Professional Wrestling - TV Tropes (2024)

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• 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
  • OH SHI-^Explanation
    • SUPER DRAGON! *SHUT THE f*ck UP!* SUPER DRAGON! *SHUT THE f*ck UP!* SUPER DRAGON!^Explanation
• 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
• 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
  • 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*
  • f*ck THIS COMPANY.
    • After it became an Ascended Meme: (I) f*ck(ING LOVE) THIS COMPANY!
• MINUS! FIVE! STARS!
• Yeah, I don't know either, dude. ^Explanation
  • That's awesome on every conceivable level! ^Explanation
  • Dennis Stamp wasn't booked!^Explanation
• Non-western example. The wrestler Hard Gay is memetic both in Japan and overseas. HOOOOOOOOOOOO~!
• Clean as a Whistle^Explanation
• Brimstone's CUSTOM BOOTS. ^Explanation
• June 2022^note

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

• 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!"

• 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
  • AKUSU BOMBAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
• VERY VERY VERY BREAKY BREAKY BREAKY BISHI BISHI!!!^explanation
• KAZE NI NAREEEEEE!!!!!^explanation
• f*ck 'EM!!!^Explanation
• Okada's Longboys^note
• "X" Pervert: ^note

• 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
• 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
  • GO TO BED!^Explanation
• *takes guitar shot* "Never drew a dime!"^explanation
  • 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!
• We comin' fo' YOU, nigg*! *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
  • 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 f*ck"^Explanation
  • "Don't talk Mexican to me!"
• "That'll put a lot of butts in seats..."^Explanation
  • MICK FOLEY PUT MY ASS IN THIS SEAT ^Explanation
  • "THIS IS THE GREATEST [placeholder] IN THE HISTORY OF OUR SPORT!"
• Hold 327: ARM! BAR!

• 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.

• 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!

• JEEZUS! ^Explanation

• "WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT SHRIMP co*ckTAIL, HANH?" ^Explanation
• lol ill pretend u said 18^explanation
• Did someone mention Matt Taven?^explanation
• Teddy Hart and cats^explanation

• 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 f*ckING 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
  • You're a total hamster, bro!
  • OHH! (fist-pumps)
• "You can't wrestle!" "I disagree!" "You can't wrestle!" "I'm very good!" ^Explanation
• Jeff Hardy: "Austin, my nuts hurt..." ^Explanation
• 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 bullsh*t!^Explanation
• 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
• 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
• You haven't seen my brother Chris? You know, (hand) Abyss!^Explanation
• "Tag of the Waaah!!!" ^Explanation
• HE'S NOT READY BROTHER DUDE JACK ^Explanation
  • Bobby Roode spitting. ^Explanation
  • Bobby Rooooooo!!!^Explanation
• Bram has just signed to a multi-year deal with TNA/Impact Wrestling.^Explanation
• 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
• LOLTNA ^Explanation
  • Following TNA's acquisition by Anthem Sports and Entertainment in January 2017, Anthem spelled backwards is "MEH TNA".
• OVER! YOUR! DEAD! BODY! ^Explanation
  • "Did I use the tacks?"
• "And f*ck that owl."^Explanation
• Alisha Edwards is the greatest wrestler of all time.^Explanation
• I mean, folks... where's the lie? silence^Explanation
  • ONE YEAR, JOSH. NO POL^Explanation
• Say His Name and He Appears / "I Believe In Joe Hendry"