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Originally Posted by Destor
heel might take one bump in the shine. maybe, you can easily get into the heat without it but one good bump before you start the heat is usually the way to go. then a few bumps on the comeback. unless youre doing bump and feed stuff 3-5.
the baby? he's going to bump in the shine (especially with things like monkey see monkey do spots) and the comeback (youre both going to bump at that point) plus youre going to bump him a dozen times during the heat. everytime you feed him hope youre going to cut him off and bump him.
being a baby is bumping and selling. thats the gig.
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Not more than a heel, man. In the shine, the heel is taking the flat backs on the armdrags, hiptosses, dropkicks, or just plain getting his ass kicked. In the heat, the face can get bumped around a lot, but he doesn't have to - you can work in such a way that you can get beaten up and move around and fight without having to take too many bumps. Selling yes, bumping you can work around. BUT in the comeback and home stretch, there's no option - the heel has to bump huge to pay everything off.
To move this back to Austin, he bumped far harder and far more as a heel than a babyface. There are extreme cases like taking 10 germans from Benoit on Smackdown to point to, but as a rule, he was far more of a pinball than his babyface tenure. The babyface can get away with selling realistically and not having to take a ton of impacts because its about trying to get the audience to sympathise, you want them to understand, whereas the heel's job is be the guy to bump big to pay off the crowd's energy and investment up to that point.