Feeding the beast that is Randy Orton

**Snowden** · 09-08-2010, 07:44 PM

I don't think any face is going to have the crowd turn against Orton. He's white hot over with the fans.

A consequence of the PG era is the latent message that the good guys are always the best, and the bad guys take second fiddle. Being bad inherently makes you a worse wrestler, which essentially is telling the young audience to "do it the right way." Now, that doesn't HAVE to be the case, but the way the WWE is selling the product now, they're peddling that message. Get used to heels never RARELY ever looking better than a good guy...evil = win by chicanery.

With this ethos in mind, how CAN they build a real top heel?

**Damian Rey** · 09-08-2010, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Snowden

I don't think any face is going to have the crowd turn against Orton. He's white hot over with the fans.

A consequence of the PG era is the latent message that the good guys are always the best, and the bad guys take second fiddle. Being bad inherently makes you a worse wrestler, which essentially is telling the young audience to "do it the right way." Now, that doesn't HAVE to be the case, but the way the WWE is selling the product now, they're peddling that message. Get used to heels never RARELY ever looking better than a good guy...evil = win by chicanery.

With this ethos in mind, how CAN they build a real top heel?

Helluva point Snowden. The thing is, even in the 80s with Hogan and the early and mid 90s with Bret and Shawn, guys were built up to be taken seriously as heels threatening for the title. With Hogan you had a rogues gallery of heels in Piper, Savage, Bundy, Andre, DiBiase and Slaughter.

With Bret, you had Owen, Yoko, Razor at one point, Diesel, Davey Boy Smith and hell even Lawler and even guys like Hakushi.

HBK had Vader, Sid, and Mankind for his first run. All of these guys were built and booked to be legitimate threats to topple the champion. And even though more times than not they failed, they still came off as threatening.

The way WWE booked Batista from January all the way through Mania is how they should be booking guys like Sheamus.

09-08-2010, 07:44 PM	#1
Snowden All Hype Posts: 2,186	I don't think any face is going to have the crowd turn against Orton. He's white hot over with the fans. A consequence of the PG era is the latent message that the good guys are always the best, and the bad guys take second fiddle. Being bad inherently makes you a worse wrestler, which essentially is telling the young audience to "do it the right way." Now, that doesn't HAVE to be the case, but the way the WWE is selling the product now, they're peddling that message. Get used to heels never RARELY ever looking better than a good guy...evil = win by chicanery. With this ethos in mind, how CAN they build a real top heel?