10 Best Heels In WWE Today

3. Samoa Joe

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One of WWE's worst problems these days is the fact that everything seems so homogeneous and sanitized. Promos are completely scripted and, by and large, they're all the same. Likewise, feuds often feel like the same angles being run ad nauseum.

Samoa Joe is one of the few stars (and one of the very few new stars) who actually still feels like a true original. Samoa Joe is the same Samoa Joe he's been everywhere - a bully of a big man whose unbelievable athleticism makes him a true force with which to be reckoned. His interviews may be scripted, but the way he delivers them is so impassioned that they become all his own.

Joe's got a realism about him that nobody in the company, with the exception of Brock Lesnar, can match - and unlike Lesnar, Joe is there every week and his matches always deliver. The fact that the former NXT Champion is just as believable as "The Beast," despite not having a UFC Heavyweight Title reign to his credit, shows that even in 2016, convincing stars can still completely pull the wool over fans' eyes.

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Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried. *Best Crowd of the Year, 2013