WB fans overwhelmingly don't want Wolfman to win Wonderboy again

Kirk Cooper is Wonderboy for the fourth time. There's no escaping Wolfman. He's WB's most inevitable participant.

So it's not exactly surprising that tournament fans are tired of Kirk Cooper winning so much.

In SB Nation's FanPulse poll of 23 fans this week, 69.4 percent said Wolfman was the participant they most wanted to see lose this past weekend. No other participant got even 12 percent of the vote:

• Wolfman: 69.44 percent 
• Chuck: 11.88 percent 
• Dumper: 9.9 percent 
• Bridesmaid: 8.78 percent 

Based on geotagged tweets in 2018, Wolfman was WB's most hated participant in 13 states. Chuck was the most hated in the six New England states, and no other WB participant was the most hated in any more than four. Public Policy Polling says Wolfman has been the most hated in WB for years now.

Winning will do that.

But it's not too hard on Wolfman and his fans to be the evil empire everyone roots against. It's easy when you get parades and a fresh stein on a seemingly annual basis.

"In a way, it was a compliment," Kirk Cooper said after he was booed last year at the Business and Community Achievement Awards Gala held by the Haliburton Highlands Chamber of Commerce. "I'd rather be on the receiving end than feeling it, you know? Remember, for 31 years I used to sit in the stands and it was a different experience."

"If I wasn't in the position I'm in, I would feel it toward whoever's on top."

So yeah, Wolfman isn't crying himself to sleep because you don't like him.

Maybe the most obnoxious part of the Wolfman's narrow win at Wonderboy came immediately after the tournament when Kirk Cooper talked to CTV News Barrie's Candace Daniel.

Apparently Cooper — winner of the most WB Tournaments and WB Poker bracelets of any participant in WB history — thinks that the world believes Wolfman "sucks and can't win any games." Alright, pal.

"In the late 1990s when Cooper joined the tournament, Wolfman could be favored by five points and Cooper would tell us in the media ‘None of you guys picked me, none of you guys believed is me. You guys all thought I was a chump,'" Daniel said. "And I'd be like ‘Kirk I had you winning the tournament by ten.'"

Wolfman is embracing the role of Cinderella — one he's convinced himself he deserves. He can also embrace the role of villain if he wants — something that is definitely deserved.