Eddie's heel turn

[Kevin Hamilton]

So just got through watching the promo from Smackdown after he'd beat down Rey the previous week. You can find it on YTube. It's the one where he puts the chair in the ring and delivers a ten minute speech talking about why he'd attacked Mysterio the week before, and advising him to not return.

Forget about the kinda silly battle for custody of Dominic that came later; the turn itself and the promo he gave is riveting, just how abrupt the switch was from happy go lucky Latino Heat to violent and vengeful. When he's talking to Rey's mask he sounds borderline psycho.. just a great great turn.

As I said, wasn't a fan of how the feud turned out with the Rey's kid storyline, but the matches and especially this setup-- brilliant. In this one promo Eddie put himself in another stratosphere as far as I'm concerned; and it's such a shame he wouldn't be around for a whole lot longer afterward so we could see more.

[lildude8218]

Personally I wanted a rehash of the Raven/Sandman storyline where Eddie does get custody of the kid and brainwashes him in the process. I'd even have them stop feuding for a while but it slowly drives Mysterio mad and he becomes a pissed off little dog that just won't quit going after someone.


I also hated the timing of this heel turn because Eddie was heeling it up at One Night Stand and I felt that it ruined his match with Benoit there instead of him dropping the angle for a night to just go do a straight up match.

[Evil Homer]

Imagine if Eddie were alive today with Vickie as his manager, would have him over the biggest heel.

[dc09]

The Eddie heel turn gave us some pretty great stuff, love their cage match from Smackdown

[Fade]

Dec 23, 2010 15:34:08 GMT -5 lildude8218 said:

Personally I wanted a rehash of the Raven/Sandman storyline where Eddie does get custody of the kid and brainwashes him in the process. I'd even have them stop feuding for a while but it slowly drives Mysterio mad and he becomes a pissed off little dog that just won't quit going after someone.


I also hated the timing of this heel turn because Eddie was heeling it up at One Night Stand and I felt that it ruined his match with Benoit there instead of him dropping the angle for a night to just go do a straight up match.

Never thought Eddie was "Heeling it up" in that match..I thought he legitimately got frustrated and pissed off. From a lot of shoots, interviews, seems like this happened to him quite a bit. Especially as his heart began to get the best of him.

[lildude8218]

Dec 23, 2010 17:39:36 GMT -5 Fade said:

Dec 23, 2010 15:34:08 GMT -5 lildude8218 said:

Personally I wanted a rehash of the Raven/Sandman storyline where Eddie does get custody of the kid and brainwashes him in the process. I'd even have them stop feuding for a while but it slowly drives Mysterio mad and he becomes a pissed off little dog that just won't quit going after someone.


I also hated the timing of this heel turn because Eddie was heeling it up at One Night Stand and I felt that it ruined his match with Benoit there instead of him dropping the angle for a night to just go do a straight up match.

Never thought Eddie was "Heeling it up" in that match..I thought he legitimately got frustrated and pissed off. From a lot of shoots, interviews, seems like this happened to him quite a bit. Especially as his heart began to get the best of him.

he came out and didn't look like he wanted to be there at all before the match ever started, i wasn't even talking about during the match.

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Dec 23, 2010 16:21:23 GMT -5 Evil Homer said:

Imagine if Eddie were alive today with Vickie as his manager, would have him over the biggest heel.

Would be interesting but I don't think Vickie would get anywhere the same level of heat if Eddie was still alive.

[Deleted]

I remember there was a promo before the promo where he explained himself where he basically came out and stared at the booing audience for like ten minutes, and left without saying a word. It's gotta be a talent to be able to go out there, say nothing at all and still be compelling.

I thought the entire feud was great, it was really over the top with the custody stuff, but Eddie and Rey were too good in their roles for me to put it down.

[Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill]

What I remember from that feud is when Eddie came out for 'storytime" and decided to explain his relationship to Dominic or something(can't remember the whole thing) and Eddie came out with a chair, sat in the chair, and had all the lights except his own spotlight go out then proceeded to cut one of the most disturbing promos ever(althugh I sadly cannot remember the details).

[And_5400]

I absoutely hated the custody angle so much I almost stopped watching SD. Almost. The heel turn however was great and loved the evil version of Lie, Cheat and Steal. Just shows how good Eddie really was. He could play fun-loving, cheating Face one minute and play psycho, pissed off Heel the next.

[rapidfire187]

For all the things Eddie gets remembered for, I think his promo ability is sadly underrated.

[BRAINFADE]

Just watched the promo again.



God, i miss Eddie

[Vice honcho room temperature]

Dec 23, 2010 20:29:56 GMT -5 @irontyger said:

Dec 23, 2010 16:21:23 GMT -5 Evil Homer said:

Imagine if Eddie were alive today with Vickie as his manager, would have him over the biggest heel.

Would be interesting but I don't think Vickie would get anywhere the same level of heat if Eddie was still alive.

Well Vickie got to the level she got to when she was attached to Edge as GM or whatever she was at that time. So I think that Eddie was just as over as Edge either way so I think she could have gotten heat with a heel Eddie or turning on a face Eddie. They would have made it work if its a running thread for years. But if Eddie was alive I doubt she would have wanted to go on the road and leave their kids alone