Idea: A wrestling company where every wrestler is a heel

[Dolph'sZiggler]

I doubt it'd seem that much different from any other wrestling promotion, at least after awhile. As pointed out, you'd still have people getting cheered and others getting booed, so in the end, it would still work on the same logic that normal wrestling works at (fans hate certain guys, so they pay money to see the guys they like kick their asses), the difference only being that if everyone had the persona of a heel and would do anything to hurt the other guy (cheat, attack his girlfriend, try to run him over with a car, etc.) then everyone would seem too similar. It would be interesting for awhile, but it would eventually lose it's 'luster.' The Attitude Era worked a lot on this kind of logic, where someone like Austin (as an example) was more of an anti-hero than a straight up goody two-shoes good guy, but he was still a clearly defined babyface because the fans cheered for him and booed the guys he feuded with.

The attitude era still had clearly defined faces and heels though because a lot of the heels were just overbearing good guys (ala Dustin Runnels run as the bible thumping woe is me guy who lost his wife to 'good guy porn star' Val VEnis, Right to Censor just wanted to clean up the vulgarity in the industry, ect)

As for your first part of everything being too similar... I disagree. There are TONS of different types of heel characters to portray, even though WWE has conditioned you to think there is only 1 (the chicken shit heel)

 

[Zach]

That would be epic I think

 

[Lockard 23]

The attitude era still had clearly defined faces and heels though because a lot of the heels were just overbearing good guys (ala Dustin Runnels run as the bible thumping woe is me guy who lost his wife to 'good guy porn star' Val VEnis, Right to Censor just wanted to clean up the vulgarity in the industry, ect)

As for your first part of everything being too similar... I disagree. There are TONS of different types of heel characters to portray, even though WWE has conditioned you to think there is only 1 (the chicken shit heel)

The top heels were certainly people who fans hated though because they were so good at being assholes or being flat out despicable. Vince, Rock, Triple H, Undertaker, etc. And there are different heel personalities, but having more traditional babyface personas still adds more variety to the whole thing.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

The top heels were certainly people who fans hated though because they were so good at being assholes or being flat out despicable. Vince, Rock, Triple H, Undertaker, etc. And there are different heel personalities, but having more traditional babyface personas still adds more variety to the whole thing.

Vince, yes.

Rock, not really. He was hated when he debuted as a cliche underdog babyface slapping hands and never giving up. The fans turned him heel and he turned into a hilarious quick talking badass and they loved him for it. He was getting turned face by the crowd after turning heel and only turned back heel when they did the double turn with Foley when Vince turned on him.

Triple H was a dick, but mostly getting hated on because he was going up against crowd favorites like SCSA or Rock

Undertaker had a super original gimmick when he turned heel and was basically a cult leader. Of course he would get heat when he's doing things like crucifying SCSA

That's the point. You have varying levels of heels and different types of heels. Yes, faces add variety, but this idea would be original and could change things up a lot from the status quo.

 

[Tumbas' #1 Fan]

IWT at it's finest............. Dolph's... you are a psychic.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

IWT at it's finest............. Dolph's... you are a psychic.

Forget all that, did you see the post right above you where I totally humbled @KLockard23

no fucking retort! boom, headshot!

 

[Tumbas' #1 Fan]

Forget all that, did you see the post right above you where I totally humbled @KLockard23

no fucking retort! boom, headshot!

Dolph's - Shitting on Lockard since 2012

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

if you were fishing for a like it totally worked

 

[Tumbas' #1 Fan]

if you were fishing for a like it totally worked

Fuck yes!