8 WWE Wrestlers Vince McMahon Refused To Turn Heel

2. Ultimate Warrior

The case of the Ultimate Warrior is a curious one.

From being the hottest star in the wrestling business at one point in time - tassles a-flowing, face painted up, badass music blaring out, frenetic energy accompanying him wherever he went - Warrior went on to soil the childhood memories of many a wrestling fan of the '80s and '90s when he showed himself to be a racist, homophobic, generally xenophobic false hero in his later life.

But I digress, back to the point of this entry.

Spending his entire career as a babyface performer, there was a time in 1992 where the idea of turning the Parts Unknown native heel was considered as a very real possibility.

In a contract excerpt pulled from one of the many lawsuits between Warrior and WWE, it was written that the Ultimate One was to turn heel in exchange for him working less house shows. That plan would've come into fruition in the aftermath of his Summerslam '92 match against Randy Savage, with the endgame being to have heel Ultimate Warrior vs. babyface Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania IX - with Warrior then heading off to pursue a career in Hollywood in 1994.

That heel turn never actually happened - instead, Ultimate Warrior would be gone from the then-WWF barely three months later - and Vince McMahon resisted turning Warrior heel at any point during his several spells with the company.

In reality, who'd have known that the real-life Warrior would reveal himself to be one of the biggest heels the industry has ever seen.