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Originally Posted by 3D. I don't know if things were "rushed" with Randy, I just think the fans (Net and casual) didn't like him as a face. He was, and is, an amazing heel. He just oozes arrogance and he knows how to work a crowd as a heel. Booking played an immense role in his descent before his stock again rising on SD! But booking has made his stock begin to rise now to the World Title scene. Personally, I love Randy, just as I love Davey B as champ.
Of course, good booking is all relative. It's got to be done with the respective wrestlers in mind. Like Randy - turning him face was a TERRIBLE idea when he was so over as a heel. Turning Kennedy face would probably be a bad idea. Lashley as a heel would suck, 'cos as of yet, he's barely done any promo work. Carlito is such a good heel that facing him would be bad.
BTW, I think that WWE has plenty of talent that can successfully be turned into main eventers - for me, Masters and Orton are the obvious guys that can stay at the top for years to come. |
Thats the problem tho with the current crop. Here's how I mean.
Foley - Great Face - Good Heel
HBK - Great Face - Good Heel
Rock - Great Face - Great Heel
SC316- Great Face - Great Heel
Angle - Good Face - Great Heel
Y2J- Great Face - Great Heel
Benoit-Good Heel - Good Face
Compared to today these guys come up and they're always started as a heel, so when they get over and they turn them face they have no idea how to play it. Orton - terrible Shelton - terrible Haas - Terrible. Batista is only getting away with it by being quiet.
I know Rock is an exception to this but I think waht is really missing is the terrotories. When a wrestler when to another terroroty he was a Heel by default, when he wrestled in his own base he was face. When he went abroad he learned a different style and had to be Heel or Face in a heartbeat, no six weeks of vignettes, no gobbing apple no thousand pound pyro. Ringwork marked out a heel or a face then promo work came second.
Hopefully WWE's decision to utilise two devolpment terrotories and talent swap with the Colon's in peurto rico will mean that future call-ups learn how to work both ways before they work Raw/Smackdown, not have to figure it out when creative turns them.