10 Real-Life Wrestling Heels Who Turned Babyface

7. Kevin Nash

Diesel Kevin Nash
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Was a heel because...

Allegedly clipped Goldberg's wings in WCW, accelerating the demise of mainstream competition. Definitely booked the Fingerpoke of Doom shortly thereafter, which all but formally allowed the rot to set in. Thanks Kev.

When people mourned this butterfly effect, Nash laughed at those people for caring about "vanilla midgets". Adapted this mentality with a bloody entertaining meta run in TNA that, while amusing, was much too niche and insider to actually matter. Was considered by hardcore fans a bad wrestler because he lacked the Requisite Workrate, despite entering a string of fabulous performances with Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels and being very cool. Infected also the Summer of Punk in a bizarre development, but that wasn't his fault. Kevin Nash was never going to turn down a payday.

Turned babyface by...

Becoming our woke king, being fabulously unfiltered on Twitter, creating several unforgettable shoot video memories, poking fun at his quad injuries, staying fiercely loyal to Scott Hall with an incredible persistence and devotion, heralding the unsung heroes of the working class, and ritually telling the "haters" to "f*ck off".

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