Alberto Del Rio As A Face

[javierjiminy]

I would like some comments on how you would book ADR as a face in the wwe business. I'm asking out of curiosity, as I know ADR will be a heel for quite awhile.

So, how would you go about making ADR a face?
Do you see him turning face anytime soon?
Will he be any good at it?

 

[Genesis1295]

hmmm good question because i will never think of ADR as a face ever even though i admire him over atleast 70% of the WWE roster, so maybe do what most other wrestlers do and turn against someone who may be a stronger heel to make them look like the hero in the situation i wouldn't know who to use as an example maybe if ricardo starting getting more screen time and annoyed the crap out of the WWE Universe then in a random episode of RAW grabs a steel chair, smacks him across the head and gets a massive pop turning him into a face but i doubt that would happen ever but this is just an example of what Alex Riley did cause i hated A-ry so much but lately i really dont mind him.

 

[The Future Rises]

I'd let him beat a top face cleanly(Cena, Mysterio, Orton..) for the title then after the match the face offers his hand to Del Rio which he accepts. Then the next week a top heel(Miz, Truth, etc..) comes out and interrupts and ADR promo and says Del Rio went soft. Which Del Rio reponds by punching him in the face to start off a feud. Then Ricardo Rodriguez turns on Del Rio in a non title match with the heel and siding with his opponent. Cause let's face it if Del Rio's turning face he needs to drop Rodriguez who is a great heat gainer only announcing in Spanish. I would let Del Rio beat the heel in a title match and go on to become a face champion interacting with the fans more and maybe even doing a segment where he makes money rain in the arena(See Ted DiBiase Sr's HoF induction) that would give him a huge face pop.

 

[flawd101]

ADR will be a heel for a year or two. i enjoy his matches and i think the most likely way he would turn face is if the crowd just starts to like him because of his matches. ADR is too good a getting heat to turn face anytime soon. he still has room to rise as a heel and then put over faces before turning into one.

i hope ADR starts a stable with hunico and epico. with Air Kofi and the usos the tag division needs a new heel team and ADR can turn them face when Air Kofi eventually go back to singles. With Rey hurt you know raw wants new Luchador

 

[THE AWESOME MIZFIT]

I know you want to know how i would book him but I really don't see WWE ever turning him face. WWE never turned Rey Mysterio heel or Jeff Hardy heel and that is because they truly are not meant to be. They are not capable of it. I believe Del Rio will be heel for as long as he is in the WWE and i wouldn't mind that. There are just some superstars that turn out to be bad when they turn heel or face. John Morrison was great on the mic when he was a heel and now that he is a face he is absolute garbage. If he stayed heel I believe he would have been a main eventer all ready. It's just their personalities. some people are just meant to be one or the other and I feel Del Rio is meant to always be heel.

 

[MrAdam87]

Im guessing like me and probably a lot of others you admire his in-ring and promo skills, and on the last RAW i found myself egging him on as he beat down Cena if only for my frustration that Cena ONCE AGAIN is straight back in the title picture and will reclaim the belt sooner rather then later.
So with this in mind i would look at having him turn face a long way down the road but maybe at the expense of someone the crowd genuinely dislikes at the time, and revolve it around ADR obsession with the title. For example during maybe his seocnd or third title run have ADR screwed out of the belt by a MONSTER HEEL, and have ADR go ape shit crazy over it and use the 'vendetta' angle to slowly turn him face.
Just spit balling here lol

 

[killer425]

I think he would be a great face play some Mexican music do that one thing he needs to make it rain though and have money fall from the sky

I don't see him turning face anytime soon though I feel he would be great at it

 

[xoxo French Kiss xoxo]

So, how would you go about making ADR a face?
Del Rio is the perfect heel right now. I would not turn him face at any point in the near future for any reason.
Do you see him turning face anytime soon?
Del Rio is a great heel, and with Raw having only two other good heels it would be dumb to turn him face. Cena, Punk (yes PUNK is a face right now) and Morrison are all Faces, and all three of them are over. Kingston and Borne are the other big faces, and Rey Mysterio is also a face, although he's currently out of action he will still get mentioned. Del Rio, Miz and Truth are the top heels on Raw right now, with Zigger pushing to the main event, and Swagger not being far behind him.
Will he be any good at it?
Del Rio is a great heel, lets focus on him being a heel, and worry about a face turn a long time from now.

 

[xBANEx]

I'm not entirely sure if he'll ever be a face, to be honest. Outside of the WWE, he's was a face for his entire career and only made the crossover to heel when he joined with the WWE. I believe he even did some interview where he said he doesn't really want to play the role of a face ever again, but what do I know, I'm sure it'll happen sometime down the road when either Vince wants to change him or he just starts to get stale unless he finds some way to spice up his heel persona one way or another.

 

[Braxton11]

Del Rio's character is frustrating to me. I love his gimmick, in ring talent and the fact that he is one of the better heels out there. I just wish his character was more serious. He just acts so damn animated and goofy that he is almost cartoonish. I would like to see him smile less and take on an attitude similar to that of Triple H back in 2000.

While being a heel he has beaten Misterio and Morrison cleanly since becoming the champion. If he toned down the giant grin and constant gesturing and became more cold and calculating he would seem like more of a credible champion and threat to someone like Cena. To be honest his ability to cut promo's seems very repetitive and it almost seems like he struggles with the English language sometimes. I am not opposed to him speaking less.

All in all though I do love the fact that he wins cleanly and then goes on to violently attack his opponents afterwards. This is something that also helps project that he is not someone to be messed with.

 

[Shakin' Abe]

I don't even see Del Rio being with the company in 2 years time. His charater is already stale to me. He is more of a transitional guy and I bet he goes back to being a mid carder before he quits or is fired. Can you really see him long term? It happened to Shamus... (mid carder stuff) a quick push and then a shove to Smackdown before he's gone.

 

[Ubiquitous]

He's not asking IF you would turn him face, or whether you would LIKE TO turn him face. It's a question of if he was going to turn face, HOW would you do it? Saying "I wouldn't turn him face" isn't answering the question. Saying "I can't see him being a face" isn't answering the question either. People said that about Orton back during the Triple H feud that culminated at Wrestlemania, and look where he is. For the person that mentioned it, Jeff Hardy and Rey Mysterio were kept faces because they sold huge for the company. Jeff Hardy at one point sold more merchandise than John Cena did. That's a pretty solid reason for keeping them face. ADR will never been in a position where he draws so much as a heel they won't turn him face. Ever. Now, after ALL of that, on to the original question.

I'd have ADR in a series of matches with someone good, but not a top talent. Someone on their way there. For this scenario, we'll say Daniel Bryan, since right now he's had a few matches with him and quite honestly, Bryan is awesome. Now, I'd have him in a series of matches. The first one I'd have him go the limit with Bryan, only to get himself counted out on purpose. Have Bryan egg him on for a few weeks, only for ADR to agree to a rematch. Have them go the limit again, only to have ADR win with a surprise roll-up after both are completely exhausted. Have Daniel Bryan come out on the next show and congratulate ADR, only to say that they're now 1-1, and there needs to be a rubber match. Have ADR agree (albeit, reluctantly), only to go the distance one more time with Bryan, with Bryan catching him in a surprise submission, I'd prefer the guillotine, and have ADR tap. Have ADR get up and stare at DB, and have them get in eachothers faces, only for ADR to step back and offer a hand to DB. The next week, have him blindsided by a heel like Miz, only for DB to make the save. Slowly change his allegiances from there, while not doing anything too drastic. Make him wary of partnering with faces like DB at first, but slowly grow into it. If you're going to book him into a super face, have him pick a little kid from the front row to sit in his car (you can have it be a plant if you really want, those rental cars aren't cheap), much like Mysterio gives out his mask. Sure, it's not perfect, but I think it would work.

 

[Mr. Charisma]

WWE never turned Rey Mysterio heel or Jeff Hardy heel and that is because they truly are not meant to be. .

Jeff Hardy was a heel when he was in the Brood. Anyway I find myself agreeing more with a lot of the heels than the faces anyway. Del Rio is already a face to me... which doesn't really matter at all. It just means that I view him as the protagonist as I watch the show in my own home. I met him once at a gym in my town the afternoon before Raw was taped here. He was a great guy (not that I expected anything less).

I have always been bothered by the fact that people who are financially successful are automatically heels. The reason they are used as heels is because half of the crowd is broke and likes to hate on people who have something that they feel like they can't have.

Dibiase was fairly evil in many ways but JBL and Del Rio don't even seem that evil to me, and I respect confidence. Thought it was stupid at Mania when they smashed his car. Why?

 

[This Is My Name Thank You]

Jeff Hardy was a heel when he was in the Brood. QUOTE]

Dude Jeff Hardy was not in the Brood, Edge, Christain and Gangrel were. No Jeff and he was always a face in the WWE and in TNA until they turned him heel. Which lasted about 3 months or so.

So anyway onto the post.
ADR just doesn't do it for me and maybe it' because he bland as a charcter and he can't speak to well. Little better then Khali in my eyes. BUT maybe if he was a Face it can change my opinion.

I would have him beat John Cena by cheating to get his win maybe a DQ or something by Ricardo and we see them both run to the back. On RAW I would have him come out and talk about his match and have him call out Cena. Cena comes out and question's him why he needed Ricardo to beat him and that he couldn't do it himself. Then ADR would crack a smile and turn an crack Ricardo with a kick or punch to make him fall. I'd have him grab the mic and say Ricardo I am a man from loyalty and respect and you keep cheating me of my Respect. Then he say's to Cena at the PPV I will fight you like a man and not a cheater. They shake hands and he smiles and walks off.

An I honestly don't see him as a Face at this time or anytime this year. Raw needs heels because they lost CM PUNK and now its Miz, Truth, and ADR. So I suppose they will keep as a heel for now.

I think he would be good as a face as I might like his gimmick more if it had a few tweaks to it. The smile just seems like a face thing and I can actually see him being farly well at it. Not Cena or Hardy status but way better then Face jomo. It couold work but, I think WWE is keeping him a permanet heel.

 

[mancpenguin]

No - can never see him being a face. People love to boo the guy so why would he ever turn face ? They can respect the fact that he can perform but I don't think they'd ever cheer for him unless they changed his character in a huge, huge way.

 

[SugarKane]

The only way I could think of is if he starts wearing his mask again. He gets cheered by most Hispanic people in the crowd in any event I have attended (I live in Texas) so he is a babyface in that sense. For the rest of us, his mannerisms and looks are naturally annoying so unless he magically changes them, he will forever remain heel.

 

[King Patrick Star]

The Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase and the Billion Dollar Man John Bradshaw Layfield were never Faces when portraying the “Rich Man” gimmick. I don’t think that it would work if Alberto Del Rio continued this gimmick.

The only possible way for ADR to turn would be a double turn where a Face would turn Heel. I’m thinking someone like Rey Mysterio going after him and locking him in the arm bar and breaking his arm. Then when Rey is done with the first arm, he should go for the second arm to really get heat. That would be a sight to see.

 

[Jack-Hammer]

Alberto Del Rio is a perfect example of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Del Rio is great in his character, he's definitely comfortable as the elitist rich guy and that's someone that's always useful.

Most people, to one degree or another, have a bias against rich people. It's always been like that, no matter how far back you go or what culture you look, and it's always going to be that way. Alberto Del Rio's character is someone that's "easy to hate" and someone that's also "fun to hate". That's a heel that you always want around.

In order for Del Rio to be a face, he'd have to have such a complete character overahaul that I'm not sure if it's really possible. Can you really think of Ted DiBiase as anything other than The Million Dollar Man? Del Rio's character is cut from the same cloth.