Quote Originally Posted by OYDK View Post
Fans have pretty much already turned on Seth Rollins, the HIAC ending just allowed people to legitimize their dislike of him.

I honestly don't know who's at fault for why fans end up turning on every main event face the WWE produces. Part of me thinks it's horrendous booking, part of me thinks it's just modern day wrestling fans being modern day wrestling fans, and part of me thinks it's because nobody knows how to play a really compelling face anymore and the ones that do (like Kevin Owens), are fucking neutered by management every few months. Or the advent of social media. Either way, this was bound to happen. And in a year or so, it'll happen to Becky Lynch too.
There are times in which booking is horrendous but, as a whole, Rollins has been booked pretty well in my opinion. He hasn't been told to act like some cartoon character, as we saw with Cena sometimes, he hasn't been booked into saying completely atrocious things that no grown man could say, such as we've seen with Roman Reigns, and his in-ring quality has been consistently good. Rollins does suffer from what almost every other wrestler on the roster suffers from in that he's not allowed to be organic and yes, it's affected him because how could it not?

Sometimes, I do think it's honestly just the fans because, let's face it, modern fans are beyond fickle and look for any sort of excuse to engage in trollish behavior. For instance, HIAC could've been a gore packed bloodbath that went 30 minutes, leaving both guys at the point of exhaustion, the Cell being in shambles, both Rollins & Wyatt having beaten the piss out of each other, everything they have had been put into the match and there would STILL be complaints about it. I mean, it could've been right up there with Taker vs. HBK or Taker vs. Mankind and still...still you'd have fans bitching about something, nitpicking or finding some little thing to gripe about.

There are LOTS of wrestlers on the roster who know how to do compelling babyfaces, most just aren't really allowed to as it goes back to the whole organic deal. In NXT, Sami Zayn was a fantastic babyface and he could be again if he was allowed to be on Raw or SmackDown. Johnny Gargano has been a fantastic babyface in NXT but on Raw or SmackDown, he'd be under the creative thumb of people with completely different ideas and he wouldn't be allowed to be Johnny Wrestling anymore, or at least not for the most part. Rollins does okay, in my opinion, with the overly scripted approach but he's capable of a lot more, and so are quite a few, but they're not really allowed to be. To be fair, however, some guys just aren't that good on the mic no matter what, such as Ricochet, while some look to be able to do quite well, scripted or otherwise, like the Street Profits or Aleister Black. Probably the guy who could be WWE's truly best babyface is Daniel Bryan because he's so genuine. Even during times when he's been saddled with the scripted promo, he's been able to make it work and he's kept that organic feel even while he's been a heel, at least for the most part, and the fact that he actually has some creative control over himself as part of his contract can only help him. However, all ultimately have the issue of Vince or Kevin Dunn setting certain limits or putting them into situations that don't really fit them. After all, Bobby Lashley is a legit badass, he's 43 years old but has the muscular physique that a man half his age would kill to have but hasn't been used to a 10th of his potential since his return and probably won't be.