10 Worst Babyface Backlashes Of All Time

Originally, Paul Roma had a promising future in professional wrestling. He had a great look, and played the part of the jacked pretty boy heel very well indeed. 

He was no technical genius between the ropes, but considering his size he was strikingly agile: this was a guy that could, potentially, have been a quality singles competitor in any promotion.

If that was the case, the WWF never saw it. He mostly took part in mid-level tag teams during his seven years with the company, never receiving a consistent push at any point. 

When he signed with WCW in 1993, however, things were different. 

Someone in Atlanta definitely saw something in Roma: he would be earmarked to join Ric Flair's newest incarnation of the Four Horsemen.

On this occasion, however, the Horsemen were babyfaces... and there were three of them. Flair had only just arrived in WCW from the WWF himself, returning home in triumph after a stint at the top of the opposition's card. 

If Batista wouldn't get quite the hero's welcome he wanted two decades later, there was no such issue for the NWA's top star of the previous decade. 

Flair had a no-compete clause to wait out, and couldn't wrestle for a while: to fill the time, he'd host a talk show on WCW television, A Flair For The Gold, and it was on one of these segments that he introduced himself, Arn Anderson and Paul Roma as the new Four Horsemen, the most elite wrestling faction in the history of the business. Ole Anderson, presented as a part of the group, would never appear with them again.

To say that the crowd were underwhelmed would be an understatement. They'd been expecting founding Horseman Tully Blanchard to join, not some random guy from the WWF's undercard. 

Roma was pretty, and Roma was jacked, but Roma wasn't a Horseman, or even that famous for being a fan favourite - he was mercilessly booed, and wouldn't last in the stable for a year.

Paul Roma wasn't the worst member of the Four (Three) Horsemen by a long chalk (that honour falls to former football player Steve 'Mongo' McMichael, a talent-free charisma vacuum who wasn't even really a wrestler when he joined), but he was the weakest link in the weakest line-up the faction ever had.