10 Times WWE Fans FORCED A Heel Turn

Much like Ronda Rousey fully expected to return to WWE as a full-blown heel just last year, Dave Bautista also very much felt that making his long-awaited comeback to the sports entertainment world as a villain was the right way to go back in 2014.

But with WWE clearly knowing best, Big Dave was told by the folks in charge that fans would be simply too overjoyed to see The Animal to genuinely reject him with merciless boos. And while that was true for a minute there, Batista knew from the get-go that his strength lay in pissing off the WWE crowd and that his initial warm welcome would inevitably turn sour.

And what do you know, that's exactly what went down in next to no time at all, with the former world champion ultimately receiving one of the most jarring reactions in WWE history upon being the unfortunate soul who wasn't named Daniel Bryan to win the 2014 Royal Rumble.

Vince finally listened to his MCU superstar not long after and allowed Batista to revel in the negativity. And when making his final return to the company five years later, you better believe there wasn't an ounce of babyface fire to be found in the heartless Animal hunting down Ric Flair.