Best Heel Run Ever?

[Dowdsy McDowds]

I haven't seen his name yet but an honourable mention should go to Mohammed Hassan. If not for an unfortunately close to the bone spot, he could have been a revelation to the WWE. Would he have been as big after his initial run came to a close? Very hard to say, but his gimmick execution was great.

Mr McMahon edges this for me. He was the perfect foil for Austin and perfected the role of on-screen bastard boss. Whenever he would get his comeuppance would draw a huge reaction from the crowd, a sign of a great heel.

 

[JAK]

For me the best heel run was the Million Dollar Man Ted Dibiase in the WWF. He was, for me, the complete package - he could talk without being boring, he was always going to be hated as he was never a cool heel, he managed to maintain a strong position in the WWF when the Hulk Hogan glass ceiling was in effect and most importantly he could really wrestle.

If the Million Dollar Man was a wrestler of today and allowed to do everything he did in the past then I believe he would be a world champion. I believe the worst thing about the Million Dollar Man is the mountain he left to climb for his son, as Ted Dibiase Jnr has never mpressed me like his father.

 

[ThisisBDub]

I voted for Triple H and I remember quite distinctly that was the first time I watched a Heel and I didn't actually cheer for them like you weren't suppose to do but I hated him. Like legit for real getting angry when I saw him on my TV screen. His heel run from about 03 to 05 was one of the bests I ever watched. I don't know who else that was a heel, that actually made me hate them like they intended to make you do.

 

[Peoples_Champ]

How anyone could go with anyone else other than Mr. McMahon is beyond me. He had to be the biggest heel in professional wrestling history. He played the role perfectly and led the WWFE into the highest ratings that professional wrestling has ever seen.

His feud with Austin is what people will be searching on youtube a generation from now. Mr. McMahon was second to none in being a hated heel.

 

[AwesomeRko]

Corporate Rock, he had absolutely everything and was in my opinion the most entertaining bad-guy in the history of the WWE. His fueds with Mankind and Austin were legendary.

 

[Antichrist]

Rowdy Roddy Piper. 1983-87 was the best era, and I think "Piper's Pit" is a bigger draw atm than Flair has since his match with HBK or Hogan has been since leaving WWE. He was the first to beat Hogan during the nwo, he put him to sleep at Starcade 96 in a non-title match but then stole the title anyway that really sums him up and that was when he was a babyface! He Played La Cucaracha on his bag pipes instead of the Mexican national anthem which he had promised he would do, wore a mask and pretending to be the Masked Canadian after he lost a "Loser Leaves Town" match, was an antagonistic commentator, and would make a better colour commentator than Jerry Lawler or Booker T or anyone else in Wrestling, he "mooned" Rick Rude causing him to lose the intercontinental title, which i thought was so cool I did at school to get heat from the teachers, and i got suspended, he gave Superfly Jimmy Snuka a banana, a pineapple and a coconut to make him feel at home LOL, He KICKED CYNDI LAUPER IN THE HEAD. WTF.. After being slapped in the face, he put one hand behind his back and beat his opponent. Vince McMahon and Randy Orton owe it all To "Hot Rod" imo.

 

[FlairFan2003]

Very tough... just going 80s on (lets remember folks wrestling started before 1980, Buddy Rogers, Gen Skandar Akbar, SuperStar Graham, & Ivan Kolloff were all massively successful bad guys, Harley Race too).

Post 1980 I still say NWA Champ Ric Flair - the matches, the promos, his ability to get a crowd totally behind anyone he wrestled was impressive. His promos alone during this time were unreal, the skit where he dressed a dept store mannequin to look like Jimmy Garvin's valet Prescious (who Flair was obsessed with in the story) and proceeded to strip its clothes off while showing just what would happen to her on their "date", even by today's jaded been there done that standards that was crazy. The interview where Ricky Morton smashes his sunglasses after Flair gives him a training bra because Morton cant get a "real woman" was hillarious. He also cornered the market on catch phrases like no one until The Rock... "whats causin all this", "Space Mountain", "To Be The Man...", "Diamonds are forver & so is Ric Flair", "Bleed, Sweat, & Pay The Price", "Walk Down That Aisle", "You gotta walk the walk not just talk the talk" - I remember falling off my chair when I heard Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson use that last line in an interview about an upcoming game, his catch phrases were becoming a part of the accepted sports vernacular!

Roddy Piper deserves credit because Hulk Hogan doesnt get nearly as hot early on without him. Every good hero needs a good nemesis and Piper was the first real heel to battle Hogan, and he was so good at being entertaining and bad he truly made you want to cheer for Hogan. If Race & Dusty Rhodes helped make Flair & Flair made Sting and Brett Hat helped make HBK Piper helped make Hogan, possibly more than any other opponent.

A lot of guys were good as heels, DiBiase, Blanchard, Rick Rude, Jake Roberts, HBK, Triple H but those two above are my picks for best in the last three decades.

Give some props to Hollywood Hogan though because without his heel turn The NWO does not become the phenom it was.

 

[Mr_Excitement007]

I Have to go with Vince simply because I started watching wrestling the night of the "Bret screwed Bret" speach and how from there he became more of how you say a ass of a boss to all the faces of the time I remember crowds and myself cheering when Austin would get the best of him.

 

[Dmbfantomas]

Bret Hart the Anti-American.

Most interesting angle of all-time, IMO. Bret got to really tread the uncharted waters of being an uber-face in one country, and being the most hated guy in the company in another. Just such a brilliant angle.