10 Dumbest Wrestling Controversies That Went Too Far

10. Summer Rae: Legend?

Summer Rae is not, by any subjective nor objective metric, a professional wrestling legend.

She never drew money, she never cut a promo setting up a money match, and one could very easily argue that she has never worked a good or even competent match. That's not what she was contracted to do. She wasn't the next Manami Toyota; she played a glib villain who didn't know her place on Total Divas, and the people who watched her work this fictional portrayal reckon she did a commendable job.

The oxymoron is amusing, and that's it. WWE uses the word 'Legend' as an umbrella term with which to promote *anybody* who once wrestled for the promotion. It's not called "Actual Legends And Whichever Scrubs Decided To Answer The Phone Night". It's called "Legends Night". "Legends" is a better sell than "Alumni". It's a work.

Wrestling is a work.

The online wrestling fandom being the online wrestling fandom, however, took this banner marketing spiel and actually engaged in it earnestly. Variations of "lol you can't even do a hammerlock much less a Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex you dumb bitch" polluted Summer's Twitter replies upon the announcement that she was set to return at the 2022 Royal Rumble, as if she thought herself a legend. She felt the need to get in front of the abuse and lashed out, in a well-earned "f*ck you" as loud as the one she directed towards Natalya at the event itself.

They can't all have been Natalya's burners. Too many of you are just the worst.