World Wrestling Insanity: Insanity Readers and Staff Choose: 2009's Heel of The Year...

Insanity Readers and Staff Choose: 2009's Heel of The Year...

By World Wrestling Insanity's Readers & Staff Dec 27, 2009 - 12:45 PM

Here's a little secret. Without the villains...the bad guys stink. Superman without Lex Luthor? Jack Bauer without terrorists? The Cookie Crisp Cop without the Cookie Crook? Come on. Every hero needs a foil. This year, although there was a different winner for our readers and staff, we all agreed that three guys ruled the roost. Who are they and who won? Well, give a boo and check it out....

2009 Reader's Choice for Heel of The Year is...

C.M. Punk

2nd Place: Chris Jericho
3rd Place: Randy Orton

Reader Comments:

"I was listening to an audio from James Guttman on ClubWWI and he was talking about how Punk is backwards in WWE's world. A bad guy who stands against drugs and helps people clean up their lives? It sounds crazy but it's awesome. Bad guy Punk is one of those things where it feels like the fans have made him a great heel. It's the reaction they give that makes him what he is and it's the ability to know how to get that reaction that makes him what he should be - 2009's Heel Of The Year. "
- Allison Mendel
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"Just brilliant mic work from this guy in 2009. I absolutely love his holier-than-thou straight-edge persona."
- Justin Ballard
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"Starting off as a fairly popular babyface, in one night Punk turned most of the fans against him by cashing in on Jeff Hardy. That, followed by a slow turn into the prick we see today, helped garner monster heat and helped the Punk/Hardy feud become the most entertaining feud all year. "
- James Cebulski

2009 Staff Choice for Heel of The Year is...

Chris Jericho

2nd Place: C.M. Punk
3rd Place: Randy Orton

Staff Comments:
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" I think the man to hate this year has been Chris Jericho. Form his stance on the legends in the lead up to Wrestlemania involving "The Wrestler", through one of the best feuds of the year with Rey Mysterio and onto his tag title run with, principally, Big Show, there hasn't been a man so constantly great on the microphone and in his in-ring mannerisms that have made him so easy to dislike this year than Chris Jericho."
- Aaron Wood
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"Edge was good but injured (as usual), Orton was excellent but he had the usual main event dance partners to make things easy (although he does get credit for keeping his 3211 matches with John Cena surprisingly fresh). CM Punk is doing a bang up job as the Straight Edge shithead but he worked part of 2009 as a babyface. Jericho is great on the mic, great in the ring, and great at garnering heat no matter who he works with. Whether it was WWE Legends, Rey Mysterio, or DX, Jericho has rightfully earned the spot of top heel in wrestling." - Mike Rickard
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"They put Chris Jericho on both shows because they needed him, not because they wanted to. Outside of Jericho, each show only has one major heel. RAW has Orton. SmackDown has Batista. And neither of them did anything of note that deserves this award. So who else is there? Kurt Angle? F*ck that."
- Mike Johns
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Check Back For Wrestler of the Year, Babyface of the Year, Worst Storyline of the Year, Match of the Year, 2009 Moment of Insanity, and 2010 Predictions.