15 Biggest False Narratives In Wrestling History
11. ‘X-Pac Heat’
It is absolutely true that X-Pac, across 2000 and 2001, played the same bratty character he had throughout 1998 and 1999. It is also true that Sean Waltman - who incidentally never receives due credit for revolutionising the stylistic shift across the ‘90s - had, in the wake of Chris Jericho, Kurt Angle and the Radicalz debuting, been lapped as the guy fans could rely on for a nice dose of state-of-the-art action on undercards. X-Pac was passé. He felt dull and fans let him have it.
So while ‘X-Pac heat’ is hardly a false narrative, it’s nonsense that his good name is forever associated with the phenomenon.
Countless more wrestlers were infinitely more boring for a much longer stretch of time than X-Pac ever was.
X-Pac didn’t hang around for anywhere near as long as, for example, the Miz or Dolph Ziggler, whose ceaseless runs were amongst the most tedious byproducts of WWE’s tedious monopoly era.
The phenomenon could and should be named after somebody else. How about ‘Jericho Heat’?
The awld carny could even slap that on a t-shirt (if he hasn’t already).