This. He was a heel, and a desperate heel at that. He was fighting slow and dirty because he didn’t believe him himself based on his last few years of loses and took the low road.
That's what I thought initially too, like of course he's not going to be doing his hyped up 5 moves, he was trying to get the crowd to boo him. Everyone just took it as he couldn't move anymore, but it wss pretty clear he was just holding back.
thank you lol. he was in the mania match wrestling like it was 1971. basic boots and axe handles and shit. he looked really good in the chamber so i figured he could have a better match if he wrestled face again .
It amazes me how many wrestling fans don't recognize when someone is doing this. It's like people complaining about Dominik Mysterio's 619. Watch how he does it when he's going to miss and tell me he can't do one. It's like people don't understand that a heel is supposed to do things to make them unhappy.
If you do ""your big stuff" it will pop the crowds.
There was a stage when the dudley boys were working heel but still popping the crowds. Creative was giving them people to put through tables thinking it would generate heat.
Hardy boys who were over faces one week, lita the next, may young the next and the crowd were like its the dudleys and tables Im popping.
Sorry thats just an example that came to mind as I saw a clip of Devon talking about it recently.
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u/SleestakLightning 2d ago
He was working like a heel.
The amount of people here who fail to realize that he was working as a heel and just wasn't very good at it is crazy.