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Old 03-29-2016, 03:56 AM   #24190
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Originally Posted by Vito Cruz View Post
And I have to say, I want a reason to cheer Reigns. In fact I want reasons to cheer all the faces and boo all of the heels.

But at this point I think so many of the faces being booed isn't the crowd trying to be edgy as much as it is that most of the faces are written like complete assholes.
And why crowds warm up to people like New Day AFTER they went full heel. They sucked ass as a face stable because that gimmick was not going to work as a face gimmick in this day and age; it reeked of being hokey and disingenuous. Playing up said hokiness and disingenuous... ness is what made them effective heels, which, in turn made them popular because it gave them personality people could get behind.

I mean the feud in ROH between Dalton Castle and Silas Young; the face and the heel dynamic there would have been totally the other way not even 15 years ago. If those two were in WWE, Vince would have still likely tried to make Dalton the heel, and only begrudgingly altered this plan when it was clearly not working because the crowds aren't instantly homophobic anymore.
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