10 WWE Mega-Pushes Fans Hated BEFORE Roman Reigns & John Cena
3. X-Pac
"X-Pac heat" remains the most egregious and grossly unfair term to spring from a nascent internet wrestling community in the late-1990s, not least because it stuck around long enough for those who didn't even live through it to parrot it as canon.
The former 1-2-3 Kid dated rapidly thanks the speed of angle advancement in the Attitude Era. Wrestlers ran through opponents and career phases with the precision and acceleration of one of Sean Waltman's high kicks, with the exception of the crotch-chopping Kliq man himself.
For this crime, he was punished with a term denoting something almost nobody else had on the show in the 2000. A very particular reaction for a very particular irritant, but one WWE ignored as they continued to push anyway. Hindsight has proved them right - he was a great worker up to and including his very last run as an nWo lackey in 2002, and remained the litmus test for newcomers, but the unanimous disdain for his act and personality sadly stuck to him in spite of reasoned defence.