10 Dumbest Wrestling Heel Turns Ever
6. Rikishi
Similar to the famous Simpsons scene in which the breaking of Ralph Wiggum's heart by Lisa Simpson can be narrowed down to the second, the WWE's second golden era was flattened like Steve Austin himself when Rikishi was revealed to be the man that mowed down Stone Cold at the 1999 Survivor Series.
'The Rattlesnake's September return had been built around finding the rotter that ploughed over him nearly a year prior, and as more and more superstars were chalked off the suspects list, intrigue grew larger than his assailant's a**e-cheeks. On the night Mick Foley fingered him, Rikishi claimed to have done it for 'The Rock', before firefighting measures were employed to try and extinguish the flaming pile of sh*t the angle had already become (more on that later).
Austin seemed to treat the Samoan with the contempt the audience had for the storyline. He smashed Rikishi all over in their contests, taking revenge and then some for the shelving. WWE killed a comical-but-beloved act, and now forced fans to watch a man they had idolised pummel the f**k out of its corpse. The fun was over, alright. Was.