Villains in Wrestling: Making People Hate You

Here’s my love letter to villains in wrestling, also known as Heels.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Supereyepatchwolf Tshirts: https://www.fangamer.com/collections/super-eyepatch-wolf Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/supereyepatchwolf

My Other videos on Wrestling:

Professional Wrestling is Stupid and Beautiful and I Love it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQCPj-bGYro

The Undertaker: Long Term Story Telling in Wrestling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHVCTOmQNZM

Lets Fight a Boss Podcast:

Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/lets-fight-a-boss/id1048483221?mt=2 Sound Cloud: https://soundcloud.com/letsfightaboss Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCawXJIKUj2o_tFPMZ4xiXBw

Other Super Eyepatch Wolf stuff

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/super_eyepatch_wolf/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EyePatchWolf

Sources

XXIchibans articles on Kagetsu:

https://deadlockpw.com/editorials/kagetsu-the-final-boss-of-stardom/

https://deadlockpw.com/editorials/closing-the-kagetsu-story/

Ali and Gorgeous George

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/kbden3/a-history-of-heels-in-wrestling-and-beyond

https://www.sportscasting.com/muhammad-ali-credited-his-swagger-to-wrestling-hall-of-famer-gorgeous-george/

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/wwe/news/inside-the-mind-of-aews-maxwell-jacob-friedman-and-why-he-is-the-most-hated-professional-wrestler-today/187xrrx4aaqfg1ielj9kd70clx

Inoki vs Vadar (note- I’ve seen reports that inokis win streak lasted 12 months, 2 years, 4 years, 7 years, and 9 years, given the amount of cross promotion matches that happened in this era as well as the blurring of the lines between shoot fights and works, its difficult to say how long the streak actually was so Im just using an average of four): https://prowrestlingstories.com/pro-wrestling-stories/big-van-vader-antonio-inoki-riot/

Vadar talking about the riot: https://youtu.be/tZwtziy_R0Y

Interview with New Jack (whole series is worth watching) https://youtu.be/M33uX3_3krk

See Season 2 of “Dark Side of the Ring for all information on New Jack and the Montreal Screw Job

Song List:

Sewerslvt - Hopelessness (Final Song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtVR2M5-A-c

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/64crvqPkxrEgyDoNJq45NB?si=T_56yD5sQwq4h19Lvdy_yQ