10 Wrestlers Who Couldn't Hide Their Anger At Doing A Job

10. Jonathan Gresham - ROH Death Before Dishonor 2022

If you're Jonathan Gresham, you have a right to be pissed off.

That doesn't justify the expression he wore at Death Before Dishonor, but it does explain things. As mentioned in the intro, this sarcastic, detached body language is involuntary. The affronted person could do some breathing exercises when they feel a rage roiling within - it can be managed - but it's cathartic not to do that. Your ego has been bruised. You become more important than the situation - or in this case, the performance.

Gresham had reigned with the ROH World title for 224 days in a dismal time for the promotion; because AEW had subsumed ROH's selling point and gobbled up its entire market share, practically, only the ultra-committed gave a damn. Gresham was bumping and trying to perfect his craft and all anybody did was laugh at the blue dots on the seat map who weren't watching.

Then Tony Khan bought the promotion, and had Gresham lose in a 12-minute opener to Claudio Castagnoli. Not even given the dignity of headlining the show, Gresham neglected to wear his Octopus head gear and walked to the ring with a blank expression that one could easily infer said "Screw this".