Thread: Your most "Against The Grain" opinion on wrestling
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Old 08-02-2016, 06:06 PM   #75
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Originally Posted by The Condor View Post
Look how visceral your post was. You can't build heel heat like that in wrestling anymore, especially within the smark community. Wrestling isn't just about how many snowflakes a match can put up, it's about characters and stories, and Eva Marie has a bitch, entitled character down and will be an excellent heel foil for the face women, even if she is just doing jobs.

And as far as he in-ring work, I think she has improved markedly, and is probably better than most women on the roster beside the 4 NXT women. Her characer is, in my opinion, what Sasha's should have been since her call-up, and she does it better.
Thing is, you don't see that as a problem. Things have gotten so far gone that heels who get "the wrong" heat are being seen as true heels, and heels who do shit right get CHEERED because they're doing what they are supposed to do, and fans are showing outward appreciation instead of playing THEIR part and booing the fuck out of them to maintain balance. Someone earlier said Bray Wyatt "chases cheers", and I don't entirely agree. Think of some of his feuds- vs Cena, where Mr. "Same old Shit" was pit against the "breath of fresh air". Traditionally, they played their roles, but because the crowd is bored of SuperCena, and wanted Bray to get some shine, they got the opposite reactions on what they were expected to. Hell, Rollins even masterfully does the deal where he shits on the crowd, and often gets cheered for it.

People used to ask *why* is the crowd reacting a particular way and adjust. If it's "fuck off" heat, those people would go away. Now, it's just "fuck it, a boo is a boo, and a cheer is a cheer".

Eva is a good heel because of her persona on a show half the audience doesn't even watch, and because she can legit hurt someone/herself on accident? Hell, eventually even Otunga stopped trying. Hell, Peyton Royce can do Eva's gimmick. Or some other nondescript understudy. But, no, WWE is so dead set on building her in spite of the evidence otherwise, and they appear as though they will only abandon this if a) she does something to embarass them, like Roman or b) she Droz-es someone.
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