10 Wrestling Heels Who Generated The Most Heat

5. The Rock

Hollywood Rock The Rock Concert 2003
WWE
"You don't get to boo The Rock, fatty! The Rock gets more pie in a week than you get in a lifetime!"

So sayeth the Hollywood Rock.

Rock corpsed throughout his incredible routines. He was having the time of his life making as*holes of us all. Suffering a Hollywood Rock insult was like being on the receiving end of a schoolyard humiliation everybody shared in, and you still, pathetically, wanted to be the guy's best friend. There was a certain longing to it all, a certain pathos. This wasn't just some nasty b*stard threatening to gouge your hero's eye out; Hollywood Rock was a man of monstrous ego who had outgrown what it was you once loved him for, and laughed his a*s off at you, the left behind. The booming reaction was driven by unadulterated hopelessness. You wanted to cheer the man - he was the coolest, most charismatic man on the planet, a role he would actually fulfil in subsequent years - but he wouldn't allow you the privilege.

Worse still, he toyed with your emotions constantly. He made you think you were "in" by leading the crowd in a call and response before the killshot.

"Finally, The Rock has come back to Toron-...Toron-...To run his mouth all over your candyasses!"
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