10 Most Shocking Wrestling Heel Turns

10. R-Truth Bums A Smoke

Communal sing-alongs aside, R-Truth has always been better (read: less annoying) as a heel than a face - evidence of which was found during his run with TNA, in between the two WWE stints for which he is better known.

His 2011 turn still came as a surprise, though. Having been on a hard-luck losing streak, the erstwhile US Champion had neither the momentum nor, seemingly - having shown few signs of frustration in the build-up - much of a motive to go rogue.

But this actually made sense. When you've got nothing, as Bob Dylan famously noted, you've got nothing to lose - and it was only after seeing the chance to make real his main event dreams slip agonisingly through his fingers, with defeat to John Morrison in a number one contender's match on Raw, that he snapped.

After laying waste to his former tag team partner in an unprovoked assault (and this is one of the rare instances where the word assault - with Morrison getting his skull drilled into the barriccade - really is apt), Truth bummed a cigarette from a member of the UK crowd, and lit up whilst kneeling over The Shaman of Sexy's mangled carcas.