5 Reasons Why Jim Cornette Is The Biggest Heel In Wrestling Right Now

5. He Gets People Angry

Here’s the most obvious reason. More than anyone else, Cornette has a real knack for getting under people’s skin and making them hate his guts. Through his tweets or through extended rants on his podcasts, Cornette infuses his incendiary rhetoric with enough bile to get almost anyone’s blood boiling, whether they passionately disagree with his viewpoints, or balk at the sheer audacity of the words used to describe them.

In modern wrestling, it’s hard to find heels people genuinely dislike. In Japan, you have “cool heel” stables such as Bullet Club and LIJ in the mold of DX or the nWo, and in WWE, the heels usually have so much more personality than their face counterparts that they get more over as faces (and the examples there comprise a list unto itself).

Point being: Cornette is able to turn himself into an actual, true heat magnet with one speech from his mouth or clattering of his keyboard.