10 Wrestling Heel Turns That Made No Sense Whatsoever

More often than not, fictional art is designed to make sense. Logic and continuity dictate the path the story takes, so that when all the loose ends are tied up there is little in the way of confusion. 

The key protagonists made their choices and they made them for clearly identifiable reasons. We don't need to agree with them, but we can at least see why they happened.

Luckily (or unfortunately, depending on your opinion), professional wrestling is no normal form of fictional art. It is a world that demands you suspend your disbelief, and accept what is going on for what it is. If we're going to accept that throwing a man towards ropes will result in him running back in your direction after hitting them, we can accept a lot of things.

Even for the most loyal fan however, this can be thrown way out of the window. This is particularly true when it comes to that most-sought-after of tropes, the heel turn.

Good guys often need to go bad to rejuvenate their careers, but sometimes their motives for doing so just don't make any sense at all.

I'm not asking for my wrestlers to be steeped in real life, I'm just asking for a little bit of logic now and then. 

Here are 10 heel turns that saw that logic destroyed on arrival. 

Wrestling has had many 'American Heroes' over the many decades, and none were more patriotic than Sgt. Slaughter. Sarge had initially turned to the good side in 1984 by defending the honour of the Stars and Bars against that dastardly Iron Sheik.

However, the emergence of Hulk Hogan as the biggest wrestling star on the planet saw Slaughter phased out, and he left for the AWA.

Slaughter returned to the WWF in 1990, but not as the American hero everyone knew him as. No, Slaughter decided to turn his back on his nation due to the fact that the US had welcomed Nikolai Volkoff with open arms. The freedom that he once fought for was the reason he turned his back on his country.

Not only that, but Slaughter went so far as to align himself with the enemy, Iraq. The whole point was to capitalise on the Gulf War to get a big gate in for WrestleMania VII, but by the time 'Mania came around the war was over and the whole thing was even more illogical.