Draco in Leather Pants/Professional Wrestling: Difference between revisions

* The internet fanbase generally orients themselves towards wrestlers who are good workers. Sometimes, though, a wrestler who's just plain bad in the ring starts getting over. Maybe he got some good writing behind him, maybe it's just the weird X Factor that causes things in pro wrestling to catch on when they shouldn't or not catch on when they should. Cue internet fans doing somersaults trying to figure out ways to explain why, say, Big Daddy V is a superior worker.

** WWE's Maryse might be worth noting. Since her debut she has yet to display one redeeming quality. Even when she appeared to be nice to Gail Kim she was really laying down insults in French. True she is a [[Rudo]], but Maryse doesn't generate the animosity as other heels such as Michelle McCool or Layla, either from crowds or internet commentators despite the latter being better in the ring and actually having behaved decently before a [[Face Heel Turn]].

* As of early 2010 [[Chris Jericho]] has been doing a form of this on WWE NXT, a show where eight "rookies" are paired with a "pro" mentor as they wrestle in hopes of winning a WWE contract. On the first episode he was rather displeased at his rookie Wade Barrett's verbal sucking up when introducing Jericho, but when it was Barrett wrestling on the fourth episode, Jericho at ringside went well above and beyond to put his rookie over, leading to this amusing exchange with the commentators as Barrett ground down his opponent that got Internet fans cheering:

{{quote|'''Jericho:''' "Look at him meticulously wearing down the back of--"