10 Wrestlers Who Should Never Turn Face

Some people are born to be bad.

by John Bills
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The lines blur over time, but at its essence professional wrestling is a struggle between good and evil. Evil gets the upper hand, to begin with, before good stages a triumphant comeback and vanquishes the villains for good. Babyfaces and heels are the lifeblood of pro wrestling; without those distinctions, very little makes sense.

WWE would do well to remember that fact, but keeping track of 300 or so performers isn’t easy. That spreadsheet would take all of 10 minutes to put together, after all, so cut the creative team some slack. The 'shades of grey concept' has decimated pro wrestling booking but vestiges of the heel and babyface line have survived, no matter how often people flip-flop between the two.

Young professional wrestlers are generally advised to develop good and bad personas, but some performers are born to be bad. This can be for several reasons, among them legacy, entitlement, look, being Baron Corbin and more, but it is in everyone’s interest for them to avoid turning babyface at all costs. If you’re good at being bad, then why be good?

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.