Face (wrestling)

The term Face or Babyface with the Catch indicates to some extent the " gentil" on the boxing ring or at least that which one intends to be the favorites of crowd. It is the opposite of the heel.

Types of faces

Here a list of the types of faces which often return in the world of wrestling.

The Hero

He is courageous, honest, complies with rules and the others (besides its rivals), always ready to defend the weak ones, he has success near the women, he can be funny and he can leave himself all the situations and even if he behaves sometimes in an arrogant way. It is in general it face which goes best near the public, and with which one saves a championship, but it is also the character hardest to obtain because to incarnate a face of this type, it is necessary to be rather young, fine young man, to have an irreproachable technique and to have much charisma.

The Rock'n'roll, John Cena or Batista is of the examples of this type of face.

The Patriot

Another type of face sees an all-in wrestler who holds up the American flag proudly to collect the acclamations of crowd even if it does not have more talent than of personality. But this gimmick always makes receipt in a country with the patriotism developed like the United States. The gimmick has its limits, but obsolete step.

Hulk Hogan, " Hacksaw" Jim Duggan and Sgt. Slaughter are the most famous examples of patriotic faces.

The Rebel

They are characters who behave badly for the greatest pleasure of crowd. The rebellious face can for example humiliate a heel. It can also cheat against a heel. In general, this kind of face is put in competition with a figure of the authority, thus " Stone Cold" Steve Austin and DX a long time faced their owner Vince McMahon who was hated of crowd.

Indestructible

These faces are unbeatable, they are of an incredible force, able to demolish no matter whom, they terrorize the other all-in wrestlers for the greatest pleasure of the spectators. Among them one finds Goldberg, The Undertaker, Kane…

This type of gimmick can also be used as a heel.

The Air one

This category of face are all-in wrestlers not very heavy and of enough small size but which are compensated by their speed, their air figures and their spectacular catches. Those are often put in competition against all-in wrestlers heels having a colossal physique, crowd then takes pleasure to encourage David against Goliath.

One can quote in this category Rey Mysterio, Paul London, Brian Kendrick or Jeff Hardy

The original

It makes laugh the public thanks to its jokes and irritates the all-in wrestlers heel. All be delirious them are possible with this type of gimmick, one for example already saw with the WWE: a clown, a couple the homosexual ones, a man combatant out of dress, one delayed mental… In this category is also often classified the foreign all-in wrestlers who are not heel.

List all-in wrestlers and other people Vis-a-vis the WWE

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