25 Great Wrestlers That EVERYBODY Turned Against

From most downloaded to most vilified, the story of Tammy Sytch's life is one of multifarious tragedy, but few would argue against the public disdain she now receives from inside Lowell Correctional Institution in Marion County, Florida.

Sytch was young and deceptively so when she was at the peak of her powers in 1996. Just 23 as she was trading tag teams and their titles and remaining the most over thing about the company's midcard in the process, to call Sunny's rise meteoric would be an understatement. A former pre-law and then pre-med University student, wrestling had started as a way to make extra cash alongside real-life partner Chris Candido during his rise through the independents in 1993, but she was encouraged to never look back when the latter appeared to offer much more than the former. Her zenith gave way to the slipperiest of slopes.

Perplexingly removed from anything creatively interesting by the start of 1997 and unable to break through as an interviewer/ring announcer alone, a run alongside the Legion Of Doom in their ill-fated "LOD 2000" re-fit was the last of her managerial roles as reports increased in frequency and volatility about her substance abuse and attitude problems behind the scenes ahead of a predictable WWE release. By the 2000s (and via passing spells in ECW and WCW before both were shuttered in 2001), she was a footnote cruelly attached most to the industry's excesses rather than a toasted success story from a barren time.

Candido's untimely death in 2005 heaped yet more misery on top of the daily struggles she'd experienced to that point, but a litany of unsavoury social media posts, arrests and legal troubles in the 2010s and 2020s (before her eventual imprisonment for DUI and manslaughter charges following a car accident that resulted in the death of a 75-year-old man) drained a lot of the public's sympathy for WWE's original "Diva".