Is Alberto Del Rio over as a face?

[Dr.]

I'm not worried about who else in the crowd is cheering for ADR, I'm enjoying him as a face myself. I've said before that I thought the turn was herky jerky and awkward, but that in spite of that it's worked. It gave me a reason to reinvest in the character, and the feud with Big Show got things off to a good start. He's not the best thing going right now, but I've enjoyed his character change and storyline.

It's been my experience amongst the IWC that Del Rio is just polarizing from a fandom standpoint. Most reasonable people will give him credit as a wrestler, but after that it's either love him or hate him as a character. No matter what his allegiance, he's either going to get too little credit or too much credit from his detractors/fans when the truth is closer to the middle. Take the pops, for instance- he's not getting crickets or blowing the roof off, but crowds are responding.

[The Eighties]

Ricardo is more over, Del Rio's reaction has been minimal as either heel or face for a long while now. His promos sucking up are doing him no favours either. I do think his wrestling has suited the change to being a face, he's got good fire in his comeback.

[Winds-Of-Change]

Its to early to criticize.

He's only just won the World title, sure his face turn sucked balls to the extreme. Who the fuck runs over Santa during the start of a face turn?
Cant believe I just wrote that.. stupid storyline..

But yea anyway, Del Rio as a face is just getting started and I feel its to early to start asking if he's over give him time. Few months, same with Miz.
He's getting there slowly.

[Phenomic Enigma]

I prefer him as a heel rather than a face chase I am not enjoying his promos right now and the only think people like him is because Ricardo is over with the fans more and Ricardo is quite funny as a face but Alberto in my opinion is more of a heel but over time who knows, I didn't think Sheamus would get over as a face but he managed and is quite good at it so overtime i think he might get more over with the fans

[Mr. HD]

I like Del Rio's face turn. He's changed for the better because his heel run wasn't doing him any favors down the run. It may have worked initially, but he was just declining and this face turn changed things around for him. He's smiling more, he gives scarfs to kids, doesn't use the car anymore, he actually has a backbone ,which is rare to find in a face these days, and more importantly, he finally became the World Heavyweight Champion.

Aside from The Rock, Daniel Bryan, Orton and Jericho, he's one of the faces I like to cheer for.

[Happy Gilmore]

Definitely. The fans chanting 'Si' definitely helps his case with me that he is slowly getting over. I however don't know how much of that is him getting the pop or Ricardo getting it for him.

[Lorenzo von Matterhorn]

I love Alberto del Rio as a face, which is saying a lot since in 2011 I would have pretty much said he was ruining Monday Night Raw by having anything to do with CM Punk. I think maybe they should keep him more on Smackdown though, as they do have a statistically larger Hispanic demographic. That's really been changing in recent years though, with Rey Mysterio being on Raw just as much as Smackdown, and Sin Cara...not being very interesting. The Latina community really hasn't had a hometown hero to get behind in a long time. Even Mysterio was from San Diego.

Anyways, point is, I like del Rio. I think his work with Big Show drew him some great reactions, and now going into WrestleMania I only think it'll get better. Swagger could have gotten him over big, but we're still waiting to see if that's even going to happen.

[Raptor93]

He is over as face, perhaps not as much as he should be but the crowd digs him, wether it be for ricardo, he's new move set or what ever. His heel run definitely needed to end, he was painful to listen too now I can at least tolerate him as well as anyone I means Asides from Dbry, punk, rock, kane there isn't any wrestler who talks particularly well ( I would include cena but hes character is awful making hes promos equally terrible) So overall Yes hes over

[Headman]

Originally Posted by HGR

with Rey Mysterio being on Raw just as much as Smackdown, and Sin Cara...not being very interesting. The Latina community really hasn't had a hometown hero to get behind in a long time. Even Mysterio was from San Diego.

I had no idea hispanic women were such a big part of the WWE's following. ;P


But back to the original point. I keep hearing "He's getting a decent pop". I still don't see it. And besides, he's the world champion. Granted that doesn't mean much these days, but you'd at least think they'd reserve such an honor for somebody who gets a reaction, good or bad. A decent pop is fine for Santino (Who gets bigger pops than Del Rio.) but right now he's just taking up air time. And it's not going to help matters that he's entering a feud with a heel that 50% of the audience is probably going to side with from a philosophical standpoint. Out of all the people who should be having a meaningful match at Wrestlemania... Randy Orton comes to mind. We're going to be treated to a pointless Alberto Del Rio routing of a guy who's probably in hot water at the moment. And if by chance Dolph Ziggler cashes in on Del Rio and takes the title, Ziggler won't be met with boos.