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Heat. Plain and simple.
It's extremely hard these days to generate true heat. You like who you like and hate who you hate no matter what role they're playing. A problem with that is it elicits mixed reactions from the audience.
Heels have become more anti-hero heels that get as much cheers than boos from people. Modern examples of this are Kevin Owens and Alexa Bliss, with Steve Austin in the old days. This is the true reason for the emergence of Roman Reigns as a hated face, and now Jinder Mahal as champ. It seems that the only way you can get true old school heat on a wrestler these days is through the 'I don't think you deserve to be booked where you're at' heat.
People want Reigns to become a heel, but then he might actually get some cheers. He might become an anti-hero. But that's not what's trying to do. Smarks and other fans don't realize that he's doing what he's doing in order to generate heat from people that he won't get if he becomes a heel. And they got enough of those people, like the wrestlers I previously mentioned.
This is an excerpt from Stone Cold's podcast interview of Shane Helms(The Hurricane) about what I'm trying to explain.
It's extremely hard these days to generate true heat. You like who you like and hate who you hate no matter what role they're playing. A problem with that is it elicits mixed reactions from the audience.
Heels have become more anti-hero heels that get as much cheers than boos from people. Modern examples of this are Kevin Owens and Alexa Bliss, with Steve Austin in the old days. This is the true reason for the emergence of Roman Reigns as a hated face, and now Jinder Mahal as champ. It seems that the only way you can get true old school heat on a wrestler these days is through the 'I don't think you deserve to be booked where you're at' heat.
People want Reigns to become a heel, but then he might actually get some cheers. He might become an anti-hero. But that's not what's trying to do. Smarks and other fans don't realize that he's doing what he's doing in order to generate heat from people that he won't get if he becomes a heel. And they got enough of those people, like the wrestlers I previously mentioned.
This is an excerpt from Stone Cold's podcast interview of Shane Helms(The Hurricane) about what I'm trying to explain.