10 Most Controversial Wrestling Tweets Ever

The #SpeakingOut movement won't be covered here because it seems gross to rank it amongst some old-timer whinging about an Orihara moonsault, or the various other abysmal takes Wrestling Twitter tends to pile onto when they doom scroll through so much asinine bullsh*t to get to a half-decent meme.

It feels off to even catalogue it in the past tense as something that happened.

Professional wrestling as an industry hasn't implemented (or made public) any meaningful safeguards to prevent further recurrences nor remove abuse from the root. If anything, many of those credibly implicated - already - are attempting to either ooze their way back in or absolve themselves, or, for f*ck's sake, were never in any real danger of losing their spot.

Besides which, were any of the tweets bravely posted by the victims remotely controversial?

If the movement divided public opinion, it neatly bisected the community into the disgusted and the compassionate, and, on the other side, the "Evidence!" mutants. CTRL+F certain Reddit threads, and you will find multiple instances of that word in some, and absolutely zero in response to gossipy backstage reports none of the posters were there to validate.

But the bullsh*t that seems life-affirming, but really is the precise opposite?

Let's ..........dive in.

You know, you can reduce anything.

Rip Rogers, renowned OVW trainer, attempted to do just that in 2017 by tweeting out the formula for a modern hybrid style indie match. Or at least, how a fogey might believe them to unfold by watching some out of context GIFs he doesn't realise, bless him, aren't necessarily in chronological order. Twitter can be confusing at first.

A burial of tropes that are sometimes used to excess, Rip, the former two-time NWA Southeastern Junior Heavyweight Champion, wondered aloud what these dumb young kids were to doing to his legacy. This tweet annoyed and delighted the people you'd expect to a degree more than the usual. Randy Orton adopted the nightmare of ellipsis that was "..........dive" for a time as if his old-school "storytelling" style cast him as f*cking Mark Twain, or something.

You can reduce anything to make it seem less than it is. Football is just 22 men kicking a ball around some grass, etc.

A Randy Orton match, using the Rip format, is:

Long stare-down to convey super epic seriousness of situation, punches into the corner, back off with faux-happy expression, kick to gut, slow heat, comeback, snap power slam, slither across the canvas, comeback, draping DDT, more methodical posturing, a lot of talking, a lot more of talking, Garvin stomp, one or two near-falls............RKO.

Actually, that's about it.