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Worst Babyface                          

Award Description:

To be given to the person whose casting as a good guy just didn't work
well. Maybe there was just no face heat drawn or maybe the fans actually
booed this person, but for whatever reason the face image just didn't get
over.

Previous Winners:

  1990: Dusty Rhodes
  1991: P.N. News
  1992: Sid Justice
  1993: Lex Luger
  1994: Hulk Hogan
  1995: Hulk Hogan
  1996: John Tenta
  1997: Rocky Maivia
  1998: Warrior
  1999: Hulk Hogan
  2000: Hulk Hogan
  2001: "The One" Billy Gunn
  2002: Triple H

**2003**: Stephanie McMahon / Scott Steiner (tie)

129 first place votes
126 second place votes
119 third place votes

 19 13 10  154   Stephanie McMahon
 18 16  8  154   Scott Steiner
 18  6  9  126   Billy Gunn
 13 13 11  126   Kevin Nash
  9  6  6   75   Jeff Jarrett
  8  7  7   75   Nathan Jones
  9  4  2   61   Brock Lesnar
  4  8  6   56   Shane McMahon
  6  3  5   49   Zach Gowen
  2  8  6   46   Gail Kim
  5  1  4   36   Goldberg
  2  5  4   33   Bradshaw
  3  2  5   31   Test
  1  6  2   27   Rikishi
  2  3  2   23   Rhyno
  1  2  6   23   Linda McMahon
  2  2  3   22   Lance Storm
  1  3  0   14   Kurt Angle
  1  1  2   12   Mr. America (Hulk Hogan)
  0  0  6   12   Undertaker
  1  2  0   11   Maven
  1  1  1   10   Jamie Noble
  0  1  3    9   Rosey
  1  0  1    7   Shawn Michaels
  1  0  1    7   Kid Lightning
  1  0  0    5   Gran Markus Jr.
  0  1  1    5   Val Venis
  0  1  1    5   Rey Mysterio
  0  1  1    5   Billy Kidman
  0  1  0    3   Steve Austin
  0  1  0    3   Stacey Keibler
  0  1  0    3   Roddy Piper
  0  1  0    3   Raven
  0  1  0    3   Mat Maniac
  0  1  0    3   Mark Madison
  0  1  0    3   Erik Watts
  0  1  0    3   Chris Benoit
  0  0  1    2   Tajiri
  0  0  1    2   Sable
  0  0  1    2   Orlando Jordan
  0  0  1    2   John Cena
  0  0  1    2   Homicide
  0  0  1    2   Dusty Rhodes

REJECTED - tag teams are ineligible for this award

  0  1  0        Dudley Boyz
  0  1  0        America's Most Wanted

HACK-MAN: While it would be tempting to list three random McMahons as
Worst Babyfaces, I went with Jeff Jarrett, Stephanie McMahon, and
Undertaker.

C FRARACCI: Billy Gunn has been given to many chances, face facts he
sucks. The man should not even have a job at this point. His best years
were with Road Dogg. Good guy Billy was boring and hopefully he doesn't
come back. Rhyno and Tajiri are much better as heels, they're both vicious
and tough and should be ass kickers.

PAUL ZOROVICH:  Yet another category where there are too many to choose
from.  Let's go with Nathan Jones here, as I can't bring myself to care
about him.

JON RICHARDSON: Scott Steiner is the only person I've ever seen trying to
get over as a babyface by threatening females and the elderly.  He somehow
managed to be a completely despicable person that did nothing to pop the
crowd, but was pushed as a face for almost the entire year.  Weird.  
Kevin nash and Stephanie McMahon made it a close 3-way race, as both of
them seem to have completely forgotten how to be a face.

CRIMEFIGHTER:  Everyone booed Steiner, cause he sucked so bad in the ring.  
Gail Kim was a failed experiment, they should had put her in longer
matches so she could improve in the ring instead of these three minute
spotfests.  Nathan Jones, never got to see him wrestle a match, WHY?

YNAE316: Nash and Steiner, both well past their primes, just sucked as the
"top faces."  It amazes me that BOTH men headlined two consecutive PPVs at
the expense of more deserving wrestlers such as Booker T and RVD (who are
now both damaged goods). I'm rounding out my list here with Gail Kim who
appeared out of nowhere and got pushed to the moon and consequently as a
result failed to get over.  Hopefully she's not too damaged beyond repair
yet.

CHRIS BIRD: Remember how they brought in Scott Steiner as Trip's big face
opponent with hordes of fanfare? Remember the "bidding war" for his
services between RAW and Smackdown? Remember the pushup contest? The
armwrestling contest? The posedown? The five thousand other things
designed to disguise the fact that Steiner could no longer wrestle for
more than five minutes without collapsing in a puddle of his own sweat?
Remember how the fans didn't buy it and booed the living shit out of him
at two straight PPV main events? Hey, who says there's nothing good to
remember about 2003?

MICHAEL FISCHER: This has to be the greatest year in the history of the
"Worst Babyface" category. The WWE wanted to push Steiner and Nash as main
event faces and as soon as they got in the ring, the crowd started to boo
them like crazy. Jarrett actually has to have someone instruct the crowd
not to boo him. This category is so deep that Goldberg, who was also booed
mightily while being pushed as a #1 face can't even make the top three.
Incredible.

SCOTT CHRIST: Jarrett was a terrible "number one" babyface for TNA. Nash
and Steiner as runners-up.

JOHN DONALDSON: Rhyno is better off as a heel with that nasty Gore.  
Storm lacks the personality to be a good face.  Billy Gunn can't get
cheers on his own with having someone else by his side.

RYAN FAULCONER: There was no real reason to get behind Raven in his feud
with the heel CM Punk.  Raven seemed much more like the heel to me.

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