I brought this shyt up over at SOHH a long time ago. I knew I wasn't the only one who wondered about this.
I basically asked in a thread if heels in particular could ever get X-Pac heat. How could someone who's SUPPOSED to be booed, be referred to as getting X-Pac heat when he gets a lot of boos - regardless of why he's being booed? I still don't feel like I got a clear explanation on that.
I used to believe just that, though. I remember when Jack Swagger did that promo after winning the WHC - that crowd was loud as fukking hell and didn't even let him talk. At the time, I thought that was X-Pac heat because people legit thought that Swagger holding that title was a fukking disgrace.
Now I'm under the impression that X-Pac heat is when the crowd generally DOESN'T react to someone, because they legitimately don't like/care for the actual person, and don't want to see them at all under ANY circumstances.
Example: when Michael Cole first started turning heel on Raw and cost Lawler the WWE title, he got almost Vickie-like heat from the crowd. The crowd hated him, but not on some 'go away' shyt. They wanted to see him getting owned. It was only when he started getting too much airtime and constantly shytting on Lawler, when fans generally were like
"OK we get it".....he went from being hated on some "I hope someone beats his ass" shyt to being hated like "why is he even on TV".....you could tell because later on, even though he still got booed, he lost a lot of heat from the crowd and you could tell a lot of them were sitting quiet with the
face
I think Alberto Del Rio got a lot of this, too. That Royal Rumble ending where he won was ridiculous; the crowd was pretty hot up until he won. Plus dude usually got some crickets during his promos.
THAT, to me is X-Pac heat. It's an obvious LACK of a reaction. You can't call it X-Pac heat if the person is getting loud-ass boos, not matter what the fans actually think of the person, and especially if the person is intended to be a heel. Why even bother labeling the reason behind a person getting booed if they're a heel anyway?
I could be wrong, but I think the way X-Pac got it was like this: at first people were mad over what he did to Kane, and he got a lot of heat from the crowd for it......heat that never really died, even when he eventually tried to turn face. I think fans generally had a soft spot for Kane, and when X-Pac did that shyt they were like "fukk this nikka.....now and forevermore", and they eventually went from actively hating him (real heat) to just not wanting him around anymore (X-Pac heat). It's like if you get in a fight with someone and you see them a week later.....you still heated over the fight and would feel like fighting again....but you see the same person 10 years later and you find out he changed and is a nicer person now....you wouldn't feel like fighting him but you'd still be like
to them and then KIM
