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Post by ChitownKnight on Apr 13, 2024 20:00:54 GMT -5
Would it work? I know he’s a sleazeball in real life, and he’s been an onscreen sleazeball for the last 25 years, but I can see him temporarily being a face when Roman comes back
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Post by Timeless Hayterade on Apr 13, 2024 20:03:45 GMT -5
He was a Face during Lesnar's 2015-2016 face run. So, it could work.
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Post by Legion on Apr 13, 2024 20:08:03 GMT -5
He's at the point where people will cheer him whatever really.
But face Heyman works best if he leans in to his past and to ECW/Extreme/Hardcore stuff, more a tweener than a pure face.
I dont think he could ever work as a pure babyface.
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Post by Nosnorb on Apr 13, 2024 20:11:59 GMT -5
Just no, just f*** no.
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Post by clc on Apr 13, 2024 20:52:18 GMT -5
Jimmy Hart did it. I think they could find a way to make Heyman a face.
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Post by fg on Apr 13, 2024 20:59:56 GMT -5
He was a Face during Lesnar's 2015-2016 face run. So, it could work. He was also a face in 2005 around the first ONS. |
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Post by Timeless Hayterade on Apr 13, 2024 21:38:51 GMT -5
He was a Face during Lesnar's 2015-2016 face run. So, it could work. He was also a face in 2005 around the first ONS. Very true. |
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Post by Aceorton on Apr 13, 2024 21:53:07 GMT -5
Jimmy Hart did it. I think they could find a way to make Heyman a face. Jimmy Hart did it poorly, though. |
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Apr 13, 2024 22:51:27 GMT -5
No
He's a natural heel. His best bet would be a tweener managing Reigns still as he tries to reign in the feuding bloodline.
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Post by tirtefaa on Apr 13, 2024 23:06:55 GMT -5
He should go from Heyman to Heydude. He should have done this when Lesnar became a cowboy. They could have shot vignettes at Heydude's cattle ranch.
The missed opportunities. 🙁
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Post by Nosnorb on Apr 14, 2024 3:39:00 GMT -5
Would it work? I know he’s a sleazeball in real life, and he’s been an onscreen sleazeball for the last 25 years, but I can see him temporarily being a face when Roman comes back That kind of misses the point of the character that Paulie E plays in The Bloodline. Unlike with Beastie Boy, where he was the hypeman, his job with Roman's crew was as the special counsel to Reigns. He was basically there to say the things that he thought that Roman wanted to hear, and Heyman knew that Roman, deep down was insecure after years of the fans rejecting him and Seth betraying him, Heyman always knew what to say to Reigns. As a face, Roman shouldn't need a dude that is there just to stroke his ego. |
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Post by Cyno on Apr 14, 2024 9:15:24 GMT -5
The only time he works as a face is when he can tap into the ECW nostalgia. Otherwise he's way too natural a sleazebag to not be a heel.
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Post by Hypnosis on Apr 14, 2024 9:55:30 GMT -5
Jimmy Hart did it. I think they could find a way to make Heyman a face. Jimmy Hart did it poorly, though. Now Alex Abrahantes is the modern-day equivalent of face Jimmy Hart in annoyance level. |
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Post by sportatorium on Apr 14, 2024 12:03:37 GMT -5
He really doesn't serve a ton of purpose as a babyface. He does great aligned with top heels as a mouthpiece/advisor etc. They don't have him do enough to really make him truly hateable. I don't watch the shows hoping a babyface gets their hands on him or anything.
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Post by Doo Doo is Worse Than WCW 2000 on Apr 14, 2024 16:26:36 GMT -5
He should go from Heyman to Heydude. He should have done this when Lesnar became a cowboy. They could have shot vignettes at Heydude's cattle ranch. The missed opportunities. 🙁 Paul Howdyman. |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 14, 2024 16:30:40 GMT -5
Eh, I’m not sure about that, but I think Roman needs him as a mouthpiece if Roman is going face but then I’m not sure who’s gonna talk for the Bloodline if Rock isn’t around.
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Post by Evil Homer on Apr 15, 2024 10:01:50 GMT -5
He can work as a anti hero type face, if he was the gm of Raw or SD
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Post by thecrusherwi on Apr 15, 2024 10:13:32 GMT -5
I don't know. Hard to keep that edge as a face. It sort of reminds me of Jim Cornette when he and the Midnight Express turned face in 1988. It was fun for a little while to hear Cornette tear into the Horseman and such, but it quickly just became a pandering, less fun version of the heel Jim Cornette that was interesting to watch. I figure that would be the same with Heyman. It would be fun to hear him cut some scathing promos on The Rock for a babyface Roman Reigns, but it would probably lose stem fast.
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Post by Aceorton on Apr 15, 2024 13:01:14 GMT -5
The role he's in now is about as babyface as he should get, IMO. It's effective storytelling: If a sleazy toad like Heyman is covering his mouth in horror at what the Bloodline is mutating into, then it must be REALLY, REALLY bad. It's like Bobby Heenan being on the WCW side against the nWo. Heenan was never a good guy, so the fact that he was standing with actual babyfaces on the nWo issue really got over how menacing the nWO was. But it wasn't like Heenan started high-fiving fans and leading Sting chants.
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Post by LiamMcDuggle on Apr 15, 2024 13:02:32 GMT -5
Managers are more of a 70's/80's things and I can't even think of any who were faces
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