Message-ID: 

Best Heel                               

Award Description:

To be given to the person who was the best villain this past year. This
person should bring out the fans' wrath. Match quality is not paramount
here; this award should be based primarily on how over the wrestler was in
the past year.

Previous Winners:

  1990: Ted DiBiase
  1991: Cactus Jack Manson
  1992: Jake Roberts
  1993: Big Van Vader
  1994: Bob Backlund
  1995: Big Van Vader
  1996: Steve Austin (Ring Master)
  1997: Shawn Michaels
  1998: Mr. McMahon (Vince McMahon)
  1999: Triple H
  2000: Triple H
  2001: Stone Cold Steve Austin
  2002: Kurt Angle

**2003**: Chris Jericho

133 first place votes
132 second place votes
130 third place votes

 39 25 14  298   Chris Jericho
  7 11 20  109   John Cena
 12  8  7   98   Triple H
  9  7 15   96   Rock
 10  9  9   95   Brock Lesnar
  8  7 11   83   Matt Hardy
  7  8  5   69   Vince McMahon
 10  4  0   62   Kurt Angle
  5  6  2   47   CM Punk
  4  3  3   35   Eddie Guerrero
  2  2  9   34   Kane
  1  7  3   32   Christian
  3  4  1   29   Randy Orton
  1  4  3   23   Tajiri
  1  4  1   19   Steve Corino
  1  3  2   18   Jonathan Coachman
  1  2  3   17   Christopher Daniels
  1  1  3   14   Big Show
  1  2  1   13   Ric Flair
  0  2  2   10   Teddy Long
  1  0  2    9   Victoria
  1  1  0    8   Tadao Yasuda
  0  2  1    8   Katsushi Takemura
  1  0  1    7   Kazunari Murakami
  0  1  2    7   Eric Bischoff
  1  0  0    5   Test
  1  0  0    5   Slim J
  1  0  0    5   Nikki Strychnine
  1  0  0    5   Mr. Gannosuke
  1  0  0    5   Gail Kim
  1  0  0    5   Dr. Wagner Jr.
  1  0  0    5   Cade Sydal
  0  1  1    5   Satanico
  0  1  1    5   Paul Heyman
  0  0  2    4   Don Callis
  0  1  0    3   Trent Acid
  0  1  0    3   Stevie Richards
  0  1  0    3   Shaniqua
  0  1  0    3   Koji Kanemoto
  0  1  0    3   Kintaro Kanemura
  0  1  0    3   Jeff Jarrett
  0  1  0    3   Butcher
  0  0  1    2   Molly Holly
  0  0  1    2   Messiah
  0  0  1    2   Mat Maniac
  0  0  1    2   Jushin Liger
  0  0  1    2   Doug Basham
  0  0  1    2   Agent Steele (IPW Florida)

C FRARACCI: No one can get a crowd going quite like Cena and his raps are
hilarious and the highlight of Smackdown. Matt Hardy, who knew he'd be the
star of the team. Jeff had the moves but Matt has the personality. I love
the Mattitude gimmick, deserves a lot more credit then he gets. Christian
is another who can garner heat without even trying.

PAUL ZOROVICH: John Cena's gimmick change has helped him tremendously.  
He's the most over heel in WWE right now.  HHH plays the part so well that
it's hard to think of him any other way now.

JON RICHARDSON: Best Heel this year was easily Chris Jericho.  When the
crowd wanted to cheer him, he went out of his way to get hated.  When he
was already hated, he went over the top to be even more hated.  He quickly
made the Highlight Reel the most entertaining part of Raw, all be being an
ass.

CRIMEFIGHTER:  John Cena's raps are things you love to hate.

YNAE316: Vince McMahon wins best heel by default because, sadly, he's the
one person who has the biggest push.  As far as real wrestlers go, Jericho
turned in the best heel performance this year.  Triple H was booked the
stronger heel so I give him third place, but I found Jericho's act way
better that Trips.

JOSH MANN: The fact that the Rock's heel run only lasted from February to
April and he STILL would get consideration as best heel of 2003 speaks
volumes over what a magnificent heel run it truly was. Had he stuck around
al year, it would have been no contest. He turned every catchphrase he
ever used on its ear, he made it a point to make sure that he would play
the heel at all times and was the most dominating presence every time he
was around, as opposed to a HHH, who needs to be a dominant presence by
push and force of will, as opposed to Rocky doing it without having to
work all that hard to do it.

MATTHEW HOCKING:  How sad is it that the best heel on Smackdown is Vince
McMahon?  It's not the booker's fault either.  Brock Lesner is just not
convincing as a face or a heel when he's left alone, and Kurt Angle is too
popular to be a heel, but not that interesting as a face.  The two best
heels on Smackdown this year (outside McMahon) were John Cena and Eddie
Guererro, who were also the show's top faces at the time.  Big Show made a
run at the list, but Jericho and HHH have been the most convincing heels
for the longest amount of time in the voting period, so they get the nod.

SCOTT CHRIST: Well the real vote here is Vince McMahon, since he is out of
this world, but I like to stick to wrestlers for wrestler awards. No one
was in Lesnar's league as a heel this year. The brutal annihilations of
Spanky and Zach Gowen, and his turn itself, were pulled off wonderfully.
He works well on either side, but was a show-saving heel this year for the
SmackDown side. If his turn hadn't panned out, they were really stuck.
Second place to Tajiri, third to John Cena.

JOHN DONALDSON:  As much as I despise non-wrestlers or part-time wrestlers
taking the spotlight away from the everyday wrestlers, they've done a
better job at being heels than those that wrestle all the time.  If
there's one thing that Vince is good at, it's coming across evil on the
camera.

THE CUBS FAN: Rock's problem is that he's so entertaining of a heel that
he ends up turning face before long (and he's not as good at being a face
except for being the Rock.) Which doesn't help a lot in this category.

RICK SCAIA: Chris Jericho continues to astound me with his ability to say
and to do clever things, but then press the right buttons to keep fans
booing him. The creation of "The Highlight Reel" provided him the perfect
outlet to flex those heel muscles this year, and he's head and shoulders
above all others. The "Real" Brock Lesnar developed really well after his
mid-year heel turn, and seemed very comfortable and convincing in his
diatribes; an altogether more effective heel package than his mute "Next
Big Thing" gimmick in 2002. I don't care that he was only here for 3
months, The Rock gets my #3 vote; as annoying as he was as a fan favorite
in 2002, he was pure gold as a heel in this run, and made everybody around
him better for it.

RYAN FAULCONER: CM Punk is such a great heel.  The talent he has cannot be
taught.  You need to be born with it so he gets first.  Steve Corino can
work the ROH crowd so that is good enough for second.  Kazunari Murakami
is still a maniac and gets third.

--
Christopher Robin Zimmerman   |    moderator, rec.sport.pro-wrestling.info
WWW: CRZ.net | AIM: SeeOurZed | co-moderator, rec.sport.pro-wrestling.moderated
--
©2003 CRZ[tm]


--- Internet Rex 2.29