10 Dumbest Wrestling Heel Turns Ever
9. Curt Hennig
After years of really nearly turning up in WCW, Curt Hennig at long last made the jump in late-1996. Well and truly p*ssed off with WWE's decision to notify his insurance company that a policy-quashing return to the ring was forthcoming, the former 'Mr Perfect' finally took the other kind of money and ran South to a resurgent Eric Bischoff regime.
Unable to wrestle for several months as per a no compete clause, Hennig was hot property in the summer of 1997, courting the affections of the New World Order and The Four Horseman. Curt was already a perfect fit for Flair's group based on their own prior association, with wrestling's fateful timing stepping in to seal the deal.
In an evocative Nitro segment, a retiring Arn Anderson proudly gave his Horseman spot to Hennig ahead of their upcoming WarGames match with the nWo. Ric Flair was in tears at the whole scene long before that became as big a part of his act at the Figure Four.
Then WCW flushed the emotion down the toilet with a cheap swerve turn in the match itself. Illogically and only to maintain a drab status quo, Hennig was nWo 'all along'. The heels again prevailed, whilst Stone Cold soared on the other side.