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Originally Posted by TheNamelessOne
Jericho is definatly a cool heel.
In my eyes, a cool heel is one that cuts entertaining (usually funny) promos against the faces. Randy Orton has yet to do that. Don't get me wrong, Orton has lots of potential but at the moment, to me he just seems like a bland heel trying to gain heat through lousy promos which lack originality.
As soon as Orton starts cutting memorable, funny and original promos, ill agree with you.
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Took the words right out of my mouth. I still don't understand why they wasted bringing Foley out of retirement just to put over a guy who the majority of the crowd doesn't care about. Even after that awesome hardcore match, he still has a bland gimick, cuts bland promos, has bland matches, and therefore gets a bland reaction. Not exactly the sort of thing you want out of the supposed "Next Rock" and "future of the company."
On a side note, no one in the world should ever be dubbed a "Hardcore Legend" after having only one hardcore match in their entire career.
But back to the subject. I'd say the best "cool heel" had to be Stone Cold. It didn't last very long or have as many memorable moments as the likes of Rocky or Jericho, but when it caught on, it
caught on. Seriously, the guy was getting cheered over the top face in the company (listen to Austin/Hart at Mania 13; people cheered when Bret did something cool, but the place damn near exploded when Austin went on the attack), paved the road for the Rock to reach even more success, and Triple H to reach....well, one of the lowest-rated title reigns this side of Sid and Diesel, but that's another story. The key point is, Austin's character was supposed to be the consumate "bad guy" heel, and ended up being IMO the third most successful wrestler ever (next to Hogan and the Rock)