5 Wrestlers who were far better as Babyfaces than Heels
Disclaimer: This article is the opinion of the author and doesn't necessarily represent Sportskeeda's views
In my previous article, I talked about how some wrestlers/characters are bound to fit a particular mould and cannot be repackaged and presented as anything else. I talked about WWE Superstars who were far better as heels than as babyfaces. Like everything, there's a flipside to this as well as there are wrestlers who have fared far better as Babyfaces than as Heels.
So for every Randy Orton or Edge, there will be a John Cena who has always been the good guy. Because some characters are built a certain way (or sometimes because of a lack of flexibility on the wrestler's part) there are only a few fixed ways in which a particular character can be portrayed and made to work.
That is exactly what happens with some characters as sometimes both the characters and the fans suffer from inertia and the change is not welcomed as well as anticipated.
#1 Stone Cold Steve Austin
Stone Cold, ever since he turned face in the match against Bret Hart, built up a character of a tough no-frills redneck who didn't care about anyone or anything around him and he played that character to perfection every time he walked down the ramp.
Throughout his prime, he was a face/tweener and it worked pretty well with the character that he was portraying. In between though there were two separate occasions where he turned heel, once against The Rock during their second match at WrestleMania and then later in his career as a cowardly heel in his feud against Kurt Angle (the second instance tanked horribly).
But with the persona that Stone Cold portrayed it was just too tough to accept him as a heel and it never really got as over with the crowd as the "Texas Rattlesnake" gimmick.