7 Babyface Wrestling Tag Teams Which Flopped As Heels
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Every wrestling fan knows it's easier to get over as a heel than it is to play babyface, right? Not so fast! Eliciting genuine heel heat from the watching audience has become progressively harder in the modern generation. Just ask WWE's creative team; they have a hell of a job crafting legitimate baddies.
Those pesky crowds just won't react the way they're supposed to, and this leads to situations where promoters are forced to try something different. Nobody could have imagined that a group hinting at racism or gospel singing like The New Day would go on to sell cereal and make copious penis jokes, for example.
Everyone's favourite Booty-O selling jokesters aren't alone. There are numerous examples of tag-teams that - for whatever reason - just couldn't convince fans of their villainy and had to seek solace playing baby...
7. The Godwinns/Southern Justice
The cartoonish landscape of mid-90s WWF was perfect for good ol' Southern boys like The Godwinns. Pig farmers might not be the first thing people think of when talking wrestling, but Phineas I. and Henry O. were very much over as a tag-team when slopping heels and mule-kicking their way through the roster.
With the grinning Hillbilly Jim by their side, The Godwinns had a purpose. That all changed in 1997 when the country bumpkins kicked Jim to the side and started turning rogue. Suddenly, all that countryside charm evaporated and the WWF expected that heel farmers would receive scathing heat.
They didn't, and so The Godwinn gimmick gave way to Southern Justice. Now sporting suits and a cleaner overall look, the team failed to do much other than cause fans to sit on their hands. Should have stayed as babyfaces, boys, because at least that alignment garnered a reaction.