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== Professional Wrestling ==
* [[WCW]] was partially undone by what may be the ultimate Insult Backfire. It was their habit during the [[Monday Night Wars]] on ''Nitro'', to reveal the results of [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] matches on air, to prevent people from changing the channel to watch ''[[WWE Raw]]''. In 1999, they revealed that [[Mick Foley]] would win the championship, with an announcer sarcastically claiming "That's gonna put butts in the seats". It did; many viewers switched channels to see it. This compounded the damage done by the [[Finger-Poke of Doom]], which occurred the same night. WCW never recovered.
** Not to mention the signs in arenas for years which said, "Mick Foley put my ass in this seat".
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDrEBgoxfUQ In a pre-Wrestlemania interview] with [[Rey Mysterio, Jr.]], [[Kurt Angle]], and [[Randy Orton]], Orton does this ''twice'':
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