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***** The whole "wrestler vs superstar" thing was even lampshaded when [[Joey Styles]], who was temporarily announcing for Raw took off in a flying moment of rage after being completely harassed for several weeks by the likes of Heidenreich and the Spirit Squad (separately) and he proceeds to leave, but not before, at the top of the entrance ramp, going into a rant about how "Back in ECW, we called them what they were, wrestlers! What do we call them here in the WWE? ''SUPERSTAAARS!''" He was announcing for the new ECW not long afterward. [[Wall Banger|And calling the wrestlers "extremists".]]

****** Many of the fans cheered madly when Joey had finished. The internet wrestling community, which has always loathed Vince's attempts to deny being a wrestling promoter, almost nominated him for sainthood.

* WWE's treatment of light heavyweights/cruiserweights in general. In the mid-late 90s they decided to get into cruiserweight wrestling to compete with WCW's cruiserweight division, and they brought in Japanese high-flyer Taka Michinoku as the centerpiece. They then never let Taka win any matches aside from occasional Light Heavyweight title defenses, and in fact kept their lightweight wrestlers completely isolated from the rest of the roster - making it clear they had no intentions of pushing any of them or making the division actually matter. So of course it failed to get over. Then in 2001 they did the ''exact same thing''. They decided to reactivate the division and build it around a guy named Essa Rios. And then they never let Rios win any matches. Rios ended up becoming [[The Jannetty]] to his valet Lita. During the InVasion, the title was merged with the WCW Cruiserweight Title. The Cruiserweight Title fared better due to lacking the stigma of being the "afterthought belt", but it went the same way as mentioned above.

** The only other notable light heavyweight in the company at the same time as Michinoku was Brian Christopher, and they really had nobody to feud with apart from each other. And Christopher himself was hardly the Cruiserweight-style "high flier" the division truly needed -- he was just a standard American-style heavyweight wrestler, scaled down.

** It isn't so much a belief that supermodel-material divas can't be good wrestlers, it's more that we've seen time and time again that the booking and writing prioritize how they look way more than how good they are. Sure most of the women on the roster have improved, but if they would hire them based on their skill as the main priority, we wouldn't need them to improve like that.

*** Again, this isn't just the women. All the men in WWE are hired for their looks as well. Take a look at the main roster - the majority of guys in there are muscle-bound, in good shape and reasonably attractive. The exceptions are ones who have been there for years like Kane and the Undertaker or ones with the "freak" factor like Big Show and Mark Henry. And for the record, '''all''' new divas getting signed have to train in FCW now. True a lot of the Diva Search contestants got put on TV without any training (Ashley Massaro has spoken up saying management only trained her on a per-match basis) but these days everyone who gets signed trains in FCW so nobody gets put on TV without any experience.

* ''SummerSlam'' 2010; in the big first showdown between WWE and [[The Nexus]], WWE wins. Not great on its own, but what kills it is the details; it came down to Cena against two of the top men in Nexus. After being beaten badly by them, by a traitorous Edge and Jericho, and by the other members of the group just a little earlier in the match Cena takes a DDT on exposed concrete, only to beat both Gabriel and Barrett one right after the other. This one got the fanbase rabid, and managed to piss smarks off even on a night when ''[[Bryan Danielson]] main-evented the second biggest show of the year''.

** Another is [[Michael Cole]]'s commentary during the match, specifically his anti-Bryan spiel. The moment Bryan was revealed and hits the ring to take on [[The Nexus]] with Team WWE should be a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] but it's tainted by Cole loudly pissing all over Danielson's heat. Are we SURE [[Jim Ross]] can't come back?