X-Pac Heat: Does It Exist?

**Batsu** · 01-11-2006, 09:46 PM

Lately, when reading a semi-well-known (nowadays, somewhat reluctant) wrestling columnist's blog...or rather, a wrestling forum disguised as a blog, someone brought up X-Pac Heat.

The validity of such was challenged by a guy with trolling tendencies, who kind of reminds me of what would happen if Kane Knight drank the [Insert Troll's Name Here] Kool-Aid one too many times...but had an argument that I (and others) really couldn't refute: Essentially, "boo" is "boo". Technically, you can't tell whether someone is booing someone just because they think the guy behind the gimmick sucks.

But there's a part of me that makes me think that it can determined that one is booing someone because they suck, and not because they particularly buy into the gimmick that person has.

It's particularly easy to determine that this is the case when someone who is designed to garner cheers (Rocky Maivia the face, John Cena, the recent face) gets loud boos instead. But with heels, who you're supposed to boo, it's a lot more difficult. Sometimes the signs help out. Though the boos X-Pac and Muhammad Hassan used to get are techinically the same, there's just something that feels different about the way people boo X-Pac.

What do you think?

01-11-2006, 09:46 PM	#1
Batsu Capcom's Corporate Champ Posts: 2,571	X-Pac Heat: Does It Exist? Lately, when reading a semi-well-known (nowadays, somewhat reluctant) wrestling columnist's blog...or rather, a wrestling forum disguised as a blog, someone brought up X-Pac Heat. The validity of such was challenged by a guy with trolling tendencies, who kind of reminds me of what would happen if Kane Knight drank the [Insert Troll's Name Here] Kool-Aid one too many times...but had an argument that I (and others) really couldn't refute: Essentially, "boo" is "boo". Technically, you can't tell whether someone is booing someone just because they think the guy behind the gimmick sucks. But there's a part of me that makes me think that it can determined that one is booing someone because they suck, and not because they particularly buy into the gimmick that person has. It's particularly easy to determine that this is the case when someone who is designed to garner cheers (Rocky Maivia the face, John Cena, the recent face) gets loud boos instead. But with heels, who you're supposed to boo, it's a lot more difficult. Sometimes the signs help out. Though the boos X-Pac and Muhammad Hassan used to get are techinically the same, there's just something that feels different about the way people boo X-Pac. What do you think?