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

4. James Storm - IMPACT Wrestling, November 15, 2012

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Eric Bischoff promulgated this one on his '83 Weeks' podcast, if it wasn't self-evident.

According to Bisch, James Storm's boo boo face was so frequent and so obvious that it became a "running joke" within the company. If he was to win - and Bischoff is a tedious bad faith actor, but this is a cracking turn of phrase - Storm would sprint to the ring as if he were on fire. He was, otherwise, "the master of the boo boo face".

Now, Storm played a gruff figure at the best of times. He actually wore the would-rather-be-anybody-else face when he was scheduled to go over. Sometimes, anyway. On other occasions, he drank beers and slapped hands on the way to the ring like he was every babyface in the 1980s with coiffed hair.

Ahead of one of several matches with former Beer Money partner Bobby Roode in 2012, he lived down to his reputation. Seemingly in no mood to do the job, he might have simply been setting the tone of a grudge match he took with the utmost seriousness - but he looked equally agitated.

Sorry about your damn loss.

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