Michael Cole attracts more heat than any heel wrestler on the roster. The only time I recall anyone else getting more heat this year, was John Cena at MITB. It's pretty shameful that a non wrestler is more over as a heel than anyone else.
In 2009 you had the likes of CM Punk (during the SES storyline), Randy Orton and Edge who were super over as heels. Since then it's not been very good quality on the heel front.
The 1980's, up to the late 1990's was the peak of the super heels. In the 80's you had the likes of The Iron Sheik and Roddy Piper who would attract so much heat that people who try and attack them! In the early 1990's the heel focus shifted to arrogance and the likes of Randy Savage, Rick Rude, Curt Hennig and Bobby Heenan would be villified by the audience for flaunting themselves and blasting the locals with insults about their city (a pattern that continues to be successful to this day).
When Hulk Hogan turned heel, people were so outraged that they threw rubbish into the ring and drowned out Hogan's promo with boos and heckling. It's not often that a incredibly over heel attracts so much heat, straight away as a face. The Rock really brought it (get it?
) to the table as a heel, when his clean cut face role failed to get over. In fact, it was Rock's popularity as a heel that prompted his face turn in 1999. People loved him despite the fact he was an arrogant, self serving bastard!
In wrestling, the ability to work equally as well as a face and heel is extremely rare. For many wrestlers, they simply cannot do it and as a result they are quickly repackaged to their original role. Among some of the best examples of wrestlers who excel in both roles are...
Hulk Hogan
Randy Savage
Ric Flair
The Rock
CM Punk (as his most recent repackaging proves)
The Great Muta
Shawn Michaels
Mick Foley
The heel role, really is a lost art in wrestling.
In 2009 you had the likes of CM Punk (during the SES storyline), Randy Orton and Edge who were super over as heels. Since then it's not been very good quality on the heel front.
The 1980's, up to the late 1990's was the peak of the super heels. In the 80's you had the likes of The Iron Sheik and Roddy Piper who would attract so much heat that people who try and attack them! In the early 1990's the heel focus shifted to arrogance and the likes of Randy Savage, Rick Rude, Curt Hennig and Bobby Heenan would be villified by the audience for flaunting themselves and blasting the locals with insults about their city (a pattern that continues to be successful to this day).
When Hulk Hogan turned heel, people were so outraged that they threw rubbish into the ring and drowned out Hogan's promo with boos and heckling. It's not often that a incredibly over heel attracts so much heat, straight away as a face. The Rock really brought it (get it?
) to the table as a heel, when his clean cut face role failed to get over. In fact, it was Rock's popularity as a heel that prompted his face turn in 1999. People loved him despite the fact he was an arrogant, self serving bastard!In wrestling, the ability to work equally as well as a face and heel is extremely rare. For many wrestlers, they simply cannot do it and as a result they are quickly repackaged to their original role. Among some of the best examples of wrestlers who excel in both roles are...
Hulk Hogan
Randy Savage
Ric Flair
The Rock
CM Punk (as his most recent repackaging proves)
The Great Muta
Shawn Michaels
Mick Foley
The heel role, really is a lost art in wrestling.
