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Originally Posted by Destor
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Again, getting a huge pop on a "surprise" debut doesn't just automatically make the man a babyface.
Like I said earlier, fans generally don't play their part anymore. Even MJF has to go overboard to get the reaction he truly deserves. Jericho had to work extra hard for what heat he got, and quite a bit of the crowd was still very noticeably cheering him. He was clearly the heel. He has been a heel since the establishment of AEW. He does heel things. He cheats. He's a giant dick. He treats the management of AEW and all the fans like an asshole. But by your logic with this, he's a babyface, because people still cheer him?
Mox got a babyface reaction because of who he was and the situation surrounding him. If this were a good number of years ago when crowds actually played along, the ref attack and subsequent brawl with Kenny would have had the fans turn on him. Instead, the whole thing became one long "holy shit" circlejerk. Doesn't mean he's
supposed to be the hero.
He could do the promo right now where he's bloody with a fork and kept getting... uncomfortable with whoever that chick was supposed to be (read: hair pulling her back when she's trying to escape and gesturing that he's threatining to stab her in the neck while rambling about her smelling like the inside of his mom's purse), and he would get cheers "because he's Dean Ambrose and he cut a totally non-scripted promo and fuck WWE guyz!"
They could run with it, but it doesn't mean that was the intention. They might not run with it at all, and he goes totally batshit and finds a way to make the fans play along with his heeldom and get the proper response. That's why I said it's too early.