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{{quote| "There is only room for woman at the top of the WWE...ME the Celtic Warrior Sheamus!"}}
You can't write the sort of [[Narm]] that happens in [[Professional Wrestling]]. Okay, [[Kayfabe|you can]], but nobody really ''tries'' to do it intentionally. Unless you're [[
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== General ==
* Any bit that gets put into the [[Botchamania]] series becomes narm material by default.
* Sid Vicious was supposed to be a towering menace, but during his offtime, he's more interested in playing softball than pro wrestling. Also, he challenged Brian Pillman to a shootfight once, and after getting his ass kicked by Pillman he left, deciding to come back and try again with a ''weapon'' this time! The weapon he found and decided to use was a squeegee (yes, a squeegee). When he walked back into the bar brandishing the squeegee and challenging Pillman again, he was reportedly laughed out of the place. Don't forget that on a ''live'' WWF PPV, Sid asked for a retake when he screwed up his promo, and [[
{{quote| '''Sid Vicious:''' [[Kevin Nash
* Just about any promo (''[[Professional Wrestling/Memes|HUH?]]'') cut by [[
** "I'M HUNGRY!"
** "I've wrestled a lot of countries..."
** [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5acti_scott-steiner-maths_sport Not to mention the time he tried to do math and ended up claiming he had a 141.67% chance of victory.]
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFoC3TR5rzI&feature=BFp&list=FLETKfmcYt4QQ&index=44 This typography] shows he was actually right, mathematically speaking. As one [[YouTube]] commentator put it, however, "his 141.67% chance of winning didn't add up to squat".
** What about [[
*** HE'S FAT!!!!!
** How about his claims of remembering the time when [[Artistic License History|Pearl Harbor bombed the Germans?]]
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== TNA ==
* ''[[TNA]] No Surrender'' 2008 featured an MMA-style match between [[
** Doesn't help that the finish of that was a no contest due to accidental groin hit.
* [[TNA]]'s AJ Styles trying to emulate his mentor [[
** Blame Ric Flair (well... his pre-TNA self) being simply one of a kind; it's essentially reviving WCW's "Lil' Naitch," except wasting one of the young TNA 'legends' instead of a ref.
* The 9-16-10 episode of Impact was host to perhaps Abyss' most ludicrous moment of narm to date, in which he abducted someone, presumably TNA backstage personnel, and proceeded to bring them to a torture chamber for the purpose of conducting various non-PG activities. In a scene more akin to something you'd expect to see in a ''Saw'' flick rather than professional wrestling, Abyss branded the date 10-10-10 onto the exposed abdomen of his captive. That this was filmed by a cameraman, who did nothing to intervene, and furthermore, shown on TV, to announcers who had little to no reaction whatsoever, not only makes suspension of disbelief impossible, but is also hilarious.
* [[
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHAnESNhwd8 Except by] [[The Spoony Experiment
* From the recent "THEY are coming" storyline rehash, there's the scene of Crimson "murdering" Abyss by hitting him in the back with Janice, followed by Abyss falling over after stumbling onto the ramp, with Crimson standing behind him, grinning like a horror movie villain. Sadly, the grin, Crimson's ridiculous faux-spiky hairdo, and his odd head-tilt ruined any attempt to take the scene seriously.
* Abyss chokeslamming [[
* Joker [[Sting (
== WCW ==
* [[
** I choose to blame the whole integration of Chucky into WCW in the first place; as someone else said on TV Tropes, the worst part about that storyline wasn't this, but that before the reveal, the build-up and hype by unexplained off-screen laughter... they could have gone ''anywhere'' with it.
* [[
{{quote| '''Gene''': "After that win, the question isn't 'who's next,' but 'who's left?'!"<br />
'''Goldberg''': "No... the question isn't 'who's left'... it's... 'WHO'S NEXT?'!" }}
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* The '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z0422hQmmk SHOCKMASTER]''' APPROACHES!!
** [http://youtu.be/3C89B-EDBJc?t=6m57s Yeh-tay approaches.]
** [[RoboCop
* [[
** And given the fact that they took place in front of a patriotically raised, North-American audience, Hogan's insistence on making it sound like he was promoting an "Apple-Pie, Indian strap match" can only be wondered at. God knows what the audience made of the imagery of [[
{{quote| "As I strap that flesh, as your flesh bubbles and burns over your body! You understand, my man, what the YAPAPI mean by the Indian strap match!"}}
== WWE ==
* An episode of ''[[WWE Raw]]'' gave us a dramatic moment turned into a [[Narm]] by crowd participation. [[
** A hilarious moment of audience narm was brought by a Providence, Rhode Island crowd at Backlash 2009. After [[
** [[
*** Speaking of the limo-bomb, how about Paul London's ridiculously cheesy grin during the hallway segment?
*** But then again, the Northeastern United States - particularly, from Philadelphia, PA to New York City - is home of the most hardcore fans/smarks in the entire professional wrestling world. It would be more of a shock if these crowds ''didn't'' create Narms.
***** One might want to include Eastern Canada as well with hotspots being Toronto and Montreal for narmtastic crowds
**** That may also have something to do with an early ECW revival show that was held in the Hammerstein Ballroom (one of the original ECW's old haunts), in which the main event of [[
*** The whodunit storyline would have followed suit the next week, but [[Chris Benoit
* [[Scott Hall
** Somethin' happen to his gold? Somethin' gonna happen to you, man. (YMMV, but I find that hilarious).
*** Razor Ramon: [Pushes guy into fountain] I make his dreams come true, man. (I don't know the context, but it probably [[Makes Just
* The ''[[Wrestlemania]] XX'' encounter between [[
** The best part was that Lesnar and Goldberg likely thought they could get away with phoning the match in, as they were both leaving the company the following week. Boy were they wrong! You really had to see it on PPV or in person for the full impact, as the crowd was edited in the DVD version.
** At least if you watch it with the English audio track. The chants are retained on the Spanish audio track.
* There was a match in 2002 featuring the [[
** But the really fun bit was the video that circulated among [[Smart Mark|Smart Marks]] for weeks afterwards, which showed that pivotal moment repeatedly. In slow motion. Set to "Chariots of Fire".
*** In all fairness to Kev, you can see him grasping his leg as he enters the ring so chances were it was already in bad shape before the tear... though why with a bad leg you would go for a ''big boot'' as your first offense is beyond this troper.
**** In fact, he looks to be in pain from the moment he stepped over the top rope(raising the leg tugs on that muscle). This is then exacerbated by the torquing he did after the Big Boot. After which, he mis-stepped a little, and all 300+ pounds went crushing down on the muscle. Narm, if only because Shawn's speech included: [[Hilarious in Hindsight|"Triple H! What you see here is your future!"]] (It was in the past that he tore his left quad in 2001, but in the future that he tore his right one in 2007). Credit to the rest for breaking the match into a brawl to cover.
** On a related note, at the 2005 ''Royal Rumble'', [[
* [[
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfE7GKNDUs This] promo by Finnish wrestler Ludvig Borga.
* Take your pick with Bobby Lashley -- his supposedly badass character being routinely described as "soft spoken" to the point of it being in his entrance video? All the various amusing nicknames [[Smart Mark|smarks]] have given him? The infamous "I say your name is Finlay, and you're a baathturd" promo? Or the "No!", or the "old enough to be my dad's uncle" comment? Good God, Lashley ''is'' Narm.
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** In the same vein, the segment where the Great Khali brings Big Show out and gives him various "peace offerings," including a ''goat,'' and basically doesn't do a single heelish thing despite being the heel. Big Show, conversely, abruptly ends the segment by punching Khali in the face and walking off.
*** Perfectly consistent with the above, making him the gigantic homeland [[Face]] and Batista and Big Show (and I figure any of Khali's enemies) to be the [[Eagle Land|arrogant, big and rude (whathaveyou) American]] [[Jerkass|bullies]]. If anything, it sounds like Khali's face turn on RAW was supposed to finally synchronize the two versions of him.
* [[
** Some fans see the angle as a [[Take That]] towards a [[TNA]] stage worker who was killed in a stage accident after the 2008 Slammiversary PPV two weeks earlier, but the similarities between the two events are merely coincidental.
** And six months later, he returns with much fanfare (and nary a scratch)... only to be "put back out of action" by a kick from Randy Orton. Which wouldn't be Narm if it weren't for daughter Stephanie's hilariously high-pitched screechy wails...
*** This is also 'helped' by the fact that while it was supposed to be an evil, unthinkable move and played up as such, [[Draco in Leather Pants|the audience was going fucking wild for Orton the whole segment.]]
*** Beat up [[
*** Actually we can apply the term Narm to pretty much every time [[
*** Orton's taken a liking to punting members of [[
*** [[
* Both the 1988 and 1989 editions of ''The Main Event'' featured awful melodramatic acting by [[
* During one WWE PPV, [[
* Ricky Steamboat, while an incredible worker and a ring legend, still participated in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92LJySWTiU this WWF promo] in the 80's. But what can you say, it was the WWF in the 80's.
** Not to mention, as dumb as it looks in retrospect, it fit the character.
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** As of mid-March 2010 turning heel cured him of the Narm...
*** Or so we thought. The last time Batista was on ''Raw'', he was confined to a wheelchair, screaming for someone in the back to "GIMME MAH DAYUMN SPOTLIGHT!!!" It's safe to say that, [[Face]] or [[Heel]], [[Batista]] cannot resist being [[Narm|Narmy]].
* The 9/18/09 episode of ''SmackDown!'' contained a moment of Narm so perfectly emblematic of the trope that it's hard to believe it wasn't actually intentional. In response to general manager Teddy Long's nefarious actions in cheating [[
** [[Fleeting Demographic Rule|A very similar incident ten years earlier]] was another instance of narm. During [[
* There's also the infamous 'Heidenrape' incident, in which Heidenreich kidnapped [[
** Cole's facial expressions during this scene don't make this any... uh... "straighter"?
* On an early 2010 RAW, [[
** And then [[D Generation X]] [[Big Damn Heroes|makes the save]], just to make it even Narmier.
* [[
* The entirety of [[
* [[
* The January 11th 2010 episode of Raw featured [[
* On the July 6th 2009 episode of ECW Tommy Dreamer called Abraham Washington a "lego head" as a comeback to a barrage of fat jokes. Bear in mind this came from a badass who wrestled in countless hardcore streetfight matches and in barbed wire years earlier.
* One moment saw [[
* Pretty much any time Maryse tries to be intimidating or come across as a believable heel. She tries to cover up for her lazy [[Five Moves of Doom]] wrestling with hair flipping and hand gestures with the occasional promo in French. It doesn't work.
* The [[
** "I came here for one reason - [[Writers Cannot Do Math|to attack and keep comin']], not to ask but just to give, not to want but just to send-the send the power of the Warrior down everybody's throat in the WWF 'till they become sick of it- well, you're gonna get sick of it, 'cause this freak of nature is just beginning to swell, and when I get big enough, brother, there ain't gonna be any room for anybody else 'cept me and all the Warriors, floatin' through the VEINS, and the POWER of the WARRIORRRRRR..."
* How about Jack Swagger bursting into the room of [[Rey Mysterio, Jr
* [[WWE
* Val Venis' [http://www.thewrestlinglegendsforum.com/wrestlecrap/veniscastration.html debut included a feud with Kaientai and Yamaguchi]. The narm comes from Yamaguchi's obsession with revenge (Val supposedly slept with his wife) and a backstage skit where the Kaientai stable ties up a nude Val Venis and Yamaquchi-san apparently cuts his penis off with a sword. Then the WWF waited until next week to say that he missed.
* The 9-27-10 edition of RAW had [[
* The infamous "Pillman's Got A Gun!" Moment: [[
* The 11-15-10 episode of Raw had a promo of [[John Cena]]'s decision as the special guest referee in the [[
* At the June 2010 Viewer's Choice Raw, the group of NXT season 1 rookies who later became [[The Nexus]] literally destroyed [[John Cena]] and the entire ring after they came out during the main event between Cena and [[CM Punk]]. This moment is widely regarded as a [[WWE Raw/Awesome|Crowning Moment of Awesome]], but there was some Narm in the little kid shouting "MR. KING! MR. KING!" at [[Jerry Lawler
* The pregnancy angle between Kane and [[
** It also didn't help that Lita was sitting on the hospital bed with a look of, what can best be described as, stoic indifference instead of a mother who lost her child.
*** I always figured she was in shock.
* After ''[[Wrestlemania]] 22'', Vince decided to get back at [[
* During an Inferno Match between Undertaker and [[Kane (
* The video games also have the potential for some potent narm, such as in one game, adding [[
* While [[
* The last Raw before [[Wrestlemania]] 27, a huge promo with [[
** Speaking of that promo, as Shawn was leaving the arena, you could overhear a fan yelling to Michaels, "C'mon Shawn! One more match! One more match, Shawn." The way that fan was yelling causing quite the [[Mood Whiplash]].
* The opening music to the ''Tough Enough'' revival, which sounds less than suited to a pro wrestling show.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37jA7R_sCqw WWE Over The Limit 2011's promo] which feels more like a commercial for Viagra more than a PPV.
* After [[
** Everyone's extreme enthusiasm to wear the bags and seeing people on the front few rows sitting jauntily with them over their heads doesn't help with Cody's intimidation either.
** The commentators refer to it as the "ultimate humiliation".
*** Perhaps the narmiest thing about Cody's otherwise brilliant persona is that the commentators cannot seem to decide whether Cody is delusional about his facial injuries or if he has actually been rendered ugly. You would think the transparent protective mask would aid in such a judgment call.
** The narm continues: following the attack on [[
*** Everything [[
{{quote| "''Cuhuhut the heeadd offa vipurr and the venum goes wihith ihihit."}}
* Pretty much everything [[Ron Killings
** He then insulted [[
** "'''When a angry black man is talking you do not interrupt him.'''"
** "STOP THE PRESSUH! CALL THE POLI-CIA! THERE HE GO, RIGHT THUR! HE'S A THEIF, YO! THAT AIN'T RIGHT, YA'LL!"
** "USED TA!? USED TA IS A ROOSTA FROM BREWSTA!"
** "YOU GON GET GOT!" Which he's unfortunately said at least twice.
** Also during his recent rampage against [[John Cena]] merchandise, he stormed away from the table of shirts and other things and comes across a concession stand. He then violently attacked...[http://i.imgur.com/52cyr.gif a pyramid of empty soda cups] featuring [[
** On the June 13, 2011, R-Truth referred to the Titantron as "the Triton."
* Eve dancing to R-Truth's raps. No...just...no. Stick to wrestling. [[
** No doubt hurt by the fact that due to the PG rating, that kind of limited what she could do in terms of movement, dance in general tending to be suggestive (For the record, she can dance, she choreographed a lot of the routines for her college dance squad.) She does tend to repeat the same few steps over and over.
* In a recent promo between [[
* [[
{{quote| '''Cole:''' You are a... a '''''bastard.'''''}}
** And then he still can't help but crack a smile during the line, as though he were a little kid on the playground who'd just learned a new swear word and wanted ''desperately'' to try it out.
** I would think the grinning part comes from the fact that Cole was on the verge of corpsing due to unintentionally stalling on calling Riley a bastard.
** Even more hilarious was the audience's reaction, which was a mix of ooh's and ah's, but you could tell that it was probably at least 70% sarcastic.
* The 7/18/11 episode of ''Raw'' concluded with [[
** Even worse, the crowd ran through a gamut of chanting things. They ran through chanting "Triple H," "Cena," singing goodbye to Vince, and finally "Thank You Vince." At the end it seemingly broke down into a huge mess of different chants running at once while Vince stood in the middle of the ring blubbering.
* [[
* [[
** "I'M YOUR FRIEND!"
** "Would you like to see the text message on my telephone?"
** "I'M TRYING TO MAKE THE WWE COOL AGAIN!"
* Hopefully in the right section, just from the trailer of [[
* [[
* [[Jim Ross
* An early 2012 episode of ''[[WWE Raw|Raw]]'' featured a scene straight out of a horror film, where the big red monster [[Kane (
* The same week's SmackDown featured a no-DQ match for the World Heavyweight Championship between [[
** The show actually ends of a close-up of Big Show's face, blubbering like a baby.
* The 1/23/12 episode of ''Raw'' ended with a big confrontation between [[
** From that same edition, there's also [[John Cena
* The 10/24/11 episode of ''Raw'' ends with Laurinaitis giving [[
* In the lead up to his match with Big Show at Wrestlemania 28, [[
* Yeah, [[
* On the topic of [[Wrestlemania]] 28, the [[
* [[The Big Show]]/John Laurinaitis segment from the 5/14/12 Monday Night Raw '''''in spades'''''. Almost to the point of being a [[Funny Moment]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzpVLimh4YQ See it here in all of its glory.]
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