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Originally Posted by Heyman
It's a bit pointless to say that Batista "needs" Jericho, Benoit, HBK, etc. Who cares?
I DO however want to comment on one thing: Batista's potential as a face....and why he MIGHT be able to succeed where guys like Orton, Cena, Guerrero, Kane (in the past), Angle, etc. have (to varying degrees) FAILED as faces.
-Batista's character doesn't seem like it will change a whole lot if he makes the turn (fingers crossed). In a sense, Batista's lack of mic skills may actually help him in this case.
When you take a look at guys like Orton, Cena, Guerrero, and Angle, they kind of lost that "edge" when they made their face turns. Granted - they still got/get decent cheers, but they were nowhere near as effective as their heelish selves.
What made guys like Austin, and The Rock soooo popular when they first became top faces, was they acted VERY similar to their heelish selves.
Think back to Austin in 98', and The Rock between WM-15 and WM-2000.
On the other hand, I'm almost a bit scared in seeing Batista turn face. Knowing the WWE, they may try and deliberately make him 'suck up' to the fans (or make him a pussy like they did with Kane in 2000).
If Batista turns face, they need to make him SQUASH his opponents in convincing fashion for a few months or so (like his match with Rhyno for instance).
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That's my biggest fear with Batista as well. He should keep his "who gives a damn" attitude. I know some people hate comparing new wrestlers to old ones, but Austin was always getting ovations, and he never said once that he loved the fans.
That is why Orton's face turn sucked. He was so cocky, arrogant, and didn't want our cheers, and we LOVED him for it. But then he gets beat down, loses the title, and now he's trying to get cheers from us? I was sort of hoping somewhere deep down in heart, that Orton would win the Elimination Chamber, then get cocky and turn semi-heel and start up a feud with The Rock heading into WrestleMania. Maybe have Orton go as far as facing the Royal Rumble winner and The Rock on the same night, and then have him beat The Rock, then lose the title to Batista?
Most of the people we love as heels aren't as good when they turn face, and they lose a lot of their edge, but I guess it is hard to change the way we think of a person, without changing their personality. For Orton and Batista it should have been/should be easy, though, simply because they were/will be feuding with Triple H. What is the point of The Game establishing himself as the ultra-heel of RAW, only to not use that to their advantage when they have a feud with another lesser heel?