Redemption Promotion: Difference between revisions

* Happens a lot in [[Professional Wrestling]]. Standard booking is that the faces have to win matches cleanly and only lose due to cheating in order to keep the fans support and sympathy while heels almost never win cleanly so that the fans want to see them get beaten. Mix the two with a [[Heel Face Turn]] and you have this.

* [[Christian|Christian Cage]] is probably the ultimate example of this trope. After turning his back on the fans he simply got more and more pathetic, and boring to the point in 2003 it seemed like he couldn't win a match clean if his life depended on it, even against 150 pound Spike Dudley. After returning to ECW many new fans were shocked to see he could actually escape from an arm bar and with the crowds behind him tag teams have to cheat to beat Christian in two on one matches.

* Alex Riley may be the best example of this trope. As [[The Miz]]'s apprentice, he was of little competence except when he needed to take a beating in lieu of his teacher. Once Miz lost the title, he began to berate his protege until he lost one rematch too many and he fired Riley in the ring. [[The Dog Bites Back|Riley would turn on his former leader]] and immediately gain new found in-ring competence as he would defeat Miz several times and find himself in almost immediate title contention despite being portrayed as a mere rookie months earlier on NXT.

* [[Sheamus]] is another fine example. He had been suffering from ''severe'' [[Badass Decay]] for months and was [[Demoted to Extra]]. The [[Mark Henry]] goes on the warpath, destroying everything in his path to the point everyone was afraid to face him. Sheamus steps up to the plate to challenge him ''fearless'', performing a [[Heel Face Turn]] in the process. Cue Sheamus being the first one to defeat the Great Khali in recent months by ''forcing his way out of the Khali Vicegrip with sheer brute strength!''