25 Great Wrestlers That EVERYBODY Turned Against

11. Dax Harwood

The idea of the "Internet Wrestling Community" as an actual thing is archaic in 2026.

Most wrestling fans/consumers/customers are online in some capacity, and spaces for communication are so fragmented that monocultures dominate over discourse. The "IWC" doesn't even function as a vocal minority groupthink - 60-year-old Terry Funk fans will fume that teenage Jey Uso fans don't agree with them about their wrestling takes on platforms engineered to create division and anger. The whole thing is broken, and the people attempting to fix it are stupider than the those they deem idiotic themselves.

And yet just about every corner of what remains of it got more than a bit sick of Dax Harwood. To paraphrase - of all people on all platforms - a Hulk Hogan tweet, Harwood didn't know it a work when you work a work and work himself into a shoot,mark. He set about posting pictures of WWE contracts or NXT belts etc whenever discussion arose about FTR's status in AEW, or faking naivety and confusion via cryptic messages or comments on his short-lived (and otherwise very insightful) podcast. Much of it occurred during CM Punk's various spats with the company too, resulting in Harwood booting a hornet's nest that had already suffered its fair share of superkicks. 

Heeding "Dance with the one that brung ya" rather than "F.A.F.O", Harwood went back to mostly wrestling rather than talking, and earned much of the love back that he'd lost.