Talk:Heat (professional wrestling)

Commentary on X-pac heat
The section on X-Pac Heat has a few inaccuracies, and the accurate parts don't really explain the concept for someone who isn't already familiar with the phenomenon. It's mostly just a listing of times people booed John Cena. If no one minds, I'm going to rewrite the section.


 * I don't mind. I myself read a few things that wasn't accurate. Even though I don't quite think that John Cena is getting the X-Pac Heat, I still don't mind if someone rewrite for the better.


 * I agree, and would like to add it seems to consist of some opinion.


 * What is supposed to be a simple section explaining the origin and characteristics of the term is turned into a treatise on why the writer doesn't like John Cena. It needs to be lot less opinionated.  I already did a massive rewrite on it.  It's probably not complete or perfect, but it draws on more instances of said heat and uses less opinion.


 * I added the stuff about John Cena, but I didn't rename the heading "X-Pac/Cena Heat" - I think that the section should be kept under the name "X-Pac heat" as that's what it's usually called, but I think it's kind of NPOV for X-Pac to be the only wrestler who gets mentioned here. There are a lot of other examples that should probably be included, but John Cena is undeniably the most high-profile example of "go away heat". Maybe references to ECW crowds would be good as well, like when they crapped all over The Big Show and Batista match at the ECW TV tapings, and also the Brock Lesnar vs Goldberg match is a great example, as well as that Buff Bagwell vs Booker T match from the start of the WCW Invasion, where the WWF crowd booed them out of the building and cheered for Triple H and Austin attacking them, even though they were meant to be the WWF's top heels. The Rock's someone who's gotten X-Pac heat a bunch of times as well, like the "Die Rocky Die" chants from when he was Rocky Maivia and the reactions in his match with Austin at WrestleMania 17 and Hogan the year after.

Tagged for Bias
I don't blame the person that originally tagged this article for neutrality as it keeps turning into a forum on why someone doesn't like a certain wrestler.

No sources
There are no cites or sources for this entry to back up anything in it. This article will be put up for Afd if the matter is not resolved. TruthCrusader 16:05, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

-- That's because there is little in the way of news stories that talk about crowd reaction, but it doesn't mean these variations of reactions don't exist. I know where you're coming from, but in this case, I don't think tagging this article for lack of sources is justified in this case.

TRIPLE H/ROCK LEGIT HEAT

This is bull crap. They has never been any evidence of legit heat between these two. In fact. they have worked together numerous times in the ring. Give me some evidence

All entries that contain such information MUST be cited or sourced. That is Wikipedia policy. TruthCrusader 13:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Actually, TruthCrusader, you're being too by-the-book. Per Wikipedia's ignore all rules rule, if consensus agrees that this article doesn't need sources, then it doesn't.  As it stands, it's me and this guy against you; that's 2/3 of the vote.  That is consensus (in fact, 2/3 is enough consensus to propose an amendment to the US Constitution, which is supposed to require consensus in and of itself), so unless someone else wants to step in and side with you to tie it all up, then consensus rules that the Ignore All Rules rule applies, and that no sources are necessary.Wikieditor1988 (talk) 23:40, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

We need sources and cites
The entry cannot stand as it is. It HAS to be sourced. www.obsessed with wrestling.com or www.wrestlingencyclopedia.com can be used to source the terms, BUT the various examples Rock/HHH etc etc cannot be sourced and will have to be removed. TruthCrusader 19:00, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup
The article has been whittled down considerably to remove much of the unsourced commentary, and as such, the only tag still needed (technically) is the NPOV tag. - Chadbryant 22:13, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

To source actually means to LIST SOURCES, not just proclaim "these are sourced".TruthCrusader 05:08, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Text removed from X-Pac heat section
I removed a large part of the section because it read more like commentary than material suitable for an encyclopedia. The text that is there right now is more than sufficient to explain the concept. The example of X-Pac himself is more than suitable to illustrate the concept. If we start adding more examples, the section will become too large and unweildy to be organized and informative. Furthermore, X-Pac heat is a subjective concept. Unless you actually poll the fans, it's very, very hard to tell what their motivation is for booing someone. I would agree that the Big Show/Batista and Lesnar/Goldberg examples are X-Pac heat, but I disagree that Rock and Cena were getting X-Pac heat. It seems to me that the crowd got sick of their babyface act, but not sick of the wrestler, as evidenced by how effective Rock was after he turned heel. Believe me, people definitely paid to watch him wrestle. They did not wish he would go away. WP:Verifiability requires information to be verifiable, and you can't really get a source for what the crowd was thinking. Croctotheface 06:53, 15 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Though I can't speak as primarily for Rocky Maivia, I think a "Die Rocky Die!" chant is quite an obvious indicator towards how the crowd felt.
 * Wikipedia policy requires both NPOV and verifiiability. It seems to me that you dislike Cena and want to say that he sucks on Wikipedia, which suggests you don't have a neutral point of view here.  I already said that I believe that ECW crowds give some WWE performers X-Pac heat, but I could actually see another point of view there.  It could be that the ECW fans see performing these kinds of chants as part of the show, in which case it would not be X-Pac heat.  As far as Rock, he got "Die Rocky Die" chants when he was in the Corporation, when he was extremely over as a heel.  But more importantly, there's no real informative purpose to some sort of list of examples of performers who may or may not have ever gotten X-Pac heat.  Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information.  The article has explained the concept, which is all it needs to do. Croctotheface 04:10, 21 September 2006 (UTC)


 * And Rocky Maivia did get the "Die Rocky Die" chants when he was a babyface. When he joined The Corporation the chant was revived after he cut his promo explaining why he "sold out" and cited those chants as a reason.
 * I was not suggesting that he only got the "die" chant when he was booked as a heel (I realize I was unclear about this). However, your suggestion seemed to be that a chant like "Die Rocky Die" was so vitriolic that it automatically meant he was drawing X-Pac heat.  My response was that the fans also chanted it when he was over as a heel, in which case it was just heel heat, not X-Pac heat.  Croctotheface 04:44, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Bret Hart/canned heat vandalism
A user with two IPs in the same range, 137.158.128.105 and 137.158.128.106, keeps adding an unsourced comment that Bret Hart's matches frequently had canned heat played. Considering the history of vandalism at both these IPs, I see no reason to believe that this edit is legitimate. Consequently, I will keep reverting it as vandalism. Croctotheface 08:57, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

It is legitimate if it's true, which it certainly is. 13 October 2006


 * No, the standard for inclusion in WIkipedia is verifiability, not truth. You have been unable to produce a source since the first time I reverted you.  If you have a reliable source, then cite it.  Since you don't, I see nothing to change my mind about your edit being vandalism. Croctotheface 17:55, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

I removed the new "reflected heat" section
I removed it because I did a Google search for ("reflected heat" wrestling) and it didn't return any results related to professional wrestling that I could see. If this term is notable enough for inclusion, there should be a lot of sources that use it. Otherwise, it's original research, which is a no-no for Wikipedia. Croctotheface 07:59, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Why is dead heat associated with Charlie Haas? The people I talk to refer to it as a 'Conway Pop', referencing Rob Conway.

Canadien Heat
Just a question should the heat non Canadien wrestlers get when they have a match with Canadian wrestlers in Canada (despite being a face) be added to this page. IE Unforgiven 2006 between Edge and Cena when Edge despite being a heel got cheered and an overwhelming majoriy booed Cena who is a face —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.126.238.25 (talk) 05:39, 6 January 2007 (UTC).


 * I think thats down to John Cena himself getting a lot of heat.


 * John maybe a face, but it seems to me that everytime i watched Raw during his title reign before his injury, Half the crowd booed him, while the other half cheered him.

-> This is not a phenomenon that has been limited to matches involving Cena, it goes back to at least Bret Hart. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.161.179.31 (talk) 23:59, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Bossman heat
I'm OK with this sentence, but I'd still really like to see a citation of a reliable source. Croctotheface 06:56, 14 February 2007 (UTC)


 * How does this work? I found a [Column written by Rick Scaia] with the phrase ...inadvertantly spawns hate mail from Ernest Miller fans who think "Big Bossman Heat" or "X-Pac Heat" would be more appropriate names, 04/04/01.  It both has Bossman's name in there with X-Pacs, and it was written in 2001, before Bossman passed on.


 * There's also the article I already linked to in the wiki edit, a shoot interview with Disco Inferno on TheSmartMarks, although granted it was the author and not Disco using the term. McJeff (talk) 13:35, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Lawler/Doink legit heat?
Can anyone expand on this?

The Sgt. Slaughter info doesn't sound right
It says that Sgt. Slaughter would create 'heat' by insulting soldiers and supporting Iraq during the Gulf War. I don't follow wrestling, but that sounds odd to me. I remember Sgt. Slaughter as a child, and his gimmick was supposed to be a kind of G.I. Joe USMC superpatriot, which is why it sounds odd that he would draw 'heat' by mocking US soldiers. Wasn't he supposed to be a 'face', anyway? Childe Roland of Gilead 17:50, 27 June 2007 (UTC)


 * There was an angle where Slaughter defected to support Iraq during the first Gulf War. They even brought in Iron Sheik to manage him. The story behind the turn was that Slaughter was trapped in a mental time warp, couldn't accept that the Cold War was over, and thought the country had turned on him... but the angle itself got all of the wrong kind of heat.  Wrestlecrap.com's writeup, which isn't currently posted on the site, mentions that the Hogan/Slaughter PPV drew so badly that they had to move the show to a smaller arena. McJeff (talk) 13:37, 18 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Slaughter was never a face until the end off 1991. In the early 80's when Slaughter first wrestled in the WWE, he wasn't a face, he was a heel. Even as the patriotic American soilder during his first stint, he was always a heel. Dan the Man1983 (talk) 05:50, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

X-Pac Heat
This sounds very much like POV. While it may be true that he has once or twice received Negative Heat (the true name for this kind of heat), this article is very biased against Waltman. How widespread is the term "X-Pac Heat"? Is it just the RSPW gang who use it? There are various people (including current WWE Champion John Cena) who receive this type of heat far more frequently and more significantly. I sincerely doubt that "X-Pac Heat" is the term used by people in the wrestling industry. Does anyone have a leigitimate source(and I don't mean something off Scott Keith's Blog) that uses the term "X-Pac Heat"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.158.128.105 (talk) 12:53, 10 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I see it used all over the place. I've never heard the term "negative heat".  Croctotheface 15:48, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

CM Punk / Undertaker / Paul Bearer
I think this needs a mention probably in the "cheap heat" section. Punk talked crap about a newly deceased Paul Bearer in order tp get heat and continue the feud os probably the best example we could have. Black Dragon 01:52, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

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Badly written
An experienced Wikipedian needs to seriously take a look at the sentence structure and vocabulary used in this article. What's "revaluted?" 2409:4042:228E:3C9C:DD7A:E51C:FA59:4426 (talk) 10:33, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

There is no mention of Shawn Michael's heat on Montreal city on August 15 2005
There is no mention of Shawn Michael's heat on Montreal city on August 15 2005. He did say, " "Who's your daddy Montreal?!" Please mention it in this article. Source Man Floor (talk) 05:07, 2 August 2020 (UTC)