Butt Monkey/Professional Wrestling

These are called "jobbers" in the business - wrestlers whose sole purpose is to regularly come out and be on the receiving end of a Squash Match to try and put the other wrestler over as dominant and/or a heel:

• Santino Marella. When he's not doing something to hurt/humiliate himself (like trying to mimic someone doing the splits and hurting his crotch in the worst possible way) or getting dumped when the dummy he's dating abruptly grows a brain, he's getting mauled by everyone up to and including the weakest females on the roster. It was vaguely implied his former girlfriend Beth Phoenix occasionally beat him up just for the hell of it.
  • The ultimate humiliation in pro wrestling has to be when one of the fan favorites screws you over and the audience thinks it's funny. That's what happened to Santino when Shawn Michaels kicked him in the face backstage when Santino was rehearsing his "acting skills."
  • Following his face turn, Santino seems to have Took a Level in Badass and became a more competent tag team partner of Vladmir Kozlov. Since his overall quirkiness still remains, he still gets it once in while, but then again, how many comical wrestlers don't?
    • As of the 3/5/12 episode of Raw, Santino has taken another level in badass after winning the United States Championship from Jack Swagger.
• Chavo Guerrero as well. While not as great as his uncle Eddie, Chavo's a pretty solid wrestler, but constantly gets stuck in this position. Hell, he's in a months-long feud where all he does is repeatedly job to Hornswoggle, the wrestling leprechaun.
  • There's also a long running joke among the RAW guest hosts as to who can humiliate Chavo the most. This has resulted in him getting beat up by the likes of Snoop Dogg and Bob Barker.
    • Chris Jericho went through a similar amount of abuse from the guest hosts. Often he brought it on himself due to his provokative insulting demeanor, there were occasions however he got disrespect just for being a little too uppity and full of himself.
• And don't forget the original Butt Monkeys during the WWE's "Attitude Era," the Spanish Announce Team, whose table would be broken in just about every episode of Raw.
  • It's still in effect, even though it usually only appears at Pay-Per-Views these days, if you see it, you know it isn't surviving the night.
• For TNA it's Eric Young, at least until he pulled a Who's Laughing Now? style Face Heel Turn.
• Tara could have possibly been considered one since she arrived in TNA. First she had to face ridicule from then-Knockouts Champion ODB for being a "(WWE) Diva," even after beating her for the title. Afterwards, her pet spider Poison is stolen by Daffney and only manages to get it back via an event which also leads to her losing her title in very ridiculous manner (See the WallBangers page for more info) and when she does get a chance to get the title back, it's via a tag match in which she gets pinned! That in particular seemed to be the last straw as, like Eric Young above, she had pulled a Who's Laughing Now? style Face Heel Turn. Her tenure in TNA columnated in losing a career vs. title match against Madison Rayne...
  • Only to return after spending about two months "disguised" in a biker outfit, win the Knockouts title in her first pay-per-view match back, and then drop the title on the ensuing edtion of Impact by BEING FORCED TO LAY DOWN FOR MADISON. And let's not even start with the majority of her run in WWE as Victoria, where she would job to anything that moves, wear ridiculous Haloween outfits, and even dance like a fool at one point with no explanation.
• Jamie Noble. Other than managing to beat up CM Punk and Chuck Palumbo, and being one of the first guys to put up a serious fight against Valdimir Kozlov, the last few years of his WWE career featured him getting pwned by the likes of Hornswoggle and Vickie Guerrero.
• Believe it or not, this trope also applies to WWE Chairman Vince McMahon himself! He never wins at WrestleMania (go ahead and check), was the personal punching bag of Stone Cold Steve Austin for a good two years, and was subjected to a seemingly never-ending Humiliation Conga (having crap dumped on him, getting peed on, nearly getting blown up, etc.) when D Generation X took over Monday Night Raw in the summer of 2006. Granted he brought it on himself a lot of times and on occasions often dished out as much as he took (the DX feud for example was in retaliation to an endless amount of abuse and humiliating stipulations handed to both HBK and HHH after they got a little too impudent around him) but still his indignities often overshadow the majority of examples here.
  • Vince comes off as almost heroic in these cases when you remember that this punishment he takes is completely by his own choice. Look it up, he never, ever comes out ahead in a feud. Even in the rare cases where he's the face, The Bad Guy Wins. Vince pretty much says that he's a natural villain and shouldn't come out on top.
  • His daughter, the Billion Dollar Princess Stephanie McMahon, was also a Butt Monkey herself during much of the attitude era, especially at the hands of Chris Jericho and The Rock who never missed an opportunity to give her a verbal beatdown. One year, they even made a compilation of her most embarrassing moments.
• Ken Anderson. In just one week, he was assaulted by: Sting, Sting again, Matt Hardy, Abyss, Sting again again, Sting a fourth time, Hulk Hogan, Sting yet again, and Rob Van Dam. Seems like people just can't resist beating up the asshole.
• Oh, boy Jillian Hall. Hell she could even be the new trope namer. Around 2007 they gave her a Hollywood Tone Deaf gimmick as a Take That to Brooke Hogan who was trying to have a music career. When she got moved to Raw she became a joke and jobber and existed for four years being mad fun of for her bad singing. In both 2009 and 2010 she had only one pinfall victory that she got herself. She actually managed to capture the Divas' title from Mickie James...only to lose it to Melina about two minutes later. Then there's that one-sided feud with the Bella Twins.
• Zack Ryder seems to have been reduced to this as well in recent times, as he has been getting repeatedly pummeled by Kane, humiliated and used by a scheming Eve Torres, and jobbing to wrestlers who are less popular than him (usually after a crowd-pleasing Broski Boot and a failed attempt to pull off a Rough Ryder).