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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Dec 19, 2014 17:40:20 GMT -5
I remember several years ago reading about an indie show that featured Tom Brandi vs Greg Valentine in the main event. Brandi came out first, playing the face and got a decent response. Valentine came out playing the heel and the crowd went nuts. They got in the ring and before the bell, the crowd started chanting "Greg The Hammer!"
Brandi called an audible, bailed out of the ring, grabbed the house mic, and berated the crowd for cheering against him when he'd gone out of his way to be nice to them. Greg was solidly the face and picked up the win.
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Post by The Trashman on Dec 19, 2014 17:46:13 GMT -5
Wrestlemania 18 - Hogan vs Rock. They did not expect Hogan to be cheered that big. To this day I don't believe this. They can't seriously have thought Hogan would be booed there? And against Rock? Either that or they're dumber than I thought. Hogan had just spent the past 5 years as a mega-heel so its not that stupid. |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 20, 2014 12:43:16 GMT -5
Foley writes in his first book about turning on the Sullivans, which was meant to keep him heel and turn them face, but fans hated Evad and Kevin so much that Mick became the face by accident.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 20, 2014 12:44:24 GMT -5
To this day I don't believe this. They can't seriously have thought Hogan would be booed there? And against Rock? Either that or they're dumber than I thought. Hogan had just spent the past 5 years as a mega-heel so its not that stupid. No he hadn't. He'd been a babyface for well over a year in his in WCW before he walked out at BATB 2000. |
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Post by Mid-Carder on Dec 20, 2014 12:46:14 GMT -5
To this day I don't believe this. They can't seriously have thought Hogan would be booed there? And against Rock? Either that or they're dumber than I thought. Hogan had just spent the past 5 years as a mega-heel so its not that stupid. He's Hulk Hogan, in his first live WWF match in 9 years, in front of a massive crowd. There was no way he was being booed there. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2014 12:48:18 GMT -5
One of the saddest, but most hilarious examples.
Paul Orndorff at the 2005 Hall of Fame telling the crowd not to call him "Paula", which breaks out in a big "Hogan" chant. Then Paul smugly starts bragging to Steve Austin and Kurt Angle and the crowd about how easy it is to manipulate people... "all the way to the bank".
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2014 15:57:29 GMT -5
Steamboat/Flair during the part of their decades-long off-and-on feud where they had Steamboat carting out his wife and toddler to the ring. He was doing the upstanding, white hat hero bit while Flair was still surrounded by floozies, and the crowds turned on him, siding with the partying Flair instead. Or Ricky's feud with Lex Luger. (Yes, people cheered arrogant Lex over Rick. Vader, I understand, Vader was cool and a wrecking machine. Not Lex.) I saw a WCW PPV where the Skyscrapers kicked the Dynamic Dudes collective asses and the place went bonkers. Roddy Piper getting cheered after his fight with Mr. T. |
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Post by eDemento2099 on Dec 21, 2014 3:30:27 GMT -5
No, they were supposed to be heels. Their first appearance had them interrupting Mick Foley talking about Tribute to the Troops. And then they started interrupting other people's segments to the point where Muhammad Hassan's interruptions actually became a meme because of how their music was so apt for interrupting things. (Anyone remember YTMND? They were all over it at one point.) They were heels because they were so obnoxious with how they were spreading their message, not because of the message. That's pretty weak, though. Austin's music would interrupt things and he'd run out and beat people up for no reason and he didn't get booed. The dude was evil because he was a Muslim, and everything else was just stuff they threw in to try to get away with it. Cheering JR and King saying "Love it or leave it!" is terrible no matter tha context, and chanting "USA" at a character who was himself American is even worse. So... the fans reacted exactly how they were supposed to react; it was just all terrible. The stuff carp said about the audience and the colour commentators is what I remember about Muhammad Hassan and how his protests for racial equality were received. Glad to know I'm not the only one who felt that WWE's audience and commentators were celebrating blind racism and condemning someone for daring to protest it. |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 21, 2014 12:31:19 GMT -5
"Die Rocky Die."
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