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{{quote| ''"The Very Worst of [[Professional Wrestling|Pro Wrestling]]!"''}}

The brainchild of "The Real Deal" RD Reynolds and "The Worldwide Menace" Merle Vincent, '''[http://www.wrestlecrap.com WrestleCrap]''' was created as a "hall of shame" for [[Professional Wrestling]] -- a—a place where they could stretch their comedic muscles by poking fun at the pseudo-sport. It has since grown into wrestling fandom's anti-[[Serious Business]] (or so they wish), a place where people can remind ourselves that wrestling is inherently silly in the first place and shouldn't be taken seriously. In short, it's the conscience of the Internet Wrestling Community.

* '''[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/wrestlecrapradio.html WrestleCrap Radio]{{Dead link}}''': A podcast featuring RD and Blade Braxton musing on wrestling and life in general (with the occasional interview).

* '''[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/youtube.html It Came From YouTube]{{Dead link}}''': Where the gang takes a look at a weird and wacky video from wrestling's past.

* '''[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/jotw.html Jobber of the Week]{{Dead link}}''': Blade Braxton's weekly salute to [[Jobber|the men who lose for a living]].

* '''[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/gimmicktable.html Burgan's Gimmick Table]{{Dead link}}''': Derek Burgan's look at the wrestling merchandise that never was.

* '''[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/someoneboughtthis.html Someone Bought This!]{{Dead link}}''': A look at the wrestling merchandise that ''was'', but should not have been.

* '''[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/rwtb.html Rewriting the Book]{{Dead link}}''': Jed Shaffer's [[Alternate History]] [[Fanfic]] series that explores how wrestling's past might have gone differently with a key nudge in the opposite direction from time to time.

* '''[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/headlies.html WrestleCrap Headlies]{{Dead link}}''': In a parody of various less reputable wrestling newz sites, WrestleCrap decides to take a crack at [[News Parody|making up their own wrestling news]].

WrestleCrap also gives out an annual Gooker Award in the first couple of months of a new year to the most horrid thing to happen in wrestling in the previous year. The award is named after the Gobbeldygooker, which was possibly the worst thing ever in the [[WWEWorld Wrestling Entertainment|World Wrestling Federation]]: they hyped the hatching of a giant egg for months going into ''Survivor Series 1990'', where it finally hatched...and gave us Hector Guerrero in a bad turkey suit dancing with "Mean" Gene Okerlund (yeah, it wasn't pretty). With the exception of the 2001 and 2002 winners (which were chosen by Reynolds himself), all of the winners have been decided by polling the site's visitors. The list of winners of the Gooker Award is practically a list of the worst modern pro wrestling angles ever:

Book? Yes, there have been two books based on the site -- ''WrestleCrap: The Worst of Wrestling'' and ''The WrestleCrap Book of Lists!'' -- and—and the notoriety gained from the site allowed RD to co-author the book, ''The Death of WCW''.

* [[April Fools' Day]]: Special episodes that would run under odd circumstances once a year. Very well could constitute BLAMNon episodesSequitur Episodes but RD and Blade do reference the episodes from time to time.

* [[Ban Onon Politics]]: One of the major rules on the message board is to ''never'' discuss politics or religion, though the rule was temporarily relaxed during the 2008 Presidential Election.

* [[BLAMNon Sequitur Episode]]: The April Fools episodes. One was a faux "first episode", one was nothing but dreams among others and they do get referenced later on from time to time.

* [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: The aforementioned Gay Popeye and Angry Jim Ross.

* [[GIRL]]: The message boards were pranked by the the "female" poster "Miss Kendrick" in 2009, and by [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510095827/http://realwrestlecrap.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile&user=starwolf "Starwolf"] (who was dubbed "Starwang" by some posters) in 2007. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510100219/http://realwrestlecrap.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=offtopic&action=display&thread=226124&page=1#5060629 This post] pretty much describes it:

{{quote| '''ravenm''': "Pretend to be a girl. Starwolf, Miss Kendrick, etc. Everyone will hate you..."}}

* [[Fun Withwith Acronyms]] - "'''N'''athaniel '''E'''dward '''R'''odham '''D'''avis,""NERD" a none to subtle shot at IWC who worship [[TNA Impact]].

** He has mentioned in [http://wrestlecrap.com/nitrogirlsppv.html other articles]{{Dead link}} how wrestling has the uncanny ability to take some of the most gorgeous women and make them almost unwatchable. He's not sure how they do that, but they do.

** [[Forced Meme]]: In 2009, RD tried to force "Basketball Jones" (Triple Kelly's nickname for Batista) as a meme, even going as far as to [[Fun Withwith Autocensors|filter Batista's name]] as "Basketball Jones" on the original forums. It failed.

* [[Message Board]]: After much demand, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510100049/http://newwrestlecrap.proboards.com/index.cgi The Craphole] was created on May 2011, around half a year after the website and its old message board (now [https://web.archive.org/web/20120808135522/http://officialfan.proboards.com/index.cgi The Freakin' Awesome Network Forums]) parted ways in October 2010.

* [[A Riddle Wrapped in Aa Mystery Inside An Enigma]]: In the induction for TNA's Last Rites Match from 2007, on the matter of [http://www.wrestlecrap.com/induction%20files/lastrites/lastrites1.mp3 Sting describing death as a "choice" where one of those choices is, in fact, life], RD calls the meaning and exact point of Sting's remarks a "riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a crummy TNA storyline".

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Remember, folks, no matter what sort of crap you actually bought, you'll never be as big a dork as RD and Blade, who shelled out $200 for Katie Vick's cheerleading outfit -- signedoutfit—signed by Triple H.

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