10 Worst Babyfaces In WWE History

10. The Natural Disasters

The early 1990s were an interesting time for WWE.

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Not only were ratings down, interest in Vince McMahon's product was waning. Hulk Hogan was no longer the enormous draw he once was and his loyalty to the company was in question. The allure of stardom beyond the squared circle drew his attention and had many questioning whether he would remain an institution of WWE programming.

To offset the sudden fall from grace, McMahon made booking decisions that may not have been to the benefit of the performers involved.

Case in point: The Natural Disasters.

Earthquake and Typhoon were two bruisers, superheavyweights who pummeled the competition and overwhelmed them with their weight and size advantages en route to victory. They won tag team gold and were routinely foils for The Bushwhackers and The Legion of Doom as WWE rebuilt the division at the turn of the decade.

In 1992, the team was inexplicably turned babyface for reasons that still do not make sense. The victims of mismanagement by a tricky, underhanded Jimmy Hart, they had their guaranteed rematch with The Legion of Doom negotiated out from underneath them and given to Money, Inc. Furious with their pipsqueak second, they engaged Ted DiBiase and IRS in a feud that would last through the remainder of the year.

The face run never quite worked.

It was difficult to inspire sympathy when the babyface being isolated and beaten down should have conceivably been able to dispatch of the villain by himself, let alone with the assistance of a partner.

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