2024 Pro Wrestling Thread

I mean, the guy broke his neck. We could give him some grace. That said, he also could have stepped away from his desk and calmed them down once they got frustrated with the losses.

That’s one of the beauties about being a heel. Mick Foley wrote in his first book about how Freebird Michael Hayes told him that a heel should always be able to justify his actions, no matter how crazy the justification is. Foley used that in ECW when he used a fan’s sign as his motivation to turn heel and cut his famous “Cane Dewey” promo.

In New Day’s case, their motivation is that E abandoned them, even though E has his own justification for doing so.

 

He didn’t, though. He just stopped appearing with them.

 

The best heels are the ones who think they’re right. See: Owens, Kevin and Reigns, Roman

 

And they interpreted his non-appearances as abandonment.

Remember: To a heel, it doesn’t matter if the justification is accurate. All that matters is that they can justify it in their own minds.

Like Jimmy says with KO and Roman.

Or like Rollins is about to do with Punk. Rollins is going to feel justified in that Punk just walked right back in the E like nothing ever happened for the last 10 years and is upset that Punk is pointing out to him that he wasn’t willing to help the Bloodline at War Games.

 

Drew McIntyre might be the best example of this, well, ever. Nothing he said about Punk was ever wrong.