Can you give examples of wrestlers? I also am curious if people would consider wrestlers in these types of gimmicks over, or just get heat because of something specific they do or say?
As much as I like him, I feel like Rusev, (especially Jinder now) and others who played the foreign heel thing always got easy heat. All they had to do was say they were prideful to be whatever nationality they were, and say the USA is a dump, and boom, you get crowds cheering USA and going right on the babyface's side.
It's a gimmick that is severely lazy now, after being done for decades, and it's so unoriginal and uninspired at this point.
Agree but I still think some people do it better than others, example: Muhammad Hassan compared to Cesaro when he was trying to do his anti-american gimmick.
any other examples other than foreign heel gimmicks?
Foreign language patriotism-bullshit always works with the US. No offense but Americans are triggered as soon as some sort of foreigner steps inside that ring yelling some shit in a language nobody understands. Every time I see that I'm not sure what I should feel bad for, this type of wrestling "entertainment" or just that American audience for getting so easily triggered. I consider that the worst of the worst.
The foreign heel thing. But I also thought the Real Americans thing when Zeb Coulter had the signs that talked about deporting immigrants and that was pretty cheap heatish too.
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