Most shocking heel turns?

[Guest pheadley]

with the shock of seth rollins turning heel on monday was i wondering if anyone has a favourite heel turn

[King 277]

Hogan........ close the thread please :)

[Guest Ciaran The King]

The Rock, Survivor Series 1998

[Guest The Beltster]

Hogan. No question.

[Omega 354]

Yeah, Hogan absolutely steals it by a country mile. I'm not even sure if they turned Cena it would be quite as unexpected as the Hogan turn because people want him to turn.

[Guest Fatherof10minis]

most shocking heel turns

 

Hogan is the only answer to this thread, nuff said.

[ViciousPrism 177]

Hogans in hindsight should have had a bit less impact considering the surprise was on the verge of being blown when Bobby Heenan (I think) came out with "Whose side is he on?". Dope.

[GENE 86]

most shocking heel turns

 

Big Shows 273 face turn.

[Omega 354]

The only other turn that sticks in my mind as being shocking was Michaels turning on Janetty but that may be because it's the first really big turn I ever remember seeing as a kid.

[Guest The Beltster]

If we are talking about when we were young, the most confusing for me at the time was Fuji turning on Demolition at Survivor Series 88, it was so weird I thought Fuji turned face and joined the Powers of Pain. The most shocking ones as a kid, even though looking back it was obviously going to happen both times, Savage turning on Hulk at The Main Event was crazy and Orndorff turning on Hogan in 86 blew my mind.

[Guest Inno]

I'm on the Hogan train for this one, it is just a shame The Brain made that bad call (which I note is edited out of almost every version I've seen put out by the WWE since) but in recent times? I *LOVED* the ECW arrival to the Invasion, that moment when you realised that the guys that ran down were all ex ECW and they slowly turned round on Jericho and Kane... and then Heyman jumped up and cut a great promo.

 

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[Guest Edgehead]

Hogan is number 1 without a doubt. Austin at WM17 was a shocker & Taker when he turned on Jim Ross in 2001

[Guest pheadley]

would you all consider vince at montreal a heel turn. would that count.

[Guest Edgehead]

would you all consider vince at montreal a heel turn. would that count.

 

It certainly marked the beginning of the "Mr McMahon" character

[DC 536]

Hogans in hindsight should have had a bit less impact considering the surprise was on the verge of being blown when Bobby Heenan (I think) came out with "Whose side is he on?". Dope.

I've never thought of that as Heenan giving the game away. He was always saying Hogan couldn't be trusted and he was always accusing Hogan of wrongdoings, so when Hogan comes out it would only be natural for him to disparage Hogan's motives.

 

Every other time he did it, he was wrong, and he just stayed in character by questioning Hogan's motives again... only this time he was right.

[Maxximus 353]

Yeah it never bothered me either. That was typical Heenan and even though he said it, it didn't change or effect my reaction at all. I didn't see it coming and I could have never predicted he would heel turn. Hollywood Hogan wins the thread.

[DC 536]

Outside the Hogan turn, I'd say Paul Bearer turning on Undertaker at Summerslam '96 could be a contender for 2nd place.

[Guest The Beltster]

I tell you what turn I literally never saw it coming at all: Tatanka! Dude, when Tatanka ended up being the guy taking DiBiase's money at SummerSlam 1994 and not Luger, I was shocked as hell.

[Guest pheadley]

i liked stephanies turn on vince at armageddon, but i dont blame her lol

[dsrchris 190]

It's by no means the biggest heel turn, but I really enjoyed Punk knocking Rocky out on Raw1000.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

It's by no means the biggest heel turn, but I really enjoyed Punk knocking Rocky out on Raw1000.

 

I'll agree with this, it was so well done and both Punk and Rock played it beautifully.

 

Also must mention as I think someone already has but Vince's real/unscripted turn at Survivor Series 1997 produced one of the nest heel characters ever

[TPIB 62]

Everybody is saying that Hogan's heel turn was the most shocking, but I disagree. Maybe it's because I'm a die hard WWE fan, but I think Austin's heel turn at WrestleMania X-Seven was the most shocking. Honorable mention goes to The Rock at Survivor Series 1998.

[Evil Gringo 279]

Brock Lesnar joining up with Vince and destroying Angle in 2003 on Smackdown was shocking for me. I knew a turn was coming but I expected it to be Angle given his history with Vince and the fact that Lesnar 'broke' his neck again and took his title at Mania that year.

 

No way was it on a par with Hogan joining the nWo or Savage dumping Elizabeth and the implosion of the Mega Powers or even Raven turning in the opposite direction and actually helping Tommy Dreamer in ECW but damn it shocked me at the time.

[Guest BeorimJ]

I would also put in Hogan, or HBK on Marty

[Guest The Beltster]

Everybody is saying that Hogan's heel turn was the most shocking, but I disagree. Maybe it's because I'm a die hard WWE fan, but I think Austin's heel turn at WrestleMania X-Seven was the most shocking. Honorable mention goes to The Rock at Survivor Series 1998.

I'm a WWF diehard too, not sure what that has to do with anything.

 

Hogan turned heel, with zero warning, after being THE babyface of the previous 13-14 years and the biggest star of all time was HUGE. Austin had been a heel only a few years before he turned in 2001 and even as a babyface he acted like a heel. It was a surprise sure, but shocking that Austin could be heel? Nah.