Heel Turns in 2018
By Scott Keith on November 14, 2018
As sad as I am to see Styles's year plus championship reign come to an end & happy yet sorta confused and intrigued with Bryan going heel, aren't we all just relieved that it wasn't The Miz to be one to defeat Styles and become WWE Champion? I am!
Anyways, after all the heel turns this year alone with Nakamura, Gargano, Becky, Big Show, Orton, Ambrose, and now Bryan, my favorite is Roderick Strong's at Takeover: New Orleans as NO ONE saw that one coming. And him joining Undisputed Era worked out even better. What is your favorite this year and what is your favorite turn of all time?
Sick Miz burn there. I approve.
Favorite of all time has got to be Barry Windham turning on Lex Luger to join the Four Horsemen. Bryan and Vinny were just reliving it on Sunday's show and it was still GLORIOUS. Barry comes into the match still as a babyface, but JJ Dillon gets into his head over the course of the long and grueling match, brainwashing him into thinking that Luger won't be there for him. And then that's exactly what happens (thanks to the Horsemen cheating) and Barry finally snaps and turns on his own partner to join the heel side. I was 13 at the time and my best friend and fellow wrestling nerd was in TEARS, literal tears, because of Barry betraying Lex like that. It was amazing.
Anyway, yeah Strong was tremendous this year. And it made sense. We're still waiting on an explanation for Dean Ambrose, for example, and Nakamura is mostly in the same place he was before the turn.
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