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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: Chris Jericho

Not one to take second place lightly Jericho came back this week to grab the top spot with an amazing display of classic heel antics on the mic and in the ring. His shouts at Edge in their match this week about Smackdown being his show translated to Jericho marking his heel territory and led me to cry out SMACKDOWN IS JERICHO!!!

(10/10 points)

2nd Place: Randy Orton

The viper was back on form this week as Raw’s top heel; bragging, plotting and insulting his way to second place. Using the rest o f Legacy as diversions he managed to get over as a major heel even while Batistia is being pushed as a serious contender for his title. Although injured by The Animal at the end of Raw don’t think he won’t be back on top form next week. (9/10 points)

3rd Place: Jack Swagger

Coming in third for two straight weeks is the All American American from Oklahoma. Although Christian attempted to embarrass him with childish footage he came back with biting personal insults and the classic heel move of walking away from an open invitation to fight, giving him extra heat from the crowd. (8/10 points)

4th Place: The Miz

The Miz shamelessly milked his anti-Cena angle for all it’s worth this week. His brash and cocky attitude, as well as an actual attack on Cena this week with no comeuppance, means that ‘The Chick Magnet’ gets an attractive seven points. Let’s just hope he has something to fall back on when Cena leaves to film his next *cough* movie.

(7/10 points)

5th Place: Edge

The Rated-R Superstar dropped down the chart this week as being matched up with Jericho, who showed just exactly who the best heel is on Smackdown. Try as he might Edge just couldn’t out-heel Jericho and so the fans looked to him as the “goodie” in their match, severely lowering his heel points for the week. (6/10 points)

6th Place: Mark Henry

The world’s strongest man shook off his usual slump this week and like a bear disturbed from hibernation he went on a heel rampage, dominating opponents to a mass of boos from the audience. This severe crowd hatred helped Henry to claw his way into sixth place. (5/10 points)

7th Place: Tyson Kidd

A shrill voice and stupid haircut means Tyson Kidd doesn’t have to do much to be booed by the fans but the newcomer to ECW stepped his game up this week with a couple of vicious Shillelagh shots to Finlay. Along with forming of ‘The Hart Trilogy’, this could be the start of something big for the pink wearing whiner. (4/10 points)

8th Place: The Big Show

Experience shows this week as a match against Hornswaggle, which could have been as dull as the ones the leprechaun had against Khali, actually saw the world’s largest athlete put on a good display of his malicious side. He earned three points for his trouble and proved that no one knows how to play the menacing giant like he does. (3/10 points)

9th Place: Maryse

French talking, ref mocking and general snobby diva action keeps Maryse in the chart this week. She comes in ninth, proving that selling your gimmick is much more important than winning your matches. (2/10 points)

10th Place: Matt Hardy

A couple of cheap shots by Kofi Kingston keeps hardy’s momentum down this week despite the great heel spots of a cast shot and walking out on his own partner. A disappointing one point for Raw’s most promising new heel, let’s hope he can grab some more points next week, even if he does it with only one hand. (1/10 points)

Every week I will be adding up the heels past scores against the total score possible to come up the overall top ten heels in the company. So since there have been two weeks of a possible ten points up for grabs the score this week is out of a possible twenty;

Overall Top Ten:

* 1st Place – Chris Jericho: 19/20
* 2ndPlace – Edge: 16/20
* 3rd Place – Jack Swagger: 16/20
* 4th Place – Randy Orton: 13/20
* 5th Place – The Miz: 13/20
* 6th Place – Dolph Ziggler: 7/20
* 7th Place – Matt Hardy: 6/20
* 8th Place – The Big Show: 6/20
* 9th Place – Mark Henry: 5/20
* 10th Place – Tyson Kidd: 4/20

Weekly Filler:

The Face-Off: John Morrison’s face turn

This has to be the worst face turn I have seen in awhile. I really liked Morrison as a heel, he was brash and arrogant but with ring skills to back it up. Now he just looks like a self-praising poser, which he is but that shouldn’t be a good thing for a face. His mic skills are down as positive face comments sound weak and forced coming from him and his new allegiances are unbelievable since he has spent the better part of two years ripping into every face in the company on the hilarious ‘dirt sheet’. Todd Grisham saying; “Old rivals found a mutual respect for one another.” out of the blue to explain why suddenly Punk and Morrison are happily working together after they only recently feuded over the tag team titles is not good enough in my books. It just looks poor and I don’t believe that this face turn will ultimately give Morrison any real popularity boost, which is a shame because I think he really deserves to be higher up.

Face the Facts: Santino and Santina Marella

I believe this face turn came at the right time as Santino has been steadily gaining popularity with his antics, despite being involved in the slap in the face that is ‘Miss Wrestlemania’. It’s also hard to pull off a convincing job of being a heel if you spend half your time in drag, although Goldust might have something to say about that!

On the Rise: ‘The’ Brian Kendrick

Making people take notice on Raw this week is Brian Kendrick. After an unsuccessful debut the under-sized wonder in the over-sized jacket learnt from his mistakes and avoided the Back Cracker this week to get the win and proclaimed that he would be finding himself a partner adding an air of anticipation to his next appearance.

Flat Footed: Mike Knox

Yes for those of you who read last week’s column I am going after Mike Knox again. How do you boost your heel presence? Well I can tell you how you don’t; have the same match you had last week that was dull and pointless, but this time do even less to make yourself look like a dominating powerhouse heel and lose! Any win this guy gets is a waste of momentum and any loss just proves how useless he is at coming across as a heel worth any attention.

That’s it for the heel report for this week, here’s hoping that at Judgement Day; Cena got squashed, Hardy got Speared, Batista got RKO’d and Rey Mysterio was turned into a pretzel in The Walls of Jericho!

If you’d like to comment on the heel report or if you disagree with any of my decisions then feel free to below.

*An additional note; since I watch the WWE from merry old England and the PPVs’ air here at 1am, they fall into Monday rather than Sunday. Therefore the results for Judgment Day will be factored into next week’s report.