10 Times WWE Put Its Talent In Impossible Positions
6. The Rock Looks Like An Awful Babyface At WrestleMania X-Seven
Turning famed Texan 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin heel in Austin, Texas was a stupid idea that was always going to get less than the desired reaction for the Bionic Redneck. The thing is, it was actually Austin himself who pushed for this turn to take place.
Whereas turning Austin in his home state was always going to be an uphill battle in terms of getting those Houston fans to boo their hero, the person handed an even tougher task in all of this was the Rock.
Going into this match, the People's Champion was every inch a top tier babyface. Despite that, it was going to be tough for Rocky to win over the Texas crowd. Austin was their guy, the Rock was not - that's as simple as it gets.
Still, the Great One worked the match as a babyface, just as did Austin. Well, in that aggressive, non-typical good guy style that the Texas Redneck had long since mastered by then.
With the crowd already leaning towards their hometown hero, Austin turning heel by aligning himself with Vince McMahon only further poured cold water on Rocky's babyface act. Stone Cold made a deal with the wrestling world's devil, yet the fans still cheered him - and those cheers only got louder and louder with every passing chair shot Austin hit the Rock with.
For the Rock, what should've been a moment that garnered him major sympathy was instead a moment that had his heel attacker being cheered on for his heinous actions.