 What's good, George? We're Ross back again with another video. So I'm going to check out heels in the two thousands were built different. This is very, very true heels back in the two thousands, man. They were getting away with some very dastardly things, man. They were the true definition of heels and rogueness. Now, granted, there are some good heels in today's wrestling, but back then you could say a lot more on television, do a lot more on television and push the envelope. So they were able to get away with damn near murder on a week to week basis. But it made for some compelling, interesting television, man. And it made you hate them. And that's the purpose of a good heel to say something borderline, super offensive or do something borderline, super offensive and to get you to hate them. So we're going to go down memory lane. Shout out to wrestling premier. This is the video we're going to be checking out from his channel. I'm going to link down original video down below. So make sure you guys go support him, man. But this should be a good one. I'm looking forward to it, man. Let's get right into this, man. Two thousand and two thousand six. Triple H's reputation as the game had already go back to Triple H. Two thousand and two thousand six. Triple H's reputation as the game had already made him one of the most notorious characters in WWE or WWF history. What made Triple H such a good heel was his attention to detail. Yes, at the end of the day, some people were fed up with this constant title reigns. But as a character, very few had the heel character down as well as the game. It was almost unfair. He already did a great job. Being the perpetrator of Austin getting run over and fighting to deliver ways to steal the title. But two thousands, Triple H had more in him. And this had to do with his positioning on the card. It was essentially the number one guy in WWE at some points. And Triple H had a cool element to him. Not to sledge him, man. They come more apparent after the reign of terror era. Triple H is one of the main reasons I made this video. This man was absolutely diabolical. Plotted a return with his friend before stabbing him in the back. He also became his good buddy after he was attacked in the parking lot. He showed emotion and worry over his friend, but that quickly changed when he was... Bro, he was dog. Just imagine. We don't know what happened to HBK. He just returns. He's bloodied up in the parking lot. And he's over here giving a great eight Academy Award performance. Get some help out here. Get some help. Only to find out... That he was the motherfucker that did it all along. Aw, you evil son of a bitch. Revealed to be the perfect trainer. Triple H already established himself as a heel, but they went the extra mile to make him even more detestable. Then he loses his match with HBK and takes him out with a sludge hammer. He's all bloodied up and zero lessons learned. Okay, he hates HBK. Surely he doesn't continue this, right? Nope. This man played with a dead body at the funeral home. A strange saying and let alone thinking of how WWE came up with this. Like, I'm kind of confused as to how did they come to terms that this is the story. It just sounds bizarre. I don't know, but Triple H continued. He turned racist for a month because he asked him for a towel to ride him in his limousine as a chauffeur. And it's almost a strange turn that his heel character took because the game wasn't known to be much of a racist beforehand. Yeah. Afterwards, with evolution by his side, Triple H's behavior continued to develop. He put a bounty on Goldberg's head, which resulted in attempted murder, many attacks, Bro, I forgot he did put a bounty on this nigga, bro. No, he went the fucking minutes and no one could stop him. He just was doing whatever he wanted to one Monday night raw. Just detestable, bro. Shattered by Batista. I gave Triple H a different depth to the other heels in the sense of, hey, I'm not gonna try killing him myself. I have money for that. Other heels would do it themselves. So he was shown to have a much more calculated view of how to reach his goals. Eugene was hated by most of the heels on the roster. They didn't like him. They didn't want anything to do with him, even evolution. But Triple H found a way to use him and it was all about the coveted worth heavyweight challenge. Since Eugene was a big fan of Triple H, even stunning the rock in this revelation, the game became his friend. It's for ulterior motives, of course. In 2004, Triple H was more selfish than prime Kobe Bryant on the court. The amount of effort put into this charade was ridiculous. He could have won the title himself, jumping in fun houses, making Eugene a honorary member of evolution and when this month-long plan didn't come together, he obliterated and left him a bloody heap. One of the worst beatdowns Triple H put somebody through and that's saying something. The game took out William Regal in his hotel room and had this huge sense of pride after committing these actions. Like that image of Triple H standing in front of the mirror. He's a fucking psycho. Look at this. Look at that face. Blood all on it. Just smirking in the... Anytime you smirk or laugh at yourself in the mirror, you're not all there. It's... there's something going on up there. It's... there's something going on up there. It's... there's something going on up there. With a smile on his face, it's the perfect image to his heel run. A man who lacked morals, integrity, loyalty and remorse. And this wasn't even the end of it. After Randy Orton did the one thing that Triple H could do was beat Chris Benoit to become the World Heavyweight Champion. He took him out of the group, beat him senseless and left him a bloody mess. Even then he had expectations of Orton only for Orton to spin in his face and lose the belt afterwards. The game continued on as a regular heel. He finally did something huge by manipulating Batista and to think JBL was out to get him. This was a tactic to avoid the animal choosing his world title for a match at WrestleMania. It didn't work though. He lost the title. So Triple H resorted to making Batista think there was friction between himself and Ric Flair. So Batista could associate himself with an ancient boy again. But this was an elaborate setup to annihilate Batista and challenge him to a Hell in a Cell match. He lost and disappeared for a bit. Upon his return the very first night he almost killed Ric Flair out of pity. Triple H destroyed him with a sludge hammer opened up his already fragile forehead and threw him into the limo all because he felt sad over what Flair had turned into. This version of Triple H was much more wiser than the other version had ever been. I feel bad for what you've become. So I'm gonna try to murder you. Wait, what? She didn't often feel vulnerable without him despite his ability to story-lad. Most importantly, Triple H was much more cooler here. He stopped wearing the suits off and leaned towards the sunglasses and jeans and because he was less often in the main event scene fans started cheering him. And after WrestleMania 22 plans were in place for a DX return. Now as a kid my memories of Triple H as a heel are towards his late heel run. I didn't like him for basic reasons but there was a coolness about him that very few had on Raw at the time. There was other heels I hated more. Kane's already been the most diabolical wrestler for about two years. His mask to run had run its course in management as in there was only one way to go unmasking him. And this resulted in Kane being his most dominant and most dangerous. We've just checked out a video how diabolical Kane was. So yeah, man. He was doing he was doing the devil's work for sure around this time. It really gives off shades of his run towards WrestleMania 14 in the sense of you didn't know what he would do on a weekly basis and that's a very hard thing to do. Because number one the fans have to be interested in the talent and two they have to have a certain legitness about them. Kane within his first month trying to burn RBD, burnt JR, tombstones, Linda McMahon, coke slammed Eric Bischoff on the stage. This guy was going all out and felt like a movie villain with the way they were booking him. Then proceeds to electrocute Shane's balls because, I don't know he could have thrown him into the fire returning the favor but it was bizarre. This dude was very back and forth with this home brother alive because he became one of the people. So he lost his edge. Kane's activities were mostly toned down until there was that story with Lita where he stalked her and she ended up pregnant. And ironically this story was used as a catalyst to turn Kane's face. WWE is smoking on the finest crack with this one. You turn on they pissed into a good guy in three months. But yeah, Kane's heel run was like a bright star that quickly runs out. He reverted to being a face again from here right up until 2008. His heel run wasn't much other than of course him stalking Rey Mysterio and Kelly Kelly. It did kidnap Rungin's scene but this was nothing compared to 2304 Kane. Kurt Angle's wrestling ability had made him into a legend of the game already four years into his WWE run. We don't say that often. Once Angle reverted to being a heel in early 2004, his motives were deceiving as Angle had proclaimed himself to be an American hero and a role model for the kids to strive for. His actions contradicted every single claim he made. Why? First of all, Angle took up the role of SmackDown General Manager. His roles to be unbiased and provide opportunities but instead, he turned the show upside down made Eddie Guerrero's life a living hell screwed John Cena out of the United States Championship over an exit and of course his deep hatred for him. Angle was a fraud that posed as a noble man and to top it all off he cost Eddie Guerrero the title and in turn exposed himself as healthy. But this was nothing. Angle from here on made demons look like angels. He used a big show with the tranquilizer dart and shaved his head. Threat and joy and eventually used her to get under Big Show's skin while Michael's just to challenge him to a match at WrestleMania 21. And the victory at the show should have mellowed him out but no, this man turned into a predator to fulfill his fantasy and this ramp said he wanted to have beastiality sex with Booker. I'm still one of the wildest things you can say to a man involving his wife, I want to have beastiality sex with your wife bro he gotta go if you know what I mean it's not about the wrestling, it's not about the championships, it's not about none of that you gotta this man lost the plot long ago but it was a weird time it was a weird time for Kurt Angle and this was all done just so the fans couldn't cheer him because somebody with Kurt Angle's abilities healer face is gonna be left. He goes to raw, curses out the troops and in an effort to show that he could get cheered said he's not a fan of the black people. It was crazy what they were doing with him because if they let go just a little he was gonna get cheered Kurt Angle is one of the most insane heals from this air of WWE and that's saying something this guy was a predator he was at the test double human being everything, they did all of this just to get him booed, it was so tough for Kurt Angle Bradshaw's career trajectory is very strange when a single wrestler doing nothing ends up being paired with Ron Simmons to become one of the most entertaining tag teams of the attitude era his time runs out and it seems like he's heading towards retirement but a huge opportunity opens with the departure of Brock Lesnar and the injuries to the likes of the big show Enter JBL JBL was an extension of Bradshaw's real life he was an investor, a successful one at that and WWE constructed a new character for him relating to that John Bradshaw Leifield was his new name a successful businessman who left Texas for New York City and in turn to him the very thing that his old character the APA would despise a suit wearing eagle maniac who loved hearing the sound of his voice and compared to other heals JBL wasn't as diabolical or flat out evil it was more grounded in his immoral actions had this cleanness to them compared to the likes of Triple H and Kurt Angle it was a standout character trait and showed that even his actions in the squared circle were white color yes he attacked his opponents but he never usually left them bloody he went to the US Mexico border and went after some immigrants hopping the border it's almost a crazy segment now you wanna see this on national tv it's just so wild bro his healed turn in a sense it worked because it was grounded in some type of realism like he said he wasn't out here per se trying to murder people he was just more out here saying how some people of his demographic felt about just the state of the world in general he would kinda bring that into the wrestling world it worked though he was saying some detestable and doing some detestable things but it wasn't too crazy like Triple H or Kane trying to mutilate somebody if that makes any sense but WWE in 2004 was wild the Undertaker was a tough opponent so he enlisted the help of gang rel and Vistra and his cabinet cleaned up any problems that came his way the real standout to JBL is that he wore his promos he had this unusual contempt for the crowd and guys like John Cena and Rey Mysterio that you almost believe it's real this man didn't have a single t-shirt I don't think anyone would have bought a JBL shirt anyways but it was a show that he was dedicated to simply being hated no flash of hey he's pretty cool he's in this impure hatred I hated JBL this man was so unlikable he would always pop up when you least expect he had a big problem with the country of Mexico and that would show in his huge with Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio this man told Rey straight to his face you're not a dog you're a Mexican brought out Kane on May 19th of all days to face Rey Mysterio and once he quit he went to commentary where he'd endlessly bully other wrestlers upon his return to the squared circle he was still the same guy forced Shawn Michaels to become his assistant JBL was committed to the job he had an old school vibe to him in the sense of do whatever it takes to be hated and he went the extra mile every single time because that was his job nobody ever said JBL was cool yeah he was cool in 2001 but as his cowboy had suit wearing almost politician figure nobody said that Edge's injury in 2003 changed the trajectory of his career entirely without that injury a lot would be different not only in Edge's career but the entire complexion of WWE he came back significantly different and didn't have much support from the crowd in 2002 not to mention he was much slower in ring so something had to give and right when he turned heel there was the whole lead on Matt Hardy's situation he took him a lot of heat and hatred from the fans and in turn he used this fire to build momentum to become the Rated R Superstar as the Rated R Superstar Edge saw no boundary he'd pass if it would give him the WWE championship he didn't care what others thought he handed it to anybody if they could help him as a mere tag team parter even Vince it was crazy what's even crazier is that this was the early parts of Edge this character would develop more and turn into the most intelligent wrestler in the entire WWE Edge was banging lead in the middle of the ring destroying his opponents with a concerto there was this pinfall yeah and he bend the rules like no other person in this video DQ's to save the title Brass Knuckles even claimed that he didn't want to wrestle in Arizona because they were the last state to recognize Mara Luther King day this man was world classic Man Edge Hall of Fame career for sure in WWE man he was he was despicable but it just worked he was just a piece of trash human being but it worked it worked so well this is fantastic excuse me Mr. Kennedy to put his money in a bank briefcase on the line that no one wants to come which was a cheap shot a cheap attack and he's the holder of the briefcase and he needed to become the champion on SmackDown Edge found a lot of comfort as the champion on SmackDown as he managed to get with Vicky Guerrero all for his own interest this guy would pull out some bizarre thing and always end up on top he returned to get the title shot during the title match and it works in his favor, why? because he's Edge the ultimate opportunist my most hated, this man ruined John Cena's life cashed in on the Undertaker and continuously screwed Batista out of the title once he saw this Vicky Guerrero thing growing thin he divorced her and said he never liked her ironically this was the most cheered he had been in about 5 years there's very few that matched Edge as a heel he was probably the coolest out of all these guys because of his style and vibe which should work against him of course because he had plenty of inspiration from the likes of Roddy Piper, that Matt Hardy incident and a booking he was always a coward that relied on unethical means to win the title hell this man found two lookalikes that helped distract the Undertaker and Batista just to win the title this guy was reaching towards the stars just to find any single way to win the title, it was crazy Oren had the perfect base life for him he was a second generation wrestler who felt entitled due to his father's success and of course his inclusion in the evolution faction Oren had the heel look down a young talent who thought the world was his and Oren did plenty he disrespected legends such as Fully, Harley-Rays and even R.K.O. The Fabulous Mula he had a hidden type of craziness that would unravel as the years would go by he was utterly reverted into did his craziness unravel he became psychotic once he cut that hair good god 2005 that things would change for one he archived Stacey Kebler in order to focus on his match with the Undertaker of WrestleMania and his feud with the Deadman forced him to reveal his true nature that of a pure psychopath he burned a casket with the Deadman in it and upon his return proceeded to drive a low rider in reverse and cause an explosion that didn't work and after the humbling inside Hell in SL Oren moved on to business like nothing happened he tried to smear Eddie Guerrero's legacy saying he's in hell wrote his low rider and screwed Ray out of his tunnel shot at WrestleMania but all of this was nothing compared to the next couple of years Ray at RKO as a tag team had some diabolical moments they basically killed Ric Flair here and took him out with a container I remember watching that bro I remember watching them murder Ric Flair bro I was like oh this is whole business is picked up that DX rated RKO feud oh my god that was so good they murdered this nigga Ric Flair bro this was all business has picked up as JR would say man they were rootless Hereto did it to DX but once they went their separate ways Randy Orton became even more cold and calculating he brought out the punt used to take out plenty of wrestlers even John Cena's dad needed this edge to finally get his hands on a WWE championship but keeping it required him to be persistent with this new found attitude and he learned the hard way upon his return from injury a big emphasis was made on Oren's unstable side Mr. McMahon after hearing an argument with Stephanie and from there unhinged Randy Orton was here he always showed remorse over his actions initially but that would change he did things with intent so just demeaning Stephanie and kissing her in front of Triple H taking him and Batista out with the punt and then of course he had the bald look which fit him well he was having problems mentally hearing once that hair went away fully he was this is maximum savage Randy right here 100% savagery no hair just here to kick people's skulls off their bodies bruh crazy he says that he'd lash out on the likes of John Cena this man was tortured and insane attempted murder with a power hell this man would go after his own guys every once in a while the Viper Randy Orton was the most cold and frightening character of this time period because of how unpredictable he was in order to be able to work he had the talent to make this character a success and whoop thing to know as they had such great acting skills at this point he just knew how to do the things he was doing and when to do him it was crazy it's kind of funny how Mr. McMahon was lucky the most talented he on the entire WWF the reason why I think Obi-Wan is because he was hitting it in plain sight McMahon added a lot to the shows with this character and throughout the 2000s he showed why at one point this man was cheered on raw and hated on SmackDown like he was the antichrist he was constantly provoking Hulk Hogan and fired him all because of his personal animosity towards him started having problems with his daughter Stephanie over the show wanted to see Zach Gowan fill and use his prosthetic leg and made a mockery out of it Brock Lesnar and HBK his daughter and to top it all off he had a match with her and no mercy knew that his soul's destined for hell and started telling tales of his demise ahead of his buried alive match with the Undertaker that didn't happen though when McMahon disappeared he wasn't really involved with storylines until the end of 2005 when he targeted Shawn Michaels all for telling him to move on from Montreal and this man was pressing him like why don't you go back to the old days at days of drugs and sex yup this is HBK Shawn Michaels real life demons he was dealing with before he left WWE the first time because he was going through a lot of stuff physically emotionally he was dealing with he was doing the drugs he was on all types of stuff and obviously Vitz knew this but the dude was doing some of the best work for WWE at that time he retired the first time or whatnot so when he came back HBK was clean trying to get right with God and focus on his career and trying to move forward from his past but they turned that real life situation into an angle where Vitz was like nah I want you to be the old you let's bring out the drugs let's bring out the liquor God what is that the worst worst possible oh well you'll enter the wrong rumble but only if you beat in certain name tried to force him to retire drugged his drink and made him take a drug test which flipped on his head went to church and tried to find his own religion made a match with God as Shawn Michaels his tag team partner one man started an only triple H who didn't want anything to do with him and this led to the return of DX who's drove McMahon crazy three months of hell sure he had the upper hand at some point but by the end of it it wasn't worth dealing with DX after his embarrassment wrestling in 23 this led to a change of appearance from McMahon he sported a few reggae stars annoying Bobby Lashley and it was more comedy rather than some big A he'll type a storyline it slowly led to the end of the Mr. McMahon character not to mention it was as insane as he used to be seeing punk signing with WWE cost some people off guard in detail and being scooped up by the biggest company around and it's not like they didn't do this it's just punk's circumstances were significantly different than others like Paul London and Brian Kendrick punk's initial days in the WWE were as a face it wasn't until 2009 that he took the role of a heel punk was the direct opposite of what Jeff Hardy was all about and it wasn't even hard for him to get booed it's Jeff Hardy in the year 2009 2009 Jeff Hardy is like 2009 Lil Wayne this guy was number one but despite this the second city saint went off the deep end with this new heel character and was so desperate to not only be hated but to be considered the devil of WWE because of how much love Jeff Hardy had at the time in his own touch it stood out he was snarky he held himself to a higher esteem than the fans and the difference to punk with other heels was that he wouldn't be like you guys are nothing he would go on about personal life choices such as being sober and these rants got him even more best of all he got rid of Jeff Hardy and dropped him with a belt after his goodbye speech this man was absolute wow this is so good punk's status on the card fell a bit but it allowed him to create what was known as the straight edge society members had to completely devote themselves to punk and abstain from drugs and alcohol punk had some heat but the whole thing never developed to a story that would rival his feud with Jeff Hardy I always thought there was a potential world title story there but it is what it is Luke Gallo, Serena shaved their heads and punk was all enjoying himself growing this big beard he felt like he was almost a messiah-like figure the straight edge society helped see punk become one of the most hated men on SmackDown but once he caught momentum with it it was quickly taken out and disbanded punk didn't really have a long heel run in the 2000s but in the small time he was given a stout of it so that's why I decided to include him here because this man, for literally three months pissed off every Jeff Hardy fan on Earth he just hated it because Jericho's heel character in WWE had never been fleshed out properly early on he was one of those mid-card heels but because he was pretty popular they turned him into a face King of My World Jericho was a regular heel he didn't do something that was too heinous basic heel stuff 2005 had some moments where he was brutal with John Cena but his real standout was 2008 Jericho transformed himself into a very compo- this was good this heel run ground this time y'all know me man y'all know this is one of my favorite heel runs from Jericho he stood out easily because for one he shed any mention of his Y2J persona and re-established himself despite not needing to he needed to though because it was the only way he touched the main event scene Chris Jericho was the deepest heel out there in WWE news he wasn't the most violent or cruel but he stood out because technically everything he was saying was true he was just the wrong messenger Jericho compared to the rest here looks pretty clean I added him here because he was the most unique and had a big interest in remaining in character outside of the arena you ask most people the best character of WWE in 2008 or the best heel they're gonna say Chris Jericho he just did some amazing work that year in 2009 he was great as well 2010 and onwards he was right most of the time but just because he was a heel that made him wrong now these guys weren't mentioned outright but he came to him that whole Michael Cole incident which was crazy Sean O'Hara was very different to others because instead of doing these actions he led others to that direction Big Show swung a stretcher Bound Rain Mysterio and there's plenty of examples out there I didn't want to talk about comedy heels here as well because I just didn't think it was their place King Booker he was very entertaining but he didn't fit the video much Sean Michaels' return in 2002 as a proud babyface made things seem unlikely for a potential heel turn he came in as a heel with the NWL but it was nothing compared to his old days 2005 though opened things up Michaels took up the role of a villain for his feud with Hulk Hogan this man was still as amazing as he once was one month he was a heel for only one month yet people are still talking about it because HBK was making jokes about Hulk Hogan mocking him and even trolled the Montreal crowd into thinking Bret Hart was coming back this guy had no chill and it's crazy one month but he made the most out of it it's kind of unfortunate that HBK never continued being a heel from here on because he clearly showed that he still had the ability for it but regardless at the end of the day this was a very memorable run it certainly stands out especially for a short run alright these are the heels of the 2000s a lot of these guys were absolutely insane the way they booked them was crazy this was all just to prevent some cheering they wanted these guys to be booed 99% of the time the best heel eye of all these guys I'd say is Triple H I think Triple H was the best booked as a character not the stories or whatever I'm talking about his character as heel persona he was booked was almost a TV show character he had the most background as well he was a part of a clique DX and what not and he managed to make something out of himself but other than that all these guys did their job well they were amazing some of these guys would be doing some stuff you would not see today at all for sure alright what you guys think of the heels of the 2000s please comment down below this was a great one gonna go ahead and like this video as y'all should too I'm gonna link down the original video down below man this was great this was fantastic brought me down memory lane I want to know who was your favorite heel during the 2000 era like I wouldn't say favorite as in you was probably a fan of them back then but when you look back on it now you can appreciate the type of heel work they were doing man not gonna lie to you from this video alone it had to be it's Triple H for sure cause boy he was just you just wanted to make sure he never came back to Monday Night Rock cause he was doing some dastardly things Triple H for sure if I had to choose someone else a close second would be Randy Orton his transformation into the bald Randy Orton was menacing very menacing for sure so but y'all let me know your favorite heel from the 2000 eras in WWE but I appreciate all love and support guys are showing on channel road to 150k and I'm still y'all in this beauty youtube wrestling champion where I appreciate y'all kicking with me see y'all next one peace