5 Reasons Why Big Show Is the Worst Babyface Ever
Steve Austin, Hulk Hogan and John Cena are wrestlers who come around just once in a generation.
These men were the top babyfaces in the industry during their time on top. They sold truckloads of merchandise, got people excited to buy tickets and amassed a huge following.
You could look up to these men. Cena and Hogan always did the right thing, and Austin stood up for himself and told off his boss. What's not to love?
With true, top babyfaces so few and far between, WWE has to rely on a cast of other talent pushed to the top.
Guys like Kevin Nash, Mankind and Edge all had main event opportunities without ever being considered true top guys. They still played their parts well and served their purposes on the card.
But right now, The Big Show is being pushed as the No. 2 babyface in WWE (behind John Cena), and the results have been lousy. In fact, Big Show's current character is the worst main event babyface that the WWE has ever had.
That's right, the worst.
That’s a controversial statement, but here are five reasons why it's true.
He Has No Moral Compass
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Fans are supposed to look up to babyface wrestlers. No matter how badly the odds are stacked against them, they don't give up. No matter how many times they get beaten down, they dust themselves off and get back up.
Above all else, the best babyfaces do the right thing.
Jake Roberts stood up for his wife when Rick Rude made inappropriate gestures to her. John Cena didn't resort to The Nexus' conniving ways when he was forced to join. Steve Austin refused to be molded into the corporate champion that Vince McMahon longed for.
Not The Big Show. He only cares about himself.
This is a man who did whatever Stephanie McMahon ordered him to, which included knocking out Daniel Bryan and a 67-year-old man.
Show’s character also ruined the main event of a pay-per-view. How can anyone possibly like him after that? Fans paid more than $50 to watch the event, and Big Show knocked out both competitors for no good reason.
When Big Show does get some money again, hopefully he'll reimburse the fans for his actions.
He’s a Crybaby
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Wrestling is a fantasy world. When heroes are beaten down, fans want to see them get back up and dish out revenge. They don’t want to see them blubber.
In the real world, we cry when bad things happen, but we look to our heroes to be stronger than we possibly ever could.
How many times have we watched The Big Show cry over the past few months? Whatever the number is, it's too many.
In how many Batman movies did we watch The Caped Crusader cry? Did Luke Skywalker lie down, snuggle up with Yoda and shed some tears when Darth Vader was being mean to him? Does Super Mario turn on the waterworks whenever Princess Toadstool was kidnapped?
No, those guys got up and fought. So have all the other great WWE babyfaces from Bruno Sammartino to Hulk Hogan to John Cena.
Not The Big Show, though. When times get tough, when he’s morally conflicted, he becomes The Big Sob.
He’s Irresponsible
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Throughout The Big Show’s WWE career, his character (and the man) has made millions of dollars. Remember that iron-clad contract from not long ago that he often bragged about?
Somehow, he blew it. All of it.
This was the cause of all of his recent troubles. He became broke after all the poor investments and wild spending over the years. The average American household is able to get by on $50,000 a year. Big Show struggles with his millions.
Being financially irresponsible isn’t something that fans should look up to. With the vast majority of people not having a fraction of the wealth that Big Show has accumulated, how are they supposed to feel pity for his reckless ways?
Heck, even WWE's craziest characters like The Ultimate Warrior and Sid Vicious never complained about being low on cash.
He’s Not Deserving
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At SummerSlam, Daniel Bryan was screwed out of the WWE title by Randy Orton and HHH.
The day after Night of Champions, he was screwed over again when Hunter stripped him from the title.
At Battleground, Big Show cost Bryan the title when he selfishly knocked him out.
Hell in a Cell completed this nonsense, with Shawn Michaels turning on Bryan to keep him away from winning the gold.
Now, The Big Show is getting the next title shot because he threatened to sue the company. Doesn’t he realize he is screwing over Bryan again?
Bryan had the odds stacked against him four times. He deserves another shot without any sort of interference. Big Show didn’t want to wait his turn, though. He wanted the match instead.
In what universe is Show deserving of the title? Before his match with Ryback, he hadn’t won a singles match since Sept. 24 (via profightdb.com) against Damien Sandow. His singles matches before that were a loss to Chris Jerico via countout in May and a loss to Orton two days prior at Extreme Rules.
If losing singles matches earns one a WWE title shot, then when does Heath Slater get his?
He’s Not a Good Wrestler
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For this point, let’s ignore storylines and look at Show from an athletic ability level.
Is Big Show the worst wrestler on the roster? Absolutely not. He’s far superior in every way to The Great Khali.
Is he the worst main event wrestler of all time? Nope. Guys like Sid Vicious and Ultimate Warrior were worse. But he’s in the bottom tier.
From an in-ring standpoint, he’s not anywhere near the same league as The Rock, Stone Cold, Undertaker, John Cena, Kurt Angle, Randy Savage, Ric Flair and many others.
Quick, name a four-star Big Show match!
What limits him is his size. Barely anyone on the roster can pick him up, so it limits what other wrestlers can do to him. His matches as a whole are just awkward and require viewers to suspend their disbelief.
Why? Because he doesn’t punch his opponents in the face! While he used to do face punches (you know, like every other wrestler in the history of wrestling) it suddenly became his finishing move, so he can only do it once a match.
Instead, he has to punch his opponent in the gut and the back over and over again. Why not just go for the face? It would literally require no extra effort.
His promo abilities are mediocre as well. Sure, he’s cut some pretty good heel promos over the past couple of years, but as a babyface, he’s never delivered a compelling, money-making one.
When you add up all of these factors, The Big Show is the worst, most unlikable babyface in the history of the WWE.
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