Fools' Day | |
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The 2022 April Fools' Day induction was an induction made entirely in Spanish of 100% Lucha, la pelÃcula ("100% Wrestling: The Movie"), the film of the Argentine wrestling TV show 100% Lucha. | |
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Malicious Misnaming | |
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Malicious Misnaming: The new ring names adopted by the Retribution members are mocked in their Gooker induction in this manner. For instance, T-Bar gets called T-BOZ and C-SPAN at different points. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: "But what from AEW was bad enough to warrant an induction on this site? Tony Khan spoiling his viewers with one blockbuster announcement after another? Dynamite being only two hours long? Matt Hardy almost dying in a match?" | |
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Running Gag: After writing an induction about Man Mountain Rock, he of the WWF guitar, RD began using an image of him shrugging complete with the caption "Yeah, I don't know either, dude." This is usually when RD or someone else asks a question regarding one weird moment in the induction. This was later replaced by (or used alongside) a GIF of A.J. Lee looking into the camera and shrugging with a sort of "ehh, what are you gonna do?" expression on her face. Tiffany, former General Manager of WWECW, with the caption "YAY!" to show fake enthusiasm or joy. This was inspired by her notorious promo in which she cheerily declared the death of ECW wasn't "a bad thing; in fact, it's a good thing. No, it's a great thing!" Whenever WWE or TNA trot out the hoary old candelabras and coffins (usually for Sting or The Undertaker), you will see a grinning picture of Liberace. Blade's "Big Announcement", which he teased on and off on WrestleCrap Radio. | |
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