10 Wrestling Heel Turns That Made No Sense Whatsoever

6. Ahmed Johnson Joins The Nation

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Maybe I'm adding extra layers of emotion to this due to nostalgia and the fact that it coincided with the height of my young fandom, but in 1997 Ahmed Johnson turned his back on The Undertaker and the fans to join the Nation of Domination, led by Faarooq.

The turn itself was shocking enough, but was even more so because Ahmed and Faarooq had been blood rivals ever since the latter had arrived in the WWF. It was Faarooq who had injured Johnson, forcing him to vacate the Intercontinental Championship, and had generally made his life a living hell all the while.

It's easy to forget, but at this time Ahmed Johnson was over as all heck in the WWF. The turn made no sense whichever way you looked at it, and the fact he turned to join up with his greatest rival was even more confusing.

Johnson was injured soon after (obviously), and that was that.

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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.