Tougher Role - Heel or Face?

[Headfirst For Hardcore]

There always has been the heel and the face roles in wrestling, which gives the match its emotion (except in some Japanese companies). both of those need some kind of reaction to succeed, whether it's a good one or a bad one. So, which one is more difficult to pull off?

For faces, they usually can get over with the fans quickly with their gimmick. If that doesn't work, charisma to get the crowd in it can get some plain, boring guy to have the crowd love him. or in some cases, like Evan Bourne, a cool move or just the way someone wrestles will get them over. but sometimes the crowd just doesn't care, like Shelton Benjamin's IC Title Runs.

heels can do the same with faces gimmick wise. something as simple as an anti-american can have fans booing him by his debut. in the ring, simple things like a spit to the face or dirty tactics can get the fans booing too. or a heel can get the "I hate your guts" type of heat by being a crappy wrestler.

so who has the harder job to do, the face or the heel?

 

[Switchy]

I reckon both have their difficulties.

When it comes to being a face, unless you are really bad, there will always be people cheering you but to keep people cheering you as a face, you have to put in more effort to impress the fans. If you are just boring and do the same matches and promo's over and over, the crowd won't like you whereas when your a heel you can be reptitive (to an extent) because that would make the fans dislike you. Also, if your a face then you need to make the fans care about what you do. If you are an underdog face that can be easier but if you have no appeal than it's hopeless.

As a heel it is harder to get fans to boo you at first, most of them will jsut stay quiet and not care but if you know how to pull the strings of the crowd and get them to boo you then once the crowd start to hate you, it gets easier from there onwards. Also when you are a heel minor things like eye rakes and such can make you even more hated compared to when you're a face you may have to do a top rope move which requires way more effort.

I would say being the face is harder, even though it is easier to get a slight reaction, it seems to be quite hard to build that reaction to the extent of being a fan favourite.

 

[chessarmy]

Definitely a babyface, there are always little things that can make a crowd turn on you (see John Cena, Team 3D, and Matt Morgan in some cities). Its also harder to please a crowd without coming off as "lame". As a heel, you just to anything you want basically, its very easy to piss off crowds and draw heat from them. Its also alot easier because you don't need to worry about fans turning on you, or whether or not something will go over well

 

[Moonlight Drive]

Face for sure.

Like Chess said, it's easy to get repetetive and boring as a face. As a heel, youo can get a reaction simply by telling the fans to shut up, which can never get repetetive. Heels do it week after week, just in different ways.

Also, as a heel, you can get a reaction simply by giving someone an eye rake, sticking your arms in the air, going for a cover very slowly, and other simple things like that.

 

[Ballin]

Heel = Face in dificulty.

Heels could easily get cheap heat by coming out arguing with the fans during their entrance and getting on the mic and getting a little cheap heat by bagging on the crowd. Sayings such as "Hicktown", "Rednecks", "Where am I?, etc. will get a crowd going. But yet you will have to back that up in the ring with in-ring pyschology and in-ring tactics.

Faces can get over as the good guy by coming out slapping hands of the fans, signing autographs, and doing creative inovated manueviers (sp?) in the ring. And you gotta keep that up without getting boring.

Both sound easy but would be alot harder in person to pull off.