10 Wrestlers Who Hated Parodies Of Their Work

2. WWE, General

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AEW

Not quite a wrestler - WWE has only just acknowledged itself as a wrestling promotion, which is apparently enough to render Triple H's run with the pencil some sort of golden age - this was nonetheless a hatred of a parody.

The Young Bucks and Bullet Club enjoyed throwing up the "too sweet" hand gesture. They were obviously influenced by the nWo - a disrupting presence going against the grain of the values of the company they had "invaded" - but it was also a tacit acknowledgement of the landscape they had transformed. The gesture was them making wrestling cool again.

WWE naturally were gotten-to about a hand gesture that was more synonymous with WCW: the company they once actively despised.

WWE: WCW f*ckin' sucks!

Also WWE: You can't have WCW's intellectual property, it's ours! Even if we buried it, it's still ours, much like every member of the roster between 2001 and 2022!

The Young Bucks were told to cease and desist from using it, and in a typically enterprising move, they designed a new t-shirt with 'CEASE AND DESIST' written in place of 'BULLET CLUB', and for a time, it was their hottest seller.

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