The Heel-ing Process

A lot of people say that change can be a good thing, and in the world of Professional Wrestling this is certainly true, a change of scenery or a simple change of attitude can bring a person out of obscurity and right into the spotlight.

Look at R-Truth, whose face run on Raw made me give him the name “The Filler” as he was the man they just inserted into many matches or angles to develop a challenger for John Cena, Truth was always the friend of the champion, yet was always overlooked for a title shot, even for the U.S. Title, he was not granted a chance to be considered a main contender, when he was in contendership matches, like the Elimination Chamber, Truth was always the first guy eliminated from them, and usually very quick too. By simply turning Truth into a jealous heel, pushing the PG barrier and stop pleasing all the “Little Jimmy's” out there in the WWE Universe, by doing this, Truth has gone from being a guy who only had a bit part role on Raw to now being the probable next number one contender for the WWE Championship at Capitol Punishment, the man is the same as he was when face but by simply changing his attitude and direction, a grade A heel is born and now Truth has gone to obscurity to the main event of Raw, probably for a while now.

Another good example of this would be Bubba Ray Dudley, AKA Bully Ray, probably one of the best tag team wrestlers in history, yet his WWE singles career was forgetful to say the least, after the TNA switch and Team 3D win 24 tag team titles and they are set to retire from wrestling, BOOM, there's the heel turn by the now Bully Ray, now he may not be the number one contender for the TNA / Impact Wrestling World Heavyweight Title, but, he is being pushed as the biggest heel in that company, and seemingly has Tommy Dreamer as his puppet too. Looking at it this way, when a tag team is split and they have a rivalry, it is always the heel that gets the big push, look back to Strike Force, Rick Martel got “The Model” gimmick and had his “Arrogance”, I still think that Martel could have been used better and should have been a singles champion in WWF. Look at Shawn Michaels, probably the best example of this, The Rockers split on the Barber Shop, Shawn goes on to being, arguably. The greatest star in the history of WWE, and in TNA's case with Team 3D, Bully Ray is the example of this and D-Von is rarely heard of now.

Final person I'm going to use as an example of here will be Mark Henry, Henry was in a worse place on Raw than R-Truth, least Truth would appear on Raw at times, Mark Henry wasn't even appearing on WWE Superstars on a weekly basis, yet draft him over to SmackDown and straight away, he is 1: A heel and 2: Automatically inserted into main event matches and probably number one contendership for the World Heavyweight Title. As I said before, it's not the wrestler changing his moves, they still have the same than what they did before the change, but by simply moving shows or not caring for the fans no more, Wrestlers and Organisations have made something old and stale into something new and fresh, it's something I have come to call, The Heel-ing Process.

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