10 Most Hated Wrestlers Of All Time
9. Roman Reigns
Through no fault of his own - Roman Reigns was a banger baron who by several trusted accounts is a very cool man in real life, lumbered with and annihilated by the piss-poor booking - he became the most loathed man in wrestling, and perhaps even wrestling history, between 2015 and 2018.
This sentiment has eased significantly, obviously and thankfully, since the wrestling fandom was forced to confront the real hero underneath the performer through his second leukaemia diagnosis.
But f*cking hell did they hate Roman Reigns.
Reigns was a great-looking power-based wrestler with a penchant for naff comedy and overcoming the odds. This familiarity - of something so vehemently despised - bred a seething and definitive, lasting contempt. Roman Reigns' Royal Rumble 2015 win felt like a parody of how to get a babyface over. He had to overcome not one, but two monsters! Think of how strong and resilient he must have been to do that!
Tater tots baloney fudge mustard beanstalks poopy sufferin' succotash magic beans: all of it was conflated by a fanbase that steadily just gave up, literally halving WWE's audience over the resulting four years.
Is hatred the correct term? Was it ever personal?
It damn sure felt like it.