10 Dreadful Wrestling Tropes That NEED To Die!

What's the quickest/laziest way to earn yourself some instant heat or a few supportive cheers from any wrestling live crowd, you ask?

Taking a quick look at the name of the town/city on the schedule that week, picking one of their many sports teams before then either crapping on or celebrating said foot/basket/baseball squad.

Well, that's if you're in North America, at least.

Travel to the United Kingdom, for example, and comments of those "'Red Devils' absolutely suck!" would likely just be met with a few murmurs of agreement and one half-p*ssed cry of "UNITED!"

But even if that brand of city-specific promo material doesn't necessarily click on this side of the pond, the cheap saluting or blasting of whatever country or city a performer finds themselves performing in will never not be dull to watch anywhere else.

Sure, there's the odd sensational exception - Elias and Kevin Owens' outrageously loud Seattle-bashing segment remains iconic. But there have been far more examples of wrestlers chucking out deeply unimaginative compliments and criticisms at the place their standing in over the years - like Trish Stratus painfully poking fun at her own home country of Canada recently.

Are the stars to blame for this particular trope sticking around, though, or is it those who instinctively react to someone just mentioning their hometown's fault this cheap way of earning a reaction is still alive and kicking today?