Except for very few managers in wrestling, the best ones are pretty nasty heels. Good heel managers were able to do an exceptional job of getting their clients over, not just in interviews, but in the ring during matches as well. They also were very adept at getting an enormous amount of heat piled on themselves too.

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WCW launched during the dying days of Crockett Promotions and lasted until the end of The Monday Night Wars. In that time, there were a slew of managers of all kinds in the promotions that were masters at being highly unlikeable.

10 Colonel Robert Parker

With a voice like Foghorn Leghorn, it made it a lot easier to dislike Col. Robert Parker. Behind the scenes, he was actually Robert Fuller, a member of the famous Memphis based wrestling family. On screen, he was responsible for bringing in Sid Vicious. He also would feature his Stud Stable of men like Arn Anderson and Terry Funk. He also would use his Southern charms to try and woo Sister Sherri while she was managing The Harlem Heat.

9 Debra McMichael

When you’re styling and profiling like only Slick Ric can, you’re going to wind up with some great valets during your career. The Nature Boy wound up with three at the same time, and each of them knew how to work the crowd.

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Debra McMichael was no different. Just because she was a beauty Queen didn’t mean she could be trusted. Especially when she was brandishing her husband’s Halliburton briefcase or coercing other superstars to do her bidding.

8 Alexandra York

In the early nineties, nobody liked a statistician with a computer, even if they were as good-looking as Miss Alexandra York. The future Marlena came into the scene of WCW with the gimmick of a yuppie type secretary who was able to cull together several mid-carders and rename them with business names - Michael Wallstreet, Thomas Rich, Richard Morgan, Terrence Taylor. All of the former squeaky clean babyfaces became smarmy, yuppie heels, the perfect foil for late eighties, early nineties babyfaces.

7 James Vandenberg

Some gimmicks are way ahead of their time. Others unfortunately fell behind the times before they ever got the chance to get started. The entire Blood Runs Cold gimmick fell into the latter category, unfortunately. But thanks to the Mortal Kombat-inspired angle, we got to meet The Sinister Minister, James Vanendberg. As the leader of his collection of oddities duo, he led Mortis and Wrath to the ring. Over the years, not just in WCW, Vandenberg has been able to wield literal fire to get reactions from the crowd.

6 Sonny Onoo

At one point in the history of business, it was easy to be a heel just based on where you were originally from. It was easy to garner heel heat just for being foreign.

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This was the case for Sony Onoo. He was responsible for managing the likes of Japanese greats like The Ultimo Dragon, Bull Nakano, and Akira Hokuto. To make himself even more annoying, he’d take selfies with his charges using an old school camera.

5 Woman

Poor Rick Steiner. He was such an innocent brute when Robin Green, a fan, had come to all the shows to seemingly root for The Dog-Faced Gremlin. But it was all a ruse, and she’d turn on Rick and unveil herself as the bringer of doom to The Steiners - the tag team Doom, that is. She’d also show up a few years later as one of Flair’s valets, and she’d be able to do whatever it took to help Naitch win matches.

4 Jim Cornette

There’s a reason ol’ James E is the most cantankerous wrestling personality with a podcast. It’s because he was one of the most cantankerous performers of all time. His gift of gab got him and The Midnight Express in a lot of hot water with the fans - white-hot heat with the fans. He’d rail against anyone and anything - this is the guy who said Ronnie Garvin went up like The Challenger (the spaceship explosion) when he set him on fire. Nothing was off limits for Cornette and the fans hated him for it - much like now.

3 James J. Dillon

For some time, The Four Horsemen were among the most despicable as far as heel factions go. The standard-bearers of excellence pretty much set the template for how to be great heels. Behind Ric Flair, Tully Blanchard, The Andersons, and several other iterations of the Horsemen was James J. Dillon. Like any food manager, he was always there to distract referees, pass foreign objects, and occasionally catch a beating.

2 Paul E. Dangerously

The guy’s nickname was The Psycho Yuppie From New York and his goal was bankrupt all of WCW - what was there to actually like about Paul E. Dangerously. He led possibly the greatest heel faction not named The Four Horsemen.

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Nowadays, he is respected among the best ever in the business, but that’s only because Paul Heyman was so good at being hateable, as Jim Ross has called him on more than one occasion.

1 Eric Bischoff

As a commentator, Eric Bischoff was divisive for both his style and his tactics during The Monday Night War. Once it was revealed that he was secretly behind The New World Order, it made even easier to hate him so much. Most of the time all he had to do was point as his incredibly, perfectly annoying dimples and whiter-than-Sheamus level teeth. He reveled in being the villain, and it showed every single week.