10 WWE Heels You Most Want To Punch In The Face

3. The Honky Tonk Man

The Honky Tonk Man had a perfect heel gimmick: he was ripping off a beloved singer while claiming he'd "never heard of him," was obsessed with how talented he was, and had the cowardly heel schtick down to a tee. He cheated at every opportunity, was sleazy toward the beloved Miss Elizabeth, begged like a coward the moment his opponent had the upper hand, and was always happy to smash a guitar over the head of a defeated or restrained foe. He did it all with obnoxious aplomb, singing in his own entrance theme, "I'm cool, I'm cocky, I'm bad."

He also had one advantage that many of his contemporaries didn't have, and that no one will ever have again: a handshake agreement with Vince McMahon that he wouldn't be beaten on television. With this agreement in place, he refused to drop his Intercontinental Championship to Randy Savage on TV's Saturday Night Main event, and wound up holding the belt for a still-record 454 day run. As a result, this grinning, hip-gyrating villain was basically unbeatable for more than a year, making fans go absolutely crazy when they saw him finally defeated by the Ultimate Warrior at SummerSlam 1988.