10 Completely Stupid Things In Wrestling That Heels Always Do
5. Easy Pickings
By their very nature, bad guys are arrogant and obnoxious. If they weren't, they probably actually wouldn't be bad guys. Driven as much by ego and bravado as a will to win, heels differ from their babyface counterparts in as much as how they like to defeat the opposition, not just why.
However, if only they'd peer outside their bubble to drop $9.99 a month on some history lessons.
Almost without exception, such cockiness has never ever worked in a big match environment. Sure, in a land time has almost forgot, any old Tom, Dick or Harry Smith would show up just to be a tackling dummy-come-punching bag for the top bad guy of the day to tee off on. Those losers were primed for a lazy pin and an easy win, but competitors of actual pedigree have (almost) never gone down quite so easy.
Furthermore, the hubris often leads to humiliation. At worst, a sloppy and arrogant cover results in the perpetrator getting caught in a far superior hold for a decisive three, but even when the consequences are a touch less disastrous, the over-confidence routinely blows up in an outlaw's face.