First Heel that you cheered for?

[ugotpwned999]

I didn't start watching long ago(2006) but the first heel I started cheering for was Orton back in '07 when he was punting Cena and his Dad.

 

[Jeff Boyardee]

First heel I cheered for was King Kong Bundy. Sometime around 1985. I was 9 years old. I remember going to shows with my BUNDY RULES signs, and getting heckled by grown men, lol.

 

[Sinister Shadows]

the nWo, started watching at their peak in WCW. First episode of Nitro I ever watched had these guys just cleaning house all while the announcers was building them up as a dominant force that was going to take the entire company to stop... instantly became a fan of anyone in nWo colors.

 

[Dagger Dias]

The first heel that I cheered for was Michaels after he turned on Jannetty at the barbershop. Unlike the heels before him, he was cool. The heel turn didn't work on me. I was supposed to hate his character but what he did to Jannetty was cool to my young self. I didn't like heels before then due to them being bad guys who I wanted guys like Hogan to defeat. However Michaels was the first heel that was cool to me, and I liked him more than the guys he faced even though you weren't supposed to like him after what he did to Jannetty. Then that led me to cheer for several other heels throughout the years.

 

[jachba]

In my case it would have to be heels. I was a fan of the Hollywood Blondes in the early 90's. The bone crushing theme music, the hand-crack camera gestures and the parodies did it for me.

 

[Dr. Mantis Toboggan, M.D.]

Mine was Triple H. I first stared watching wrestling in late 1999 when I was 9 years old and Triple H to me was the most bad ass person I had ever seen. From his entrance music to his in-ring skills. Triple H was the first wrestler I had ever cheered for actually. Some other honorable mentions from the period are Edge, Christian, and Kurt Angle. I've always been more in favor of the heels.

 

[ECWDanSelby]

The Miz & John Morrison - Back in ECW, The Miz and Morrison were a fantastic Tag Team, and made an even better Webshow, The Dirt Sheet.
Now i only really restarted watching WWE in 2007 (i had no way of watching it...please pity me) So Miz was starting to be the Chick magnet, while Morrison was edging out of his Johnny Nitro phase.i already liked them both from earlier times (SD! Host, MNM etc...),but even though they were on the wrong side of the fans each week.
But when they started to Bring out The Dirt Sheet, it showed there comedic side, laid-back side, while still in character. It was the only show that made me phisically laugh out loud, so i started cheering for Miz and JoMo...Now look where they are, Main eventer and WWE Champion...I'm Just Sayin...

They were a great team. Was a big fan of them, too.

I always found the Dirt Sheet to be a little too elementry for me, though.

This is a great topic btw.

I think mine would probably be IRS. Always dug the gimmick, always liked the name (hey, I was young!). Had such a good look, and I loved his feud with the Undertaker.

Selby

 

[ITS GUCCI TIME!]

The first heel i cheered for was the undertaker circa early 1999. I was just getting seriously into wrestling and the whole ministry of darkness, corporate ministry storyline captivated me as a kid. I remember actually getting goosebumps when i saw the undertaker, he had such a presence to him and still does. Thats why to this day im still down with the deadman.

 

[waylon p]

Hate to date myself this way, but the first heel I remember cheering was Col. Buck "nobody calls me yellow" Robley. He was not wrestling much at the time, mainly getting his lackeys in his stable, the rat pack (Jim duggan, Ted dibiase, and Matt (later known as doink) Bourne) to do his dirty work for him.

Too long ago? Fast forward about seven years, there was buzz Sawyer, and Larry zbysco. Still nothing? Okay, Chris jericho's heel run at WCW. That is as recent as I am willing to go. After that, the lines between heel and face got too fine for me.

 

[greensun]

The first heel that I cheered for was Taz (one z) his in ring style and his stature made him an easy choice. He was a powerhouse, always the underdog that dominated like Pacquiao in boxinq now. He didn't give a F about how the supposed superstar was to be shaped he was anti- "entertainment wrestlers" just real. My second is Raven because his character was so deep that it made it hard not to cheer for. Third is RVD, he is my favorite wrestler of all time but when he started he was that heel that simply stated "I'm the best and thats all there is to it." His in-ring style was dominate and unseen in a ring before

 

[emcsq29]

I'm like Waylon P, showing my age . . . Bill Dundee. When I was in 2nd grade (1977) the Memphis promotion came to my hometown and my dad knew the promoter, who let me go into the dressing rooms to meet the faces. Dundee had just finished a brutal (in my mind) match, was getting glued/stitched up, and was genuinely nice and happy to meet a young fan -- asked me about school, my teacher, how the hell I got in there, etc. Even during his many heel turns, I always cheered for him.

 

[ringjobber1]

Matt Hardy


When he did the mattitude V.1 gimmick. it was pretty funny seeing shannon moore being Matts lapdog especialy at Royal Rumble 2003 Matt Hardy was about to get eliminated until shannon held matt from touching the floor lol.
And when Matt went heel on Jeff that was hardy at his best as a heel

 

[gbswim972]

Right off the bat, I started watching Wrestling in 1997... I have since went back and watched my history... but right out of the gate I was a Shawn Micheals fan!!!! And I always will be

 

[Big Nick Dudley]

Tough call, so I'm going with two things that happened at the same time.

nWo
Heel stable, but I rooted for them (at first, obviously). When Hall started showing up on WCW television shows, I went nuts. I didn't care if he was a heel, or a babyface. I loved Razor Ramon, and was glad to see him in WCW. He and Nash were doing heelish things, but that didn't bother me. When Hogan joined, I knew I should have been booing, but I wasn't. I was rooting for this group, and did so until those in charge booked the thing to death, and killed it, completely.

Steve Austin
Austin didn't hit stardom until King of the Ring 1996, but I knew who he was prior to that. Actually, I had been a fan of his dating back to WCW. For some reason, I was drawn to his matches with Savio Vega. Austin was brutal, and wild. Something new, something different. Like the nWo in WCW, I wasn't booing this guy, and that was a bit confusing.

Bret Hart was my favorite wrestler on the planet...prior to Survivor Series 1996. A shift happened, and I started favoring Austin. That transition was complete after the war they had at WM 13.

Not sure which I started cheering for first, Austin or the nWo, seeing it all happened at the same time. But, this was the first time since I had started watching wrestling where I didn't automatically root for the "good guy." Maybe I changed, maybe wrestling changed, whatever, doesn't matter. Wrestling never looked the same after that summer, at least not to me.

 

[The Chosen One of WZ]

Triple H.

Its funny that I started being a huge fan when I played Day of Reconing on the GameCube and I just thought this guy is so fucking badass. Then I started paying more attention to him on Raw and I actully loved when he turned face in 2006 cause it was a great turn

 

[The Dragon Saga]

Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen back in the NWA. Even as a fan of Ricky Steamboat, when he clashed with Ric I would find myself on the side of "The Nature Boy" but due to my interest in both, whenever they clashed, it glued me to my television screen.

 

[TheKingHustla]

Mine would have to be Shawn Michaels. I was always an HBK fan, no matter what. I thought the screwjob was GREAT! Fucking awesome. The best thing I've ever seen in wrestling. Ever. Still to this day.

Me personally, I've never really gotten behind faces anyway. I like heels best. I always feel like a superstar is at his best and most entertaining to me when he is a heel. nWo, The Rock, Stone Cold, Triple H, John Cena, Edge, Orton, Y2J, Ric Flair, Miz, Hogan (Hollywood was always the best Hogan in my eyes), Kane, Undertaker, Big Daddy Cool Diesel, Vince McMahon the list goes on and on. When they are heels, they are at their best to me.

 

[The Newfie Bullet]

Mine was either Chris Jericho or Edge ,It was probably because i've always favoured Canadian wrestlers , but even as a child that was around 9 years old I loved these guys everything from their entrance music to how they cut promos and how they wrestled.

I started cheeering for Edge around 2006 when he was feuding with John Cena , I loved it when Edge had the title , and when John Cena won the title back from Edge at the TLC match at Unfogiven in Toronto i hated it, but anyway that was the first heel I cheered for.

 

[theHeadliner]

Shawn Michaels when he wrestled Razor Ramon in the WM10 ladder match. I liked Michaels all the way back when he was the heel.

 

[Marky-Marc]

Definitely Mr. Perfect.

He was so awesome and I was just waiting for the day that he became WWE CHampion. For whatever reason it never happened but when he came out of his little mini retirement to send Flair packing to WCW I thought he would've been a great fued for Bret Hart's title, of course he was a face by then.

But in the early 90s he owned the mid-card. He sold so well and cut the best promos. How could you not cheer for the vignettes of him throwing passes to himself and hitting hole-in-ones?

Just Perfect.

 

[Zigglerfan227]

The answer for me is Carlito.

Understand that I did not start watching WWE until 2008. I really liked Carlito and he was my favorite wrestler.

I cheered for other heels as well, but Carlito was the very first.

 

[silrock316]

Savage hands down was my first favorite heel. Against Steamboat and Hogan. I basically have always loved heels. The better question for me would be who was my first face I liked and that too would be Savage.

 

[Banetyson]

Always and forever, been Ted DIbiase. There is no doubt in my mind. I actually thought it was Undertaker looking back, but nah, it was Dibiase.

However... The correct answer is Hulk Hogan. He was always a heel... just not on TV,

 

[FlairFan2003]

Ric Flair. Living in Pgh we were in WWE country so each week we were watching old WWE programs, Hulk was champ, etc, then by accident changing channels during a commercial break I caught Flair in a confrontation with The Rock & Roll Express, $1,000 suit, porsche carrerra sunglasses, and a championship belt that was so much bigger and better than Hogan's, Flair was dismissing Ricky Morton's comments about Flair abandoning the fans, then pulled a training bra from inside his suit coat, giving it to Morton because he only got "little girls" and Flair only gets "the grown up girls". Morton took the sunglasses of Flair's face, smashed them on the floor, and the two brawled into the ring, ripping of clothes, flying all over the place.

This was 1986 and I was hooked. One station offered you a bunch of colorful cartoon characters in silly costumes with a champ who only knew three moves in the ring and expoused the virtues of "saying your prayers and taking your vitamins" while the other station had a sharp dressed party animal, ranting, raving, talking about sex expoits, and flying all over the ring. I knew who the more entertaining guy was and I knew right away which show had the grittier, tougher wrestling.

By 1987 you could actually see fans in the live audience at house shows dressed in suits and sunglasses, emulating Flair's look even though he was pretty much a rotten SOB on TV, I remember them here in Pgh a couple times as well as seeing it on TV. Flair was the first all ot villain I remembered who had large sections of the audience cheering for him.

 

[The Fabulous Rougeau's]

For me it was NWO. I was 13 at the time and it started with Hall. I was a Razor fan and he drew me in. Then I see Nash and liked him as Diesel so I dove even furthur. Then Hogan as the suprise 3rd team member sealed the deal.

But as for singles wrestlers, it would be The Rock. I started cheering for him in the summer of 98. I thought he was the coolest thing ever and couldn't wait for my faical hair to come in so I could grow his sideburns.