#2 Stephanie McMahon
The WWE’s resident ice princess is easily the most effective heel at their disposal. In fact, Stephanie McMahon is so adept at antagonising the fans that even the most grizzled smarks won’t acknowledge her brilliance as a performer.
Since Triple H puts over an up and coming babyface every year at WrestleMania, the Commissioner of Monday Night Raw is invaluable as a manager. She not only presents an additional obstacle for The Game’s opponent to overcome, but her annual bump at the Show of Shows is also guaranteed to generate one of the loudest reactions of the night.
Although several naysayers will declare that Stephanie is merely the recipient of X-Pac heat, we’ve long since established that she is the quintessential heel manager for an age of professional wrestling that lacks a real zeitgeist.