Heel Report – week 10
As a fan I have always been naturally drawn to cheering for heels and booing faces, now maybe I have the WWE backwards but it just seems to me that heels are far more entertaining to watch, so I have decided to showcase the heels of the WWE in all their cheating and underhanded glory with this weekly heel report.
This week’s top ten:
1st Place: Dolph Ziggler
A show-stealing performance on Smackdown sees Ziggler into the number one spot. Beating Morrison with by “pulling the tights” was a nice touch and attacking Rey from behind set Dolph up for either an IC title shot or as a possible replacement for Edge as one half of the unified tag team champions. Either way it’s a big boost for the platinum playboy. (10/10 points)
2nd Place: Chris Jericho
Another solid effort by Y2J this week. The use of needlessly elaborated vocabulary along with a vicious in-ring style guarantees Jericho a long and happy future in the heel charts. The only question is; what will be his next step now that his partner is injured and out for at least six months. (9/10 points)
3rd Place: Cody Rhodes
The classic heel move of being purposely counted out propels the second generation star up the chart and into third place. While it is understandable against the world’s sweatiest man, the son of the American Dream will have to do a lot more to be in the same place next week. (8/10 points)
4th Place: Randy Orton
Some in-fighting actually did the Legend Killer some good as he stepped up his heel game and didn’t end up being dominated by the kids initiative faces of Monday Night Raw. Now can Orton continue to bounce off the varying guest hosts and raise his profile even further? (7/10 points)
5th Place: C.M. Punk
In a slow week for heels Punk was able to get across a good portion more of his turn and finally went for the “Looking down” angle by targeting Hardy’s demons. No real comeuppance and making valid points for why Hardy shouldn’t be champion in a kid-dominated program gives Punk six points. (6/10 points)
6th Place: Edge
Perhaps the Rated-R superstar’s last hurrah on the chart for awhile. Sidelined with a serious injury means the heel scene on Smackdown has taken a serious blow. Perhaps though this gap will give some other superstars a chance to win multiple World titles in too short a time. (5/10 points)
7th Place: Jack Swagger
A cocky interview gives Swagger a few points this week. I am still waiting for him to truly come out of his shell on Raw though. Let’s hope that a possible feud with MVP will give Swagger the momentum to be propelled into the limelight sometime in the near future. (4/10 points)
8th Place: Zach Ryder
WWE creative seem to be playing the long game with Ryder, giving him momentum but only on their lowest rated show. I’ve heard many people on this site say they don’t even watch Superstars, the headband wearing fool is definitely the reason they should give the show a chance. (3/10 points)
9th Place: Katie Lee Burchill
A new diva emerges on ECW this week, Katie Lee, Paul Burchill free. A faint whiff of Daffney comes across from her but that’s not a scent that the Chelsea native should shy away from. (2/10 points)
10th Place: Ted DiBiase
A confused member of Legacy, hopping between the line of face and heel but never truly landing on the tweener spot brings Dibiase into the chart. Sure he did some face work, but a nasty slap to his father still gave Ted enough momentum to gain 10th place. (1/10 points)
Overall top ten:
* 1st Place – Chris Jericho: 91/100
*2nd Place – Edge: 69/100
*3rd Place – The Miz: 64/100
*4th Place – Dolph Ziggler: 56/100
*5th Place – Randy Orton: 55/100
*6th Place – Jack Swagger: 50/100
*7th Place – C.M. Punk: 18/100
*8th Place – The Big Show: 17/100
*9th Place – Matt Hardy: 17/100
*10th Place – Maryse: 16/100
Weekly Filler:
The Face-Off: John Cena’s Promo on Raw
“Tonight, Monday night raw has transformed itself into Wrestlemania…Tonight you have two of the greatest, doing battle for a ticket, at the WWE championship.” Now first off I don’t care what your opinion is on Cena, to declare yourself to be one of the greatest in this is just arrogant. This guy clearly does believe his own hype. Now it’s fine, some might say it’s even a tradition, to declare yourself the greatest in that Randy Savage type of way; “I’m the greatest and I’m gonna crush everyone else in my path!” That’s just getting yourself and the crowd pumped up for the match. But to say “two of the greatest” like you are talking about it from everyone else’s point of view, Cena is just deluded. He just doesn’t seem to get that he isn’t the voice of the WWE Universe since a good number of that Universe hate his guts, and with good reason. One last thing; a ticket at the WWE championship? If you are going to be a company-man scripted tool, at least get the lines right!
Face the Facts: The Million Dollar Man
I have already heard a lot of praise for Ted DiBiase Sr. but it has all been truly deserved. It would have been predictable to have him as a heel and help out his son, but the writers actually pulled a digit out and wrote around a way to have the latest GM come out as a face. This not only pushed his son into the spotlight a little more but kept all the kids happy, which we should keep in mind will always be the end goal in this PG era we live in. Hitting promos convincingly and selling everything he was given, the Million Dollar Man impressed a lot of people, let’s see if the other special guest GM’s can do the same.
On the Rise: Ezekiel Jackson
I had thought this bull of a man had been sent back to FCW for training so I was supremely surprised to see his brutish form back on my TV screen. I was very glad to see him though as he has one of the most impressive physiques of all the big men I have seen in awhile. I can see big things in this man’s future. The only thing I worry about is that WWE creative won’t have anything to do with him and will just push him to the back of the roster. Here’s an idea; team him up with Shamus, have them win the tag titles, and then have the two powerhouses go from show to show dominating all their weaker opponents. Since the tag team division seems to be of little priority in the WWE at the moment I think there is nothing wrong with handing these two relative newcomers the belts for a few months to raise their profiles. Or maybe a feud with Koslov. Anything apart from a bunch of squash matches followed by one major win and then we hear nothing from him again. How many times have we seen that before? On a side note; where has the Miz disappeared to?
Flat-Footed: Ricky Ortiz
Put simply; jobber or dead weight? You decide.
A somewhat slow week for the heels this week, I feel like a few of them could have been booked better, especially on ECW. Those of you who haven’t been watching Superstars should start if you can, with the exception of Chavo vs. Hornswaggle, if you want real wrestling in the WWE then Superstars is the place to go. Storyline is kept to a bare minimum and it is all sold in the ring. A special mention for Edge who will be out until at least early next year. The Rated-R superstar knows how to wait out an injury but it is just a shame that the Jericho and him as tag champs angle had just started up, I was really looking forward to how that was going to pan out, now it looks like it will just be a simple handover at some point. Hopefully Edge will come back better than ever and perhaps a face turn return like Triple H in 2001? For the sake of the report I hope not but the Canadian superstar certainly has the following to pull it off.
That’s all for now, go back to your tiny straw huts and wait with trembling knees for the next exciting edition of the heel report.
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Ezekiel Jackson should not be teamed with Shamus but with Mark Henry. they would be a much more believable tag team together.
also, Ricky Ortiz could be teamed with Carlito now that Carlito has heel turned.
Where can you wathc Superstars, living in England, I wasn’t aware that we even got it?
You could be right about Ziggler.. This injury of Edges may have come at a great time for him, he could just be in the right place at the right time.
I either find a download or just get the clips from WWE.com
Next week the heel is going to Carlito
Personally I don’t rate Carlito’s heel turn, he did it before with Ric Flair and it didn’t really get him anywhere. When he first came in I thought that Carlito had some mic skills and personality, now after years of the same thing (just like Cena who he feuded with at first) I’m not so sure.
As for Jackson and Henry as a tag team, I’m not really sure why that would be more believeable, especially since Henry is on a different show now. I wouold just like to see some new talent with the belts since they obviously don’t mean that much…although I suppose you could argue that the WWE were trying to make them mean something before Edge’s injury. But now that’s happened I reckon they should take the belts in a new direction. Give them to ECW superstars so the other shows can occasionally get a look at the WWE’s newest stars and give the show some actual gold since there is a shortage at the moment.
How about Benjamin and Jackson as a team? I’m sure they could work some kind of angle for that and as a team the mix in styles would be interesting to see.
How about a heel turn from Triple H to team up with The Big Show to fight against Mark Henry and Ezekiel Jackson. That way viewers would stop getting Randy Orton stuffed down their throats and actually see Big Show as something other than that of a “bully.”
The main problem I have with this Henry-Jackson idea, apart from that I don’t think it would be an interesting team, is that they are not on the same show. Sure champions can go to any show but they have to start off on the same one to win the titles, unless the WWE pulls a special angle, which would kind of cheapen the whole brand extension thing even further.
Cheers for the comment on Superstars Keelan, I shall have a looksy.