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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on Mar 7, 2024 16:58:20 GMT -5
Tito Santana is up there as well More of a carne asada babyface.  |
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Post by David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 on Mar 7, 2024 19:11:16 GMT -5
He was briefly during the Filthy Animals period. For the betterment of society, let's pretend as if mid 1999 and onward didn't happen 😂😂 Oh my god.. the horns. |
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Post by johnnyk9 on Mar 7, 2024 19:18:22 GMT -5
Tito Santana is up there as well Yeah I could never see Tito as a heel |
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Post by cassonova on Mar 7, 2024 19:36:23 GMT -5
No one said Ricky Morton yet? For shame.
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Post by Totorob101 on Mar 7, 2024 19:43:08 GMT -5
Think its probably harder on the women's side as people love bitchy and crazy female characters a lot. I'd say Wendi Ricter would be the greatest of the women's side, Becky was more popular as anti hero the man character so not really a white meat face, maybe Bianca Belair to? Trish and lita have never really been good old high five the fans faces eiher.
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Post by King Devitt on Mar 7, 2024 20:49:56 GMT -5
Sting was the best one. He should be the template on how you do it.
Great look, promos, workrate, athleticism, Sting was the complete package.
Hell he was so good even Bret Hart ripped him off! /s
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Post by Urn Anderson on Mar 8, 2024 8:31:05 GMT -5
I’m going with Ricky Steamboat. He never had an “edgy” gimmick, never turned heel, and was able to get over like crazy on the combination of being a good wrestler and a nice guy.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Mar 8, 2024 11:10:30 GMT -5
If we’re disqualifying faces that are usually virtuous but happily tap into a darker or cockier side like face HBK, Okada, Big Match John Cena and face Savage and face Hogan? Then I’d say face Bret, Cody, NXT Bayley, Kofi and Steamboat count.
Those latter five had/have a breaking point where you didn’t want to get on their bad side (especially if you talk bad about Pharaoh) but were/are mostly pure hearted.
Raw face Bayley was an example of “too white meat that they can’t fight back properly”. Surfer Sting was naive, but he wouldn’t put up with that kind of heel BS Alexa Bliss was doing when presented with it.
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Post by Super Nintenjoe KBD on Mar 9, 2024 15:58:02 GMT -5
Current favourite, the Nova Fireball, Francesco Akira.
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Post by Aceorton on Mar 9, 2024 17:08:48 GMT -5
Pre-Model Rick Martel is the definitive white-meat babyface to me: fairly bland personality and more often than not the underdog, but is exciting in the ring and looks like a million bucks, so he naturally gets people behind him.
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Post by yokohamacpfc on Mar 9, 2024 17:41:43 GMT -5
Think its probably harder on the women's side as people love bitchy and crazy female characters a lot. I'd say Wendi Ricter would be the greatest of the women's side, Becky was more popular as anti hero the man character so not really a white meat face, maybe Bianca Belair to? Trish and lita have never really been good old high five the fans faces eiher. Performers: WWF Elizabeth. Active wrestlers: Hugger Bayley, although as you allude to it had a limited lifespan due to the type of women characters that get over and the Alexa Bliss feud exposed the problems of how such a character could be booked long term and resulted in it being binned but it had a good 3-4 year run. |
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Mar 9, 2024 18:02:40 GMT -5
Pre-Model Rick Martel is the definitive white-meat babyface to me: fairly bland personality and more often than not the underdog, but is exciting in the ring and looks like a million bucks, so he naturally gets people behind him. Was coming here to say that. Him and Steamboat are probably tops to me; Sting was great as well, but damn, Ricky Martel was great. |
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Mar 12, 2024 12:32:27 GMT -5
Think its probably harder on the women's side as people love bitchy and crazy female characters a lot. I'd say Wendi Ricter would be the greatest of the women's side, Becky was more popular as anti hero the man character so not really a white meat face, maybe Bianca Belair to? Trish and lita have never really been good old high five the fans faces eiher. Willow is currently the most wholesome babyface in the biz |
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Post by nickcave on Mar 12, 2024 13:07:16 GMT -5
Sting and Steamboat and Rey Mysterio at a distant third
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Mar 14, 2024 14:58:50 GMT -5
Shocked that only one person has mentioned Bret. That's my pick.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Mar 14, 2024 15:25:39 GMT -5
I was having a think about Sting recently, and it wasn't just that he was an arch goodie, he was a cool one too, and that's a very difficult balance to strike. Hulk Hogan's hairline and tache made him look a bit like if someone's dad had taken a load of deca and spent too long at the gym, Steamboat was almost at the point of being a bit too much of a clean cut family man, but Sting was a Venice Beach himbo at a time when Baywatch was all the rage, and then went all dark and brooding when pop culture did, he felt closer to reflecting the cultural zeitgeist than wrestling usually does.
It's hard to think of other white meat babyfaces who were cool like that. Kerry Von Erich and Magnum TA perhaps, who are both worthy mentions in this discussion.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2024 21:50:56 GMT -5
There is no more wholesome babyface woman on this planet than KAIRI.
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Post by Psicofreak667 on Mar 15, 2024 1:05:54 GMT -5
I'm actually going to go outside the box and say something nice about someone who's very unpopular on the board.
Marty Jannetty.
Say what you will about his personal demons and current personality, but he was amazing at getting the fans behind him. He got respectable face pops during his time in the WCW Cruiserweight division in two-minute-long nothing matches, and he had the crowd going berserk for him that time he wrestled Angle on Smackdown in 2005. He got great reactions during his time in CHIKARA too. And that's all without changing his character at all from his Rockers days.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Mar 15, 2024 11:30:51 GMT -5
Pre-Model Rick Martel is the definitive white-meat babyface to me: fairly bland personality and more often than not the underdog, but is exciting in the ring and looks like a million bucks, so he naturally gets people behind him. That thing wrestlers used to do where they’d get fired up, clap their hands, then ball their fists and shake like “C’MON!!”, like a mini Hulk Up? I always picture Martel when I picture that. |
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Post by Urn Anderson on Mar 15, 2024 15:57:26 GMT -5
Tito Santana is up there as well More of a carne asada babyface. Will you stop?! |
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