I wouldn't call the shiek one of the all time greatest heels. Think flair and the horsemen, ric rude, dibiase, bret hart, kurt angle. What shiek got was cheap heat but he was always more cartoonish than anything but his time was during the cartoonish days of the wwf so it was a good fit.
If the article was trying to say he could have become a great heel, he wasn't a particularly great worker despite his amateur background. And his gimmick was a cartoon. He never really was a main eventer, bob backlund refused to drop the belt to someone with no amateur background, so shiek was the transitional champion. That said, his shoot interviews were epic.
If the article was trying to say he could have become a great heel, he wasn't a particularly great worker despite his amateur background. And his gimmick was a cartoon. He never really was a main eventer, bob backlund refused to drop the belt to someone with no amateur background, so shiek was the transitional champion. That said, his shoot interviews were epic.