[quote name='Chase']While I think Punk has done a good job on the mic to complete his heel turn, he's still more a tweener. One reason is because, to borrow what you said, he still tries to play the "cool heel." Additionally, I blame the current batch of live crowds. These kids need to do their homework and learn how to be a real crowd.[/QUOTE]
I dunno, I'm not into Punk as a heel. Maybe it seems too forced, or he's not doing anything innovative at all. Heck, maybe it's that I like Paul Heyman, therefore I find it hard to really dislike Punk. But more than anything right now, I'm just not interested in him at all. I don't like or dislike him. When I saw that the "lie detector" segment was going to close the show, I straight up deleted my recording of the show and changed the channel. Just murdered my interest in the show, which was weak to begin with.
It could be that his main foils (Cena, Ryback) are two guys who I don't care about in the slightest. A good heel is someone who you want to see get the shit kicked out of him. JBL was *awesome* in that role, in that he essentially melded a "wrestling bad guy" persona with a "Fox News Commentator" persona. More than that, he appeared on Fox News *as* JBL *as* a commentator, and you couldn't see any clear lines separating him on a news channel from what he said/did in the ring. It was pretty magnificent and straight up
ing postmodern. I wanted to see him get destroyed. I also really liked Eddie Guerrero, so his feud with JBL was easy to follow. Cena and Ryback can go hit the convention circuit early as far as I'm concerned. I don't want to see Punk beaten so badly that I'd get behind those two chuckleheads to cheer against him. He needs a good foil; both parts are necessary. I can get behind the interplay of Batman and the Joker. I can't get into Aquaman versus the Joker. That's how I feel about Punk and Ryback/Cena; and it's also why I like (to some degree) the interplay b/w Rock and Punk and the occasional banter b/w Steve Austin and Punk.