5 WWE Babyfaces Who Couldn't Handle Getting Booed

Afraid of the heat.

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They all turn on you, eventually. As Ric Flair put it, "You want to see someone's doing good...but you don't wanna see that they're doing better than you."

The fans turned on Hulk Hogan, as his short-term magic failed to ignite long-term interest in the camp-as-sh*t WCW version of his character. Hulk Hogan didn't let it affect him - probably because he lives in a fantasy world of his own creation. They're cooing for the Hulkster, brother!

The fans turned on Stone Cold Steve Austin. They didn't boo him, necessarily. But his reactions, by 2000, were somewhat subdued in comparison to his 1998-99 peak, in which he removed roofs from arenas just by storming the ring. Austin in response wore a meaner expression, but didn't lash out, or throw a temper tantrum. To paraphrase one of the great promos he's still cutting in 2018, why in the f*ck would he do that?

John Cena can no-sell anything, and often does: head-first bumps on concrete and virtually any threat ever levelled at him by a heel for the purposes of heating up their match, John is unflappable. He could handle getting booed. He just smiled that big smile of his, as if nothing, not even Wade Barrett, could possibly matter less to him.

Others...?

5. Ronda Rousey

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Did Ronda Rousey deserve that reaction on Sunday night? Why did she receive it?

Who the hell knows anymore, honestly; in one comments section, you are a soyboy SJW libtard cuck for using a word like "pretext". In another arena, you get absolutely sh*t on, after putting on an incredibly realistic simulation of a fight, if you go the other route and rip people for wearing skinny jeans and munching on avocados. They contain more potassium than bananas, Ronda.

Such was the fate that Ronda Rousey suffered at Survivor Series; after taking the fans on a wild trip, and after taking a series of sick kendo stick shots, Rousey sold the injury, perhaps expecting a standing ovation, or a bit of gratitude. It's not often we see something as gladiatorial as that in a WWE ring. But no: the fans booed her out of the building. Ronda either heeled herself, with her anti-millennial patter, or has won too often, thus becoming Super Ronda, while fans complain also of 50/50 booking. Her reaction, whether justified or not, was certainly hypocritical.

On the November 12 RAW, Ronda said of Becky Lynch: "You are so hyper-sensitive".

Reminder that Rousey didn't handle the end of her MMA career particularly well at all, and can't cut a wrestling promo without breaking out into a beam. We're not saying she's hysterical, or anything, but she's a bit sensitive and, unable to take the heat, Ronda looked crestfallen out there.

"Crestfallen!"

Just say "sad," you thesaurus-swallowing c*nt!

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