Wrestlers who just look like and act like they're dickheads in real life

Lio Rush, Rollins

Omega comes off poorly a lot as well

that whole thing with renting a room from a known sex offender and then denying he knew him but it seems like most in wrestling knew about him

i do think lately if you start looking into most wrestlers lives you'll find something you'll hate about them in one way or another

Austin Aries from everything I've seen and read about him seems to be a miserable ****er.

Yeah Pete Dunne is someone who might not be the kindest of guys

It’s a fun discussion and we all do it to a degree...but also worth remembering is that there are people who are great at doing the ‘fan game’ and switching on when it comes to shifting merch etc. That doesn’t necessarily make them sound, just as people who aren’t as good at fan interaction aren’t necessarily dickheads. All it means, in reality, is that the ‘nice’ people are good at selling and marketing themselves. With that trait often comes a high level of narcissism, which is something that would cause a lot of ‘normal’ people to be considered dicks. Sometimes people who aren’t good at fan interaction are just shy and socially anxious, traits that would often be associated with ‘nice’ people in a normal context. I’ve seen some people I know who are genuine salt-of-the-earth, do anything for anyone types get hit with the dickhead label, just as I’ve seen actual dopes be lauded online because they’ve got a good Disney face.

These judgements can also be skewed by the agendas of people making them. Fans, for example, often build an affinity towards a certain wrestler by identifying with something in their public branding. They want a relationship and judge a lot based on a tiny interaction whether the relationship they’d imagined came to pass in said interaction. That’s a **** way to have your entire personality judged: whether you fulfilled a specific fantasy a stranger had of you that you can’t be responsible for.

Another thing that comes into play is that if a fan feels you’re their ‘friend’, sometimes they’ll want more and more and more and wrestlers will almost have to eventually act like an arsehole just because said fan isn’t getting the hint (or they have to learn to tolerate a level of attention ‘normal’ people would consider harassment). If the wrestler had left the fan alone and never acknowledged them to begin with, the fan would continue to build that fantasy and support the wrestler. But because they were sound enough to make time to acknowledge them and couldn’t fulfil the day-to-day expectations of the fan, next thing said fan is calling them a dick online and the wrestler is seen as a bully almost if they correct them with the facts. You may think that’s an extreme case but it actually happens a lot. They’re almost better off to just keep a distance to begin with because it can get messy once you open that door of accessibility and expectations are set.

i met joseph connors after titanic wrestling on sunday, he was a great heel in the ring but very friendly after it, so 1st impressions etc may not be accurate