 What's good George Boatwalks back again with another video. So I'm gonna check out bad guys wrestling greatest heel turns It's something great about a good heel turn a heel turn that you're not expecting a heel turn that comes out of nowhere and it literally sets up months and months of entertaining television to the point where you want to see that person suffer you want to see that person Get what they deserve man And we've had some really really great heel turns in the past few years So we're gonna go down memory lane check out some of these iconic moments where you just once it happened You know, ah, yeah, we're we're in for a show and I'm looking forward to seeing this bad guy get what he deserves Man, so we're gonna check this out another video with wrestling wrestle with Andy link to the original video We'll be down below as always go give them a subscription if you haven't already as plenty of dope wrestling videos You guys definitely check out Ricky steamboat at some point during your wrestling career You're going to have to shift your alignment on the heel baby face chart. Well, not John Cena, but you know Well, I mean I technically at one point he was a heel I think he when he started the the chain gang gimmick or what not the the thug and nomics gimmick He was a heel at first and then he became baby face So I Recommend if I'm wrong, but I do believe that's how it went He was a heel and then he transitioned into a baby face and while it usually creates more opportunities to make money in Merchandise if you go from being a villain to a hero doing the opposite can be a lot of fun, too As it allows performers to have a lot of fun during the process But what are some of the best examples of this in wrestling history? Well, that's exactly what we're going to be looking at today So join us as we take a deep dive into dark side Yeah Let's do this of course as always if we're going to start anywhere We really should do so with a big example and perhaps no bigger example of a successful heel turn in all of rest Of course exists then the time Hulk Hogan dropped the big leg on Randy Savage. Yeah form the nw Hogan this moment was one of the impactful because for over honestly you can say There's probably the greatest heel turn of all time because it needed to happen Because the Hogan gimmick the goody-two-shoe gimmick wasn't working and People had gotten tired of it. So it needed to happen and when it did it it created waves Specific prior to it. The Hulkster had been the ultimate baby face someone so popular He was able to rocket the industry into its first boom period and become a bona fide pop culture phenomenon in the process Seriously, whether you watched wrestling or not, everyone knew who Hulk Hogan was in these the only problem with that though Was that as the 90s came around fans were starting to tire of his antics as they'd grown pretty repetitive in stale On top of this those same kids who'd originally served as Terry Bolle as hulk of maniacs were now a little older and looking for something Edgier to get behind something they would soon find in the likes of stone cold Steve Austin over on raw But before Austin could really take off It would be WCW who first stoked the flames of the second boom period when after a couple of years of getting Routinely booed by fans in the southern Rasslin promotion It was decided for Hogan's sake that the best thing to do was to turn him a heel Sure, he may have been hesitant to go with this at first He definitely was convinced by at the time WCW boss Eric Bischoff that it was the right idea He went down to the ring during the match pitting Kevin Nash and Scott Hall against Macho Man Randy Savage Lex Luger and Sting at July 7th 1996's bash at the beach and shot the world by siding with the heel invaders No, so shocking was this that fans and attendance immediately began raining garbage down on the ring And that's when you knew it was a hit because people were mad and that's All the I'm pretty sure everybody in that ring. He knew we got him. It's over. They're throwing trash We got him. It's over as Hogan got on the mic and told them all to stick it But why did they react so viscerally if they were already booing him? Well as it turns out Hulkamania was a lot like that favorite toy you had when you were a child Sure, you might think you're too old for it after a certain point and so don't want to play with it anymore But as soon as your parents gave it away, you're bound to miss it Basically everyone watching that night suddenly remembered how big a part of their childhood the Hulkster had been and so seeing him now Reject them hit them in a way. They weren't anticipating and the anger this created helped to propel WCW to an 83-week winning streak in the ratings against their competition as the NWO angle became for a while at least the best thing in the industry by a country mile for sure But it wasn't the only time Hogan was involved in an iconic heel turn Of course that said on those other occasions he'd be the baby face getting turned on yes as the top star of 1980s WWF Everyone wanted a shot at Terry Bolea and his world title, which was exactly why Andre the giant decided to step to the dark side in 1987 and Like with the prior example the reason this one hit so hard was because for years before that Bands in New York were conditioned to see Andre as nothing less than a perennial baby face Someone who they could always cheer for no matter what come the time of WrestleMania 3 Realizing his career was winding down and that he'd never been able to win the WWF title the Frenchman decided to get mean in order to secure his final shot at the prize So that was why during a segment where Hulk Hogan's then three-year-long WWF title run was being celebrated by the three years Crazy what we're dealing with now we're Roman President Jack Tony the giant confronted him with Bobby Heenan in tow Informing him that his time was up then in order to satisfy this point He tore the crucifix chain off Hogan's neck with his reasoning being that the Hulkster had hogged the spotlight For too long and that now it was Andre's turn And you all know what happened next the two Titans clashed the Pontiac Silver Dome a couple of months later in front of an alleged 93,000 with the moment where Hogan slammed Andre still being considered by many to be the most iconic scene in the history of the industry Sadly though the giant wouldn't be able to get the title that night Though he would get a brief token reign a year later Which at least meant he could check such a goal off his bucket list Of course when it came to the man who won the belt after him However, well he'd have a much longer run on top a run which eventually led to him going heel on Hulkamania, too Were we talking about here? Oh, yeah Yes, while the WWF title had been vacated following the controversy surrounding Andre winning it at February 5th 1988 the main event a new champion was to be decided in a one-night tournament at WrestleMania 4 a month later And it was at this event that the macho man finally Ruins to the top and took the belt for his own But even with him now being the supposed star of the company He's still second-fiddled to the Hulkster in the grand scheme of things as over the course of the next year He wouldn't main event a single pay-per-view and he'd usually be cast as the tag team partner to Terry Bolea Needless to say then this eventually caused frustration to build up within him Frustration which was only intensified after Randy came to believe that Hogan had eyes for his wife Elizabeth So really it should have come as no surprise when at the main event to on February 2nd 1989 The champ finally snapped and attacked his partner as the mega powers formally And with the pair now at odds it meant that the obvious place to book the showdown between them would be at WrestleMania 5 the next month a match Which probably represented the high watermark of the golden era overall Hell so successful was both this bout and the mega power story around it It's still to this day widely considered to be one of the greatest angles in wrestling history Of course It's only remembered as well as it is because of that iconic heel turn were savage lambasted Hogan for having Something he was justified in believing as the Hulkster had always been something of a secret heel But he wasn't anywhere near as justified in becoming a villain as our next subject ultimately was because when Sean Michaels faked an injury in order To win a match in the spring of 2008 it incensed Chris Jericho so much He had little other choice, but to go. Hey, bro. This is one of my favorite heel turns Chris Jericho's heel turn This was good This was good the dark side in order to get even let's rewind for a second though in order to give some more context Basically after retiring Rick flair at WrestleMania 24 Sean Michaels found himself being targeted by the nature boys old stablemate Batista And so he did the subsequent feud between the two get that at a certain point a special guest referee was called to officiate their match in April 27th's backlash in the form of Chris Jericho as far as Y2J was concerned However, he had no favorites in this beef. No, he only wanted to call things right down the middle So an HPK faked a leg injury in order to get the advantage and the eventual win that night The first ever undisputed champion couldn't figure out why fans continued to cheer for him So really it's easy to see why the Canadian decided to reject fans at this point and morph into a new character One which refused to give them anything they wanted anymore And this included no longer having his loud garish promo style or his colorful ring entrances No, instead he would wear a suit and tie to the ring and speak softly a move Which was heavily inspired by both former AWA world champion Nick Buckwinkle and the character of Anton Chigur from no country for old Ben and it worked because he wasn't the Jericho that the fans love He was Particle and how he said things and he was he was you know, he would he would tell you off in such a Like condescending way with his suit like it came off. I'm better than you guys are scum. I love this This was such a good hill time, bro But while this was initially designed to be unpopular with fans It ended up being the best thing Jericho could have done in the long run because it completely Reinvigorated him and turned him into a true main eventer in Vince McMahon's eyes for the first time in his career On top of that the subsequent feud he had with Shawn Michaels was so good It still has to rank among the best of all time to this day But in fact if you really wanted to you could make a solid argument that this was the high point of Y2J's career in general In my opinion, I wouldn't get mad if you said that because this feud was so good And his his heel turn at this point was so it just worked It really did work the whole situation with him legitimately accidentally Punching his wife in the face Shawn Michaels wife in the face off Chef's kiss. I know this messed up, but it just was just so good because it's like all you wanted to see You want to see Jericho get his ass beat like oh nah, bro beat the crap out of him HBK Of course if rumors are to be believed over an AEW He's on the verge of starting what's sure to be another career-defining program as he becomes the surrogate for the elite by Feuding with CM Punk upon his return to Jacksonville and if punk Suspect he might it wouldn't be a role This obviously before punk came back, but yeah, this is definitely not happening So you're too no quite the opposite in fact because back in 2012 he had an all-time great villainous turn He laid out the rock with a gts on raw 1000 But why was this so impactful? Well, it was because it came right in the middle of his legendary 434 day to be honest with you even though this is a good heel turn The my favorite out of his heel turns was when he turned on when he cashed in on Jeff Hardy That's my favorite version like his my favorite heel turn from CM Punk because it worked It made sense him cashing in on Jeff even though Jeff's the ultimate baby face I mean he had the money in the bank briefcase. I love that the hit the back and forth. He had with Jeff Fantastic, I love that heel turn run with the WWE title Yes This reign was so long that needing to freshen things up at a certain point cool Moe deep punk decided to shift allegiances after a while in order to stay at the top of his game and Who better to turn heel on then one of the most Then after all if you want to get maximum impact from anything you do You go after someone with the star power of the rock But this was more than about just targeting a big star Of course because only moments prior to eating and go to sleep the great one had announced his intentions to fight whomever The WWE champion was by the time the following year's Royal Rumble rolled around So seeing perhaps the greatest threat to his title reign yet the second city St realized he needed to establish dominance early and that the best way for him to do this was with a well-placed need to The face sure it would eventually come back to bite him as at the Royal Rumble the following January the Rockers in a way but prior to that it gave him a fresh coat of paint for the next six months Now got to take out a whole host of baby face challengers such as Ryback and John Cena And it also meant that once he returned to the baby face side of the equation in the summer of 2013 Audiences everywhere were more than happy to have him back on their side as it felt new all over again Of course, it wasn't long after this that he'd be gone altogether Something which left a huge hole in the main event scene Luckily though that hole would eventually be filled up by the shield up until the point that Broke the band up by turning 2014 there were few more popular acts in wrestling than the hounds of justice because whether he'll or baby face They were always booked as a completely dominating force and because of this then all three of their members Rollins Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns were quickly accepted by fans as major players in waiting But despite them seeming unbeatable Everyone knew the split was coming sooner or later as management clearly had plans to go with Reigns Yeah next top single-star the only question was when would it happen? And who would be the one to instigate it a question which was finally answered on the June great 2014 episode of raw so good the architect broke everyone's hearts Had he done this well seeing better opportunities for himself if he joined up with the villainous authority instead Rollins decided he no longer needed his old friends and while it wasn't a popular decision as far as fans were concerned It's hard to argue it didn't work out Well, it worked out when the money in the bank contract a contract He eventually cashed in on during the main event of WrestleMania 31 in March of 2015 to become WWE champion Really then for this reason alone It has to rank as one of the most successful heel turns of all time Though it doesn't make it hurt any less that we'd have to sacrifice one of the greatest stables of all time Yeah in order to get there Yes Well the shield would reunite a couple of times in the years following it would never be the same as it was that first go round Still you could argue its original purpose had been served by now Anyway, as all three members are amongst the top stars in the industry Even if Dean Ambrose has since reverted back to his old name of John Moxley over in all-elite wrestling Mm-hmm, and he's not the only former WWE star who's currently riding high down in Jacksonville at the moment No, his fellow Blackpool combat club member Brian Danielson is doing the same as it happens But before he jumped ship and became all-elite. He was having a career highlight run This was good to 2018 he introduced fans to the new Daniel Bryan Yeah, of course the reasons this one was so notable was because only a few months prior the American dragon had returned from a career-ending head Injury and picked up right where he left off as WWE's most beloved baby face Seriously, if you wanted to find someone else who had such a natural connection with live crowds as Brian did at this point You'd have to go back to the days of Mick Foley and Eddie Guerrero. That's how over he was I want people to understand he was continually Attitude era levels of over he was he was and Just Being able to witness that was it was it was a special time, man And that's what made it all the more impressive that on the November 18th 2018 episode of SmackDown He was able to get the same people WrestleMania on his behalf to boo him when he turned heel on AJ Styles and stole the WWE title from him Sure, you could argue that this was a baffling move as there was still plenty of mileage left in going with the Washington native as a top baby face But in the end it worked out for the best as the new Daniel Bryan proved to be the most entertaining person on the roster for a while But seriously whether it was lambasting fans for eating meat having a dream match against Brock Lesnar or Creating his own custom-made hemp title and it was crazy because he was a heel going against Brock Lesnar who essentially in the fans eyes was a heel and In that match in that particular match. He was a baby face That was a fantastic match, bro. By the way, you guys haven't seen it Daniel Bryan versus Brock Lesnar. That was a Fantastic match. I believe that was that a survivor series. I can actually Google this right now I believe that was a survivor series match. Let me double check I'm doing this right now y'all No, we gonna we're gonna get to this one. I believe that was a Yeah champion versus champion match Yeah, Brock Lesnar versus Daniel Bryan and at the time people didn't really care for Brock Lesnar being the champ Is we didn't really see him there, but in this instance, even though Daniel Bryan was a heel He was cheered like a baby face when he kicked Brock Lesnar in the colonis and kicked them square in the balls The fans cheered he cheat he tried to cheat the win and That's that's man crazy time. Fantastic magic. We haven't seen it man This new Hewlett's incarnation of the WWE champion proved to be a master stroke And it even saw him get to flip the script on his own iconic WrestleMania 30 moment At the showcase of the Immortals in 2019 rather than play the conquering hero overcoming evolution Bryan played the dastardly heel standing in the way of Kofi mania So when he fell to Kofi Kingston at this show and lost the WWE title to him in the process It created a moment so iconic It'll likely still be talked about for decades to come for sure that said it remains to be seen if it'll be as Iconic as the next heel turn we're about to discuss because even if it happened all the way back in 1980 old-school fans still remember the time Larry Zabisco turned on Bruno San Martino Okay, why is this one remembered as much as it is well? That's because for years beforehand Bruno had been the real-life mentor to Zabisco someone who'd begun training him in the early 1970s, I think I did then stood by his side while he worked his way I think I did see a video talking about this of the ranks of WWWF over the rest of that decade of course well Larry was making a name for himself though It was San Martino who was standing tall as the world champion for most of this period So in 1979 rolled around as the student decided he wanted his shot at being the top dog himself He'd have to challenge his teacher in order to earn this not that Bruno had an issue giving him his shot Of course no as always the Italian was someone who took on all comers What he did have an issue with however was that following their subsequent bout on January 22nd 1980 Zabisco attacked him with a wooden chair being unable to get the win And he wasn't the only one who had an issue with this because with it being an era where kayfabe was still a closely guarded secret and some in the audience continued to believe what they were seeing was real the heat for Larry going forward was Nuclear yeah, but of course behind the scenes Bruno and Larry continued to be good friends enough to where during their Subsequent program throughout the remainder of the year Sam Artino made his opponent look consistently strong Even if he never did beat him that said Zabisco would always be able to hang his hat on the fact that his heel turn was so successful It drew over 36,000 fans to Shea Stadium on August 9th 1980 that proceeded to watch him take on the champ in a bloodbath of a steel cage match and The whole things also served the dual purpose of helping to keep Bruno strong enough to the point that even if he'd already dropped his WWWF title to Bob backland by then he was still seen by many as the real top star of the promotion So perhaps this fact stuck in backlands brain and gave him a chip on his shoulder He never forgot about then because years later in 1994 He'd finally snap when he came back to show the next generation how it was done and was in the process Disrespected by Brett Hart at least as far as he saw it. That's right It was during the new generation era that following a return to New York former WWWF champion Bob backland found the landscape looking very different to the way he'd remembered it And this was because he was no longer the technical wizard respected by all his peers No, that's spotted now been taken from him by the hit man So angry over this and angry over the perceived lack of honor this current generation had Backland turned heel on the fans and in doing so became the most interesting he'd ever been Yes, well, he may have been a big draw in the early 80s That was all based on his matches as far as his promo skills were considered though They were always a little more vanilla, which was why I came as such a surprise He had a great character like Mr. Backland in him a character Which basically amounted to a crazy old get off my lawn type figure Who felt the need to preach the old ways of doing things at all times Of course, this led to him challenging Brett on a number of occasions throughout 1994 and 1995 Then and it was during one of these that with a little help from Owen Hart No, well-placed towel Yeah, I actually managed to beat the hit man to win the WWF title for a second time Sure, this title reign proved to be short-lived as just three days later He'd lose it to diesel in eight seconds at a Madison Square Garden house show Damn, but even if that was the case the very fact He'd been given the ball to run with again at all proved just how successful the Mr. Backland character had been and just how much longevity it ended up adding to his already story career That said, this is small time compared to the longevity a heel turn is given our last subject of today Because heading back to the current time period Despite struggling to get over in any meaningful way while he was the happy to be their white meat baby face son of Ray Mysterio We just really watched the video talking about Dominic Mysterio and his Ascension to the biggest heel in the company right now, man As soon as Dominic Mysterio turned on his father enjoying the judgment day He unlocked something within him which instantly transformed him into a star And yes, part of this was that he was now in on the joke of him being spoiled while growing up Yeah Hell so hard did he lean into this aspect of himself following his fall to the dark side It soon became the thing people loved the most about him But then how couldn't it be because seeing Dom spend a night in prison only to then come out of this situation Acting like a man who's seen hard time is so good It's almost hard to boo him and when you combine this with the fact that his ambiguous Relationship with his mommy Rhea Ripley has been the most entertaining thing on raw in years It's a surprise. He hasn't been turned back baby face yet. Yes We're sure this will happen eventually as like with all the people this way his final Going to be getting over in a big way as a fan favorite But before that happens he can rest safe in the knowledge He's doing his job so well that the heat where he receives on a weekly basis is often Nuclear yep, and what an achievement that is for someone who only a year ago Felt like a lost cause the next incarnation of other failed second generation stars such as Eric Watts or David Flair We suppose it just goes to show how effective a great heel turn can be then yes As we've seen today in all the examples We've looked at if you're ever in need of refreshing your character You don't need to create a new move set or even come up with a new entrance theme Yeah, all you have to do is tap in to your dark side. Yes, sir. It works every time. It seems like WWE They are great at booking heels for the most part in baby faces. They they they they're not that good at booking them So if you need a character change Turn heel if it makes sense People will buy into it It works So comment down below let me know who do you feel like on the main roster right now needs to turn here Who do you feel like could really benefit from a heel turn right now can definitely help out their Their character as it's going right now. Let me know down below, but I appreciate all of the support guys So on channel wrote to him if you can I'm still young speedy you to the wrestling champion world Appreciate y'all kicking me sing the next one