Quick, whos the best heel in WWE today? OK, Brock Lesnar is a straight-up badass, Bad News Barrett revels in delivering bad news, Randy Orton has no absence of malice (or whatever Michael Cole likes to say), and Rusev crushes. But an argument can be made that the best bad guy in WWE is not a guy at all. Stephanie McMahon has been on a tear the past year as a heel authority figure. She has left no doubt that she learned from her father how to become one of the most hated characters on WWE programming. For much of the past year, Stephanie has feuded with fan-favorites like Daniel Bryan and Big Show, and more recently has kept Bryans memory alive by battling his wife, Brie Bella. Through all of that, Stephanie has shown tremendous growth as an on-air character, delivering some truly excellent promos and performances that put her previous runs as an on-air authority figure to shame. Even though Stephanie is one-half of The Authority with her husband Triple H, she has positioned herself well to be a hated heel regardless for the foreseeable future. Heres a look at some of her best mic work since The Authority got its start last summer
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
