Worst Babyface

Award Description:

To be given to the person whose casting as a good guy just didn't work well.
Maybe there was just no face heat drawn or maybe the fans actually booed
this person, but for whatever reason the face image just didn't get over.

Previous Winners:

  1990: Dusty Rhodes
  1991: P.N. News
  1992: Sid Justice
  1993: Lex Luger
  1994: Hulk Hogan
  1995: Hulk Hogan
  1996: John Tenta
  1997: Rocky Maivia
  1998: Warrior

**1999**: Hulk Hogan

332 first place votes
314 second place votes
299 third place votes

100 42 24  674   Hulk Hogan
 40 45 27  389   Master P
 38 22 36  328   Eric Bischoff
 26 22 17  230   Buff Bagwell
 14 17 21  163   Konnan
 10 14 16  124   Chaz
  8 16 14  116   Kevin Nash
  8 15  8  101   Disciple
  5  9 19   90   Shane Douglas
  8  9 11   89   Lex Luger
  9  5 10   80   Big Show
  7  4  6   59   Diamond Dallas Page
  3  9  6   54   Fabulous Moolah
  2  7 11   53   Chyna
  5  3  9   52   Godfather
  1  5  8   36   Goldberg
  4  3  3   35   Sid Vicious
  0  8  5   34   Stevie Ray
  6  1  0   33   Steve Austin
  3  4  3   33   Rock
  2  3  6   31   Dean Malenko
  2  5  1   27   Vince McMahon
  2  5  1   27   Sean Stasiak (Meat)
  1  4  5   27   Lash LeRoux
  0  7  0   21   Val Venis
  1  2  2   15   Mr. Ass
  2  0  2   14   Roddy Piper
  0  4  1   14   Rick Steiner
  1  2  1   13   Debra
  2  0  1   12   David Flair
  1  1  2   12   Sting
  1  2  0   11   Jim Ross
  2  0  0   10   Ric Flair
  1  1  1   10   X-Pac
  1  1  1   10   Bret Hart
  1  1  0    8   Road Dogg
  0  2  1    8   Taz
  1  0  1    7   Triple H
  1  0  1    7   Mike Awesome
  1  0  1    7   Meng
  1  0  1    7   Goldust
  1  0  1    7   Disco Inferno
  0  2  0    6   Tommy Dreamer
  1  0  0    5   Warrior
  1  0  0    5   Steve Blackman
  1  0  0    5   Rikishi (ineligible?)
  1  0  0    5   Mankind
  1  0  0    5   Lenny
  1  0  0    5   Jerry Lynn
  1  0  0    5   Curt Hennig
  1  0  0    5   Colorado Kid
  1  0  0    5   Chris Benoit
  1  0  0    5   Booker T.
  0  1  1    5   Randy Savage
  0  1  1    5   Al Snow
  0  1  0    3   Test
  0  1  0    3   Scott Hall
  0  1  0    3   Public Enemy
  0  1  0    3   Kane
  0  1  0    3   Juventud Guerrera
  0  1  0    3   Fit Finlay
  0  1  0    3   Evan Karagias
  0  1  0    3   El Rayo De Jalisco Jr.
  0  1  0    3   Edge
  0  0  1    2   Will Sasso
  0  0  1    2   Stephanie McMahon
  0  0  1    2   Sable
  0  0  1    2   New Jack
  0  0  1    2   Mark Henry
  0  0  1    2   Mae Young
  0  0  1    2   Ken Shamrock
  0  0  1    2   Eddie Guerrero
  0  0  1    2   Christian
  0  0  1    2   Bart Gunn

REJECTED

  0  1  2        No Limit Soldiers
  0  0  1        Revolution


CHRIS BIRD: Hulk Hogan's red-and-yellow run transcended "shitty" to
achieve "actively insulting to wrestling fans everywhere". Chaz was given
a token JTTS run to "prove" that wrestlers need an outlandish gimmick to
get over. I don't think anybody even *understood* Master P.

EDC: David Flair is quite possibly the worst wrestler in the world. He was
worse as a face. Bishoff has no buisness being a face, no body likes him.
And he goes over Fit Finlay. WTF? Master P made me wish that there was
more violence on the streets, just so his whole "positive Image" gimmick
can get shoved up his ass more.

RFLAGG13: Get Hogan off my TV, NOW. He has no business trying to pull his
outdated babyface routine, and I can only hope his supposed retirement
proves true this time. Alas, I fear it is not to be. Konnan, you are
neither bowdy bowdy nor rowdy rowdy. You in fact suck, and I sincerely
hope the crowd gets sick of you and you get thrown out on your ass. And
Master Percy...do I need to say anything about this? Hey, I like rap, but
after seeing you I was definitely siding with the "rap is crap" faction.

K. CANZANELLA: Lash LeRoux gets no heat. He's just boring. Hoooooooooootie
Whoooooooooo the hell is gonna cheer for something like this?

FALCONARROW: and Hogan gets both #1 votes for worst face and heel

AARON: Hogan used every damn cheezy stereotype when it came to his face
run. Konnan playing the warm and fuzzy gangsta doesn't do it for me. And
Shane Douglas was the undisputed master of the spontaneous cone of
silence.

DON BECKER: As I said above, someone turning on Hogan got more face heat
than the return of the yellow and red.  Eric Bischoff only turned face in
the eyes of the commentary team, as he remained a cocky SOB.  And nobody
really cared about Moolah the first time she turned face back in 1988.

MAX CHITTISTER: Master P, Chaz, and Buff. DCCMM.

CAN00K: I never want to see your face again, Hogan.

PAUL SHOCK: The red and yellow Hogan brought back memories of childhood
nostalgia...for about five minutes.  Master P sure is a humanitarian, all
right.  He goes out of his way to tell how he sells drugs, and smacks
bitches.  What a role model.  Why would anyone cheer the Disciple?  
Seriously?

BLOB: I wanted to make this a 3-way tie, but I'll give Hogan #1, Austin #2
and Nash #3.

GEORGE CARTER: Hoody Hoo !! Master P is gonna make some noise !!!!
*Crickets chirping*. Hulk Hogan and Kevin Nash are horrible faces. Nash is
better as a tweener.

JOHN C.:If you actually like Bagwell, Rick Steiner or Konnan I hope you
get a checkup with your doctor real soon because you need some help.

JON RICHARDSON: See #19.  Attempting to get Master P (and the No Limit
Soldiers) over as babyfaces merely because they are all rappers is just
not going to work.

RICHARD BEAUBIEN:  The return of Hulkamania didn't work, nuff said.
Malenko and Guerrero just don't work as babyfaces IMSO. They're best stuff
comes with them being heels, drawing Eddie sucks chants and look super
pleased at crippling a man. They just don't make good baby faces...

ELLIOT SPARKS: Hulk Hogan was easily the worst face of the year. In fact,
his return to the red-'n'-yellow was so badly presented and received that
it could've been a surregate continuation of the Blue Blazer story; he was
the babyface you loved to hate. Unfortunately, drawing hate from the
audience was not the bookers' intention, so instead of being a brilliant
stroke of genius, this was a pointless stroke of the ego.

SEAN FLYNN: And the Hulk sweeps both end.  He brought out red and yellow,
I brought up something kinda greenish yellow.  Sean Stasiak wouldn't be
treated like a piece of meat_.a piece of crap however_..  Bisch
confronting the artist once and again called Sandman oughta be on a Netcop
Busts tape.

KEVIN WONG: It's amazing to me how un-over Master P was with the
ingnorant-to-urban-hip-hop-culture WCW crowd.  Then again, I like hip-hop,
and I'd never heard of Master P until the announcement the WCW signed him.
Oh yeah, Bischoff is here, too, but that's sort of academic

B. SZPAKOWICZ: Master P gets top honours (?) here. The crowd cheering the
*other* guys when you're supposed to be the babyface is not good. Hogan
and Bischoff get second and third. Nobody cares, guys.

THERION: WCW wins hands down as the promotion that does the worst at
trying to put over natural heels to be babyfaces and natural faces as
heels. Sable's attempt at being heel before she was booted failed pretty
miserably, too, but I don't think that was the WWF's fault.

SUGAR RAY: Hogan trying to be a face! What a fucking joke! People cheered
when Sting hit him with the baseball bat. Enough said.

COLIN MACKINNON: Whoever came up with the smart idea of bringing Master P
into WCW should be shot.  A total flop, right from the start.

JEREMY SORIA: Well, it's the Big Slow. Didn't get too much more heat after
leaving WCW, and not much more people care for him here. And Total Package
may have been Lex Luger, but it's still the same hunky wrestler with
little wrestling ability left.

OTTO "HACK-MAN" HEUER: Worst Babyface was easy to pick the worst three out
of the 20 horrid faces, but determining the order was a bit more
difficult.  I went with 1st: Taz. 2nd: Steve Austin. 3rd: Shane Douglas

MDB: Hootie Hoo!  Hootie Hoo!