Austin Aries is one of the best heels in the world. This is not even a question, anybody who watches TNA knows this.
However, he should have remained face for at least another year. I don't like that they turned him heel for the sole purpose of handing the title to Jeff Hardy at Bound For Glory.
However, everything about him just screams natural babyface. He's short, so he's inherently an underdog, but he's such a hard worker; he almost quit wrestling at age 33 or 34 until TNA picked him up, he really is a great redemption story. If anybody has seen his matches lately, you might notice that he does stuff like his corkscrew moonsault a lot less because he can't be "flashy", he's a heel now. He was over as hell as a babyface, and he really was one of the coolest characters in wrestling as a cocky face who pushed himself to the limit to get where he is.
Listen to the pop at 30:07 and 31:00. The guy was over as hell as a face, he's still getting pops in the UK much stronger than the heels, and IMO the guy is a natural babyface. I understand that he's a great heel now, but he was better as a face.
This. He was never really face. Going into the feud with Hardy he was a tweener who just wanted to be on the same plateau of the biggest star in the company, Jeff Hardy
- Aries was ALWAYS a better heel than face. ROH, TNA, NWA, you name it.
- Calling yourself "the greatest man that ever lived" isn't exactly a natural underdog babyface move, he's a tweener at best.
- He was getting stale as a babyface and the quality of his promo were dropping.
- Aries is great now so...
Well, the things I would have said have been said. And I actually never considered him having "turned" because I remember him saying he didn't need fan adulation even though they were cheering him. I must have missed some things. If you think you're the greatest, then everyone else is less. If they're less, then why would you respect them? Arrogance and benevolence rarely go hand in hand.
Full-on faces are rather tame, which, in my world = :| I honestly wouldn't have really noticed him as much if he was. I find him a natural heel if he had to be strictly one or the other. He just has too much to work with as a heel. His appeal is his cockiness, and he seems to have fun with his more heelish actions. And besides, he has a look about him that says he would steal a woman's purse while she is in the bathroom, especially when he smiles.
One pic where he íntentionally does that expression does not make him a bad guy.
This is the perfect face. TNA doesn't have to overdo it like WWE did with Cena, but this guy is perfectly marketable as a top guy. He has all the tools every top guy has nowadays, except the height, and nobody cares in RL if the top guy is 5'8" or 6'2".
Aries looks very marketable either way. I don't like how he and Roode are so competitive with Chavo and Hernandez though, based on ladder standings they should beat them more easily. I don't want to see Aries drop down the card, he should be a permanent ME player.
Austin Aries is evidently in the unique area known as the tweener zone, much like Samoa Joe, so i wouldn't worry Aries can make anything work, that's how good he is
Why not? From a business standpoint he's the best babyface TNA could ever imagine next to AJ Styles. If you post a picture of Aries, people should instantly know that this guy represents TNA and Aries is the best man for that. Please show me a better face of TNA, there is none.
Or he should be a babyface because outside the Impactzone people are cheering for him in the Impactzone those fans only care about the former WWE, WCW, ECW guys cause most of those people are just tourist that used to watch wrestling...
To be honest his initial face turn was premature. Aries is awesome either way but he wasn't even close to being stale enough as a heel to necessitate a face turn and TNA probably only did it because they wanted to do Roode/Storm at BFG and thus needed someone to take the belt from Roode in order to drop it to Hardy.
I feel like what OP is upset about isn't the heel turn but the fact that the way it was done killed a good deal of the momentum he had built up over the course of an entire year, and frankly, I'm pretty pissed about that too.
However, he is better as a heel.
Fuck TNA for killing AA's momentum, though. Also, fuck them for killing Bully Ray's momentum. Just wanted to throw that in there.
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