RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Sports and Wrestling Raw review 11th July

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Grimm said:
Excellent examples of proper and brutal heel turns:

The Road Warriors spike Dusty Rhodes ('88). Quite possibly the only person in the NWA more popular than the Warriors at that time. To make the fans boo them, they had to turn, and turn brutally. And they did. The Roadies went hardcore heel and become more brutal than they'd ever been. And even then, a lot of the fans still didn't want to boo them.

The Horsemen turn on Sting ('89). Something that people should've seen coming, but still didn't. Sting was a Horseman. He had allied with Flair and Anderson and they seemed to have bonded. Wrong! Flair and the Andersons took umbrage at Sting's decision to accept a World Title match with Flair and told him to back out. He refused. They beat the crap out of him and left him laying. Setting the stage for the next year's worth of feuds.

Hogan joins the Outsiders ('96). This turn is a perfect example of using your fanbase to work a story. WCW fans had never accepted Hogan as the big megahero and didn't like him to start with. So turning him heel and teaming him up with two other "WWF" guys in an invasion angle was sublime. It paid off big time. But it would've never worked for the WWF, whos primary fanbase was raised cheering Hogan.

Joe Mama takes out Chris Oakley, then joins the Bastardo Family ('05). This was a turn that no one saw coming. Joe Mama was always "pro-RDCW" and was one of the driving forces behind the fall of the RwO. While the brutality of the "Fenway Park Street Fight" match surprised no one, no one could have predicted that Oakley's ouster would actually lead to a revamped, more powerful Bastardo Family. And this heel turn has resonated through the RDCW ever since.

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