Wrestlers that are/were better faces than heels

[Mr. C]

It’s easy for many wrestlers to get the crowd to hate them, but it’s an art to get the crowd to like you.

Rob Van Dam - He started out as a heel by default in the Alliance, but fans just couldn’t stop cheering for him.

[redoneja]

Goldberg

[Lock Jaw]

Great Khali

[Jura]

Sting

[ace3025]

Stone Cold

[VSG]

Santino

[jskinnyg]

HBK...

[Fignuts]

Rey Mysterio

[6-String King]

Edge is better Face then Heel. He's annoying as fuck as a Heel. But he's amusing an funny as a Face.

I also agree with Sting, but we'll see what TNA does with his current Heel role. Maybe they can actually do something with it.

[Wishbone]

Stone Cold, Rey Mysterio, HBK, Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart, John Cena (I know what your gonna say "He's boring as a face" but let's face it he is far more over and makes far more money as a face), and IMO Chris Jericho

[Lock Jaw]

Was Rey Mysterio ever a heel?

[The Show Off]

Was Rey Mysterio ever a heel?

At one point the Filthy Animals were heels, so I guess yes.

[KayfabeMan]

DDP

[KayfabeMan]

Bret Hart

[KayfabeMan]

Booker T

[Mr. Nerfect]

Booker T

I would have agreed until the King Booker gimmick. That was glorious heel Booker.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Jeff Hardy comes to mind for this thread.

[The Franchise]

Rikishi

[KayfabeMan]

I would have agreed until the King Booker gimmick. That was glorious heel Booker.

To me it was just so bad that it was good.

It came off as intentionally funny instead of heelish.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Eh, I get what you mean, but it was probably the best Booker has ever looked credibility-wise in his WWE stint. The character just came together for me. The fake accent was funny, but it did make a lot of people want to see him get his bubble burst.

[TGR]

Matt Hardy

[Mr. Nerfect]

I thought Mattitude was the best Matt Hardy had ever been. :-\

[Krimzon7]

I think Mattitude was the best Matt Hardy will ever be

[Attitude99]

Bret Hart

[theexample]

Edge is better Face then Heel. He's annoying as fuck as a Heel. But he's amusing an funny as a Face.




Edge was a brilliant heel, both as a psychotic heel and a funny heel with E&C...

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Hacksaw Jim Duggan

[Jeritron]

Undertaker

[Supreme Olajuwon]

I DUNNO ABOUT THAT ONE, CHIEF

[Jeritron]

heel Undertaker was pretty good in early 2002, and during the Ministry (before he became Shane's sidekick)

Still, it doesn't compare to "the phenom"

[Cuse8]

Angle

His promos in WWE days as a heel still used to get some major laughs

[Jeritron]

That makes no sense, son

[jamesyboybell]

Definitely Eddie. The guy became a face for his heelish ways. Made it impossible to boo him.

[Haze]

Definitely Eddie. The guy became a face for his heelish ways. Made it impossible to boo him.

True the crowd fell in love with him, but he could make the crowd hate him at a moments notice.

[The Franchise]

Eddie Guerrero had that ability to make the crowd absolutely love him or absolutely hate him in one night if he wanted to that very few people have.

[Damian Rey]

Surprised there's been no Steamboat mention. Not sure he ever played the heel, but the guy has to be arguably the ultimate baby face.

[DLVH84]

Surprised there's been no Steamboat mention. Not sure he ever played the heel, but the guy has to be arguably the ultimate baby face.

Steamboat never turned heel once in his career.

[CWK]

Hogan would be one to say, especially for how big he was in the 1980's with WWE, but I can't say he was a better face than a heel because Hollywood Hogan was a bad ass heel character in 1996-1997 when he went in the nWo.

[Damian Rey]

Hogan would be one to say, especially for how big he was in the 1980's with WWE, but I can't say he was a better face than a heel because Hollywood Hogan was a bad ass heel character in 1996-1997 when he went in the nWo.

I think heel Hogan is far more entertaining.

[CWK]

I think heel Hogan is far more entertaining.

I agree that heel Hogan was entertaining, but I am not sure about being far more entertaining, I guess it just is a matter of one's opinion. I was born in 1980 and I watched wrestling religiously during Hogan's entire face run of the 80's and I was a HUGE Hogan fan in those days, even more than Warrior's. But I was also a HUGE fan of Hogan's when he turned heel in the mid 1990's when I was in that rebellious stage as a teenager. Guys like him, Austin, etc. were characters that I could easily identify with. Were both face and heel Hogan entertaining, definitely yes, but it was a different time in my life during his face/heel runs, I was a different person. I just wish wrestling was that good now as it was back then. I think it has lost a step or two.

[NeanderCarl]

Steamboat never turned heel once in his career.

One of the very few mainstream guys never to turn. I think Tito Santana may have been another one.

[XCaliber]

Have to go with Bret Hart on this one that goes for both his tag and singles carreer.

[The Jayman]

Surprised no mention of The Rock

[Lock Jaw]

Rock was better as a heel.

[The Jayman]

you mean guitar-playing Rock?

[Son of Snake]

Rowdy Roddy Piper falls into that category for me. Also Brutus Beefcake. The Barber gimmick was way way better than his dry tag team associations with Greg Valentine and Johnny V.

[parkmania]

One of the very few mainstream guys never to turn. I think Tito Santana may have been another one.

I think he might have tried to be a heel early on in the El Matador gimmick.