Disproportionate Retribution/Professional Wrestling

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• This is, of course, an important part of Professional Wrestling, with the Heels often giving out brutal punishment after losing a match.
• WWECW once decided to hold an all-female strip poker session. After each girl is in their underwear (and one is topless but using Hand or Object Underwear), one girl loses a match. She looks like she is about to go topless but she stops. One girl asks if she is embarrassed. And, just for that one comment, she is stripped completely naked on national TV by the first who claimed she "cheated".
• Then there was the time Booker T wanted revenge on Edge for getting a spot in a shampoo commercial Booker wanted.
• Razor Ramon used to exact brutal vengeance whenever someone broke his toothpick.
• Maven. The Undertaker. Royal Rumble. Seriously, I understand Taker being pissed at being eliminated in the RR by a dropkick from behind, but that was largely his fault for not paying attention, and it REALLY didn't warrant the horrifying beatdown he spent the next twenty minutes doling out on poor Maven's sorry carcass, including plowing him headfirst through a popcorn machine's glass.
  • The most hilarious part of this was that the Royal Rumble Match actually stops for a few minutes so that the camera can remain focused on 'Taker's beatdown of Maven, right up to the smashing glass and 'Taker helping himself to a handful of popcorn in a quite literal demonstration of Evil Tastes Good.
• In the original ECW, Raven dedicated his entire life to destroying Tommy Dreamer in every way possible—crippling him, ending his career, breaking up his family, etc. Why? Because, when they were kids, Tommy stole his girlfriend at summer camp and was a total Jerk Jock.
• And we can't forget the feud between Kane and Chris Jericho in WWE, which was basically two months of Kane beating the piss out of Jericho at every single turn. Why? Because Jericho accidentally spilled coffee on Kane at the catering table.
  • To be fair, Jericho did then make a snarky comment about hoping Kane wasn't burned. Given Kane's history, well... And Disproportionate Retribution was always sorta Kane's schtick
• And more recently, Randy Orton made it his goal in life to not only beat Triple H for the Heavyweight title but to systematically destroy every member of HHH's wife's family aka the McMahons. He punts Vince McMahon and Shane McMahon, RKO's (and then all but rapes while she's unconscious) Stephanie McMahon, and eventually beats HHH and punts him too. Why? Because HHH kicked Orton out of Evolution five years earlier.
  • Which was DR in itself; the night prior (Summerslam 2004), Orton faced then-World-Heavyweight-Champion Chris Benoit in a title match, and won. You'd think HHH would be proud of him. The problem? Orton's victory had derailed HHH's big plan, which was for Orton to soften the champ up so that he (HHH) could swoop in, finish off a weakened Benoit, and take the title for himself. So what does HHH do? He tricks Orton into celebrating in the middle of the ring, only to turn on him and subject him to a brutal 3-on-1 beatdown before kicking him out of Evolution and, a few weeks later, taking the title anyway.
• During a match between Chris Benoit and Mark Henry, Chris managed to lock the Crippler Crossface on the big guy. After Mark escaped from the hold, he proceeded to pummel Chris, then lock him in a camel clutch, while at the same time, choking him with the ring rope. He got disqualified for using the rope, but he refused to break the hold, even after Benoit gave Blood From the Mouth. When the referee and security finally got Mark off him, Mark was screaming, "He hurt me! He hurt me!" I know the Crippler Crossface hurts, but Jesus Christ.
  • Happens again when Sheamus beats him. Despite being furious that no one had been able to put up a good fight against him, the fact that Sheamus actually defeated him sends Henry into a berserk rage. He pretty much tries to maim Sheamus (though due to Sheamus still having a lot of fight left in him, he fails).
• Starting in May 2012, John Laurinaitis has been making The Big Show's life a living hell just because Show made fun of his voice, even after Show apologized. On the May 14, 2012 episode of WWE Raw, Show got on his hands and knees and begged for forgiveness, but Laurinaitis fired him.
• In 2006, Umaga, under orders by Eric Bischoff', be in a match against Maria to punish. For what… Maria spilled coffee on Bischoff by accident. Luckily, help arrived just before Umaga nearly kills Maria.