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Re: top five heels
By: tnafanforum Date: September 24, 2012, 3:42 pm
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Ric Flair is my number 5 lol was an amazing heel
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Re: top five heels
By: jeeban4life Date: September 25, 2012, 12:06 pm
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Mankind
Bulldog
Chris Benoit
Jericho
Brian Pillman
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Re: top five heels
By: leonkenworthy Date: September 28, 2012, 6:29 am
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Im going to avoid the temptation of putting people i think
should be in the top 5 and go with who i enjoyed most as heel's:
Roode (The guy was born to be a heel and he has the arragence to
pull it off so well)
Eddie G (Just love eddie so much rip)
The Rock (charisma pours from every pour. pure entertainment)
Christian (5 second pose.....)
Chris Jericho (in my eyes one of the greatest ever wrestlers.)
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Re: top five heels
By: tnafanforum Date: September 28, 2012, 6:33 am
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I also gone who ı lıke not who should be ın the
top fıve. I put the ones ı enjoy the most as heel
lıke you have leon
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Re: top five heels
By: Steve B Date: September 28, 2012, 12:18 pm
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I've thought long and hard about this. Heres the ones who I
think were the best
Paul Heyman - Heres what I said about Heyman in another thread.
I was right then and i'm still right. [quote author=Steve B
link=topic=525.msg3333#msg3333 date=1347301480]Heyman is a heel,
Heyman is the greatest heel this business has ever seen. Heyman
is such a great heel he put WCW out of business and could have
put WWE out of business.
"But Vince put WCW out of business and Vince loaned Paul money
to keep ECW afloat and bought WCW out" I hear you cry.
Which is true. But think it through to its logical conclusion.
Paul was the mad scientist of ECW, he took a company of nothing
wrestlers in a nothing building in a nowhere part of a city and
made it the number 3 wrestling company in America against a
millionaire and a billionaire and forced them to play each off
and spend vast sums of money using established tv networks as
weapons until one was forced to say uncle and quit. Then when he
did that he sold his company to the winner who he could never
possibly beat and went to work for him for a lucrative contract.
The man is an evil genius. Now thats how to work heel![/quote]
Bobby "The Brain" Heenan - I've no idea if he was a good
wrestler. I suspect he was merely average but his weasel suit
matches were incredibly entertaining. But as a manager and
colour commentator he was beyond compare. The Heenan Family was
a stable of some of the greatest talent to ever step in a WWF
ring - Andre, Haku, Rick Rude, Mr Perfect, The Brainbusters and
others all of them marshalled and taken to gold by the
loquacious, dastardly Heenan who performed the most evil deeds
with a little smile and a glittery jacket. He called us peons
and ham and eggers and we laughed at his double act with Gorilla
Monsoon. In my head I can still hear "will you stop" sometimes,
they were truly great together. He wasn't even upstaged when he
brought Flair to the WWF. He had that much style. So much style
he caught Curts towel every single time.
Bully Ray - Mark LaMonaco deserves props, hes had a wonderful
career. He could be forgiven for just riding it out like so many
of his peers do at his age but he's reinvented himself and
created a new persona and made himself a legitimate singles
wrestler and a second career and now has at least another decade
at the top as Bully Ray. Thats not just why he's here. He's been
a great his whole career. So great he's almost inspired riots,
he knows just what will inspire hatred in a crowd, he knows just
how to work the marks. He keeps doing it now. He's an
inspiration to the younger guys and to the fans. I can't praise
him enough.
'Ravishing' Rick Rude - For a lesson in classic heel work we
look at a Minnesota great - Rick Rude. The Ravishing one more or
less lifted his gimmick from chunks of other wrestlers gimmicks,
theres bits of Jesse Ventura, Hogan, Gorgeous George and a few
others in there but he was still an original. From his porno sax
entrance theme to his bespoke airbrushed tights he enraged the
crowd with his smug expression every time but backed it up with
his skills in the ring. Unusually he rarely backed down and was
pretty forceful and usually picked fights with stronger
opponents making them look better than they were. He made
Warrior look excellent in the cage at Summerslam in Philadelphia
for example. But he was guaranteed a cavalcade of boos as he
came out insulted the crowd, demanded silence while he disrobed
and posed. Sadly he died early and we lost him too soon but
Roode looks like he learned a lot from Rude.
Hollywood Hogan - The end of WCW and the NWO was a farce and a
shambles. The beginning, oh the beginning was a beautiful
beautiful thing. When Hogan and Savage went to WCW WWE mocked
them with the Nacho King and the Huckster vignettes, that must
have stung. Whoever came up with the idea for the heel turn for
Hogan was a genius. The ultimate babyface does the ultimate
screwjob in a reverse of the Mega Powers explode that led to the
main event of WM5. The thing was Hogan went to it like a duck to
water he was great at it. He took the Hendrix track as his theme
and ran with it, the outsiders as back up and for a while WCW
almost triumphed. They nearly put Vince out of business with
good theatre and decent coherent storylines. Then it all turned
to shot and went nonsensical. But really Hogan was a great,
great heel. Whatever you think of the man - and theres plenty to
dislike - he is wrestling.
I couldn't include Jake Roberts, Mick Foley or Raven because
they are in a class of their own and not really heels. Vince
tries too hard so I can't include him. Honourable mentions go to
Earthquake, Buzz Sawyer, Rick Martel, Bill Alphonso, Jerry
Lawler and Vicki Guerrero
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Re: top five heels
By: Sel Date: September 28, 2012, 1:31 pm
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[quote author=Steve B link=topic=648.msg5132#msg5132
date=1348852720]
'Ravishing' Rick Rude - For a lesson in classic heel work we
look at a Minnesota great - Rick Rude. The Ravishing one more or
less lifted his gimmick from chunks of other wrestlers gimmicks,
theres bits of Jesse Ventura, Hogan, Gorgeous George and a few
others in there but he was still an original. From his porno sax
entrance theme to his bespoke airbrushed tights he enraged the
crowd with his smug expression every time but backed it up with
his skills in the ring. Unusually he rarely backed down and was
pretty forceful and usually picked fights with stronger
opponents making them look better than they were. He made
Warrior look excellent in the cage at Summerslam in Philadelphia
for example. But he was guaranteed a cavalcade of boos as he
came out insulted the crowd, demanded silence while he disrobed
and posed. Sadly he died early and we lost him too soon but
Roode looks like he learned a lot from Rude.
[/quote]
I was so close to adding him. I also think when he had the hair
cut off and turned even more vicious, he almost reinvented
himself once again, going from the Adonis 'hey, I'm awesome' to
'step in this ring, and I will destroy you'. He pulled off the
smart suited and tied 'advisor' role with ease. He even turned
up in ECW and did the whole masked man routine. The guy's a
frickin' Saint of Heels. Sorely missed, especially by me as he
was one of my all time favourites.
I also didn't put Heyman in because I think he's something else.
Kind of like Jake I guess. Heyman is a genius, a man of vision,
but like Ozymandias in Watch Men, the path he takes to salvation
is one that will always smell like shit to the short sighted. He
is amazing though, and I make no secret of the fact I fully
subscribe to his methods.
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